Re: 420 Consumer Reports Competition - Haight Solid State vs. Hydro Grow LED
Keep that head large and in charge Sun, you deserve it, and you're doing great work!
We're working hard to line up some more comp grows for the community - you're 'Setting' the 420 Magazine Standard 'Sun'
thank you Andy!
They look great!
Even another week probably wouldn't hurt.
I agree. They might need to go till next Wednesday.
thanks for the encouragement bro
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Have you noticed which light seems to run hotter?
The Haight Solid State light runs 1-2 degrees hotter than the HydroGrowLED light, and I think that's probably because of the Haight's 180w versus the HydroGrow's 126w.
thanks Hybrid!
Thanks for the side-by-side pics - very helpful! Looks like they're virtually neck-and-neck at the moment.
Great work SS - you sure do make it look easy
I agree, they are remarkably close at this point.
You're very welcome usul!. I appreciate your comments and participation
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SS, well done. I think you got this growing thing down. All future comps will be done by you. When they legalize this herb, lets buy a farm. you grow ill test the product
I'm far from having it down, but I do try to learn from my mistakes so that I just make new ones
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I like your farm idea, but only if I get to test too, lol.
do you always use that much perlite? looks like 50%
I don't usually use that much. I used 33% for this grow. It looks like 50% in the pics because when I water, I use a pump sprayer and I set the spray pattern fairly fine but strong in order to oxygenate the solution. The spray washes the soil on the surface down and leaves the Perlite sitting on top, so it looks like more than 33%, but only because the soil's been washed off the top.
If I repeated this type of LED grow, I might go up to 50%, because with LED's you get much less evaporation and the pots dry out very slowly.
Transplanting is always an option, but I'm currently planting my seeds into what may be their final pots, so since I'm using a relatively large pot for veg, I need soil that drains really well and dries fast.
thanks wct