I’m no botinist or anything but I’ve noticed in the winter time when things are bone dry that my plants slow down and just don’t seem to be as healthy looking. Even with good temps. And I’m the summertime when it heats up and we go without rain and the ac is kicking on more the plants don’t seem to handle the heat as well with low humidity. When I went to led the summertime low humidity wasn’t a problem anymore. In the winter I would add humidity.
You are right. They did get overwatered some time back. These where cull plants. My good ones went outside. They got overwatered because I had to neglect them in the middle of an ongoing divorce and my wife tried to kill everything and destroy all my lights. And those lights are pulling 600w from the wall so not exactly what I call weak.
Dont rate leds till you produce unwatered plants, hps requires peak health, of course leds and humidity and acs favour weak plants, another misomner around here when i see a lot of grows...
Unwatered? Like this? That is the same plant 4 weeks ago in a solo cup that is in the orange 5gal hempy in the other photo. I told you they had been neglected due to my situation at home with divorce, dhs, the da, and the cops. I would say it looks pretty fucking good today for me being a dumb rookie growing with weak ass led lights
Yer looks ok
Yeah they are pretty damn healthy from what they where April 25 in that last pic. The first pic was taken May 23. They were transplanted from the solo cups about 3-3.5 weeks ago. These were the 2 culls that got left in the cab and not tend to do to what I was going thru. Going to have some good tomatoes off of them before long.Yer looks ok
lol looks like classic nitrogen/MG clawing you goon. see how dark the plant is?
18c to 20 c indoor temps is pretty cool. I normally have the house temp between 24 and 28c.
Canopy temp partly. I'm in Autumn and my canopy temp is about 20C at this height, if I went higher my canopy temp would probably be less ideal.
The advantages of led are not neccasarily on the energy cost per say.
Yeah I had thought that (regarding the heat) and it would look a lot cleaner in any grow room....but what I am trying to say, is the setup I have doesn't have me in a position where I would really benefit from being about to light more space for the same energy. 2 pounds, once I get that dialed in, is more than enough for my needs. It would be silly for me to go and drop a grand on a setup like that, in my circumstances at least. I don't see how anyone growing strictly for personal consumption would have different needs. I can totally see it if they are growing to sell. There was a time that type of user accounted for the majority of growers you would run into online, but oh, how things have changed
I hear ya and agree.
I don't think there's anything wrong with selling either...About those QB's, are people vegging and flowering with one kit at 3000k or something? It'd be best to have a veg at 4000k and a separate flowering board at 2700k yeah? Double ouch. With HID you just gotta buy a different bulb...not an entirely new kit, and that's at minimum, if you're changing the light out come flower. Ideally you'd want to have a separate tent though, which is more $$$, although it would enable perpetual growing. The only way I'd be able to afford that is if I were selling, but I don't see that happening, no reason other than I don't think I'd be any good at it. I got into this to begin with to grow medical for my dad. He used to smoke back in the day, now he has parkinsons, I'm hoping I can help him some, but not sure if he's even interested yet...
because each led can be a different spectrum you grow and veg with the same light. You can custom build them as much as you like.
I run hps at those higher room temps easily, point in question.
