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Finished up a box for the clones. The fans are pwm so I attached a controller and turned them down to half speed or less. When I'm happy with the config of the room I can vent directly into the grow space and from there to outside via the extractor. No heat mats or humidity sensors, the ambient temp in the room doesn't go much below 18C so hoping those won't be necessary.

Here she is all finished up. I'm very happy with the result. She finishes strong, packing on the trichomes right up to harvest. The pineapple smell comes through a little stronger in the last week as well. Strong fuel up front, with pineapple finish. This is exactly what I was hoping for. She doesn't like too much light. The plants closest to the lights foxtailed a bit. These plants are all about 6ft tall.

Thanks brother. Those are Gavita 6/750's

yewwww! nice looking plants and extra nice room man can see a lot of work has gone into that. what are those spot light things?

I friggin love it!!

yea like I said here

Meant to say, the pots are in that config because I was going to ditch the bruce banner (far left) so the dice 5 seemed a better config. Of course the mighty bruce bounced back from the leaf burn so I left him in there.

No. I sent leonled a mail but no response. very disappointing. Howzit, I've got one of your 550W 561C lights, the 75 x 115 version. I just wanted to ask a couple of questions because I couldn't find anything on the site. - How do you get the 500W out of the 48V/10A power supply? Is it overclocked? - Do you have any ppfd maps for this light? I have it in a 100 x 170cm space, over a meter above some clones and am going to start lowering it to find the right distance but ppfd info would be super helpful. I see it can be dimmed to 50% so need to decide if that'll work for veg too.

Apologies! The boy got sick so all life outside of him came to a bit of a standstill. He's better now, out of the hospital and life is back to normal... or whatever it is we call normal these days. Been a bit hectic and I'm unfortunately very slow when it comes to making stuff but I did manage to get some things done and the girls are still alive so... not ideal but not a total loss Missed some IPM with all the goings on. Also struggled a bit with light height: I dropped it to 100cm and burnt the tops then realized my house cleaner had moved the dehumidifier under the air intakes of the space so I think the damage was also from the dry air running over the tops of the plants. Lights at 115cm and I'm still getting some tiny leaf curls on the new growth. This is worrying. The light is at almost full height already! I was going to flip them to 12:12 this evening. I put the sticky traps in because gnats suddenly appeared in my outside garden pots. Found a few on the traps a few days later. Also what appears to be mite bites on some of the Glue leaves and that's the plant I was most interested in growing so that's annoying. They, and the rest of the garden pots outside, got a dose of efekto insect control last night. 2ml/L. Looks like mite damage on the glue leaves but I couldn't for the life of me find any mites. Will spray neudosan next I think: I see 10ml/L is the recommendation on this forum so that's what I'll go for, 20 minutes before lights out so I don't stack a mist on top of lights out, then fan up to half speed until RH gets to mid 60's.

I got a thick bottom quartz banger from them and it's awesome. Good service too

You got no hanging instructions with the light?

Be carefull of cellphone apps measuring par/ ppfd or mmol/sec, they will not be accurate as they were never designed for that....period. But they might give you a ballpark figure rangewise when compared to natural "sunlight". Most of our outdoor averages around 12-16%, but last year we had one Seedsman Lemoncello Haze pheno that kicked butt at 22%.... put me flat on my ass...Genetics play a big role in potetial terpenoid levels, but you as the grower has to "enable" the potential.

Dropped the light till the ppfd showed around 650 on the PPFD Meter app I know, it's an app but it's all I've got. It's now a metre above the tops of the plants.

Thanks Prom, my knowledge is still heavily influenced by a book I bought around '95 or so: Mel Franks Growers Insiders Guide. I seem to remember him saying a perfect grow will get you maybe 10% stronger smoke than if you did an average grow so I've always gone off of that. The book is still relevant however, it's incredible how little is dedicated to curing. A few sentences really and the advice is literally: leave curing to tobacco farmers

Potency, like Terps, are genetics. You make it as cozy for the plant as she likes it most, she will reward you. You can be a grow guru and still not be able to turn shit into gold... the breeders give you potency level indications. GSC is in general given as 18% THC content... we even reached on one batch 18.6%. So there is also a little space upwards. Also to mention, the average potency test result in SA is 12%... what brings most people back to reality rather fast. Growing weed is one thing.. growing really potent weed needs perfection in every way. My preferred weed.. Gelato.. gets set by the Breeder at 26%.. I haven't reached that even close. 19isch I get, but 26 i am very far out.. but I creep slowly up in potency too.. learning the strain takes time. Next factor of potency is how you dry, cure and store it. Wrong way and you reduce potency. So to make it short, if you keep all parameters from Germination, Veg, Flower, Harvest, Dry procedure, Curing procedure and Storage in the green areas.. you will get rewarded with the potency the plants genetics have to offer. Anything else.. Veg to dry, flower to wet, Temps out of range (18-25 i see as sweet spot range), dry climate off, cure humidity to low or to high, ... any pest hindering the plants development, any feeding lockout or deficiency, light strength, leaf sugar content.. every factor will reduce a bit potency from the max to reach. You want max potency weed, you have to be perfect yourself.

all good thanks, got the extraction fan arriving tomorrow so I can close the doors. doing some electrics today but other than that it's good to go. I'm looking forward to closing the doors the room is unusable with the doors open and such strong lights. I'll update soon as I have it fixed up better!

I always thought it's 300w per m/2, this is what the LED gardener gives as ideal range, with 500 micromol/second on the leaf surface during veg up to 1500 micromol/second on the leaf surface during flower. as we all know wattage says very little, if I have 500w of blurple light I get way less micromols/second on the leaf than a 300w light with some nice samsung diodes with a much better PAR readout than the blurpy. but yeah man, I agree with ORGANinc, 550w samsung lm561c diodes in that space of yours is ample! my bar light in the 1m x 1m flower tent is 310watt, actual output 300watt, got the same lm561 diodes as him, less light to space ratio overall and I am doing juuust fine

How's the progress on the room coming along?

Thanks so light's good for the space i'm happy about that.

I wont delete this but, I welcome arguments Lol. Ok maybe your need more. They say minimum 480w per m/2, which I found to be quite a lot(but who am I., dont hit heavy numbers). However, i'm not actively feeding my plants. Food for thought.

Which doffus told you to use Up or Down on your organic feeding? You turn it into chemical feeding with a single drop of those chemicals. Use biological Up/ Down, like Lemon juice/vinegar and liquid lime stone. But once more, if you run organic in soil, you can skip the pH hassle, not needed at all. As long as you use rain water, you are good. Moment you use tap water, you run chemical again.

Not even slightly, got ample!

Thanks man will do that then. I'm worried I'm low on light for the full length of the space but I guess we will see!

Thank you Darclinc. I'm so amped for the smoke test. We've smoked her before, but then she was grown by the guy who does the pheno hunting for me and that run had some problems. The smell has more pineapple this time, so I really hope that comes through on the taste.

What a beauty!

PC12 at 53 days She is a late bloomer it seems. This pheno has both parents in the structure. The only pheno we came across that exhibits this. She has hit her stride now. She is getting denser and frostier by the day. Quite literally. These plants are all about 6ft tall just for reference, as the photos don't really show how big they are.

PC12 at 46 days They haven't quite turned the corner yet, but that will happen soon. Smell is vicks and sour fruit.

6 weeks in and 3 to go... Whole room. PC12 are the tall plants in the picture. Lower nug of PC12 showing some proper resin production. She starts forming trichs late in the game.