Hawaii Growers

waterproof808 said:
Almost anything will work. The problem with the solar lights is that they can lack the light penetration to keep the lowers from trying to flower when they get tall. You might have to use multiple lights to let the lowers receive light.

It honestly doesnt take a lot of light though, even some dinky 18w CFL's that cost $1.00 at home depot will work.

Let's say you were running three of them @ 20w X 3 lights = 60watts/hour x 3 hours a night = 180w x 30days = 5400w/month / 1000 = 5.4Kilowatt hours x $0.45(big island energy rate) = ~$2.43 month.
With this schedule you could even run a 400w for 3 hours a night and it would run you less than $20/month.
Hope that math is correct somewhat. Anybody feel free to check my work.
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I just got to make sure its something weather proof and i should be good. thanks for all the helpful info
 
rikdabrick said:
Your math is solid braddah. And yeah, depending on your spacing determines how much light to use and how powerful of light to use. The larger the spacing between lights the more powerful you want them. A buddy of mine with a farm in northern California uses 60W CFL's spaced ever 10-15ft. He uses some snap on water proof sockets on a string of stranded 12 gauge THHN. I got the same materials to run string lights. I'll post up a pic when it gets all set up which hopefully should be before summer.

Currently I'm using something like 5W Cree LED's and a LED floodlight from Home Depot spaced a few feet apart.
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awesome thanks. would like to see pics once you got it setup.
 
The website says "genetics", along with lights, nutes, glass. We'll see!
If there are seed banks or clones somehow that'd be cool, but I mostly just want to meet some local growers
 
I ordered this on Amazon. I will see how bright it is, hopefully it will do the job.
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Interested in how the low lumen count will do. I am trying to figure out a good low wattage high lumen solution myself.
 
@infamous hawaii That's cool, hopefully it works out for you.

These are the light sockets that I got in the link below. The top unscrews and you just run some THHN wire through it. The contacts on the socket into the insulation and it's waterproof. You can make the wire whatever length you want (within reason for 12 or 14 gauge stranded wire which is still pretty far) and wire up a plug to one side and wire nut the wires on the end individually (not together) and to be safe squirt some silicone in the wire nuts and you're good to go. And you can use some cheap CFL's or whatever. I think I got these cheaper somewhere else or from another Amazon seller too. I think I only paid around $1.25ea.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003725R74?keywords=levitron run through socket&qid=1454009476&ref_=sr_1_fkmr0_2&sr=8-2-fkmr0
 
guido420 said:
Interested in how the low lumen count will do. I am trying to figure out a good low wattage high lumen solution myself.
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from the videos i saw on youtube of people reviewing it, it looked super bright. Once i get it i will test it out and post pics. I got super dark backyard so we will see.
 
rikdabrick said:
@infamous hawaii That's cool, hopefully it works out for you.

These are the light sockets that I got in the link below. The top unscrews and you just run some THHN wire through it. The contacts on the socket into the insulation and it's waterproof. You can make the wire whatever length you want (within reason for 12 or 14 gauge stranded wire which is still pretty far) and wire up a plug to one side and wire nut the wires on the end individually (not together) and to be safe squirt some silicone in the wire nuts and you're good to go. And you can use some cheap CFL's or whatever. I think I got these cheaper somewhere else or from another Amazon seller too. I think I only paid around $1.25ea.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003725R74?keywords=levitron run through socket&qid=1454009476&ref_=sr_1_fkmr0_2&sr=8-2-fkmr0
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Thanks. I will see how bright the light is once i get it. From there i will probably have to add a couple of these. Thanks
 
infamous hawaii said:
from the videos i saw on youtube of people reviewing it, it looked super bright. Once i get it i will test it out and post pics. I got super dark backyard so we will see.
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Right on, I probably would've have opted for something like that, but I wanted to have the lights go on in the middle of the night so it's a little less obvious than staying on for a few hours after sunset since most people are asleep by midnight. I don't have any close neighbors to my garden. The closest one is about a quarter mile away, but when I had lights running from sunset to around 11PM they still asked why the area was all lit up. It's pretty obvious when a spot is lit up in complete darkness out in the middle of nowhere.
 
infamous hawaii said:
I vegged this GDP until 4' indoors. Day 17 of flower and its about 6'.
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Shootz, it should be good. Something I'm not sure has been mentioned is to watch out for nanners as daylight hours increase. I've only had one plant ever that threw some nanners and I'm not sure if it was genetics or because it was flowering during the spring when the daylight hours were increasing which is generally not what cannabis expects when it's flowering. It's probably minor, but I thought I'd just throw that out there because it's a possibility. Maybe some other guys can chime in on experiences of nanners or the lack thereof during spring flowering.
 
rikdabrick said:
Right on, I probably would've have opted for something like that, but I wanted to have the lights go on in the middle of the night so it's a little less obvious than staying on for a few hours after sunset since most people are asleep by midnight. I don't have any close neighbors to my garden. The closest one is about a quarter mile away, but when I had lights running from sunset to around 11PM they still asked why the area was all lit up. It's pretty obvious when a spot is lit up in complete darkness out in the middle of nowhere.
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yeah forsure
 
rikdabrick said:
Shootz, it should be good. Something I'm not sure has been mentioned is to watch out for nanners as daylight hours increase. I've only had one plant ever that threw some nanners and I'm not sure if it was genetics or because it was flowering during the spring when the daylight hours were increasing which is generally not what cannabis expects when it's flowering. It's probably minor, but I thought I'd just throw that out there because it's a possibility. Maybe some other guys can chime in on experiences of nanners or the lack thereof during spring flowering.
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I will definitely watch for it. thanks
 
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