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I think part of the beauty of diving into the whole organic soil approach is how many different ways you can go about things. I read all sorts of interesting things I'd like to try but never follow all the way through. For me, I always ended up just top dressing some fresh ewc and a tablespoon...

I remember reading somewhere that the roots provide a good source of carbon for the soil. I'm sure they add some sort of npk or micronutrients as well but can't provide any info on that. I like to think the rootmass is just another source of organic material for the microbes to stay active and...

Haha, I thought the same. If you look through his first few posts he talks about "hybridway" in the third person which I thought was real cringey.

My first experience with diy led was with the original highlight boards from @Grow Lights Australia They literally walked me through driver selection and what was ideal for my space. Couldn't have been happier with my purchase to be honest. Plants seem to enjoy the lights just as much.

Those look like cool lights, hope they work out well for you. Personally I would use the uv/ir spectrum added the whole grow. I am far too dumb to give you exact information on the subject, but it seems the two spectrums will kind of balance each other out while promoting different plant...

Looking forward to following your progress. Mind sharing your inputs for your custom blend? Always like hearing about other people's mixes. Wish you the best on your grow sir.

Are you feeding with bottled nutes as well or just letting the soil do the work for you? Plants look great as always though, hope they finish up to your liking.

I'm excited to finally cut some comfrey plants down this week and put all that green to use as well. I plan to replace all my straw mulch with the chopped leaves so I would like to think your idea in a sip box would work fine as well. Seems like it would provide nutrients along with other...

Good advice in the post above and I would hold off on adding the amendment mix for now as well. I would just start with the promix base soil for now and go from there. Personally I would grab some compost/ewc and perlite/rice hulls/pumice at this point to have on hand. If you can source some...

I think it really depends on what kind of soil you are starting with. If it's already amended pretty well, then I would hold off until later in the grow. If you're starting with a pretty basic base with no nutes in it, then adding before may be a more beneficial. I tried looking for the specific...

I'm still curious why you bought premade fixtures when you are comfortable with building your own? You said earlier that is most likely the best option so why not stick with that instead of buying these 4 separate units to then complain about their heat management abilities?

I would personally be using the greensand if you plan on using this soil for a bit. I'm no expert but I remember reading that the only major drawback to using it is how long it takes to breakdown and become available in the soil. No sources, just drawing from old posts I remember reading, but...

I think these are the "high output" versions of the gen3. Edit: the first picture at least seems the high output ones.

Figured I should just post up an example since everything I keep saying is pretty vague. I'll use these as an example...

https://ledgardener.com/diy-led-strip-build-designs-samsung-bridgelux/ would probably be a nice resource to get familiar with strip builds since it has a lot of general info and examples. The strips used as example builds may be a little outdated or better options available now, but might be of...

I'm no expert, but it seems like you have a lot of different options for those drivers. If you're comfortable with wiring things in series/parallel any of those drivers would be able to power up those strips you mentioned. I have never wired up anything like the vesta's with the two different...

Got far too high one night and watched two of these little guys doing battle against each other on a big chunk of some biochar in my worm bin once. Fierce little things.. @MICHI-CAN are you really advocating that having predators in your soil food web is a detriment if running organics...

Really nice post. Always enjoying reading your input on these things. Threads like this and your posts make me realize how little I actually understand all this stuff. I am no great grower by any means but I noticed my leaf colors having more of a blueish tint to them when I started using my...

Not sure what kind of budget you're working with but I would recommend checking out https://growlightsaustralia.com/ They have some new gen 2 boards that seem to be at or near the top of products available right now. I bought some of their original highlight boards when they first came out and...

I'm still confused as to why you think it can't be dimmed? Not quite the same as just turning a knob like with other drivers but it should definitely be able to be dim when using a meanwell xlg driver like the site shows. Sorry, not trying to beat a dead horse, but it seems like more than a...