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What about LED strips or Quanum Boards? You could make something happen within your budget if you were to look at buying and making your own LED strips... Especially if you can source some decent strips locally. Otherwise you may need to look at Arrow or Digikey and bring in some.

Yeah man, will be keen to see how it compares to the 561C diodes in terms of what bud gets grown under them. If we had a quantum sensor it would make a bit easier to measure and compare lights.

Mine are still stretching but I've got some serious pistils going! Keen to see further updates!

Ahh right, using GHE as well. Nice! At what point do you plan on switching nutes over to flowering ratios? You going to base it on time or what will you look for in your plants?

Looking good man! I always get excited when I start to see lots of white pistils forming. That is where I am at currently with my grow, I think I am around a week or two ahead of you in terms of when I flipped. Do you do you nutes different for the stretching phase vs the flowering phase?

I'd wait for more / longer roots, also I prefer to put seedlings / cuttings into coco first and then into soil if using soil. The coco is a bit lighter and fluffier than soil tends to be, helps give the plant a bit of a boost and get started and established while its still small and starting out.

So what type of light do you use to grow with?

Greenkush isn't very active on the forums anymore, you're welcome to drop me a PM or reply here and I can try assist where possible. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Happy 420 everyone!

Let me quickly put on my tin foil hat It's very easy and simple, I figured it out not too long ago... China has a secret lab where they were genetically modifying various coronavirus strains until this one was developed. At the same time the US of A were doing the same, hence why they were in China prior to the outbreak. Trump released their strain of the virus and China released theirs too (hence why 2 strains were confirmed early on). China also decided to modify the 5G towers they have been developing and manufacturing to further assist in the spread of COVID-19 because we know that microwaves are bad and only good for heating of food and WiFi... because internet. The governments are providing false stats to scare us and have decided to implement the lockdown to control all of us, they are busy developing vaccines which will either lead to us becoming autistic or allowing the government to control us (think mind control). and that is that! lol

Keep in mind that importing anything now will cost a fair bit more than it did prior to lockdown, around 30% more. Although I agree that strips are a decent option too. When it comes to LED's, regardless of whether you are buying or building, it's the actual diode itself which makes one of the biggest differences. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

That'll work well. Pretty much the same as what I have, awesome lights!! Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Yeah, should be alright for a single plant in a smaller tent like that. Do you know which LED's are on that Quantum Board? You do not have to get a Quantum Board, you can try get some LED strips although most of the time with strips you need to build your own light. You could also go HID but I personally prefer LED over HID.

Welcome! There is lots of info on this forum, just read through the various threads and feel free to create your own if there is specific info which you require. What exactly would you like to learn more about?

Where are you based?

Getting quality LED's locally for that price is difficult, even importing some quality stuff right now works out a bit pricey. I saw @Cannabist was looking at doing some DIY LED kits, not sure on his pricing but that may be a suitable option.

Finding QB's for that price is difficult, with the new exchange rate its going to become even more of a challenge and probably extremely unlikely / near impossible. For your sized tent I'd say you'd at least want 2x QB288's so something a bit more powerful (more LED's) than that qb200 on the GrowOpz site. Both those lights are also out of stock. Maybe see if @Cannabist still has stock of his Samsung lights that he's willing to sell otherwise I'm not sure you'll find something worthwhile in your budget to be honest.

Some good advice this, although certainly not for everyone. Some are happy just to get something to smoke and do not care much as to what it is they're smoking.

I agree 100% with you!! I am not against these tools, I do not mind them being a bit inaccurate although my bigger thing is the consistency and how inaccurate they actually are. If they are able to give us a guideline or percentage as to how inaccurate the results may be and at least provide consistent results then they could be very useful indeed.

Welcome! What did you order which you needed? GT Hydro are now doing online orders and will ship it to you during the lockdown if need be.

These diodes are better and I feel they will do a better job than that other light from GT Hydro. Ideally I'd suggest a Quantum board with 2x QB288's on it for 2 plants inside an 80 x 80 tent. @Ill_Evan actually has a setup like this, perhaps take a look at his grow diary to get an idea of how well it works. I do not recommend ANY CFL as they are just extremely inefficient when it comes to growing cannabis. To put it into perspective, a single 400w CFL will perform worse than the above QTM 150 LED light which only draws 75W. Also with CFL's, having 10x 10W CFL's vs 1x 100W makes a big difference. The 1x 100W will perform significantly better than 10x 10W, heck the 1x 100W will even perform better than 12x 10W. If you do want to go for a CFL, you really need to get a single large one. I would recommend a minimum of 250W but you are really wasting your time, money and electricity. I personally would not use a CFL for anything more than seedlings and even then LED would still be better and more efficient. I would never purchase a CFL light for growing cannabis. The difference between that CFL you have a picture of compared to the QTM 150 is like comparing an old Opel Corsa to a new Ford Focus ST with a 2L Turbo. Sure they both provide light (they both drive and get you places), but if it is a race taking a stock 1999 Opel Corsa to a race against a Focus ST is a waste of time.

