To Lec/cmh Or Not To Lec/cmh That Is The Question!

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Ok on with the show.I had to start all over with new seeds.I had heating issues and being im in a small place atm Im struggling with keeping everything within the allotted amps I have to work with atm.I would run a dedicated line to the box but im not going to be there much longer and It would be a bitch to do all of that work just to tear down in a few months.
So I had to find a way to add enough cooling.So first I bought a portable swamp cooler.It didnt cut it.Came home and rez temps were 90 and there wasn't much I could do about it.Then on top of that(my mistake) Instead of wrapping everything with panda like I normally do I wrapped the starter rez with duct tape.I thought it was good enough....Nope not good enough.Instead of going to buy some panda like i should have I copied what ive seen before.Algae start and I was racking my brain wondering wtf lol.So I went back to basics going over everything besides the obvious heat issues.And noticed the light through the rez cover.So I said f it and scrapped it all and started over with panda wrap..Found a 8k btu that would work amp wise with everything i have going.Now we are back on track and it feels great in the room.Temps in the sweet spot with humidity at a stable 45%.
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For some reason I try to upload pics and it just keeps loading...
 
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Update.I'll try uploading pics again.
The trich production is crazy all the way to the tip of the leaf and down the stalks.
Went on a 4 day camp trip and they sucked up a ton and ended up nute burning the shit out of em.I figured I would run full strength on the cannasseur an nute line.That was a mistake.I kept bumping up the strength and they were feeding like lil hogs so I was wrong.Im going to keep it 1/4 to half strength from now on.Never had that problem before on other nute lines even the other base an nutes.Mabye the top line nutes run alil hotter idk.But now I know.It was my first time running these base nutes.My fault lol should have kissed it.They just seemed to eat everything up so I juiced em lol.Anyways They have recovered and are doing great atm.
 
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Oh yeah another issue I had was 1 of the step down transformers went out and that set the grow to only 1 light for about 5 days.
 
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Well this round is almost done.I don't have a final weight yet.But with everything I had to deal with I'm really pleased so far with these lights.
I have an unbiased view on this so I'll be on the lol here.
Pros as I can tell vs hps
1 tighter noting
2 better/more trich development
3 rapid growth once a good root system has been established.
4 solid packed buds.
Cons
From my observation this is what I've noticed not that it's any different than hps.
1 Intensity seems to fade pretty quickly on the outer realms of the light footprint.Everything NOT directly under the light doesn't seem to be able to keep up.Id say anything out past 6 inches to maybe a foot past the hood suffers and lags behind.My guess is around 30% diffrence.So it's to be noted.
Also it seems to Penetrate the canopy pretty decent but it you can tell the fine line and where it is.unless you prune back fan leaves alot expect the lower half of the plant to lag 50 to 75% behind the tops.Note that my canopy was pretty thick as I had 8 to 10 tops per plant so I have to take that into consideration as well.
I give these lights 2 green thumbs up.For the amount of electric they consume to what they produce it's a win win in my book.
If I had the space tho I would run these overhead with a 1k DE hung vert between 4 plants.
 
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FireBeard77 said:
Well this round is almost done.I don't have a final weight yet.But with everything I had to deal with I'm really pleased so far with these lights.
I have an unbiased view on this so I'll be on the lol here.
Pros as I can tell vs hps
1 tighter noting
2 better/more trich development
3 rapid growth once a good root system has been established.
4 solid packed buds.
Cons
From my observation this is what I've noticed not that it's any different than hps.
1 Intensity seems to fade pretty quickly on the outer realms of the light footprint.Everything NOT directly under the light doesn't seem to be able to keep up.Id say anything out past 6 inches to maybe a foot past the hood suffers and lags behind.My guess is around 30% diffrence.So it's to be noted.
Also it seems to Penetrate the canopy pretty decent but it you can tell the fine line and where it is.unless you prune back fan leaves alot expect the lower half of the plant to lag 50 to 75% behind the tops.Note that my canopy was pretty thick as I had 8 to 10 tops per plant so I have to take that into consideration as well.
I give these lights 2 green thumbs up.For the amount of electric they consume to what they produce it's a win win in my book.
If I had the space tho I would run these overhead with a 1k DE hung vert between 4 plants.
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Please excuse the typos lmao I just read and seen them.Just bought the new note 7 and it wants to change almost every word and Idk how to turn it off yet...pfft
 
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