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If you run into foxtailing with LED lights.. you are seriously low on ventilation inside the tent. Some heat sinks on those LEDs and a light air breeze should be enough that the bud can actually touch the light and not get burned.. is hand warm (i have no dimmer on my boards and run 2 x 120w QBs on a 240w driver).

Hi guys, I have a question, it might be a stupid one but I'll ask anyway . I'm currently using Terra Aquatica tri part and also have some Terra Aquatica pro organic bloom booster left over from a previous grow. I'm going into last few weeks of flower and wondering if I could add the bloom booster to the tri part or feed it on separate days or Can they even be fed to the same plant at all? What do you guys think? TIA

Is also no reason to overthink things. You are not going for a moon landing. Putting thoughts in your light is great. If you go with a grow light from a known manufacturer, you will end with a good harvest, if you know how to handle the rest. (If you never grew Cannabis.. might take more than one run to get it figured out. Winter more easy indoor, lights heat reduces humidity.) If you just plan to run a 1.2x0.6 tent, light rather easy to handle and you also have less issues with ventilation and heat. Small tents need less side gear as big tents do. If you get a pure 3000k, 3500k, 4000k or 5000k board, will work. If you add IR, will help, UVa.. some say do, others don't advise it, new stuff hehehe. You do what you learn while growing your plants. I think you have more than enough knowledge to start.. will you build the first setup in a perfect way? Most likely not.. nobody i know has done that (including me) ^^ There is always something to tweak and Winter/Summer setups differ like totally new setups (i change my ducting).. feeding changes (summer needs more pure water feedings, except hydro, that needs more active solution cooling).. hehehe there is no perfect setup working all year long.. except you run a fully climatized indoor environment. And that only pays out if you sell in big numbers.. private people blow way to much into cooling during summer, or best shut down Dec-end Feb. I favor Flower over Veg, reason i went 3000K with IR (660-720nm), no UV. My plants get to size anyhow (worst case they stay a few days longer in the Veg tent, no time limit on Veg), but prefer more red for flower to add the 'umpf' and bud density. 3500-4000 is 'i don't know what i prefer' and 5000k is 'Veg is king, less node spacing' ^^ Flower has a limited time and plants will run out of time.. dying, rot or worse, go into rodelization. If you want to go PERFECT/PERFECT.. you would need dimmers on each kind of diode and change the setup depending on each stage.. i think i would take a pistol and put a funny painting on the wall before going that way keep it simple Would bet that you change your light setup later on ^^ might not be the light temperature and mix with IR and UV (or leave it) but also shape or cooling.. or simple redirect the in-tent ventilation to your light.. add more ventilation to cool the light better, more tent cycles (tent should get at least 6 full air exchanges per minute, PM prevention). And i missed at least 20 things now ^^.. you can over do it at some stage. Would just start.. go and find the light fitting your first impulse and grow some weed Addon: ^^ And when the next generation of diodes gets released.. you start over

How much i smoke.... nothing to brag, is just sad Roll 34 joints at a time and put 0.15g tabacco in each join. 1.15g fit in a king size joint. Lasts 5 days without visits. Batch of day smokes, this time Exodus Cheese. Using a coffee grinder not to get nuts. 150g ready for processing. The fun part comes with blending strains. Slurricane, Ginger Tea, Sour Diesel and Deluxe Sugarcane as blend... just freakin delicious and knocks you out of your socks. 1000 cones in a box... nearly done with this one. The pollen in the coffee grinder lid smells and hits you as good as cheese can. And there is quite a bit wish you all a fun May.

