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Hey bud, hope you are well. You can just ignore all this if you wana, but I gotta say R5500 for 150watt is reeeeeeaally steep, no matter how you look at it, just to give you a few points. •the qb style is outdated, anyone spending more than around 3k on a light gona lean more away from old qb style build and rather go for a bar style. design / layout of the build can make a huge impact on growing environment. •for around 3k you can get a locally built LED qb samsung LM301h/b diodes and a Meanwell driver - currently top of the line diodes and drivers for growing plants, compiled by a team of horticultural engineers, much better diodes than osram got out. (source: https://ledgardener.com/diy-led-strip-build-designs-samsung-bridgelux/ ) •local builds sell better cause if anything breaks you can easily have it fixed in way shorter time than having to deal with imported products. and quality really is key here. if somethings imported I expect it to be cheaper or at least quality has to make up for spending so much more. in this case there are higher quality local options for cheaper. that "imported" tag shouldn't make it more expensive as it doesn't add anything to the light itself. it actually turns people away from buying it. (few options: https://www.greenhouston.co.za/products/quantum-board-led-125w ) if we looking at spending upwards to 5-6k on a qb we looking at more around 250watt. and then it's gotta have samsung diodes + it's locally made. eg. even within the line of samsung diodes there's a price differences in the LM301H and the LM261C and all the rest, and that's based on their output/efficiency. some are just better than others, I can sit here and explain to you till I am blue in the face, but I also did drop the LEDgardener source for you to have a looksee, all the info is there. people used to lean towards importing cause SA is stuck in 1950 when it comes to accessibility to top of the line products, but luckily the cannabis community don't wait on no one, we push till we make it and these days people are stocking big names locally, Migrow, Nanolux, Fluence.... those kinda brands, besides that there are plenty of local LED manufacturers that make use of the top of the line products, we even have one here on the forum, Mr.E. builds some of the craziest LED bar lights you can find locally, I come across a few others, I know LEONLED used to be popular, not sure if he is producing anymore....but yeah man, that R5500 for just 150w is like..... it's just way out. juuuuust a few pointers, all love and respect brother

And some Pictures of the JetFuel.. they really enjoy the no pots growing and I am getting better with my FIM cuts Planted my last tray of Sour Diesel in the flower tent.. that should be it, booking my ticket in the next 2 months. One of the Hella Jelly's i took a clone from is more or less PM immune. I didn't used 'resistant' as the difference is like day and night. Picture a tent with the worse PM you ever saw and in the middle of the mess a 1.5 meter tall plant with NOTHING on it ^^ I will take clones of the plant and drop it into the CT community. More or less my far well present.

5 seeds = 3 clear different phenos, with notable differences in structure, size and leaves - got 2 tall girls with slight variations between the 2 of them, then another 2 medium sized that look identical very very little variation between these two and then one odd girl very compact short bushy babe. slight variations on all morphology, though there's more uniformity that can be noted than variations. Same smells coming off all except 1 of the taller girls got a more chemical leaning smell - almost like the kiddies strawberry flavoured toothpaste, sweet but chemical kinda smell. cut the first 2 clones off each girl yesterday, here's to hoping for at least 1 of each to root. Family Photo - 1 through 5 left to right Close ups 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - that's all for now folks, next update we will be looking at bud morphology.

Man, these local genetics grow too fast I was planning on having the flower tent at least halfway done before even thinking bout flipping these. gotta clone them asap then flip I guess Will take them out the tent to photograph individually and note a few characteristics I am picking up in during veg, but we all know it's the end result that matters most