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Next level autos. In the last pic here you can see what a big difference pot size makes with auto's. The one on the left is in a 12l fabric pot and on the right is a 22l pot

Hey Peeps. So I have finally got to the stage where I am almost ready to start my first grow. Firstly I want to send a shout-out to @PsyCLownfor all the advise and help up to this point in getting to where I am. I've got the following equipment: Lights- @Light It Up 2x 240w Qb Tent- 2.4x1.2m Extraction Fan- Ez100 Soil- Freedom Farm's(Green Bag) Fabric Pots Nutrients--Not sure yet Strains- Peyote Wifi, amnesia I received my seeds yesterday from @Cannabist was very impressed with service and delivery. I'm going to start off with germination and I'm going to be trying the seeds straight into the soil. Ive used the paper towel method for a seeds I did for outdoors however didn't have 100% success. Any advice going forward is always greatly appreciated. Let's see where this takes us! Cheers

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Son of a friend runs the same light, he uses one in a 1.2x0.6.. result is good for the fertilizer he used My TS3000s also have less diodes compared to 4 288 QBs, still work fine on a 1.2x1.2. I would use more wattage per area as diodes per area. Still want to try how much i get out of 360 watt, 3 288QBs on a 1.2x1.2. Grams per watt could go up, just always takes 3 months to run a test to answer one question. @Milie just keep your distance and you get a good footprint, pack your grow space and have enough ventilation on each plant. keep us posted.

Lights- @Light It Up 2x 240w Qb soooooooo ^^ enough for half your tent... will work nice on 1.2x1.2 area... for sure not enough light to flower on 2.4x1.2 that ez100... is that a bathroom extractor?

Hard to find better combos than weed and games. 1 of the Best relaxtions u can get. Im rolling with the call of duty and fifa mostly. Playstation

@CreX thanks for the reply. I'm a little confused, hopefully you can help clear some things up. By diodes, you mean individual leds right? If so then 234 is correct but each board is double that because that's just half of the board? I'll add a pic. I have 2 of these boards.

i just checked and these are not the standard QB288 boards. these boards are made smaller to make them a bit cheaper. QB288 layout is 16 diodes by 18 diodes to get 288 diodes on a board. These lights are 13 diodes by 18 diodes, which is 234 diodes, roughly 20% less diodes per panel. factoring that into the equation, i would say those lights will be solid for a 1x1 area i see you mentioned your tent in sqm, 2.2sqm, which sounds like a 1.5x1.5 size tent? if you could get an additional light set like that, or from another supplier, then i rate you will have decent light for your 1.5.

What up peeps, Time for another update, Autos are doing well. There really is nothing to complain about with this grow. I'm actually finding it a bit boring if I was to be honest lol I prefer LST and topping and all those fun things, so for me popping a bean and just adding water takes away some of the fun of it. I have 3 unknown auto beans left and will start them in the new year. I will probably try to do some LST on those ones and see how that goes. Picture Time: Day 52 - 2020/12/03 UA1 @ 63cm tall: UA2 @ 32cm short:

So these are about a month old now. Yard time during the day then veg area the rest of the time. Pretty much 24/0 until I can get a timer. Standing at 200mm decided on some LST. Bent the babies 90 degrees and started curling the main stem round the inside of the pot. Sent from my DRA-LX5 using Tapatalk

Its currently region blocked, so you can only play on ZA Servers. The ZA guys are pretty decent. Some of them are crazy good. One or 2 of them stream on Twitch as far as I am aware.

@Wulf

Just BTW Samsung do no make those boards, they only make the diodes. Do not be caught off with the way some retailers word their lights. I reckon 10+ plants in such a space, you would want more light for that area however you could get away with what you have but results wouldn't be the same as if you had more lights obviously. As for adding a COB, you could but I would personally rather have a quantum board or LED strips over a COB. Better spread and more even coverage when compared against a COB, although it does also depend on the COB but generally speaking a COB wont have the same spread / coverage when compared against QBs or strips.

