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[Teleon]

Don't keep them "wet wet". They need to breathe. How is the temp?

I really dont keep them "wet wet" - the soil gets dry - than i have to water them and I also look at the pots while watering, dont gave every plant the same amount, just what they need.

Temp now is at ~24-25°C, lowered the humidity to 50%.

 

[Teleon]

And dont forget, I have the airpot's - I think because of the holes the water even evaporates faster than in "normal" pots.

 

[CraZysWeeD]

Great!

Yeah those pots dry out fast. I had two for one run. I didn't like them but I had a really cramped space and 400W hps, lots of infrared in hps light which dry out pots fast too.

 

[Teleon]

I think because I dont use the humidifier any more in the tent, because than the humidity raises aboth 60%, even on lowest setting.

A friend told me that's good to let them a "dry out"(just let the leaves hang a bit) a bit while flowering, to stress them, that they produce more bud's. Is that right?!

 

[CraZysWeeD]

Maybe I let them do that the last week but not during growth. Not to the extent the leaves hang anyway. The stress forces them to produce more oils and trichomes.

 

[CraZysWeeD]

How is the light build coming along?

 

[Teleon]

So far so good, tomorrow will test the current sensor, arrived today

The red leds are very red xD and don't get to hot in any, way.

 

[CraZysWeeD]

Looks amazing! They are truly hyper red!

The solder looks like a professional done it!

 

[concrete]

If your light "flickers" check whether your socket is grounding.

 

[Teleon]

Flicker? There is no flicker...

 

[CraZysWeeD]

Flicker? There is no flicker...

Think he's talking about the 6040 cobs.

 

[Teleon]

U can't avoid the flicker on this leds... It's surely not because of a bad earth connection

 

[concrete]

U can't avoid the flicker on this leds... It's surely not because of a bad earth connection

My Timber don't flicker, regardless of the grounding situation. My Christmas lights do, but only on the outlet not grounded to the breaker.

 

[CraZysWeeD]

your timber is surely powered by a switched driver that gives a smooth dc current. These 6040 cobs are driven with dirty dc simple diode filter that cuts the dc on and of with the same rate as the feed Hz. That's why they flicker.

 

[Teleon]

Yeah, but ur Christmas lights have a driver... These COB's don't - and because they don't have a smoothing capacitors, so they flicker, no matter what.

 

[Teleon]

So...got a little bit of thinking today Will modify the 6040 COB Lamp for the next grow, because I want to keep it for veg - will change the red/blue to cool white one's (each 30W) for the first days when they are tiny - than swap to the setting I have now (100W coolwhite and 100W Warmwhite) until they are ready for flower, than I will change the light to the new light I'm building - seems to be a good idea, also to safe some money and have my "expensive" LED Lamp not driven so hard with 19+h on


For the new lamp I also consider about to make a "fuse" with the current meter.... so when the current get's to high, a relais will cut off the HLG 320H-20A .... that might be a good idea, because I will run them in parallel.. just in case not to burn all the stripes.... but I'm not sure if the Arduino response that quick have a real "protection"

 

[Teleon]

Discovered some brown tips on the one of them.. Will make pictures tomorrow

 

[CraZysWeeD]

You could just dim the strips? It's going to be interesting to see what you come up with regarding the protection circuit on the Meanwell driver. I only manage to measure the volt without the driver clipping. I hope you get how it works, that way it would be possible to control the current with ex Arduino... But I think they are too intelligent to control. Maybe there is a more cheap driver with not so much electronics in that's hackable.

Brown tips? I'm sure you are suffering from cal/mag issues like every one else running grows with led. Shed had a post in his thread yesterday with a fella growing cucumbers under led lights and they were also showing brown tips, cal/mag issue. Nobody knows why plants start to really crave cal/mag under leds but its a fact. Order yourself some cal/mag supplements if you don't got it. I'm going to give mine a new batch today.

Exited to see the light running soon!

 

[Teleon]

Update Time !

Lamp is now ready I will put it in the tent when changing to flower!!

The Lady's:

Dont know if there are some nutes missing or to much nutes, something is going on .... any ideas?

All:

First:

Second:

Late:

Issues ?! :

Brown tips on the first one...

Also on the first one:

Late:

So far, Teleon

 

[CraZysWeeD]

That light looks even brighter here than on my phone.

That's cal/mag deficiency. Order now if you don't have it. That's Calcium and Magnesium. I use Canna Mono.