There it is. He keeps saying there's a new book coming but nothing yet.Interesting mate thanks a lot, I did do a quick Google for "The Rev's soil" before I asked but clearly I was sleeping on the results.
Maybe a book to buy for xmas, I've fallen out of favour with reading books as a hobby this may be just the ticket
Hey @Big Sparks - hello - I’m about to start a sponsored Vpairsprctra grow in a 3x3 using the KS3000 he refers to, for what it’s worth.Light spread and heat up and away! This light is 40 inches square and 1.6 inches tall. That's thin! A good attribute come flower time in sativaville when one gets out of hand tall.
The KS5000 may not fit in that tent. Look to a KS3000 for that space. 300 watts flowers well in a 3 x 3.
I like my bud with back!
That ain't no hack!
Give me a lil Mimosa
She'll taste sweet like she sposta!
Grown all east coasta!
Hey Weffalo, that's The Rev's amending recipe. He wrote True Living Organics a book about growing in LOS. I've been using it for a few years and am having a good time with it.
I've only grown auto blueberries before. This one will be fun!
Interesting mate thanks a lot, I did do a quick Google for "The Rev's soil" before I asked but clearly I was sleeping on the results.
Maybe a book to buy for xmas, I've fallen out of favour with reading books as a hobby this may be just the ticket
There is more that isn't in the book. I like to read his articles in Skunk Mag on line. There's a bunch of it archived there! Well I find more that I didn't see in the book anyway.I recommend grabbing the 2nd edition (the yellow one you’ve got pictured is the 2nd edition). The 1st edition is easily accessible online (wink wink), the 2nd one does not have an Ebook or a digital version. The 1st version will get you familiar with a lot of the methods and ideas behind it but he’s still pushing HPS lights and talking about LEDs just getting good. The 2nd edition is much more detailed with a lot of additional recipes and it’s more modern. I.e. TLO 1st edition was published in 2012 and TLO 2nd edition was published 2016.
He’s been saying it for so long now that I gave up waiting for it and wound up asking my old lady to grab the second for Xmas. I feel like there’s a bunch of stuff I’m missing based on some of the suggestions you and Gee had that weren’t in mine. Plus I think Rev deserves the 25 bucks, he changed my outlook and style so Im not gonna be my normal “eff money” self
That’s right! I always forget about the website.. I highly recommend the website as well.. you can get a ton of free info there, and most of it is much more current. It is a bit difficult to navigate on mobile, there’s not really an easy way to see all his stuff in one spot, but the desktop version may be better. Regardless, it’s another really good source for TLO/LOS
Since I got a budget PAR meter and information like this I've been happier with how they grow! I'm positive the light is going to tickle my fancy!
The height is 16", brightness is 100%.TODAY'S A NICE DAY TO TALK ABOUT SPREADING THE LIGHT ABOUT UPDATE
Good afternoon folks, what a day to grow! As i watch my little ones come to life I see they won't stay small long and I'm going to need good strong light for them soon. Here's the light footprint chart @ViparSpectra has for us.
Love those numbers! I'm just realizing PAR is PPFD
Here's a study that looks close to what I've been working with:
PPFD Measurements and What's Best for Your Plants
As we've mentioned, PAR is the type of energy plants use from light and PPF is a way to measure light efficiency or intensity. PPFD, or Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density, is a measurement of light density in a given area.
So let’s talk benchmarks and the best PPFD/PAR range for your plants! Between 200-400 PPFD: This is great for seedlings, clones, and mother plants. Between 400-600 PPFD: This is great for early to late stage vegging cycles. Between 600-900 PPFD: This is great for the flowering, fruiting, or budding stage of plants. Between 200 PPFD and 400 PPFD, plants growth rate potential crawls around 30 - 55% which is recommended for mother plants or young, weaker plants that need a light that's not super intense. If you were to double your PPFD from 400 to 800, the growth rate potential reaches about 85%. You would think that doubling the intensity would push the growth rate potential pass 100% but the truth is, there’s a loss of power in return the more intense your lights become. Once you surpass 1000 PPFD and go into Double Ended Grow Light territory, your plants stop becoming light-limited and start becoming carb limited. At that level of PPFD, increasing CO2 levels is highly recommended to take advantage of that intense light. But for most growers, CO2 is not necessary. So a common balance between performance and efficiency is in the 600-900 PPFD range. Keep in mind that these benchmarks we mentioned represents the potential growth rate on the lighting side and doesn’t factor in other environmental conditions or genetics for optimal growth.
Within those parameters I get a healthy plant. Valerie, is the KS5000 chart above taken at 12 inches height?
Have to look that up myself. InterestingInteresting mate thanks a lot, I did do a quick Google for "The Rev's soil" before I asked but clearly I was sleeping on the results.
Maybe a book to buy for xmas, I've fallen out of favour with reading books as a hobby this may be just the ticket
The height is 16", brightness is 100%.
What I have mine set as. But after first two weeks I raised it up 2-3 inches for stretch. . first week plant was reaching for light. In saying that. What my plant was showing 18 inches 100% was good..The height is 16", brightness is 100%.
Thanks! Very strong for 16 inches. That brightness and the height gives us the great distribution!The height is 16", brightness is 100%.
That's ok, I'm not really interested in comparing lights here please. I just want to make this one shine the best I can for folks to see.
What size is the tent tested? CLThe height is 16", brightness is 100%.
Well aren't you just in time! My budget meter has an intermittent connection at the light collector and I need to do something besides hold the wire in a special way to make it work. I have the Photone app and haven't opened it up and bought in yet.
This is a special grow and I'm not so cost conscious as I want to show off the light right now, but that's coming. Anyway, I see folks using it and with your side by side look with the apogee, I'll be giving it more time soon. Thanks!
that I refilled with soil and buckered up with a small container. They look to have taken a good rooting!
