burnnugs
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That's pretty awesome for a bulb. Props.
Supplemental LED bulb DIY
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OldMedUser
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Don't look bad at all. Still got time to frost up more. Lot of strains really bust out the last two weeks so don't be too eager to chop. Snip a little popcorn off the bottom and air dry for a couple of days to see how the buzz is coming along.
BudmanTX
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killer setup, looks beautiful in there.
Thanks, this is picture of one of the buds on the branch of the same plant. She's doing this all over it, i'll try to get some better ones next to the soil line. She's exploding in a since......
BudmanTX
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one of the things i've found out in my experiments, is LED's are direction lighting, now i could be wrong with this thought, for me they love to be pointed, in my case it's down for the coverage it gets. CFL's for me are consider ball lighting, still works over all, but are slowly being surpased by the led bulbs. Change of the times i guess.
Cletus clem
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OldMedUser
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That's a damn good idea! With CFLs I made tinfoil backings for the bulbs so that the tabs wrapped around the base and tucked in at the front so the fan couldn't blow them off. I see so many people using them open and wasting more than half the light from each bulb.
Light from those weakens so fast with distance the foil backing eliminated bouncing inches to a reflector then even more inches to a leaf surface where it's usable light would be greatly reduced.
You should be able to use un-altered LED bulbs in the same manner as CFLs I would think so the light is more diffuse and not beamed directly at the plants like with the globes off. Good for rooting clones or starting seedlings in a tight space where you can't get the bulbs far enough away to prevent burning tender babies.
Damn good idea.
BudmanTX
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no shit that is a good idea, the one I'm using right now, I left about little under a quarter of an inch of the diffuser left, then I put the 6" bell it came with back on it.
I have a feeling with 100watt equiv bulb at 5000k for veg, clone with. I used just one bulb like that to start my number 2 plant. Use it for clones, its a definite possibility.
keep in mind I still have CFL's still going in the closet too, with all this.
Dabber68
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I'll be using co2 and am trying to decide if I want all lights on for 24/0 or just the supplemental lights. I'm doing a test grow sorta 9 plants five gallon pots 5 LEDs and my 8 light CFLs( maybe LED ) I do know when flowering starts I will added my Mars Par 38. Also anyone ever try or think about these lights
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Triangle-Bulbs-LED-Bulbs-Pack-Of-4-15-Watt-120-Watt-PAR38-LED-Flood-Light-Bulb-Dimmable-UL-Listed-Energy-star-certified/167378726 Just been looking at some lumens are only 1050. Thinking this for flower along with my Mars have 4 of each 2 for each fixture
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Triangle-Bulbs-LED-Bulbs-Pack-Of-4-15-Watt-120-Watt-PAR38-LED-Flood-Light-Bulb-Dimmable-UL-Listed-Energy-star-certified/167378726 Just been looking at some lumens are only 1050. Thinking this for flower along with my Mars have 4 of each 2 for each fixture
OldMedUser
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I'm still going to use my CFLs too. Good for close up work and still usable bulbs so ain't tossing them out. I mostly have 2700K ones tho so they're gonna be sitting on the shelf for a while.
OldMedUser
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If you're just using little LEDs and CFLs to grow with your kind of wasting your time with CO2. You need to get the big guns out to fire those plants up enough to benefit from the added gas. I bake my plants under 400 and 1000W HIDs once they are 6" or bigger. Just about to swap in my 400 MH for the Fluoros and LEDs they are under now. Just not performing like I know they can.
This is what I'm using for my veg plants now in the bedroom. I broke down 4 4' - T12 shop lights in 2001 and mounted the ballasts and connectors on a sheet of plywood so the tubes are closer together. Kind of a primitive T5 veg unit with 8 fatter tubes about 3000 lumens each. Hard to find those daylight Ultra tubes now. 6400K ones that use the full 40 watts. Getting a bit swaybacked so I'll need to stiffen up the plywood with some angle iron screwed on tight down the middle to pull it flat again or just retire it.
The small wood panel is a 3 bulb vanity fixture with a splitter in the middle and on the chair is my 11 bulb creation with 7 bulbs going to get more light in there. Clumsy and not very efficient so time for the 400.
