puffenuff
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What's up RIU? Back with a new journal after taking a few months off. I've been hooked on King Klone brand clones lately. Last round was some amazing Candyland and Blackjack; this time around it is Medusa and Phantom. Phantom is Cherry Pie x GDP and Medusa is something very similar to that. I wrote it down somewhere but can't find it. Cherry Pie crossed with one of their other cuts, I want to say Candyland.
4 clones total, 2 of each, in Canna Coco and feeding them Canna nutrients. Canna has been a long time staple in my gardens. Always top notch in terms of quality.
My grow space is about 3x2'x5' (LxWxH). For the first week, they were in party cups and under an Area 51 SGS-160 in veg mode. Today they got transplanted to 3 gallon fabric pots. I also hung up the DIY COB I built with the help and guidance of a couple super helpful RIU members. A huge thank you to them for answering all my questions and helping me choose parts.
The DIY COB is a Luminus XNOVA CXM-27 (3000K / 80 CRI) on a Nuventix 70w spotlight heatsink being cooled by a SynJet ZFlow90 fan, and being powered with a Meanwell LPC-60-1400 driver for the COB and a RECON power supply for the fan. I can try to dig up links for everything if people are interested. Pretty much got everything off Digi-key. I have enough parts to do one more. I hope to have it done by the time they are ready for flower, maybe in 2 weeks. At that point I'll also be hooking up the Apache Tech AT200.
Here are some pics. Comments and suggestions are always appreciated. Peace.
4 clones total, 2 of each, in Canna Coco and feeding them Canna nutrients. Canna has been a long time staple in my gardens. Always top notch in terms of quality.
My grow space is about 3x2'x5' (LxWxH). For the first week, they were in party cups and under an Area 51 SGS-160 in veg mode. Today they got transplanted to 3 gallon fabric pots. I also hung up the DIY COB I built with the help and guidance of a couple super helpful RIU members. A huge thank you to them for answering all my questions and helping me choose parts.
The DIY COB is a Luminus XNOVA CXM-27 (3000K / 80 CRI) on a Nuventix 70w spotlight heatsink being cooled by a SynJet ZFlow90 fan, and being powered with a Meanwell LPC-60-1400 driver for the COB and a RECON power supply for the fan. I can try to dig up links for everything if people are interested. Pretty much got everything off Digi-key. I have enough parts to do one more. I hope to have it done by the time they are ready for flower, maybe in 2 weeks. At that point I'll also be hooking up the Apache Tech AT200.
Here are some pics. Comments and suggestions are always appreciated. Peace.
! I've been waiting to see that monster you created. Very nice 
. I just picked up some CXM-22s for the Veg cab and I'm sad I bought the Artic11 Pluses instead of grabbing a SynJet/Nuvetnix now 
. Hows the heat at 1400mA? Is it loud? How long have you been using your XNovas? And aren't you amazed how the XNovas are made with the littlest tinniest LEDs 
? Much smaller than what B-Lux uses for their Veros.
. You're such a gear head dude LOL. 
), and I remembered I had a flowering panel with Neutrals that would produce the most leafy buds so I said what the hey we'll give Neutrals another shot but in the Veg cab. Also I've kept away from Neutrals because of a floriculture study I read, (that of course I can't locate now 
), that studied the effect of green light, and green LEDs, on flowering plants. They said that any light they studied that contained anything over 25% green retarded flowering but the important part was that different plants liked different levels of green, so I figured I'd avoid green till people got their MMJ info together. I tend to agree with this paper because of what I saw in my flowering room with the Neutral whites I used, but in the Veg room leafy plants are a plus, right? And the blue peak is the same as the XNova's Cool whites, so that and the 120 to 130 l/w performance made me pull the plug. I did make a slight mistake reading some data and thought they had a bigger, deeper red peak, but it seems that it doesn't matter because growth is off the hook and I'm thinking of cutting the Illumitex for a few hours a day just to save a little cash.
. BTW the wires for the CoBs run inside the rod they are hanging on and the XNovas will be on chains soon so they can be raised and lowered.
