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Greetings my friends, the strongest of Kendo hugs.
Lots of new things happening here at Kendo labs that are taking us in new directions, one of these new directions we chose is less wattage.
I had used pretty much every type of light besides LED and had been successful with 99% of them. Achieving 2# per 1k is not bad considering it was always a mixed bag of tricks :D
With Cost considerations paramount to success in a recreational market I began to explore alternatives to power hungry, hot lights, hot rooms, etc.
I am a Facebook junkie and happened on a battle between a bunch of light manufacturers, so much information I knew nothing about, Lumens, par, Umols, all stuff I know nothing about. What stood out was this one dude that everybody was ganging up on, like a team.... Made me go HMMMM? So i talked to him, For hours, literally. He was a wealth of knowledge about lights but what he was really talking about was his 315w CMH lights. After going thru the 1.8a draw, 3sqf coverage, minimal heat he convinced me to use these lights.
I waited until I finished a full run before I posted outside of these facebook pages. I began harvesting yesterday and am thoroughly impressed enough to share my results.
Here are some specifics
I installed 12 Endomaxx 315w CMH in a 16'x 13' x7' room with 900 cfm exchange thru 2ea, 6" intake/exhaust ducts w/ a 70pint dehumidifier set to 50%. Operational temp 76-78f rh 53% NO AC.
I ran a mixed bag of tricks to see what to expect from different strains, even a couple of, as of yet untested phenos.
2 1/2 weeks veg, 1 week too much I think and these girls were thriving and immediately went into budset and flower.
Pic #1 1 day before flip 2 1/2 weeks from 3" starts.
Pic #2 1 day before flip
Pic #3 Day 19 of flower.
Pic #4 day 26
First Youtube video is from Day 11
Pic #3
Lots of new things happening here at Kendo labs that are taking us in new directions, one of these new directions we chose is less wattage.
I had used pretty much every type of light besides LED and had been successful with 99% of them. Achieving 2# per 1k is not bad considering it was always a mixed bag of tricks :D
With Cost considerations paramount to success in a recreational market I began to explore alternatives to power hungry, hot lights, hot rooms, etc.
I am a Facebook junkie and happened on a battle between a bunch of light manufacturers, so much information I knew nothing about, Lumens, par, Umols, all stuff I know nothing about. What stood out was this one dude that everybody was ganging up on, like a team.... Made me go HMMMM? So i talked to him, For hours, literally. He was a wealth of knowledge about lights but what he was really talking about was his 315w CMH lights. After going thru the 1.8a draw, 3sqf coverage, minimal heat he convinced me to use these lights.
I waited until I finished a full run before I posted outside of these facebook pages. I began harvesting yesterday and am thoroughly impressed enough to share my results.
Here are some specifics
I installed 12 Endomaxx 315w CMH in a 16'x 13' x7' room with 900 cfm exchange thru 2ea, 6" intake/exhaust ducts w/ a 70pint dehumidifier set to 50%. Operational temp 76-78f rh 53% NO AC.
I ran a mixed bag of tricks to see what to expect from different strains, even a couple of, as of yet untested phenos.
2 1/2 weeks veg, 1 week too much I think and these girls were thriving and immediately went into budset and flower.
Pic #1 1 day before flip 2 1/2 weeks from 3" starts.
Pic #2 1 day before flip
Pic #3 Day 19 of flower.
Pic #4 day 26
First Youtube video is from Day 11
Pic #3