What did you accomplish today?

shrxhky420

shrxhky420

Well-Known Member
cannabineer said:
I wonder if LEDs are getting good enough. I'm fascinated by their higher efficiency and longer lifetime. In a couple of years I'm hoping they become competitive in terms of capital costs, i.e. how much it costs to buy the lights.
@Olive Drab Green and @ANC have experience with LEDs; but I don't remember how much they like'm compared to HIDs.
Click to expand...
Love my LEDs. I'm running 600 watts per 3x6 table. My goal is 2lbs. Hard to do with cookie strains. 21 more days til harvest, big temp swings... in coco
10/14 lights cycle...
20181126_183220.jpg 20181126_183212.jpg

SH420
 
too larry

too larry

Well-Known Member
ANC said:
What I meant is that closer to the Mexican border, there should be more laborers than say at your border with Canada... I don't know of any Canadians lining up to come farm watermelons in the USA.
The farmers up north still get the same price at the market, but without access to the cheap workers or subsidies, they give up eventually.
Click to expand...
Migrant labor is just that. They follow the harvest, even to the great white north.
 
pinner420

pinner420

Well-Known Member
Settled on a design that will feed people efficiently if I can get it up to critical mass and have employees tend to it for me. Been looking around on the web on how these fertilizer geniuses figure out a given regiment using the elements. Still kinda feeling around in the dark on that; it will come to me though. Fresh snow today truck is getting out of the hospital. Going to get some accounting done then take some cuts.
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

Well-Known Mod
Staff member
shrxhky420 said:
Love my LEDs. I'm running 600 watts per 3x6 table. My goal is 2lbs. Hard to do with cookie strains. 21 more days til harvest, big temp swings... in coco
10/14 lights cycle...
View attachment 4241800 View attachment 4241802

SH420
Click to expand...
Lovely! My set up runs well on my hid's. It's hard to argue with success. When one of my ballasts dies I guess I'll get serious about LEDs. ODG recommended a company close by me. I keep looking but things keep getting better and better tech wise, so the longer I wait the lower the price and better performance. Losing a ballast will instantly change things.
 
shrxhky420

shrxhky420

Well-Known Member
curious2garden said:
Well based on those cookie shots! YUMMMMM
Click to expand...
Thanks Annie. I appreciate the kind words. I love my cookie strains. Got a gelato cross, sunset sherbet cross, gelato and the cookies you just saw. The gelato I've run before. This gelato I'm growing has yet to go into rotation. Been a real bitch. The gelato cross and the sherbet cross are new, so just getting them together to be moms.
Uh... I'm high, got a garden to tend to.
Marijuana

SH420
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

Well-Known Mod
Staff member
shrxhky420 said:
Thanks Annie. I appreciate the kind words. I love my cookie strains. Got a gelato cross, sunset sherbet cross, gelato and the cookies you just saw. The gelato I've run before. This gelato I'm growing has yet to go into rotation. Been a real bitch. The gelato cross and the sherbet cross are new, so just getting them together to be moms.
Uh... I'm high, got a garden to tend to.
Marijuana

SH420
Click to expand...
Yeah I need to go in and select keepers. I just finished my third year of seed runs. Next year I'm searching through the genetics to look for jackpots to self. I should have a ton of Bodhi's catalog with Dragon Fruit, Snow Temple and Jabba's Stash seeds. Then all my CC stuff. I need to get crackin'! This shit is addictive.
 
Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

Well-Known Member
cannabineer said:
I wonder if LEDs are getting good enough. I'm fascinated by their higher efficiency and longer lifetime. In a couple of years I'm hoping they become competitive in terms of capital costs, i.e. how much it costs to buy the lights.
@Olive Drab Green and @ANC have experience with LEDs; but I don't remember how much they like'm compared to HIDs.
Click to expand...
I’ve only ever run 250w and 400w HPS with a friend in shared grows. I couldn’t really compare, but I definitely am satisfied. I didn’t want to stick my nose where it wasn’t appreciated or I’d have chimed in early. I’m personally satisfied with both COBs and QBs, although I am noticing more “light oppression” or keeping plants short and stocky when COBs are even 18” overhead of them. I think I like COBs slightly more, but QBs are equal or better in terms of PPFD and dispersion.
 
ANC

ANC

Well-Known Member
IMG_20180427_190803s - Copy.jpg
cannabineer said:
I wonder if LEDs are getting good enough. I'm fascinated by their higher efficiency and longer lifetime. In a couple of years I'm hoping they become competitive in terms of capital costs, i.e. how much it costs to buy the lights.
@Olive Drab Green and @ANC have experience with LEDs; but I don't remember how much they like'm compared to HIDs.
Click to expand...
If you can build the required height ceilings, you can't go wrong with Double endeds. LEDs are great, but they come at a massive upfront cost if you want to do more than a kW. DIY you can look at about $1 / Watt. With HID you will need cooling in summer, with LED you will need heating in winter.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top