Cheers! Got a few challenges/experiments yet. It aint totally pitch black in the room the box is in but i suspect this is not an issue (no direct light, v v dark in the box, consistent etc), still no extraction, the plants are too big for the box which kinda makes odour control via extraction a...
Just for reference, i surmised (after various efforts to resolve) that there was possibly a little deficiency but that this was certainly also sunburn from the LEDS which have UV and IR bulbs.. you really need these lights about 10 inches or more from foliage - you can get away with a bit...
As you can see, one got a burn going too close to the lights, i'm often away for three nights or so and the stretch on the 8-balls surprised me. Got a lot of heads and a reasonably even canopy, so i'm not put out :)
So a very belated update.. a 250w hps became available to me, so i took it and added it to the three cheapo ufos, which tbf were doing a good job..
Then the fans broke on 2 of them, and despite my hamfisted fiddling around with them they remained that way - i suspect the motors burned out while...
Yes, the utter horror of someone trying getting a grow together with next to nowt. Poor, poor you.
I see you never had the bollocks to poke your head over the parapet and post your own grow thread here.
I used them on my first few grows several years ago before a long break. I had loverly plants and was very happy with my results but never used the same light without one so can't really compare. However, my lights were a lot closer than a friend with a similar grow, who was also very pleased...
i had to help dismantle an op in a (big) hurry and got a bin bag of stuff that was only half way through flowering and it absolutely slaughtered me - very bright and heady, much better than expected. Smoked a lot of the leaves too, tres mellow.
Nowt wrong with smoking trim as far as i'm concerned, smoke 'em if you got 'em and all that. It can be a pleasantly mellow, sometimes actually pretty tasty tide-me-over solution. Is your overall plan to keep ze box topped up with autos and try to keep it as full as possible as you progress?
I was able to get a 400w v close years ago with a heat shield/spreader device under the bulb, but turns out it was a 250w in a cool tube hood, experiments begin tomorrow to see how it fits in and if it misbehaves or not :up: options are good!
Good to see that flowers have started for you - maybe you've found the knack/identified the issue that will means you can start do what you need with your set up, and then onwards and upwards.
I think that cheapo chinese lights are a workable option too - mine are certainly going well enough...
This morning the discolouration had grown a bit.. so i dosed with epsom, and when i took them out of the room to ditch the run-off it was the first time i'd seen them in natural light for a few days (the photos were taken in the dark), the leaf discolouration/mag deficiency didn't look as...
if it's any use, here is a thread of them from 1 week ago:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/my-very-own-crappy-ufo-grow.925980/
meh, can get link to work properly