Thanks again Derby! Stopping new builds or buys is always always appreciated.
I'm at 25" on the near end and running 27,500 lux/400 PPFD (over Sour G) and around 20" on the far end and running 33,000 lux/460 PPFD over the flowering Blue Treacle 2. Sour G has been looking a bit pale lately which is why I'm running the light further away there. Next week I'll drop it down a couple of inches and see how they respond.
[note: all lux to PPFD calculations are based on a 3000K color temperature.]
Sure seems like it Crazy. Derby came through again!
At 300 watts the light pulls 2.52 amps and I didn't even have to turn off the hot tub heater! This morning the temperature at the soil line was 64º and 68º at the canopy.
I considered one of those floor mats, but since they would just heat the very bottom of the pot (and not the air) I thought I would need to run them pretty hot to get all the soil warm. I was afraid of burning the bottoms.
Any time you stop by is good with me!
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Thanks double H! Running the lights as god intended has double benefits: more light and more heat! And when the weather warms up I'll just move the driver back up to the rafters.
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Friday (short week!) update, and this is going to be a bit of a hodge podge. Not too long so stay with me.
First, I want to talk about supercropping. A lot of people think of it as a way to level the canopy and make sure all the buds are the same distance from the light, allowing you to run it as close to the canopy as possible without burning any leaders. But there is another great reason, and one I thought I would show here.
I had the AK-47 sitting next to me in the office last night so it didn't have to be in the 45º bike shed, and I thought it looked pretty flat on top...my goal.
But the branch sitting next to me was asking to be folded:
And from one budsite, many:
Obvious to some, helpful to others!
Moving on, look what finally got delivered from November's MOTM prize package (they were running a bit late)...a box-full of 420magswag! Yes, they are still getting rid of CropKing stuff
And since they had run out of large t-shirts, I got a medium, modeled here by my darling daughter who will be taking it back to college on Sunday:
Spread the knowledge!
Last for today is the Peyote Critical quadline on day 88. I haven't done any thinning of the growth yet, but it's due:
Since I've read it doesn't stretch all that much, I'll let it get a little taller before I flip it. I'll be flipping the AK, Sour G, and PC all together for a massive clear-out before spring. That will leave me the Candidas, the AK clone, and a small Sour G still vegging, and I can plan what to plant for the summer/fall.
I hope your first week of 2019 was a positive preview of the weeks to come! Incoming weekend...
Great info Shed! That peyote is really getting big! Another great plant!
Derby! Brilliant suggestion, outside the box thinking for inside the oval.
Yeah, these MeanWell drivers can get quite hot! Is it a HLG-320h-??? ?