The leaves turning yellow is not uncommon for a plant reaching the end of its life / maturity. The pistils (hairs) turning brown isn't a sure way to tell whether the plant is ready, you need to take a look at the trichomes (crystals). The trichomes are what contain the THC and other chemicals and outdoor they certainly do form and do so properly, without trichomes you would not get any effects. You need to use a loupe or microscope to take a look at the trichomes, there are 3 stages of trichomes: clear, milky and amber. Milky when the THC is highest, once it goes amber the THC starts to degrade a bit and change to different substances and based on when you harvest (the ratio of clear trichomes, milky trichomes and amber trichomes) will also have an affect on the type of high you get from the plant. A lot of amber often gives you a heavy "couch lock" effect. A lot of clear can lead to paranoia and a racey high. On average most people like to harvest with mostly milky trichomes and then between 10% to 50% amber based on personal preference. I have attached a picture to help give you a better idea, you cannot see it with the naked eye. You will need something to help you zoom in on the sticky trichomes also when checking to see if a plant is ready it is best to check the trichomes in various buds on the plant and different parts of the bud - so the top of the bud, middle of the bud as well as bud on different parts of the plant. I like to check some bud which are lower on the plant and some in the middle and some in the top on all sides of the plant for a better picture. One thing I have noticed is that trichomes on the leaves mature at a different rate to the trichomes on the bud, I find trichomes on leaves often turn amber before the trichomes on the bud. The pistils can change colour if the plant gets pollinated or if a substance touches the pistils, such as some sprays can turn the pistils brown / orange as well. I had a plant where the pistils changed colour around 3 or 4 weeks before the plant was ready for harvest and that was not due to anything being sprayed and the plant was not pollinated either.

The only time I had issues with soil was when I did not PH my water / feeds, once I started to PH my water / feeds in organic soil I did not have any issues. Even with organic soils which are buffered I still like to and recommend one PH their water / feed first. If the airflow / higher temps do not help, I'd also say give some Epsom Salts / CalMag and see if that helps.

I agree, a variety of strains makes things difficult. We noticed an issue with the different pheno's in the indoor grow off already (possibly similar issues with the outdoor as well). If no limit on how many grows a person has done, I still feel a combination of post counts and duration the person has been a member on the forum for will be a good way to sift out a few people who in my opinion are less likely to stay as an active forum member and therefore continue to update their grow diary and compete with the competition. What I did find interesting was how many people struggled to germinate their seeds properly and could not compete or had to try get more seeds as they could not germinate seeds properly. So perhaps the person should at least have 1 grow done if this is something we want to try avoid. Keep in mind if a newbie wants to grow along with the more experienced members who are part of the grow off, there is no reason the newbie cannot purchase the seeds from the breeder and grow them as well - they just won't be part of the comp but can still gain the experience and learn from those in the competition as it's still the same seeds and pheno types and they can even germinate on the same dates etc. We can do a separate page to sign up, however if they stop being active on the forum it won't matter and I do not see how it differs all that much compared to someone reading the rules thread on the forum... Unless there were to be questions asked based on the rules so that they need to read the rules to be able to answer the questions and sign up for the competition. This still won't force someone to honour the rules and finish the grow but helps ensure people actually read the rules and there is confirmation that they have accepted the rules. As for a Telegram chat, I am concerned that people may start talking about their grows in the chat instead of sharing the info on the forum for the other forum members. In terms of communication if there is an issue, whether it is on Telegram, the forum via your mobile browser or Tapatalk it's all much of a muchness really. One thing I think could possibly be improved upon is the criteria of which the plants will be judged on. For example, if someone is only growing a single plant at the time (say in a 1.2m x 0.7m tent) they can allow that plant to get larger than someone who is growing a few plants in the same sized tent. Does this mean the person who has decided an entire tent on just one plant has a higher chance of having the "better" plant? Also a plant which has been trained vs one which has not had any training, the one with no training would generally end up taller than the plant which has been trained. Depending on the criteria of how a plant will be judged, the above could affect the outcome and skew how "fair" the outcome is.

I think it depends on what we're aimj g to achieve. 3 grows sounds good to me if you want a decent amount of participants still. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk