.Smoke from the drivers, Qboards in the sky

I finally have all the buckets built. 12 in total with about 2 dozen scrap... it took me a while to decide...

Anyway,
The veg tent is now full.


The one in the dirt is a Gorilla glue clone that I'm going to keep as a mother. I'm going to add a Granddaddy Purple, Blueberry Glue and possibly a cut of the Cannarado Birthday Funk if I like how it smokes.
I plan to run the strains for a bit, so I figure mom's are the way to go and keeping them in soil will make it easier to take care of maintaining them.

Hopefully I'll get some seeds started this evening after I get my fucking taxes filed.
Yay.

P.s. I'm glad to see the site back up. Had no access yesterday. Made for a 4 hour phone conversation with Mom.
I needed a lot of meds after that..

I'm going to be focusing on quality over quality more now having settled on 2 strains to run. (Ilgm Granddaddy Purple/Nirvana Original Glue)

Firstly, I don't need nearly the amount of plants. I have enough piling up in the trim room as is. I'll be running 6 plants in my 4'x8' from now on under what I'm calling "The Strip Killer"...
6- 220w Qboard's running @ 66% over a 4'x6'= 880w.




Here's the best part @jonnynobody
All lights/fans/dehumidifier for flower now cost me $.12 per hr.

Suck on that efficacy and coverage Bar lights...

Your flower room is looking amazing good job.

.Smoke said:

I'm going to be focusing on quality over quality more now having settled on 2 strains to run. (Ilgm Granddaddy Purple/Nirvana Original Glue)

Firstly, I don't need nearly the amount of plants. I have enough piling up in the trim room as is. I'll be running 6 plants in my 4'x8' from now on under what I'm calling "The Strip Killer"...
6- 220w Qboard's running @ 66% over a 4'x6'= 880w.
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Here's the best part @jonnynobody
All lights/fans/dehumidifier for flower now cost me $.12 per hr.
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Suck on that efficacy and coverage Bar lights...

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That light setup is super plush dude! I love seeing a proper qb light setup like you've done here. When done properly qb's are far more efficient and cost effective than bar lights. Almost every bar light I've seen is priced in the $650+ range for a fixture that only covers a 5x5. Using qb's the cost is half that. I really don't understand this big fad going on with bar light fixtures. They'd be cool if they weren't twice the cost of qb's. Just one example is from a personal experience of mine. I've got two 660w 3500k lm301b qb's sitting in the port of LA right now I paid under $700 for both with shipping. That's about $350 each. And each light covers a 5x5. I just don't see the value in bar lights. Are they cool? Most definitely. Super expensive? Most definitely also. If someone wants to buy me a few I'm okay with that, but as long as it's me buying them I'll stick to qb's for the foreseeable future

I see you've got your fertilizer situation sorted out. Your foliage is lush and healthy as can be. And those buds on your flowering ladies are chunky as can be. You really rebounded nicely there after that scare a little ways back with the burned foliage. Kudos to you on reducing that electric consumption. I was considering running my two 1000's at 75% and leaving them in place while replacing my two 600w HID's with two 660w LED's, but I now think I'm just yanking the 1000's out and being done with HID lighting. It's so dam inefficient and spits out so much heat I really don't want to see endless $700 electric bills. And we spent almost 3 weeks trimming the last harvest. I don't really want to go through that again. I think I'm going to reduce to 6 plants in the flower room. 6 very large plants. And 6 in veg. I just don't want to be overwhelmed again like I was last cycle. I'm only 1 person and the bigger your garden gets you simply can't get it all done without help come harvest time. Fewer plants, less stress, lower electric bill, increased efficiency, and cranking out the same quality buds. It's gonna be hard to get use to, but I have a feeling I'll ease into it nicely

I've dropped my flower area to a 4'x4' space. Focusing on quality over quantity more now. 90% of my storage space is full so I want only top shelf from this point forward.
Veg tent

4 Original Glue clones for the next run

And I started the mother for my Granddaddy Purple I'll be running after the Glue.

I'm able to get all the equipment I need inside the flower tent to maintain a 1.2-1.4 vpd with a 83F leaf temperature. Thankfully the exhaust fan only kicks on about every 15 minutes on it's lowest setting. It's a lot less noise than running the hps.






It's also a lot better coverage for a lot less $$ with 6 boards @ 50% power too.

Pairing down the flower tent seems to be doing the trick.

The plants aren't quite where I'd like them due to previous feed issues I'm still figuring out, but it's looking like a good 6+ oz each shouldn't be to hard to hit.

Starting back left -> clockwise...Blueberry Glue, Girl Scout Cookies, Original Glue, and Birthday Funk.

.Smoke said:

Pairing down the flower tent seems to be doing the trick.
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The plants aren't quite where I'd like them due to previous feed issues I'm still figuring out, but it's looking like a good 6+ oz each shouldn't be to hard to hit.

Starting back left -> clockwise...Blueberry Glue, Girl Scout Cookies, Original Glue, and Birthday Funk.
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Your birthday funk and girl scout cookies looks incredible! It looks like the LED's are treating your ladies very well. And those are some absolutely ridiculous colas! Have you tried the UV formula yet for your veg to flower transition?

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Your birthday funk and girl scout cookies looks incredible! It looks like the LED's are treating your ladies very well. And those are some absolutely ridiculous colas! Have you tried the UV formula yet for your veg to flower transition?

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Thanks.
The shipping got screwed when I ordered the Ultra Violet so I ended up not getting it. I've just been slowly adjusting ratios of A/B to see what looks to work. Running a 4/2/1 mix now around 1.49ec in flower.
I think the mix is right, now it's just a matter of getting through these 4 plants. This is my last "mixed run" for a while. I have the 4 Gorilla Glues vegging that I'm going to flip once the tent opens up. It will be my first ever mono crop run, so hopefully I can get a lot better results with the feeding being the same for all the plants.
Right now I'm stuck with a few that are burnt and a few with deficiencies so it's hard to find a happy medium.
I think I'm going to end up being a long veg mono crop grower for a bit now.