Oh sorry. You want to do it the other way around

During the lockdown there was no Biobizz Biobloom. I had Grow and used TA tripart bloom with good results on a 15 plant run.

with weed... many ways lead to Rome. When you go to a certain level of detail, you come to the level where the strain even counts. Not all strains are exactly the same and need a little different treatment. PM is no real rocket science.. if you have a crap ventilation you will get PM (spores are simply EVERYWHERE and just wait for the right condition to bloom) or have the super ventilation that gets shut down in 4 hours blocks.. and turned into crappy ventilation. You see more as 68% humidity in your tent, PM is blooming and you can't do anything against it. Also want to point out.. resistance doesn't mean immune If you constantly have issues with PM... you have to put more thought into your ventilation setup.. and look for a backup for the ventilation when Eskom shuts you down. Normal flower tent get shut down for 4 hours and you don't open up the tent, you will have 99% humidity in that tent at the end of that power out. Spores will have gone into bloom... good ventilation just makes their life much harder. Bad ventilation and you will run into a serious PM issue, there are just limits you shouldn't pass at any time. If you get the idea to use filters... you face another challenge, PM spores are 1-3 micron in size. With you working inside the tent.. they will enter. Your ONLY chance is to keep humidity between 30-50% during flower. Germination the plants love and need over 80% humidity, Veg I keep em 60-80%. So yes, there is a high chance that you have PM starting to bloom during Veg.. conditions are just perfect... but Veg you can also unpack potent cleaners like Copper Soap. Spray all your plants top to pot when you put them in Flower and they are squeaky clean for the tent it matters. Your flower tent runs between 30-40%.. you will never have any PM issues... never... The Kushy Amino Acids I highly recommend any grower who as nothing similar. Dirt cheap and brings 10-20% more harvest and potency (tested) just by using it correctly.. wouldn't say helps with PM ^^ or didn't notice anything in that direction. All those 'science' clips you get on Youtube... they are more for the freaks. As a normal grower looking to grow his own stash, go to a grow shop and let the dude tell you what to do. Keep it simple, way easier to find the error. The moment you use 20 products instead of 4-6.. you have also a bigger range to debug your mistake. Honestly, keep it simple I use BioBizz Fish-Mix / Bloom, Kushy Amino Acids, Kelp Extract, Molasses (de-suphurized) and Fulvic/Humic Acids (BB Top Max, 5:2,.. check what your grow shop has) (6 products and rain water). As i grow biological in soil, i do not use any pH UPs or DOWNs. Keep it simple ^^ less debugging stress.

Soooo ^^ was just very busy with work.. and had a proper self induced fuck up The fuck up ^^ Had a friend over, chat and a few drinks... she got hammered and at one stage I put the drunk chick in my bed with a bucket beside her head hehehe Not the first time she did that and just went on changing the buckets. There comes the issue.. used one of my watering buckets and to make the smell less unfriendly, i put a drop of Sunlight Liquid in once emptied and rinsed out.. fresh lemon smell. So once she was sorted and 'empty'. I put the buckets away again. Problem was.. i didn't wash out the Sunlight Liquid from the clean bucket i use for my plants. Few days later I used that bucket to get water from my rain water storage. I remember I asked myself why there is a bit of foam in the 5 Gallon bucket I use to mix my fertilizers. To make it short.. gave my plants a serious burn from the soap. Got all back but took a bit. Dish wash liquid is nothing to feed your plants ^^ Stage 6 weed.. still works just three times the usual work and yeah.. potency will suffer a bit Ginger Tea

Hell yeah bud, nice to see you studying the right stuff remember not to take 1 bit of info and neglect all the rest, everything has to be in balance with everything else, you need to consider the given. The given being the given amino acids inside the soil, because perhaps the most important part you mentioned is "at a cellular level" - the higher up you move in science the more you realise how little you can witness the cells with the naked eye, you need lab equipment to do soil analytics to read the given compounds in the soil. then based on what that info tells you, you can then see if the soil is in need of more amino acids or not. the plant will react accordingly. Hope this video does not give you insentive to run to the nearest grow shop and grab some aminos just to go add it to your regime. If anything, all these soil science videos should start off by saying "If you don't know what's going on in your soil, get it lab tested before watching this video, because there will never be a video that can accuratly cover all bases of soil science" that being said, experience will bring you closer and closer to be able to guage these things with the naked eye and less and less need to have soil tested. Some old soil gurus I've worked with smell the soil and tell you very very close to what lab results will give you. Fact is, the longer you work with soil the more you realise how important lab results are, even if you're able to tell from smelling it it's still a shot in the dark. Best of the best growers get their soil lab tested, cause they have put their egos aside and accepted the fact that they can't see at the cellular level.