Do yourself a favour and pick up 5 if you can. That one was the best of the bunch by a long way... Red Dead Redemption 2 on PS4 is hella fun as well. COD warzone is a good way to pass an hour or 8 every now and again. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

The original Far Cry was the tits. Far Cry 2 in Africa was also a nice little installment. Far Cry 3 was the last of the series I bought. All the rest just looked like rehashes of various aspects of the first 3 with moar grafixxx.

Ok thanks. I'll keep that in mind when buying lights/upgrading in the future. Thank you so much. So the 2 of these boards (936 diodes total) would be fine for my area?

Correct, by diodes I mean each little light on the PCB. So a single Qb288 has 288 diodes on it, and not 234. So your fixture is 234x2 which is 468 diodes, where a double QB fitting would be 288x2 which is 576 diodes. The lower price reflects 20% drop in diodes, so it's not a bad deal. But you can get the standard sized qb288s from some of the suppliers on this site at a very similar price, if not better priced.

Looking good so far dude! Best of luck! Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

Shhhhhht. U may start something [emoji23] Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

I'm curious how are the ZA lads at Tarkov or does it send you to a server in Europe/USA? Are there even local servers? I will probably wait for the GOTY edition, I did the same for The Witcher 3. Get to enjoy all the content on the first/second playthrough also let them iron out all the issues with such an ambitious project.

Welcome Golden Goose! Got some nice looking strains on your site!

Little seedling left indoors. Have an exciting new grow in the pipeline so will be planting the rest then. Will be using grow bombs (jiffy plugs) this time round. Sent from my DRA-LX5 using Tapatalk

with those two lamps you can easy run a 1.2x1.2 grow space during flower

Indoor one doing it's thing and looking good. Yard time and water is all that this girl gets. Purple colouring is thanks to the blurple on the one side of the cabinet. Pity. Outdoor ones standing at 1.4m and 1.1m including pots. The one at the back has started flowering and I'm damned if I know what to do now. If I can leave it to reveg I will or else I see a darkroom being built soon. These get watered every second day and left to do their own thing. Sent from my DRA-LX5 using Tapatalk

Fully agree bro. If you into hardcore online survival games, check out Escape From Tarkov.

I used it, however I have since moved over to GHE nutes. @CreX is using it now I believe. Very cheap nutes. Although Hortimix is also very cheap and works well too. Haifa is a bit of a mission to mix as it takes a while to dissolve. With Hortimix I just mixed it into 5L bottles and used the liquid in the needed ratios, but I did up the strength on the Hortimix. Hortimix is also available in smaller quantities.

Nice! Eager to see how your grow turns out

It all depends on the heat the light puts out. The actual light that is emitted will not burn the plants. I have plants 5cm away from my light no issues.

Hey Milie! Welcome to the forum. I also use Quantum Boards with LM301B diodes - excellent lights! I love mine You can burn your plants with LEDs if the lights are too close to the plants. As for the hanging height, there are lots of variables and your growing conditions might differ from mine so it is hard to say unless things are evened out. The watts you have your lights dimmed to will affect the height significantly. Also you may have fewer plants and therefore are happy to run them lower and at a lower wattage to ensure light is not "wasted" by ending up reflecting off the side walls of the tent type of thing. Typically 30cm to 45cm is a decent height to have your lights above your plants, you can move them higher up too if you need a better spread but the further away the light is from the plant, the lower the concentration of the light is which the plant receives. I for one prefer to run my lights rather close to my plants and have on multiple occasions run them lower than 30cm above the plants. If you give us a bit more detail on your setup, such as how big your tent is and whether you are using the full space of the tent, then perhaps we can provide you with a bit more specific recommendations.

Anybody know what strain this is ? I was gifted seeds by a friend from Canada in June 2020, he doesn't know either.

Happy festive season from SUPERMIRACLESA. Here are a few of our favourite shots of the year; including bag seed, autos, outdoor and indoor grows ❄

Ho Ho Hooooo Sent from my SM-N975F using Tapatalk

What up peeps, Been busy with normal life and didn't get a chance to update until now. The autos are both doing well. The UA1 is doing exceptionally well and is around 55cm tall now, the UA2 is still quite short and don't expect her to stretch much more. Picture time: Day 43 - 2020/11/24 UA1 UA2 Side by side height comparison.