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I would let the plants grow a bit bigger and do some training before flipping. Also repot into 20L pots. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

I agree with you that the farming / agriculture industry should look towards more organic ways of doing things - long run it will possibly work out cheaper too as a happy soil eco-system can lead to a big reduction of nutes and likely be better for the environment / earth etc. Errm, I don't think I said adding amendments makes it not organic. I also asked the question, at what point is a grow no longer considered organic? Making use of synthetic nutes, it seems majority consider the grow no longer organic. Perhaps adding anything which might harm the microbes and mess with the eco-system would then lead to a grow not being organic? Not sure. Are you feeding nutes or not? I am sure with a better light your stats will improve a bit too.

I'd probably want some better spread / coverage than what a single light like that would offer, especially considering there isn't much to reflect the light. For your budget and needs and what is available locally, may be difficult to beat that 75W QB, especially considering the quality diode.

Comparing my organic grow vs my now "synthetic" grows, I feel the organic was slower and costlier and the difference with taste was not there unlike what people said. I am of the opinion that organic is more of a marketing thing, the companies make more money off of it. You can still pull great yields from it though. Chances are your light is letting you down a bit and then possibly environment and/or training. Training makes a big difference and effectively using the space as best as possible. It is easier to achieve 100g from 2 plants than it is from a single plant. It is also quicker to grow 2 smaller plants than a single BIG plant. There are pros and cons, you gotta find what suits you and works best for you. Scrog is cool, but once again takes more time. More time = more electricity, more nutes and end of the day how much better is your final yield? This is if we start talking efficiencies, which some people do not care about - some just want to do it the way they want to do it and nothing wrong with that. Organic, to me, only makes sense if you're at the point where you are not feeding any nutes, just giving water and perhaps a few amendments here and there and that is what you want to do and how you want to grow. Sort of like most outdoor grows I guess, just indoors. Organic where you are feeding nutes, for what? For why? Although we're going off topic now, if you wanna discuss it further start a thread and tag me

Yikes man, you doing organic soil type of grows? I recall your grams per watt being quite low as well.

What is your budget @Pants How many plants do you want to grow? Do you have plans to expand your grow in the near future?

Yes, very true... This is probably one of those instances where if something happens to you, you hope your wife / partner does not sell everything for what you told her you paid for it. haha

So I was doing some rough maths regarding how much I have spent on my grow equipment. Just equipment, not the actual running costs like electricity, nutes, coco and also not including seeds). This got me thinking, how much does your grow equipment cost? The names will not be publicly displayed, so you can vote with confidence as I understand this could be a touchy subject if everyone could see the names of the voters.

Happy to have you onboard @Biltong and Budz

@biometrics do you use actual bud to make bubble hash and then press the hash - or would you just press the flower straight? I know using trim for bubble hash then pressing that would be great! Just wondering about pressing the flower as is vs turning the flower into hash then pressing the hash... I think you'd lose out on yield by turning it into hash first. Also do you have a link to your camping washing machine please, love that idea!

So I want to try and improve my system a bit. These smaller carrot work well for my 20L fabric pots. I have a small pump for an aquarium in my res, so no need to have the res high off the ground. Although I'm thinking try and put a larger pump in next time and then see whether the drippers are more balanced or look into a dripper ring of sorts, similar to what flora flex have I guess. The blumat tropf carrots are super easy to setup and fine tune. To fine tune its just turning the screw at the top to loosen or tighten the grip it has on the tubing. It doesn't leak, unlike my DIY attempt at an automatic watering system and does not require high pressure to ensure even feeding as each carrot can be adjusted individually. The carrots only provide water when the medium dried up a bit - so plants only get water when needed and not as per a set schedule. Over watering isn't really a problem with coco, but if one were to use it with soil it can help prevent that. Fertigation I find leads to better growth and my plants seem happier compared to when I was feeding by hand with a watering can. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

So I added a pump so I don't need to worry about gravity. I want to look into something which will spread the water better. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Got a template? [emoji14] Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Looking good! Eager to see the ladies starting forming some bud. How long were the plants in veg for? Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Come on guys, nobody else?

