re: 480W & 720W Grow LED Hydro - Land Of Clovers
did u add the budswell guano to the top of ur soil or made tea with it?
i got the 1gal tea one. tea is always better them adding to the soil, well it depends. adding dry to soil takes longer to break down, tea acts faster, also bubbling tea wakes up the micro life specially with earth worms casting. IMO the dry budswell bubbled would be the best idea.
I'm half joking and half sour I don't have a GLH unit yet.
That 435w makes me get giggly thinking about using it scrog style.
i really want to do a scrog grow always wanted to try it and might go for it soon in my tent. but i do here you leds do seem to flutter more in this forum, but its a nice place because of members like you that dont outcast us led user and everyone is friendly.
they don't get mad if you don't call
On the subject of LED lights, I've seen the results other growers have had using GLH lights, and I also have first-hand experience, having used them for several grows now.
My Spectra 360 is fired up right now, as a matter of fact. I've been taking a break from journals, not growing
I recently got a second Suncourt 4" exhaust fan, so I'm running the exact same ventilation setup in each tent.
I've got the Spectra in one tent, and I'm running a 250w HPS in the other tent, open-hood.
The LED tent is running 3 degrees cooler than the HID tent, and that's more or less 360w vs 250w, which surprised me and is a *huge* benefit for my summer grows, and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to match the yield of the Spectra 360 with my 250w HID, so more yield with less heat is a pretty good thing, yes?
My open-hood 250w HID is running at pretty much exactly the same temp as my 400w HID/air-cooled, for those interested in such things. Ditching the glass adds at least 10% more lumens, and not having the glass filter the spectrum also helps a bit, so there is that. Would make another interesting side-by-side, as if there were any lack of those
.
In any case, Mike's light works really well for me, and that's why I'm currently running a grow with it.
I got no time for gear that doesn't produce.
very nice post.
i never know a open hood will make that much of a difference? crazy. so winter time open hood summer time aircooled all the way. this is very cool news about the leds temps that amazing, even since my new lights seem to be running cooler them my older models were from what i could see in the temps of my tent. from what i could see, but could just be me though?lol. it seemed the lights ran hotter at 1st then after a few min it was allot cooler from unplugging my old ones and throwing in the new ones right after another.
I dont think you'll find much of a challenge from Kessil.
A local shop here has every color Kessil offers, even the purples lol in a demo tent and they are indeed worthless. Those "flashlights"
are the joke of the shop now.
They might make some good lighting for cool pics and that's it. The shop could'nt even get some basil seeds to sprout & grow under the things but the basil sprouted and is growing under an Illumigrow led and a Chameleon Plasma...A couple other lights a GLH would crush in a side by side.
They did move some trays of sprouts under the Kessils and they responded as if they were in the dark.
as always IB!! Lots of great info here!
Bro you called it, way over priced and dosent works and it really gives leds a bad name, a hydro shop i was at has one of those Haight Solid State leds SS tested and they said leds were a joke because how it grew and it just really makes others get the bad ideas and think all leds are the same, the other thing people get twisted is thinking that all leds that use 3w leds or 12 colors are the same, people need to really do their homework and see what their buying. ill brag about Mikes leds all day because i know for a fact they work good and i want others to not get riped off from false company's. we work hard for our money! and leds arnt cheap. it just really gets to me sometimes (and no one here) but they PM me asking what leds do i think is best or witch leds i should buy and their cheap ones off of e-bay or a company making crazy claims. i work hard on all of these journals to help others out and feel like i am doing it for nothing, but i realize that every one person it dosent help i help 20 others. i dont do journals to brag about my plants or show them off i do them to help others not make the same mistakes i and others have. but some people what to only here one answer and the one i give them they dont like and want me to recommend a led ive never ever heard of and i wont do that, so they get made and try to convece me that their better leds and allot cheaper, so i get tired and dont want to argue over 20 post so i tell them simple dont take my advice or leave it and get it if you want. sure enough a few months latter they crying about how they lost all the savings and saying they should have listen. I just dont get it? lots of us have dont the dirty work for others to see whats what, ive spent years testing different leds and waisted so much of my yield because of this, once i found mikes lights ive had great results and haven't looked back, i wouldn't trade these leds for any leds ive at this point and time, trust me ive seen tones of leds grows and not one light that can match these IMO. i dont have time anymore to waist, if i found a better led and seen the proof i would trade up and use that, best i like having the best of the best, but i havent seen that day yet, i just see company's making BS claims.. its as simple as this! if a company says my 300w led cant match a 1k HPS then as simple as this ask them to see the proof that this claim is true. ill beat all the money you will never see some legit proof!!! its as simple as this i will take some random x-mass leds throw them in a unit sales them for $200 and they will match 4k of HPS.
the only and I mean the only reason why i went with Mikes lights to test in the start was because of 2 reasons, one he did make those crazy claims the other company's made about matching HPS.
2. he was the only one who offered me a high watt led unit the 600w instead of a 90w ufo or a 126w unit, and told me its a gift as a payment for doing a grow, if you do like it at the end sale it on ebay get 2k and bash my company all you want. and trust me i told him i didnt want to waist my time with leds anymore and would use my 1k HPS since it was cool so if i do this grow and lose yield i will bash ur company real bad because you waisted my time, he said deal. ask mike i really gave up on leds and didnt want to use his at 1st because i lost all hope because of other led company's making BS false claims. used his lights for the 1st time in my 600w grow on here and they meet my needs and some, and been using them ever since then. i dont care what leds anyone uses but please take my advice and do homework on what your going to buy, look for journals from a few trusted growers and see their results. Never Ever go by a company's claims when theirs no proof.
i am sorry to ramble on, but i think this needed to be said!
So much going on.
The Jacks just keep looking more beautiful every set of pictures.
thanks buddy wish we could blaze one up bro. these are the most frosty plants ive grown to this date, and their getting fatter and fatter.
Yo whats up everyone!! Just wanted to share a link to a know thread that was started using my one of my Spectra 240w panels side by side with a Blackstar 240w panel..
thanks ill check it out, get allot of PM's asking about those lights.
Hey Irish thanks for getting back, I asked because I have grown in FFOF and ROOTS atm but I thought a mix of the two would be great and they both have perlite so it would probably work good...
Im liking the roots but I was not aware of the lower ph requirements and such that come with soilless. Cleared that up but i can sure tell the difference between the two. Soil tends to care for itslef with all that life and activity going on while Roots needs more constant watering, flushing, feeding.
Any idea on what the probiotic life is like in soilless or coco? Takes time to establish or supplement from a bottle? Thanks man
from what ive read a mix of the 2 allot of people like it, never tried it. now RO is a soil but with coco but still not a soiless mix, they have a soiless mix and not sure if thats the one you have?
Setting Sun posted a coco soil mix the other day and sounds like its on point and would give that a try maybe if thats what your looking for. but FFOF and roots is said to be killer mixed together from what ive read but never tried it or seen the results. now coco is a thing thats more work and likes to be watered allot more, but never heard anything bad about the PH or roots PH? i know my SS#4 since it is peat base drops PH low. micro life takes a few weeks to kick in real good IMO and best to be in contact with the roots
