Marshydro Led grow...

hotshotisdashit said:

Yea on my last run with the solar storm I had a calmag deficiency. From what I've seen and read plants under led lights are more prone to calmag deficiencies. This next run I have hydrofarm calmag on deck.

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Yeah well as I've already done a run under LEDs I'd discovered that when I got a mg deff on all of my plants. This time I've used magnecal every watering bar one and not even had a hint of trouble. I checked on them today and another plant is showing signs of a deff and it's the same plant that was reaching yesterday. Decided it's not a mg deff it's actually a K deff so I've added some NPK completed feed. I have ANOTHER plant reaching today so if that doesn't exhibit signs of deff tomorrow I know I got the diagnoses correct

oilmaker68 said:

Yeah well as I've already done a run under LEDs I'd discovered that when I got a mg deff on all of my plants. This time I've used magnecal every watering bar one and not even had a hint of trouble. I checked on them today and another plant is showing signs of a deff and it's the same plant that was reaching yesterday. Decided it's not a mg deff it's actually a K deff so I've added some NPK completed feed. I have ANOTHER plant reaching today so if that doesn't exhibit signs of deff tomorrow I know I got the diagnoses correct
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Hope you get everything straightened out cause you have some beautiful girls there.

hotshotisdashit said:

Hope you get everything straightened out cause you have some beautiful girls there.

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Thanks bro. I appreciate the compliment. I'll keep updating

Some morning pics

So far the 3rd reaching plant isn't showing a deff. I blasts it yesterday with bloom nutes so if there are no further issues i can safely say that reaching is not a good thing. Lol

Hey man great thread! Was wondering if you get a lot of heat coming of the marshydro?

Well today I was so totally convinced my nutes were to blame I went a bought the Ionics coco range. Got home and mixed up a new batch of nutes, PHD it and wtf 8.0 ????? I calibrated my PH tester and tried again 6.4 so I repeated and still 6.4. It may be that my ph has been off because my meter was off. Just wanted to illustrate the importance of calibrating your equipment.

Mitchbox88 said:

Hey man great thread! Was wondering if you get a lot of heat coming of the marshydro?

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Thanks bro. It adds about 3c in veg and 6c in flower to the temp of my 1.2m2 room. In a larger room I'd imagine it'd be less noticeable.

It's actually defeated my hps heat issues and as you can see the plants love it !!!!! I won't recommend on until I've finished my grow.

WNt to see how the buds turn out.

oilmaker68 said:

Thanks bro. It adds about 3c in veg and 6c in flower to the temp of my 1.2m2 room. In a larger room I'd imagine it'd be less noticeable.

It's actually defeated my hps heat issues and as you can see the plants love it !!!!! I won't recommend on until I've finished my grow.

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Wicked, I'm looking at the 300 watt for a smaller grow and this gives me something to work with. Champion!

Mitchbox88 said:

Wicked, I'm looking at the 300 watt for a smaller grow and this gives me something to work with. Champion!

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Go as big as possible light wise. Even if it's only a small grow.

Hi

Michelle zhou said:

Hi, oilmaker. i'm Michelle, from top led grow light(Marshydro). hope u and your plants are like our light. your girls look very beautiful. hope u everything goes well. good luck.

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Hi Michelle, my plants and I are liking the light very much. As soon as my plants are finished (6 weeks) and all goes according to my predictions I'll be happy to recommend them to anyone who is looking for a top quality led growlight.

Noticed today that 6/7 plants have one leaf affected by potassium deff. I've started the Ionics bloom nutes today so I'm hoping to see the end of the pot deff !!! At £7.50 per litre of bloom and grow (£14 total)it's a bargain.

Today's pics.

@oilmaker

quick update pic just before lights on...switched 3 days ago and everything is going ok . The 1st net is filling up so I should be able to put the 2nd net above it in the next few days as the stretch happens... I ended up just going with 2 x pineapples and put the other 2 outside...so far I think this light has been awsum

Hello, very helpful info here. I am currently in the process of setting up my first grow! I'm going to use a rdwc hydro setup with 5 gallon buckets. I have ordered 4 of these lights. What is your opinion? Should I go with these? I may add a few of those "UFO" lights once flowering time comes around if needed. How many plants/buckets do you think I can get away with? I was thinking 16-20 to start. Amazing with your knowledge and very impressed!

WazzaX said:

@oilmaker

quick update pic just before lights on...switched 3 days ago and everything is going ok . The 1st net is filling up so I should be able to put the 2nd net above it in the next few days as the stretch happens... I ended up just going with 2 x pineapples and put the other 2 outside...so far I think this light has been awsum

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they look great @WazzaX loving the scrog, keep threading untill 2nd week of flower then watch that canopy bloom !!! great work bro

chadchad said:

Hello, very helpful info here. I am currently in the process of setting up my first grow! I'm going to use a rdwc hydro setup with 5 gallon buckets. I have ordered 4 of these lights. What is your opinion? Should I go with these? I may add a few of those "UFO" lights once flowering time comes around if needed. How many plants/buckets do you think I can get away with? I was thinking 16-20 to start. Amazing with your knowledge and very impressed!

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Hi @chadchad, and welcome to the thread!!.....Glad to hear you have gone for the marshydro !! I have not been disapointed by this LED at any point. its been reliable, sturdy and cool. top led growlight also have great customer service so for $250 a piece i cant grumble so far....im in my second week of flower with this light and so far all is well. I will keep final judgement until the grow is over and dried and weighed.

If youre new to growing my advice is to use well known nutes and keep things as simple as possible, use calmag/Magnecal at every watering because the LED causes the plant to absorb more than normal. im confident in recommending the 600w for a footprint of 1.0m2 so with 4 id keep my grow area at 2.0m2 and put maybe 4 plants in each square meter.(16 in total).. itll look sparce for a while but once they hit flower they will fill your room

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I am hoping this thread evolves into a little community for us mars growers so please add any pic you want and if you have any ???s please ask

PEACE

I'm sure I will have plenty of questions I could use y'all's advice on. where did you buy your lights from? I'm got mine from eBay. Around $300 ea. also how far would you recommend spacing each bucket/plant apart? I'm using square buckets, roughly 10in. X 10in. Wide. I was going to use 6in. Net pots. I have a complete room, roughly 10ft X 8ft. (If not more) And another half of room for future use! I was going to build a makeshift PVC cage around the grow area and with Mylar for optimal lighting control. I am getting 4 lights for sure, possibly another. What do you think/ recommend? Thanks so much for your input and being so kind and helpful. Sorry I'm use to using standard units

Awesome thread, I have been looking at the Marshydro as well. I have been using a Diamond Series DS100 for the past year and really enjoy LED. So do you use the bloom switch now? or are you still on the Veg switch??? The DS100 has the switches like the Marshydro, and I usually keep it on veg until the seedlings turn into juvenile plants, then hit them with both switches... My light is just a baby in comparison though.