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Budget Buds

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Avering said:
Dang this turned into quite the conversation, anyway, I figured I'd giive em all differing levels of light by adding lil humidity domes, under 24 inches dimmed to 135watts (50%) power of this powerful hlg qb.. lets see what happens.. they are on 20/4 .. i think what i need is more patience, but. I like to experiment a lot but I can't afford to right now, I really need to produce some bud for myself so I'm taking this seriously and will be writing down things and discussing em.. just really want some foot tall plants so i can have a few ounces of different strains to smoke, hopefully one of these bagseeds is a landrace strain with cbd cause my back is killing meView attachment 4535020
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Just pay attention to what the plants are telling you, If they begin to stretch then lower the light.... Dont overthink it and dont kill them with to much maintenance . You'll be fine mate :)
Kingkongbud said:
If you measure tge temp of a light and it measures less than 30c it will never burn your leaves man people are so dumb ive done this so many times never burned leaves stop assuming just try it dumby
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Holy shit ....
 
Budzbuddha

Budzbuddha

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OP , your static height with the quantum is fine ( not sure about foil ) but just make sure you don’t start adding much to the seedlings .
Light intensity is why you dim so they can harden up before turning up power.
 
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CannaCountry

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Avering said:
View attachment 4535031 i switch things up a lot but lets see might leave it like this
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If it were me, I'd remove the humidity domes; they aren't needed. I'd take Santa's sleigh out of there, and I'd cut the tall paper cups down so when your seed sprouts it's not fighting to get light. While you're at it, remove the tin foil from around your seedlings, it's not necessary and it has the potential to create hot spots. Good luck
 
Avering

Avering

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Budget Buds said:
Just pay attention to what the plants are telling you, If they begin to stretch then lower the light.... Dont overthink it and dont kill them with to much maintenance . You'll be fine mate :)
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Yo thanks man, I'll be careful not to fiddle with em too much for now.

Budzbuddha said:
OP , your static height with the quantum is fine ( not sure about foil ) but just make sure you don’t start adding much to the seedlings .
Light intensity is why you dim so they can harden up before turning up power.
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Hey, thank you, thought maybe the foil would reflect the light from the soil to the bottom of the leaves, and maybe theyd like it, but idk.. honestly saw someine else doing it and their plants looked so happy lol.. , theyre getting about 17k lux.. without anything on top of em such as a plastic cup.. idk if thats top much light but ive heard of people putting my same qb 9 inches away with a clearish plastic cup over the seedling.. all this research has drove me crazy cause everybody seems to just do their own thing more or less, just like budget said ill watch the plants though
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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Avering said:
Dang this turned into quite the conversation, anyway, I figured I'd giive em all differing levels of light by adding lil humidity domes, under 24 inches dimmed to 135watts (50%) power of this powerful hlg qb.. lets see what happens.. they are on 20/4 .. i think what i need is more patience, but. I like to experiment a lot but I can't afford to right now, I really need to produce some bud for myself so I'm taking this seriously and will be writing down things and discussing em.. just really want some foot tall plants so i can have a few ounces of different strains to smoke, hopefully one of these bagseeds is a landrace strain with cbd cause my back is killing meView attachment 4535020
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I actually have some HLG 260's. Rspecs, and 3000k V1's. They are some strong lights man. At first I treated them similar to my cmh lights, but soon learned that the QB's on full power are way stronger. So I ran them around 24" the first time. Then I tried them higher, around 36" and still got great results. This round I've turned them down to 90 watts per board, so each 260 is getting 180 watts, and am keeping them around 24" above the canopy.

But that's for mature plants. For seedlings I would start the light super high, like at least 36". Personally, I would raise it to more like 48"+ though at this stage. Then slowly lower it as they adjust.

Also, ditch those domes.
 
Avering

Avering

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PadawanWarrior said:
I actually have some HLG 260's. Rspecs, and 3000k V1's. They are some strong lights man. At first I treated them similar to my cmh lights, but soon learned that the QB's on full power are way stronger. So I ran them around 24" the first time. Then I tried them higher, around 36" and still got great results. This round I've turned them down to 90 watts per board, so each 260 is getting 180 watts, and am keeping them around 24" above the canopy.

But that's for mature plants. For seedlings I would start the light super high, like at least 36". Personally, I would raise it to more like 48"+ though at this stage. Then slowly lower it as they adjust.

Also, ditch those domes.
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Sweet! Was hoping someone with the same light would chime in, this is the 260 rspec v2 I believe.. so you say 48" +, I'm gonna try 48" then without domes cause earlier I had em with domes and inside milk crates.. maybe thats why they atretched cause they were getting about 5k to 6k lux. Even at 48" the light is gonna be powerful so I'll go with what you said.. the seedlings must be like why the hell is this guy playing with that light so much.. and where the hell are we? Lol
 
Avering

Avering

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CannaCountry said:
If it were me, I'd remove the humidity domes; they aren't needed. I'd take Santa's sleigh out of there, and I'd cut the tall paper cups down so when your seed sprouts it's not fighting to get light. While you're at it, remove the tin foil from around your seedlings, it's not necessary and it has the potential to create hot spots. Good luck
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Hey I didn't see your reply til now, alright I did everything except take off santas sleigh and i'm doing that now lol.. thanks
 
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CannaCountry

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Avering said:
Hey I didn't see your reply til now, alright I did everything except take off santas sleigh and i'm doing that now lol.. thanks
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Don't over think the process you're about to embark on...it's really not complicated and it doesn't take black magic to make it all work. You'll do best by researching firstly, for your self, then, if you can't find the answers you need, a place like this can be of help. Conversely, take what you read here, including my own comments, with a grain of salt. There are a thousand ways to skin that cat. Good luck.
 
Avering

Avering

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CannaCountry said:
Don't over think the process you're about to embark on...it's really not complicated and it doesn't take black magic to make it all work. You'll do best by researching firstly, for your self, then, if you can't find the answers you need, a place like this can be of help. Conversely, take what you read here, including my own comments, with a grain of salt. There are a thousand ways to skin that cat. Good luck.
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Thank you, your comment calmed me down, I'll try and take it slow
 
JoeBlow5823

JoeBlow5823

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Avering said:
What's up yall, this is my third time attempting to grow. I'm getting a lot of mixed answers on what levels to leave these lights at.. I think I'm gonna have to just call HLG and ask.. but right now they are 36 inches away and dimmed down completely to 135w.. should I go by ppfd instead? I can get them all to under 100 ppfd but I'm scared they'll start to all stretch, only 4 or 5 came out so farView attachment 4534765
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Buy a LUX meter off amazon. You want 15000 for seedlings 25-35k for veg and 35-70k for flower.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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Avering said:
Sweet! Was hoping someone with the same light would chime in, this is the 260 rspec v2 I believe.. so you say 48" +, I'm gonna try 48" then without domes cause earlier I had em with domes and inside milk crates.. maybe thats why they atretched cause they were getting about 5k to 6k lux. Even at 48" the light is gonna be powerful so I'll go with what you said.. the seedlings must be like why the hell is this guy playing with that light so much.. and where the hell are we? Lol
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Ya, I've been using them for a bit now, and they definitely take some getting use to at first, but they're kick ass lights when you dial it in.
 
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