Looking good, Junk!
I'm about to germinate some Tangerine Dream and maybe some of Beanhoarder's "Keeper" pheno White Widow. Beanho is a pollen chuck but this might be good, I dunno.
Crickets, hmm. I don't get those but my Highland Mexican Blueberry next to the humidifier got hit with leaf miners.
The first generation of real budding LED lights like the Lumigrow ES (blue sheetmetal) grow good crops but they need to be substituted for HID at an equivalent wattage, IMO. The white enclosure Pro series is noticeably better but I don't like the thermal management of the later versions. The current generation of COBs and drivers should easily double the efficiency of the Lumigrow ES series (just my gut feeling without doing any calculations).
If you get a white widow that is good, I can think of a list of maybe 10 things I wouldn't do for it. No sexual acts, no killing humans or pets, you can't have my studio equipment...
Ok, I can think of 3 things I wouldn't do for it lol.
Are you inside or out?
That is
one cricket.
A cricket will eat up an entire batch of large seedlings. I have never had a pest before in the tent. But a cricket, will eat half of all your larger leaf fingers. & as large as they are, you would think it's impossible for them to hide (it's not an aphid, it's 1" long) but the sob's do it.
I took my entire tent apart. Every plant out of the tent, the flood floor, I even moved it. He's not hiding
in any of the plants, he wasn't
in the tent. I'm not sure if he is there anymore, my cat hunts them. My cat hunts anything, she is a pita, but she will keep a house mouse free, she will try to keep it dog free if you don't check her. But after I did all that. Moved my whole setup, which is not small. It's only a 4x4 tent, but I have a carbon filter setup, co2, I seal up the tent with zip walls so I can use the co2, I have all the air pumps for the hydro, the light is cooled so that = 2 centrifugal fans (one for the light, one for the filter) 4 regular fans, all the power strips etc. It takes a solid half day to move the setup.
The first night, I heard that damn cricket again. I don't hear him anymore, so I think the cat took care of him.
When I do the light, unless something better comes along, I will use the Cree 3590's. But I want to do a 1kw light. Everyone keeps comparing these lights, but they are usually not on an even playing field. I want to see how an advanced LED with a 1kw draw stacks up to an HID. I think a lot of this "600w replaces 1kw" is the reason led's get a bad rap. But most of them
have to do that, because the thermal management design is not good. If they had a genuine 1k pull, & were just dumping all that into the tent, it would be damn hot in there.
For the sake of fairness & honesty. I put in the
Hortilux HPS in a cooled hood. I put the hurricane fan on it, & I lowered my temps by 4 degrees (the average since I put it in) So, the "led is cooler than hid" argument, has to be more nuanced than it is currently.
Cricket damage (I have no idea why the picture turned like that. I must not have locked my phone & "butt edited" it. Looks like the sob is still in there.
Next pic is the ladies hitting their stretch, all except that damn slow Sour D. I dropped it's mother on her head one time, does that principle work in reverse?
