New light test and first grow

Looking much better

I hate to say I told you so...so I won't. Nice jungle you have there.

After that haircut it's good to see the comeback.

If plasma has the full spectrum of light, why would you need HPS for red?

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Plasma is a good looking light with a high CRI but at 60 lumens per watt it is not an energy efficient light by any means. All you have to do is check out the Photopic Lumen values on page 6 of the technical comparisons and you'll see that this is a lamp designed with 73% of it's energy being emitted in the visual regions. If you plan on flowering with a plasma you have to add a R-FR source which is what Gavita recommends with their dual end 1000 watt HPS lamps to run in concert with the plasma. http://www.inda-gro.com/pdf/MeasuringPlantLight.pdf

When considering the price of a plasma setup, I don't know how plasma is in business for any application, much less gardening, when there are more efficient/affordable technologies, require less moving parts and deliver plant spectrum's evenly across the canopy that one could choose from. Just my .02 centavos

Nice rebound!!! They are looking great!

I felt like ButchyBoy's avatar on October 8th of this grow, but now I feel warm and fuzzy 7 days later.

Day 41 or day 13.

Congrat"s on recovery......

Now that is how it should look!!! Bravo on the recovery. Have you flipped yet?

ButchyBoy said:

Now that is how it should look!!! Bravo on the recovery. Have you flipped yet?

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No have not flipped yet. Was thinking of giving it a few more days...


Thanks for the support

Day 44 or day 16 switch the lights to flower on monday (4 days). Are the ladies ready??

Found an extra 150 Watt HPS for free. New bulb and in she goes. Extra light for flower. So that is 450 watt HPS and 300 watt plasma. Should get something to flower.

Oh yeah! It's pretty hard to give them too much light in flower. Only good can come of this! Your canopy looks super nice. I think its a nice result of the real stripping you gave them early on.

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Found an extra 150 Watt HPS for free. New bulb and in she goes. Extra light for flower. So that is 450 watt HPS and 300 watt plasma. Should get something to flower.View attachment 2869605

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More wattage=====bigger buds always(if temps are in check).............nice recovery & time to flip the bitches!!! good luck grower

Day 47 or day 19.

Day one of flowering. Switched to bloom fertilizer and gave the ladies a good watering. 65-78 days till harvest which brings us to the first two weeks of January for harvest and 2-3 weeks for curing it will be Feb before I can smoke it. Darn, wish I grew autos and was not so crazy for pruning.

Just think... They could have been stacking em up right now! Live and learn.... They are looking great!

I like to destroy one clone per grow in the name of seeing what works or not. It's really not any more work and it shows me what really happens when you butcher or bend or train or snip or.....................

I can't wait to see stars on your girls!!

Day five of flowering period.

I see you switched up your lightning? still waiting to see what you get for a harvest.

Day ten of flowering.

wow man I just read through this and what a rebound! good on you bro.