What’s too much time Spitz? You mean beating my head against a brick wall to get to the other side? Nah it’s fine. Anyway, I’m almost through dude!
I got my new LEDs yesterday. I hadn’t known what to expect- actually hadn’t given it much thought. I figured they’d probably be good, but sure didn’t expect them to be on this level. I dropped everything and spent all the rest of the day just playing around with them and smiling like it was Xmas in March.
If I could, I would take back some of the comments from last year when I might have been blathering on about how LEDs are way overpriced. Maybe some are, or were last year
but obviously the super competitive LED market has been driving prices down and quality up- because- holy shit- this is a lot of light for the price. My Chinese QBs from Kittylights cost the same as these and are very rustic in comparison. These things are completely blowing me away and all day today I just wanted to get time to go back and play with them more. They’re calling to me right now...
The panels dim from 100w down to 10w. On the ten watt setting they’re more than bright enough to light up my small studio. If was using them for that I‘d want them to dim even lower.
Yes I know I’ve been sorta living in the Stone Age here, but the amount of light that comes out of these things on the 100w setting is mind blowing to me. And the quality of the light to look at and photograph under is just beautiful. The lighting is so nice in my studio that I’m really going to miss them when I take them to the grow.
I haven’t put them in the grow yet. Things have been too manic here today. When I do that I will get some better photos.
Those f’n hermies have seeded most of my grow to the point where I’m trying to decide whether to just chop everything in flowering
I tossed three large flowering Afghan/SLH crosses last night from the same source, after I was told by the guy that they are also hermie-prone. The fault is totally mine. He’d already told me they had some sort of hermie thing in the past, but I assumed he meant just a few nanners late in flowering or something.
Also I have gotten too relaxed about hermies in my grow lately. Even though I have had lots of nanners over the years, it has been many years since I really had a seed problem like this. A good wake up call.
Yeah right. WTF am I saying.... Is there actually such a thing as a ‘good’ wake up call?
Hint....
Never wake me up!!
Anyway.... that leaves 13 plants in flowering after tossing those five. Two of the 13 are small Pineapple Chunks which were pretty much finished, but now are full of seeds. I can make some hash out of them. I also have a Critical+ that is late enough I may be able to make some hash or skin cream out of it or something. As for the rest they are mostly quite early in flowering. I can’t say I’m super keen to spend another two months flowering out seeded bud so I’m thinking maybe I should just gut the room and shut it down. I’ll get a chance to clean and paint it while I grow new plants in veg.
Decisions decisions. It’ll have to wait till tomorrow or the next day when I have time to go over everything and work hard to convince myself that it’s not as fucked up as it looks. I’m not upset about it, but it is definitely a bit of a time waster.
Edit- oh yeah, after another night outside on its own, the hermie plant lost quite a bit more foliage to the lawn-munchers.
I think they’ve now eaten most of what they would find edible on the plant, but I’ve also seen them take a liking to things over time. Like my rhubarb patch.
Rhubarb leaves are fairly toxic and for the first few years I had it going here, the deer did not eat my rhubarb at all. But as the years passed they would attack it more and more till it got to the point where I had to fence it in. Now they will devour it anytime they possibly can.
It’s possible they will do that with the weed as well- the acquired taste thing. Anyway... if this was a regular plant growing outdoors this amount of damage would obviously be enough to make me pretty worried. So- the experiment tells me- I definitely cant trust the buggers not to eat my weed.
being a botanist, I would think he would have some horticulture education as well lol I know they are 2 different fields, but still, if you study plants, knowing about how they grow should be part of it
I do glass, wood, metal, and fiber in various forms. Right now that's mostly hand forging chef's knives but I did reengineer a cheap lathe last fall and learned to turn. Almost done with a spinning wheel for my wool. 
