Club 315w lec

pinner420

pinner420

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He's a testament to persistence, Less is more. The humblest master of the trade to grace us. I remember back when his threads had pictures. Now all that's left are his teachings. I remember asking really fucked up questions back in the day and he was so humble he would answer the dumbest of inquirys. He's the guy that follows principles and then shows his work. You know just one of those guys a true mad scientist. He does lurk now and then to check us all; however, not a word.. kinda nice to know he's still here!
 
ilovetoskiatalta

ilovetoskiatalta

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Snucks said:
hahah i know. I'm talking about for the passive intake and light from outside the tent. Cause my tent is going to be in my bedroom.
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This is my 2'x2.5' tent(passive intake hooked to a 4"x12" phresh filter 190cfm hurricane on a variac that is my intake for my 4'x2' tent also hooked to a 190cfm hurricane and a 4"x16" mountain air. I need to have active intake or the sides pull in too much on the 4'x2'.

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MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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i used 2 7" semi flexible 2 foot ducts. And I strapped a piece of air conditioner replacement foam on each end and bent it in an upside down "U".

No light passed through with the 2 black foam ends. It remained pitch black in my tent.

Pulls cool air from the floor and deposits it passively to the tent floor. Then the carbon filter was mounted at the top inside and exhausted through an air cooled reflector and out.

The larger diameter and double my 6" exhaust fan reduces the sucking in of the sides and increases air flow.

The air can pass through the whole canopy from floor up. Works very well. I had 6 " clip fans inside for circulation.

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MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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I have to admit I would put a cmh or two in that old tent now instead of that 600 HPS. I bet one would be fine in the 4x4 with all that Mylar if you keep away from the edges.

Anyway just posting because of the passive intake comment above.

Now I'm thinking of re-purposing that tent into a 315 LEC veg tent. And my 3x3 could become a perpetual drying tent

Hmmmmmmmm.
 
MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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Evil-Mobo said:
@MichiganMedGrower

OR........

You could get a 600W "Blue MH" bulb for veg and kill it in that 3x3 for veg :bigjoint:
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Did that the first year with a 400 daylight blue and then switched to the 600 for flowering. Good ol Galaxy selectable wattage ballast.

Now I use a 2x3 propogator with 5 2 ft t-5's for seedlings and clones and the 3x3 now has 10 2 ft bulbs.

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And here is the propogator.

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ttystikk

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pinner420 said:
He's a testament to persistence, Less is more. The humblest master of the trade to grace us. I remember back when his threads had pictures. Now all that's left are his teachings. I remember asking really fucked up questions back in the day and he was so humble he would answer the dumbest of inquirys. He's the guy that follows principles and then shows his work. You know just one of those guys a true mad scientist. He does lurk now and then to check us all; however, not a word.. kinda nice to know he's still here!
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I'd very much like to make his acquaintance, if that's something you could facilitate I'd be in your debt.

His posted work was inspirational and foundational to my own.
 
MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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Alright. We harvested the 12.5 week Black Widow x Blue Lemon Thai that has been under the new 315 LEC for more than 2 weeks.

She has foxtailed all over. I thought it was heat stress but it is genetic it seems. I raised the light and tried other plants. It's fine under there.

The other thing is the plant has gone white under the canopy. It seems to green up and finish maturing only when the thick leaves are not in the way.

It's funny because of all the argument for defoliation. But this is a penetration issue I believe. I had the light at 20" like my HPS but have started to lower it.

I should have copied the link but read last night that 16" is the optimal height for max par. I am at 18" now. We will see.

I think the spectrum may have brought out the haze in the widow side. It sure looks like it.

This pheno does normally have fluffier huge sativa type buds but I have never seen this. image.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpeg

The buds are dense in the middle. This didn't happen until moved from HPS to LEC.

So we picked the fan leaves off to only harvest the top buds.

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Here she is after the tops were removed

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And I put her back under the Hortilux 600 Super HPS to finish up.

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Here are the buds in the drying closet. They are intensely sticky. Much stickier than the only HPS grown ones in the past. When they are done they get drier than this. Maybe more resin from the new lamp.

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Any thoughts on the foxtails?
 
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MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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Here is my flower room after I finished tonight. You can see the 2 different lights on the plants clearly.

The Horti supposedly has 25% blue in their spectrum. It sure isn't as red as My old caregivers cheap bulbs at least to my eye.

The CMH looks and "feels" like sunlight. And it greened up very tired leaves on both ripening plants in a short time. But I can see why they are already making 630 air cooled reflectors.

But I am of course. New to these and still dialing in so please share your experiences so we can all use these to their potential.

I have used my original equipment for 3 years and I am still making gains in potency and yield so I think amazing things can be done with this 315 watt lamp.

Everyone says spectrum trumps lumens. I want to see it happen here.

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MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

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Some more info and a pic. You can see the white buds next to the darker green one on the outside left.

I also forgot to mention that she had a stamen outbreak out of some of the ends of the foxtails.

Maybe 10 to 15 singles. Kinda of used to it. The background is Chem and Thai.

Only found 2 more in the last two weeks and they were hidden a bit so I may have missed them.

The genetics here are original white widow. Lemon Thai and Toxic Blue 33 which is an ECSD hybrid and a Jack/ Yumbolt hybrid.

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I have never seen this under my 600 HPS or the 400w one I use sometimes. And not under a Hortilux 400w daylight blue either.

Has anyone here? Can't have light bleaching on the bottom. And it is already greening up under the HPS.
 
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