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Thanks to the recommendations of @Aqua Man I returned my Viparspectra and bought an HLG 100 V2 from Amazon for 149.00. I LOVE it. I am so much happier with it and so are my plants. I'll be pairing it with a Growmau5 Far Red Initiator puck very shortly. Buy HLG if you can!

I would most definitely not. My first time I had the same problem - overwatering . The biggest suggestion I can give you now is ‘let them droop!’ - the plants leaves will droop down when it is truly dehydrated. Once that happens you know your dry, then water again. Your container should be very...

Really? I always heard that using things like Mycorrhizae supplements was a waste without RO or distilled water because you'd be constantly hurting the bacteria population you spent money to inoculate? Your opinion is really useful as I am literally debating an RO system for my setup based...

I had no idea about that! Honestly Sweet Leaf was marketed as just sugars, so I really thought it was literally just molasses based sugars. Thats really interesting to think I could have been using Mag instead -- that stuff was really expensive and we dosed it heavily.

+1 there. I’ve run as much as 50% perlite for exactly that reason

Hey! I absolutely love the stuff. Its also a great 'buffer' for a new grower. I use the following mix in equal parts: Fox Farm Happy Frog / Fox Farm Ocean Forest / Perlite For a single plant or small grow I buy 12qt bags of each and mix everything together. I use a lot of perlite to...

In my experience back in the day using Advanced Nutrients Sweet Leaf, and Bud Candy, simple sugar based supplements do affect scent and flavor - terpenes. I won't say they make everything better, as any terpene profile is based on genetics, but it does help provide the plant, and the bacteria in...

The chemical nutrients will not, however non-RO or distilled water will. Chlorine and Chloramine in particular are in municipal water to kill microbes. Watering your plant with that constantly will kill bacteria in the soil for sure.

Looking phenomenal! How heavy did you feed?

I agree. This sounds like some kind of root rot that crept in when you were over watering and may be in there eating some of the existing nutrients, which is why they look underfed and such after still drying out. We can also maybe identify things its not? It doesn't look like Calcium or...

Great question! I plan on keeping a mother for about 1-3 years depending on vigor. To do that indoors, in soil, maintenance of soil biology and mycology (bacteria and fungi) is really important. In the most basic sense, I'm not adding additives to the plant, but to the soil. Great White is...

HLG 100 V2 ordered and here Friday :) The Vipar’s are going back today

@Buzzer777 Thanks SO much for the input! For further framing, I will be using this light ONLY for veg. Flower will likely be CMH in a separate area of the property. Given only veg, and clones under this, would I still want to add reds? I used to veg under T5 or MH in 2010, and then flowered...

Thanks everyone! I'm going to check them out for sure! It'll either be them or the HGL 100 --> I'd consider paying for the HGL literally because I'm excited, the weekend is coming where I can work on the garden, and its available via Amazon Prime in one day. @Buzzer777 has by far the most...

Hmmm now I'm pondering between the HGL 65 and HGL 100 for Veg only...the 65 4000K seems like a great value at 100.00

No real top end of budget. I will admit I am a 'buy once, cry once' kind of person. I'd like to set this up right, and expect 2 years of life from my equipment. Sounds like no matter what, the Vipar's are outmatched at the same price in a lot of ways? What about this option...

Hey everyone! Looking for opinions here: 2x Viparspectra V300 or 1x HLG 100 V2 3000K for vegetative growth in a 2x3ft space? I just ordered the V300's on Amazon but am seeing so many good things about the HLG, and its literally a 6.00 difference. What would you all do?

First post here! I used to be on Overgrow back in the old days and look forward to a similar experience. I bet I''ll run into some of the old crew around here. I have completed a few growing seasons over the past decade, all indoor, and all in soil. I am now fortunate to be in a legal state...