And these are the plants they're shining on. 3 Original Skunk on the left, Two AK47 fems in the middle and two BlueBerry on the right with a smaller BB in the little black pot. The big pot is a plant I got from a buddy that was sprouted from a 30 year old jar of seeds marked Sativa. She was flowering a bit when I rescued her from an icy greenhouse outside at his place and the buds smoke nice and the buzz makes her a keeper. I call her 30Something. She's all revegged and ready to take cuttings off of.
OldMedUser
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Being those are dimmable bulbs I don't know whether they are suitable for growing with but I really don't know for sure. Pretty damn pricey too.
Dabber68
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If you're just using little LEDs and CFLs to grow with your kind of wasting your time with CO2. You need to get the big guns out to fire those plants up enough to benefit from the added gas. I bake my plants under 400 and 1000W HIDs once they are 6" or bigger. Just about to swap in my 400 MH for the Fluoros and LEDs they are under now. Just not performing like I know they can.
This is what I'm using for my veg plants now in the bedroom. I broke down 4 4' - T12 shop lights in 2001 and mounted the ballasts and connectors on a sheet of plywood so the tubes are closer together. Kind of a primitive T5 veg unit with 8 fatter tubes about 3000 lumens each. Hard to find those daylight Ultra tubes now. 6400K ones that use the full 40 watts. Getting a bit swaybacked so I'll need to stiffen up the plywood with some angle iron screwed on tight down the middle to pull it flat again or just retire it.
The small wood panel is a 3 bulb vanity fixture with a splitter in the middle and on the chair is my 11 bulb creation with 7 bulbs going to get more light in there. Clumsy and not very efficient so time for the 400.
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And these are the plants they're shining on. 3 Original Skunk on the left, Two AK47 fems in the middle and two BlueBerry on the right with a smaller BB in the little black pot. The big pot is a plant I got from a buddy that was sprouted from a 30 year old jar of seeds marked Sativa. She was flowering a bit when I rescued her from an icy greenhouse outside at his place and the buds smoke nice and the buzz makes her a keeper. I call her 30Something. She's all revegged and ready to take cuttings off of.
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No I have plenty light this the total LED wattage 3400 watts between 5 lights with total draw wattage 1164 then add my CFLs or whatever I decide for Veg I have them already so more than likely will have a mixed Kelvin 2700 3000 5000 and 6500 1 of each for veg then make switch to my Mars par 38s with 2700 k CFLs all this in a 4 x 4 x 9
Dabber68
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OOPS don't know what happen on that last post @OldMedUser I'm stoned LOL but yes I'm just gonna use what I have
Cletus clem
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This is my setup. Pvc frame built into a closet, wrapped in panda film. Its about 2x3x4. The top of it is my seedling and cloning area, a couple t5s up there. Hard to beat for young tender plants. 
OldMedUser
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Party on!
OldMedUser
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Another nice little DIY project.
Cletus clem
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Diy, if i can, i do!
BudmanTX
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killer stuff..
OldMedUser
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I got mad DIY skills. Worked in all sorts of factories, construction, machine shops, took a welding course, diploma in chemistry yadda yadda.
Too poor to buy flashy new stuff so make things that work for pennies on the dollar. Made a water cooler into a nute chiller. Got the cooler for free and had lots of tubing so cost me $14 for a little fountain pump. Could chill an 8 station RDWC I betcha.
Built a still for recovering or purifying solvents or making EverClear. Can hold a gallon of mash and with the smaller bottle can do 2L batches to get the solvent out of oil.
Our house is decorated Garage Sale style. lol
Too poor to buy flashy new stuff so make things that work for pennies on the dollar. Made a water cooler into a nute chiller. Got the cooler for free and had lots of tubing so cost me $14 for a little fountain pump. Could chill an 8 station RDWC I betcha.
Built a still for recovering or purifying solvents or making EverClear. Can hold a gallon of mash and with the smaller bottle can do 2L batches to get the solvent out of oil.
Our house is decorated Garage Sale style. lol