New setup - Wingin' it below zero

[AKgrow]

 

[AKgrow]

 

[AKgrow]

End of week one. Running new outlets on a 20a 240v breaker. That should give me plenty of outlets to run lights on max going forward, and more fans. Here's how they look after one week 12/12.

 

[AKgrow]

 

[_VLAD_]

Beautiful

 

[AKgrow]

Day 10ish from flip. I ran a new 20 amp, 240v line to a water timer and four outlets.

I put 800 watts of light on those outlets and left about 800 watts on the existing outlets, cranked everything up to 100%. I used some adapters to plug my 120v plugs into the 240v outlets, works like a charm.

The drivers sense the input voltage and adjust accordingly. Cheap and easy conversion.

 

[Pushrod Monkey]

I'm gonna keep track of this run because it's a new setup. Took down the smaller flower room and cleaned up the mess to make a new bigger flower room. The Cherries and Cheese ladies are hanging and I left the grow room alone for a couple days. This place hasn't been used in years and needed to be cleaned and insulated. It's been below zero for a week and my poor girls veggin' along down there were getting <50 degree nights. Shitty. I insulated the place, closed up one of the intakes and went spray foam crazy in all the seams and anywhere I felt cold. I also got the radiant heat back up and running, thank God. Now I can keep it controlled and the plants are bouncing back, they were looking quite sickly a couple days ago. I set up the lights for going into flower, just gonna run them on 50% until the plants recover fully. I think I am going to stick with LEDs and leave out the HPS now that I've got the place insulated. Might run a mix of the two, don't know, just wingin' it.
Here's what it's looking like, still a work in progress. The plants are looking way better than they did two days ago.View attachment 1190721View attachment 1190722 Organic amended pro mix and Coco. Bunch of different strains. Water with a hose. Quantum boards with 3000k, 5000k, 660nm, 730nm, UVB florescents. Running it as a semi sealed room with a dehuey and heat. I still have to get the old 240v outlets and pool timer working, then I can run some lights on that and free up some 120 outlets for the extractor fan and filter. I've got time. I'll keep you posted.

You in North Pole or the eastern Interior?

 

[Moshmen]

The lights:
Viparspectra 240w with lm561c diodes (3000k, 5000k, 660nm)View attachment 1194063
Kingbrite boards 2x240w and a 320w. The 320w has lm301h, the 240w boards have 301b, 3000k w/ 660nm. The strips on the wall are 75w total, 660nm. And two growmau pucks in 730nm, I run those 15 mins before lights on and 15 mins after lights off.View attachment 1194064View attachment 1194065
Another Viparspectra 200w with lm281b diodes, 3000k, 5000k, 660nm.View attachment 1194066
My newest light, Optic 2 gen 4 200w. Cree Xlamp cxb3590 cobs, 3000k and 5000k. Lm301h in 3500k, Cree XPE in 460nm and 660nm, one IR diode and one UVA diode. View attachment 1194067
I would not have bought this light new because of the price, nearly 400 bucks. I got it on eBay, like new for 150. I wanted to check out cobs to see if I like them, but I didn't want to spend too much because I can get kingbrite boards for a lot less than a dollar a watt and cobs are usually more than a dollar a watt even if you build them. The Optic got me into the cob game at less than a dollar a watt, and I can always replace chips as the burn out. The plants love that light and it is bright for 200w. Behind the optic is a two foot, two bulb t5ho fixture with Agromax pure UV tubes.View attachment 1194073UV led diodes are UVA. UVB is what triggers trichome production. I run that for an hour, right in the middle of the plants day, to simulate the sun being directly overhead.

All the lights are dimmed to around 65-70%

So can you see the difference in plants under the different diodes? Specifically the 301b vs 301h vs the 561 ? Just curious if there’s a noticeable difference

 

[AKgrow]

The only difference I see between all the lights is with the cobs. The plants under the Optic light look like they are praying harder than the other plants. The lm281 board looks physically brighter than the lm561 board, but that could be diode spacing. The 301h board looks brighter than the 301b boards, but the plants aren't doing any different. Bud grown only under the 301s was way better than buds under the 281s and 561s, but there are many other factors playing into that (spectrum, intensity, strain, environment, skill). Next run I think I'll set up to run the DE HPS next to LED, side by side with clones.

 

[AKgrow]

Buenos dias plantalones.

 

[Backyard_Boogie]

Looking good man!

 

[Pushrod Monkey]

You never answered. I asked where you were. It hasn't hit -50 anywhere here this year. You sure you're actually in Alaska and not in Anchorage if you are?

 

[AKgrow]

You never answered. I asked where you were. It hasn't hit -50 anywhere here this year. You sure you're actually in Alaska and not in Anchorage if you are?

Read the post again. <50 degree nights, not -50 degree nights. Means it was getting under 50 degrees in the grow room.

 

[Pushrod Monkey]

Read the post again. <50 degree nights, not -50 degree nights. Means it was getting under 50 degrees in the grow room.

So you still haven't answered. Just wondering why.