Frogglet Legs
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Another Sidra and Reefer Truck x 2 love the balloon knot bud structure on the reefer looks nasty
The UK Growers Thread!
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Nice plants
Looks fire
Blue brother
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Yeah happy new year guys I hope it's a frosty one for yis
Blue brother
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Snagged a couple of these for 380 each, I've started a perpetual grow where I'll be harvesting 1/4 of the room every 17 days or so, so I'll only need the 2 of them until a months time and I'm gonna try and find 2 more cheaper than the 550 rrp before then, excited to see how they perform, just turned them on and they look super super bright to the eye . I've been using hlg Diablos for a few years so I'll be able to compare them to that, but for the price I deffo can't grumble, considering a hlg 350r is 500 in the uk I've definitely scored.
Blue brother
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Why do you "need" to switch? Just out of curiosity? I do it for the summer, but I LOOOOVE hps and cmh, the 2 main plus points of led is the lower heat and lower energy consumption, personally I don't believe the hype about LED producing more trichs or more terps.
I did at one point think it was possible to get better terps due to led heating the plant up less for the same ppfd which should translate to less terps lost towards the end of flower, but it certainly hasn't been my experience, even when dropping ambient temps to 24'c for the last week or so.
paying less for lecky in the summer is nice but in the winter I'd have to run a heater anyways so I just use hps.
coreywebster
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A prosperous new year and bountiful harvest to you all chaps !
Well mainly because I think my yeild will increase and fill the canopy better, with the bonus of less lecy to pay for, hps is old school and leds got to be better and more efficient with this day and age, surely
Nutty sKunK
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CMH does emit a little uvb. Best light I’ve in terms of quality for me. Although a few MH runs in the early days produced some wonderful terps
Blue brother
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You'll certainly get more yield per watt, and with all the blue in modern LEDs you end up with a less stretched plant, plus it is a doddle for early diagnosis of any symptoms with the white light.
You do have to run the room quite abit hotter though or the plants just stall.
the LEDs do have a much better light spread uniformity which does mean the canopy is more evenly lit
yeah they're deffo more efficient, some are mega efficient these days with over 3umol per watt which is craaaazy.
Nowadays you can pick up the budget models really cheap too, I used to think I needed all the bells and whistles, ir/uv/greens etc, and while they'd be super nice to have, when you want bang for your buck, just find the light that puts out the most full spectrum photons with a decent red spike at the cheapest price from a manufacturer you can trust and you're laughing.
Omega make a 600w infinity pro 3.0 you can get around 300 quid. Honest the prices are so good right now for really high quality lights and they're only getting cheaper
they really are great I just love the spectrum of hps for plant growth and it's hard to let go, I'm allready eyeing up some 660nm bars to add to these white LEDs haha
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Blue brother
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newlights up
La bomba cuts on day 14
Next round of La bomba will enter the flower room on Friday, they're 10 weekers so I'll be harvesting them 17 days apart. I'll continue to add plants every 17 ish days until this 3x3 is full.
clones I've got atm
La bomba- 10 weeker
Mouthwash- 9 weeker
Rainbow belts- 9 week
Polar gelato- 11 weeker
I ordered some blueberry sugar cuts off a kid on instagram too they're getting posted at the start of next week and he says they're 9 weekers
I've also just popped
6 lit sherb by lit farms
5 flaming cheetoz by lit farms
1 baked in Paris by perfect tree.
the next few months are gonna be hectic while I decide on 4 strains to run perpetually, I'll probably scrap the polar gelato cos I don't wanna wait 11 weeks for it, but I'm running it a second time cos it was fire. The goal is to have a different flavour coming down every 17 days ish.
having only quarter of the room come down at once means I can dry in a smaller space so I'll use a ac infinity tent with a portable air conditioner in a walk in cupboard to dry. I got so sick of closing the flower room every cycle for 2 weeks at a time just to dry, plus harvesting and trimming a whole room at a time is super labour intensive even with helpers.
@Blue brother
Do you ever raise or lower your lights or do they jsyt stay at the top
Do you ever raise or lower your lights or do they jsyt stay at the top
Blue brother
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For the most part I'm happy with keeping them in the same place for the flower room, unless I get something that either doesn't stretch or more than doubles, in which case I'll adjust the lights accordingly, but I'm usually just happy having the plants stretch closer to them at the start of flower. The hps get hung further away than the LEDs though. I rarely dim lights either unless something new gets mega stressed. I try and just keep everything on full power and allow plants to stretch towards them.
Yeah I did really just want to add led and hang them high as possible then hoping they woukdnt stretch to much hoying smaller plant in I think I will deffo try them in the summer
Blue brother
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Did you mean to say hoying? Just asking cos I say hoying and not many other places in the uk use that term? Haha if so I think we're pretty close
conor c
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It's a Geordie thing I think?