Comparative Grow: from Dutch Passion at The Vault

I made a change to my cabinet yesterday, gained myself another 6 inches (oooer missus). Saw a comment by @diyled that he had a few strips, boards etc with minor damage that anyone local could have for free, as he wanted to clear out his scrap pile before moving premises. 5 minutes drive later and he was wiring me up a HLG qb132 v2 board that had a diode where the phosphor coating had come off, so he couldn't sell it as perfect. I hadn't even thought of a board, so if I hadn't seen that post I would never have gone down this route. I bought the driver off him but it was still dirt cheap.

I put it in the cupboard last night and it fits like a dream and even leaving a 3/4" gap above it for ventilation, I still have miles more head space than using led light bulbs. I set it at 45w to see how the plant reacts, she looked happy enough this morning at 5am, temps were 17C so I might think about putting the driver inside the cabinet to help temps, I will see how it goes during the day.

A massive public thank you to @diyled. I am so lucky to have somebody like that literally on my doorstep.

No real plant pics, more of a before and after with the new board. I rotate the container every day in case the plant looks to be moving position in the container!

Before (taken last week)



After fitting the new board



You can see the diode with the missing coating in the pic - works fine for me without it!

Thats a much better fit and you should be good with it being dimmable.

Well so much for ordering lights online

Day 17. Temp was at 60 so I closed the intake from window to warm it up some all looking good one had two little brown spots on it not sure what it's from other then that looking great

Also added 4 teaspoons of nutes from the ff trio pack

DirtyDogs446 said:

Well so much for ordering lights online

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Ouch, that really, really stinks. Hopefully it gets replaced quickly.

It's not oregano said:

@TurboTokes - I would drop @George Seeds a message, you never know, he might have a pack left. Worth a try.

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Yeah, I think they received a lot of traffic around the holidays and may still be reviewing applications. The grow wasn't closed as of year end. Might as well try!

JimmiP said:

I just finished filling out the order form and was wondering if I applied in time? I have a little space left in my newly expanded grow room and would love to give thes a try in my first "legal" grow here in Illinois. Thanks either way for all the great promos you guys do!

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yes still time and some packs left, get your applications in and let your mates know

It's not oregano said:

@TurboTokes - I would drop @George Seeds a message, you never know, he might have a pack left. Worth a try.

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yep some left

JimmiP said:

Ouch, that really, really stinks. Hopefully it gets replaced quickly.

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The guy was amazing reshipping said they lose one every 6 months but their packing was amazing so dont really understand how both broke he is responding highly reccomend pangeareptile.com

This morning temperatures were at a steady 72. I have lights about 9 in from top of canopy. Almost time to top them. Will update with more pictures later.

Day 19 just water today looking good but there are a few brown spots on the one to the left leaves any ideas? It may of been when I transplanted I was using mold killer prior to it should of washed my hands idk. Any ideas would be appreciated

I personally would wait a week and see what happens
chances are the spots are due to tranplant/ moisture infrequency

Passion Fruit (Fem)

2nd bean finally popped. The 1st one was
fine,came back a few hours later and she was slumped over.Not sure what happend.Thete's no crease where the bend is,also no sign of damping off. I tossed a lil scoop of coco to prop her up and see if she'll str8'n out and resume happyness.Could've simply been one of the pebbles shifted and knocked her over.

The second bean has 3 leaflets and cotys. Whorled Phyllotaxy? I had a male recently culled that had 3 branches per node all thru his life,never grew out of it.

I'll be trying to join this as well!

Thank you for the reply nizza I appreciate it buddy

DirtyDogs446 said:

Day 19 just water today looking good but there are a few brown spots on the one to the left leaves any ideas? It may of been when I transplanted I was using mold killer prior to it should of washed my hands idk. Any ideas would be appreciated

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Pretty much as Nizza said, apart from the spots they look healthy enough, so i am also of the give it a week point of view.
One other thing it could be is water burn from the droplets on the leaves, but that would probably happen to all the plants not just one, but something to think about.

Well I will keep an eye on it see what happens that was the first time I sprayed them with water it literally happened 2 days after transplanting

Day 21 they were all at 6 nodes cut down to third nodes and cut bottom set of branches off put in 6 teaspoons of big bloom which is fox farms trio pack then 2 teaspoons of grow big along with 2 teaspoons of kangoroots. Excited to see how they respond