Per your request Irishboy I have an update (had to remove small
) on my Spectra grow (1st gen 2011 395w ((switched from 400 HPS 1 week into 12/12)).
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Here are some pics. I haven't done any comparison pics yet to see the real difference but I grabbed a small popcorn piece just big enough to fill up most of an average spoon/bowl and got a really good look at it |||| and couldn't help but feel like there had to be at least 50% more trichomes (or maybe its resin I'm not 100% sure...) on it than most of the good bud from my first harvest (although that could be that they were bag seed, had foxfarm instead of earthjuice, GLH>HPS, who knows). Tolerance is way to high for me to know how effective it really is at this point, but I had a bit and I feel it well enough.
PS: The soil in these plants was simply FF OF with 1/3rd added perlite and Earth Juice for nute feeds. I had to grind at the root mass quite a bit to break it up and I knocked the crap out of it trying to recycle the dirt it held before I took that pic. That tap root pic I think was from the 2 gallon plant and not one of the .8 gallon plants (difference was in length only, and only by maybe 4 or 5 inches). Camera doesn't do the air pots handy work with the roots justice*
I'm a bit intimidated by what will happen when with the new plants that get 3 additional soils (Light Warrior, FF Potting Soil, Black Gold) along with Mykos/Azos/CalCarb/DolomiteLime/HFFruit&Flower/FF Tomato/Veggies. The two new plants already appear to be 3-5 days ahead of those in these pics at 10 days above ground.
PSS: The difference in roots between the .8gallon plants and 2 gallon plants is because for how much soil they had the smaller ones got as much as 50% more food by accident (I underfed the 2 gallon plants for their pot size by only giving 1/2 - 3/4 as much nute/water).