Twin Purple Suns over a Little Dirt Patch aka GLH 290(x2) by Mountain High

[fartman]

will 1 of these lights bud 3 plants in a 3.5ft x 18inch closet ps i subscribed thanks bro in otherwords would those 3 plants
yeild good under 1 glh 290

 

[DankBudzzz]

Sick grow man. My next round will be only two plants under a thousand watt so I'm gonna let the crap out of them two get like 6 zips each, i have ten under it right now and have two huge ones I'm hoping for three ounces off each.

 

[ibitegirls]

nice and simple. keep it up

 

[Mountain High]

will 1 of these lights bud 3 plants in a 3.5ft x 18inch closet ps i subscribed

will 1 of these lights bud 3 plants in a 3.5ft x 18inch closet ps i subscribed thanks bro in otherwords would those 3 plants
yeild good under 1 glh 290

If you can control the environment, I am sure the light will cover that amount of space. And welcome to my journal.

Sick grow man. My next round will be only two plants under a thousand watt so I'm gonna let the crap out of them two get like 6 zips each, i have ten under it right now and have two huge ones I'm hoping for three ounces off each.

Yeah, I think a lot of plants has it's advantages and disadvantages...the right strain, more plants can yield great, but the right strains and the right veg and less plants do as much or more. Gonna go sub so I can watch your grow!

My next grow will have my 600W HPS integrated into the equation. Probably turn one of the LED's on one end on for a few hours, then the HPS will overlap for a few hours, then the other end will come on and overlap for a bit then the HPS will turn off and the last LED will finish the last few hours. Try to simulate the sun's movement and not really use that much more than a total of 600W (only overlap a total of an hr to keep my heat down). This should give me great penetration and all kinds of different spectrum light to make large frosty buds (is the hope).

This grow is just testing the current capabilities of LED's alone. So far I really like the lights, but am noticing my girls are running a few days later in their cycles than normal (looks like I will have to be watching trics closer than I usually have to so I don't pull them early)...and there are slight differences in their growth...which is to be expected, since the lights are so different.

If I had to guess, I am thinking the blue spectrum LED's are slowing the stretch down, like a metal halide.

nice and simple. keep it up

Thanks brother! I try, am even gonna simplify my mix further I think in future grows as I am trying to figure out the food web thing in the soil.

 

[Mountain High]

A quick update.

Girls got tied up to control their size.

My little patch of dirt this morning.

 

[fartman]

had to resub to get updates via email.

 

[Mountain High]

had to resub to get updates via email.

Welcome back.

Here are my girls tonight. I will be pulling fans from the top later gradually over the next few days to let the light penetrate to lower foliage and buds.

Big Buddha Cheese day 36 of 12/12


King's Kush day 36 of 12/12


And Super Lemon haze on day 36.

 

[Mountain High]

Update time.

This is day 40 of 12/12 for my girls in the closet of the Twin Purple Suns.

Big Buddha Cheese.


King's Kush


Super Lemon Haze


And my little patch of dirt on day 40.

 

[upthearsenal]

I bet it's getting stinky in there

What are your thoughts on the light(s) thus far?

 

[Mountain High]

I bet it's getting stinky in there

What are your thoughts on the light(s) thus far?

Yeah, there are so many different contrasting smells, is almost odd and pretty strong especially when the lights first go out.

As far as my thoughts on these lights go, it is getting very obvious to me though that these lights need to be hung much higher than I can in my closet (above 28" or more I think). They are well behind my HPS grows at this point and pretty much the lights are the only variable. Except me...and my human imperfection...

Here is an update to show their progress under the Twin Suns.

Cheese day 44.


Super Lemon Haze day 44.


And King's Kush day 44

 

[alphawolf.hack]

lookin good you setup is probably good it jus looks like you might want to trim up the bottom of those .plant wasting alot of energy down there. and shake those stalks a plant that big should look like a mini tree i wish i had a cam id show you what i mean... but great job anyways!

 

[Mountain High]

lookin good you setup is probably good it jus looks like you might want to trim up the bottom of those .plant wasting alot of energy down there. and shake those stalks a plant that big should look like a mini tree i wish i had a cam id show you what i mean... but great job anyways!

Actually been finding out from others using the same lights, I have mine too low and they are slowing growth with too much PAR light. And I have no more head height to adjust.

As far as the stalks, I agree, but is how they grew, under HPS they are much thicker usually.

And I don't pull anything except a few fans from the top to expose the mid-level buds to get them to increase in size.

Not a big defoliator.

 

[upthearsenal]

These lights are interesting, would have never thought they could have gotten too close... either way, everything looks great!

 

[Mountain High]

These lights are interesting, would have never thought they could have gotten too close... either way, everything looks great!

Yeah seems they suppress stretch if too close, all stretch...leaf, bud, etc. My SLH leaves don't even look normal to me...way to skinny and small.

Here she is next to one of her next closet mates, you can tell by her leaves, something is up with the Purple Suns, this has been grown first under 100 watts of CFL in my veg box and moved out here because of size issues under 70 watts of CFL.


On with the update....

Thought I would do a different looking update today on the end of their 7th week of 12/12.

Big Buddha Cheese




Kings Kush




And Super Lemon Haze

 

[upthearsenal]

Nice! Love the camera work

 

[Mountain High]

Nice! Love the camera work

Thanks brother.

 

[Mountain High]

Update day, It is day 57 of 12/12, the girls all look to have at least a week left and some maybe longer.

Big Buddha Cheese


Kings Kush


And Super Lemon Haze. You can see her main cola in the King's Kush picture, I left it leaning there, the farther away the better it has been growing.

 

[Mountain High]

I got some replacement LED's, the others have hang height issues for small grows and were just overdriving my girls (I think). The few days I had the replacement lights in, I noticed serious improvement in everything including smell. So on that note, I put my girls in darkness for 3 days...forgot to get pics before darkness. Then they will be chopped and I hope to remember to take pictures. I have let them all go longer than I usually do trying to get to the amber I like, am hoping the darkness and drought helps.

Thought I would show you the girls that are going in to replace them.


I took these a couple days ago. My Super Lemon Haze main cola...leaning.


This is a closeup of her trics...she is a yummy girl.


And this is what one of the new LED's look like. Mostly white, can see the plants really nice.


Peace.

 

[Mountain High]

I ended up harvesting my girls and they ended up giving less than half what I usually grow with my HPS. Is disappointing but expected this about half way through bloom, I know what my girls do and these just were not up to it.

I am hoping the new LED's that were sent to replace these perform better.

Here are few photo's of the chop. This was my Cheese all the way to the first box picture just to show the layers in the box.




This was just Cheese


And this is all three girls.


Hope you all enjoyed my journal...wasn't a lot of response but the few that read it, I hope you enjoyed.

Please move this to completed please.

 

[upthearsenal]

Awesome harvest and great journal