Hey bud yeah it's the loadshedding that's a problem. As with all big businesses they gotta look at generators and with the main push behind mushroom production being to reduce carbon footprint it's kinda counter intuitive to run off generators. Also the bigger scale productions all focus on Agaricus species, such as the portebellos and portebelinni's - they're all mycorrhizal fungi, the cultivation setup to grow those are muuuuuch much different than the cultivation setup I need to grow the Pleurotus species that I am growing such as the Oysters. I use waaaaay less electricity and have not run into issues yet. This is true to that old saying, "the bigger they are the harder they fall", like with those big setups an hour or two of loadshedding hit them quite hard and running that off alternative power will hit just as hard. My small scale production I can still get away and manage with the loadshedding.

he's gona be running his lights during the day. heat wouldn't even be only from the lights. why it's so much more important to go with a design that doesn't heat up, don't know why people are so reluctant to accept help

That's the whole point!!!! The heat needs to be displaced, like you said - so if you know that then what are you arguing about????? you know how heat build up and heat dissipation works, right? if you group ANYTHING that gives off ANY kinda heat it will build up more heat than when those exact same things spread further apart, bacause the heat is allowed to dissipate more freely instead of building up in one spot - basic knowledge dude. you learn this shit before going to school. the fact that you're an engineer doesn't even come into play here, this is basic preschool knowledge. the principle is true doesn't matter what lm/w doesn't matter the quality of diode doesn't matter any of the kak you gerting lost on. lm/w may be great indication of efficiency, I clap my hands for you smart man, but sadly ALL diodes, ALL lights, ALL THINGS IN LIFE SUCCUMB TO THIS PRINCIPLE. I'm gona say it again, try to read carefully here - ANYTHING THAT GIVES OFF ANY KINDA HEAT WILL HAVE MORE HEAT BUILD UP WHEN THEY'RE GROUPED TOGETHER THAN WHEN THEY ARE SPREAD FURTHER APART. If you can't understand that there's probably a bigger problem at play here. I didn't ask you why heat sinks are used, your mind is like a gold fish. You read a word you think you know something about then you don't read the rest or howcome it's so hard for you to understand basic stuff??? You the one that said you don't wana get technical then went and got as technical as you possibly can and then play victim and say sometimes some of you wana get technical and ask if I have a problem with it bro what are you on? It was never even technical to begin with. I pointed to heat sinks and external fans being used, because of the importance of heat displacement and that there are better ways to achieve even better results. You know about the difference in "active cooling" and "passive cooling". If you know about heat displacement, next thing for you to start learning about is how to achieve best heat displacement. There are better ways and worse ways. You'll learn in due time my friend. Build your light, I'm excited to see how long it takes before you realise I was trying to help you and you just neeeeeeded to protect that ego hey this will cost you in the long run, rather you than me.

Jip, those references helps, but the point is I will not know until I have the first prototype on my table. And that is what design is about. I now need to make the best guess I can based on the best information I can get, order the stuff and see if my expected calculations managed to reflect in practice. Design is about not having to try 50 times. It is first guess and perhaps try 2 or 3 times.

Anyone can slap a name onto a seed. I think for the most part looking for the old school 90's classics that is not a clone would probably result in a "fake". But also, why would you want exactly that 90's strain? I can tell you it wouldn't be for yields, or even THC %. Those true classics, for the most part, kinda look like jutt at first glance sometimes The ideal situation for genetics would be for growers to exclusively buy local genetics that are selected for their growing style and overall preferences for bud quality and then start a new generation of "classics". Unfortunately we are at a point in time where imported commercial seeds for the most part squash the local market and we are left selecting from a massive pool of options and sources. At the end of the day, find a breeder you like and whos' seeds grow well in your environment and buy their limited editions or new releases. Grow a few and select for the best.