What's up dudes!

CreX · May 9, 2020

12 hours ago, Ill_Evan said:

I was starting to get a little bit of bleaching from my QB at 200W and a distance to canopy of about 10cm, so I can totally believe @KaktusBoer. Also ended up raising mine but not as extensively, mine is sitting about 18cm now and the plants look a bit more comfortable.

@CreX would you say distance to canopy is more important than watts being pushed?

I say coverage is better... So like @PsyCLown said, raise the lights a bit and up the power.

But I'm gonna say it again, you have to be able to measure the light coming from your lights, in order to be able to place lights correctly and at the right height. Simple lux meter takes that guess work away.

And then I go for a ballpark intensity of at least 50k lumens anywhere on my canopy as coverage for flower...

So with that goal of getting a 50k coverage you can determine how high or low you need to put your lights... Typically I aim for 50k on the outskirts of the grow, knowing that anything closer to the light than the outskirts will be much higher intensity which is also okay...remembering Plants can handle maximum intensity under the sun.

If at canopy level you aren't getting over 20k intensity - I'd say lower your lights or raise the wattage.

Note - I haven't slept and I'm still partially slizzered from some decent LSD tabs please pardon any ramblings

Naughty.Psychonaut · May 15, 2020

On 5/7/2020 at 7:05 PM, KaktusBoer said:

I keep the outdoors for my Trichocereus cacti, another passion of mine.

We share that passion my man! You got any interesting Trichs or only the real makoya?

Been collecting a few years after I got my hands on my first san pedro, now I got all kinds of cacti growing all over the place, most of them are active.

Looking to do a few grafts soon!!

Also, very nice indoor setup you got there, I seriously need to upgrade my blurple and get me one of those qb's!!!

KaktusBoer · May 15, 2020

@Naughty.Psychonaut oh yeah man! Great hear. I have about 100 plants in my collection. All of them Trichocereus and Lophophora. I've got a few crests and variegates. Lots of Pachanoi, quite a bit of Peruvianus and a few different Bridgesii. Would love to see some photos of your plants man! This is a graft of a variegated Pachanoi slab grafted onto a Peruvianus.

Naughty.Psychonaut · May 16, 2020

That is crazy! How did you get them to varigate like that or do you just graft from an already varigated piece? I've seen a varigation thay was white as chalk instead of the yellow, and it was more like streaks with streaks of green in between, buddy of mine got a cutting and it rooted and shot out green... bummer.

I am looking at doing a few lophophora x pachanoi grafts soon, wana do it indoors during the winter. Will be my first graft.

I've got mostly pachanoi all over the place, then a couple macrogonus, cuzcoensis, like one or two small peruvianus and couple of lophophora williamsiis. One that's pushing flowers and I hand pollinate them each time and get seeds every year, also got a few seeds a while back, planted like 50 and 3 years later I'm left with one hahah. Gona plant more soon and do Lophophora x Pereskiopsis grafts. Got a ton of pereskiopsis. Then I got two cuts off a mutant Brigesii Penis thing. Will add photo, you probably know it. Some call it a whales dick or a jews dick hahah.

Pachanoi