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Day 1 of my second grow, very excited! Not much to report yet, except for the novelty of one of them having triple leaf genetics.
Sweet, we’re not far apart! I hereby challenge the Captain to a dual. May the best nug win..11 days. Still very much seedlings.
I’m pretty sure I’m gonna get my ass kickedSweet, we’re not far apart! I hereby challenge the Captain to a dual. May the best nug win..
Never ran a comparison test. Def interested to see what you find!Come for the questions, stay for the answers folks!
Got one already :)
So I was looking back at pictures of what my current plants looked like at 11 days old and they look like what yours WILL look like in another week. I.e., my seedlings at 11 days were appreciably larger. I was using T5’s at the time.
Do T5’s speed things along quicker in the beginning or was I just growing super vigorous genetics? If so I will stick those over them for now. Or if you’re not sure, I’ll split these up between the LED’s and T5’s to run a comparison..
Download the Photone app homie. Free on droid. A few bucks on apple. Folks here swear by it, I’m old school, I roll a basic damp/ph/light meter probe. I have used Photone with that meter to check calibration. The app is good and so is a $10 probe. Easier to take readings around the lights footprint. No diffuser made of paper and stuff. Just hold it like a wand, make sure ppfd is spread evenly across canopy.Looks like we’re about to find out. I’m gonna just keep the lux value matched since I don’t have a par meter.View attachment 2090902
That escalated quicklyNo no! I set up T5’s to compare seedling growth to LED’s but it jacked the heat up too much to keep a good temperature without sucking out all my rh from the humidifier.
I just scrapped the experiment, all’s well :)
Oh no you need to dial in your lights. For instance I hang my light about 30 inches above canopy at no more than 40% at veg.Is there anything special about LED distance besides light intensity and spread? I ask because there will be nights that I will want all the heat I can get. I may want to run the lights as close to 100% as possible to generate heat. I can just increase the distance to keep the proper intensity at canopy right? No other mystical properties about distance?