Very nice guys! I have built some LED strips and many QB's I prefer to run active cooling with my QB's now as the temps end up around ambient room temp, so faaar cooler than passive heatsinks. Also can work out cheaper depending on where you source it all from. Unfortunately no pics at the moment.

So something is happening at least, what exactly does this mean for us though? Same same for now, wait for public submission / opinion at which point we're able to make submissions and give feedback as to what sort of quantities should be deemed reasonable for personal consumption etc?

I have such a lens as well, but my macro lens isn't as great - it blurs the sides heavily due to the depth of field being very limited. I see the new Xiaomi's have a dedicated macro camera, like the Note 9S and the Poco M2 Pro (seems to be India only, can't ship batteries out of India easily either, bleh).

It doesn't really matter much with 24/7 lighting, although factors to consider are also based on your light cycle. Typically one waters when the lights are on, as mentioned best to avoid watering close to lights off - although if you are unable to water when lights come on then I really do not feel as if its an issue. With my blumat watering system, it waters when the medium dries out - so as and when needed really. Haven't had issues.

What do you use to take the last few macro shots? Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

So this is a bit of a spin off thread from the one created by @CreX over here: Basically there are 3 measurements one can use to provide efficiency in terms of lights, space used and then to give the people an idea as to how this was achieved the actual watts used (per sqm). I thought it would be cool to get an idea of what other peoples grows are like. I know @Prom managed to achieve a very good grams per watt figure on one of his harvests. Grams per watts Grams per sqm Watts per sqm To get these figures are quite simple Grams per watts - dry weight divided by the total amount of watts example: (50g dry with 1000w = 0.45g per watt Grams per sqm - dry weight divided by the total sqm of your tent(s) or grow space example: 50g dry from 0.5sqm = 100g per sqm Watts per sqm - total watts divided by the total sqm of your tent(s) or grow space example: 150W in 1.2sqm tent = 125W per sqm I will start with figures from my last grow: Grams per watt: 1.55g Grams per sqm: 373.33g Watts per sqm: 240w I feel I could have done better as I could have made better use of the space by having an extra 2 plants in there and I feel I could have improved on the yield by running strains which had a higher yield.

So it really comes down to efficiency and best utilizing the space and the lights. For outdoor it's not really applicable, except for grams per sqm I guess but you cannot compare an outdoor grow to an indoor grow. Grams per watts Grams per sqm One could throw in watts per sqm to give a better idea as well. They're different measurements, one being how efficient your lighting is (grams per watts) and the other about how efficiently you used the space (grams per sqm). Ultimately you'd like to try find a happy medium between everything really. @CreX I think this is what you're wanting to get at? Perhaps we create a spin off thread on this actually. Figures on my last grow were as follows: Grams per watt: 1.55g Grams per sqm: 373.33g Watts per sqm: 240w I feel I could have done better as I could have made better use of the space by having an extra 2 plants in there and I feel I could have improved on the yield by running strains which had a higher yield.

Yeah, the first few times were certainly more intense sometimes felt a bit trippy. Like the colour of everything going a bit sepia in a way and having the giggles. Why does that stop? Why does it go away? The stuff I was smoking back then cannot compare to the quality of the stuff which I am growing now. Is it tolerance? Does one get use to it? Are the strains we're growing and smoking now just missing something?

So the reason I kept on smoking and continue to smoke is because I feel it is a good way to relax and unwind. I have never been one for drinking as I never enjoyed it and I no longer drink because I do not enjoy it. Some find it relaxes them and helps them unwind, that is what weed does for me.

So the 1:1 ratio strain I grew first was a pretty awesome plant actually. The effects, it was chilled and creeps up on you a bit. Had more of a kick than I expected. The CBD was never for me, I do not have much need for it I feel - it was more for others but then the THC content was a problem - which lead me to look at growing a strain which had less than 1% THC - which I did. It was a bit of a fuck up as it was meant to be an auto but turned out to be a photoperiod, perhaps the seeds got mixed up when being packaged. I have since extracted the plant into BHO and decarbed it, so it can be smoked and eaten and be effective. I have tried some and it seems to mellow me out a bit. I know @CreX said that if he smokes something with CBD first and then some high THC strains later, there is no paranoia. Also makes him feel rather mellow. Need to bake them into something and give to some peeps who may benefit from it and then I can give further feedback.