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GroErr

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Canada Day weekend up here, doing some maintenance today, up at Rama to see how Burton Cummings is sounding tonight. Heading up to Bancroft for the weekend tomorrow. Nothing like being in Northern Ontario to celebrate Canada Day, beautiful country. Cheers and good wishes to all Canadians celebrating Canada Day and our American friends celebrating Independence Day.

Some bud shots at Day 37. Blue Ripper x Blue Dream and Fireballs are head to head in the frost department, let's see which one wins :mrgreen:

Blue Ripper x Blue Dream:

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Fireballs:

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Skunk #1 P5:

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Skunk #1 P7:

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And the Blue Harley itching to start flowering some early frost at Day 13 bongsmilie

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Cheers :bigjoint:
 

sgarcata

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LOL, they might need an extra dog to warm up these days. :0)
Cubensis is another strong and easy grower, to be honest. They grow on
sawdust or straw as well and compost or manure. I will be making Shiitake
mostly as those we eat whenever I make them.
JD
Where do you get the inoculants, please?
 

Underground Scientist

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Canada Day weekend up here, doing some maintenance today, up at Rama to see how Burton Cummings is sounding tonight. Heading up to Bancroft for the weekend tomorrow. Nothing like being in Northern Ontario to celebrate Canada Day, beautiful country. Cheers and good wishes to all Canadians celebrating Canada Day and our American friends celebrating Independence Day.

Some bud shots at Day 37. Blue Ripper x Blue Dream and Fireballs are head to head in the frost department, let's see which one wins :mrgreen:

Blue Ripper x Blue Dream:

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Fireballs:

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Skunk #1 P5:

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Skunk #1 P7:

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And the Blue Harley itching to start flowering some early frost at Day 13 bongsmilie

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Cheers :bigjoint:
I've been drooling over that Blue Ripper/Blue Dream and Fireball. I'm now just thinking... Day 36, holy shit those look nice.
 

Underground Scientist

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Anything you can tell me about using Initiator Lighting would be appreciated.

I've read back when I found this thread, and saw the talk of 630nm around lights on and 730nm around lights out. What about wattage though? What time schedule are you dialed in on now?
 
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GroErr

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I've been drooling over that Blue Ripper/Blue Dream and Fireball. I'm now just thinking... Day 36, holy shit those look nice.
Hey, long weekend with too many cheers, slept about 14 hours last night - lol

Going to have to make some room for that Fireballs pheno by dropping something but it looks like it'll be worth it. The BR x BD pheno has been running for a few months, frosty bugger and killer smoke :)

Anything you can tell me about using Initiator Lighting would be appreciated.

I've read back when I found this thread, and saw the talk of 630nm around lights on and 730nm around lights out. What about wattage though? What time schedule are you dialed in on now?
Yes, using 660nm for 10 minutes before lights on (overlap 2 minutes with both). Then the 730nm's at lights out for 10 minutes. I don't know that there's a standard w/sq. ft. I think it really depends on the setup. I'm running the equivalent of 1w/sq. ft. based on the overall room size but every surface in that room is reflective. The 35w 660nm panel on the left wall and 40w 730nm light both fill the room with light. Since they're just trigger lights 1-2w/sq. ft. is fine Imo. If you were using them to supplement light during lights on you'd want more but for initiators low wattage seems to work just fine.
 
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GroErr

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So mentioned I went to see Burton Cummings on Friday night. Wow, awesome show, he's still rocking it, 2 1/2 hour show and he never went off stage, younger guys in the band had a break while he did a couple of solo songs - lol. Mix of his stuff and a bunch of classic tunes from the Guess Who days. Worth seeing him if he comes by your area.

Spent the rest of the weekend up Bancroft way, every time we head up there we get a rainbow off the back deck. Got down to 7C Sunday night though, f'n summer still trying to figure out if it's going to warm up or not $%#!

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Underground Scientist

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Hey, long weekend with too many cheers, slept about 14 hours last night - lol

Going to have to make some room for that Fireballs pheno by dropping something but it looks like it'll be worth it. The BR x BD pheno has been running for a few months, frosty bugger and killer smoke :)


Yes, using 660nm for 10 minutes before lights on (overlap 2 minutes with both). Then the 730nm's at lights out for 10 minutes. I don't know that there's a standard w/sq. ft. I think it really depends on the setup. I'm running the equivalent of 1w/sq. ft. based on the overall room size but every surface in that room is reflective. The 35w 660nm panel on the left wall and 40w 730nm light both fill the room with light. Since they're just trigger lights 1-2w/sq. ft. is fine Imo. If you were using them to supplement light during lights on you'd want more but for initiators low wattage seems to work just fine.
Thanks,

I was curious if those panels you have were premade or you rigged em up. What I had in mind figures out to about your recommended watts/sf (15sf/20w-1.33w/sf). I was thinking one 10w fixture of each 660 and 730 on opposing ends of the box. When I found 10w chips on Amazon, below it showed customers usually purchase "this" with this item. It was just a cheap 10w plug n play cool white COB I'm assuming people retrofit. I may give that a shot if there's no easier option.

730 Chip: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00ORQJGNU/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=ATIK003I1430U&psc=1

660 Chip:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01DBZK3E8/ref=ox_sc_act_image_3?smid=A14FP9XIRL6C1F&psc=1

Housing:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00ODUC9BG/ref=ox_sc_act_image_2?smid=A3KBAI82H8OWZL&psc=1
 

GroErr

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Hey Groerr...lookin great as usual.

Say... when you're starting out your seedlings are they under your Cobs? If so...how far up do you keep your lights?
Hey thanks, yes the blurple in the veg cabinet where I bring up seeds went and I threw in some 4000k COBs in there temporarily. Will end up putting 2x 70w 6000k Chinese COBs in there, grabbed another 200w of Citi 1212's for the 2x4x5' tent where I veg them. I have different levels in the cabinet with some diy stands I made, usually start them on the floor until they pop through, bring them up on the first platform which sits ~30", then bring them up to the next level which is ~20" above them. A bit more work but it keeps them from stretching too much or getting fried.
 
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