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I am still waiting on another light for my flowering system, but unfortunately I ran out of time and had to move these three beasts into flowering. There are two driving factors behind this decision. First my Veg space is full, so I really needed to clear up room in there. Second, I am working towards a revolving harvest on a 30 day cycle.
I first transplanted these plants to their 5 gallon flowering pots. All of them are looking happy and healthy.
Links
I found these links which were helpful to me in understanding more about my strains:
1. Pineapple Punch: Pineapple Punch Marijuana Strain
2. Lavender: Lavender Marijuana Strain
3. Vortex: Vortex Marijuana Strain
Vortex Photos: (pre-transplant, shown in 3 gallon pots)
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Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
Of course, this DOES mean that your (hate using this term) grams per watt jumps up! Also, this means your grams per kilowatt-hour goes up as well! Either way, this does mean a performance increase, but it's still dishonest advertising.
Sure it induces some mathematical changes in your calculations and predictions. It also hurts the image of LED technology; folks will buy a 120watt and wonder why it works poorly while unbeknownst to them it is really 70 watts of LED light not 120... The primary affect of their trickery is the bottom line: higher hardware costs per watt. Including more lights needed to reach the required watts, including additional power bars, extension cords, timers, etc... needed when adding additional lights.
Sure as shit adds up fast! Can easily require another $150 in electrical setup on top of additional lights. This is about $750 hardware cost to me total to get the watts up...
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Originally Posted by omnibuddy
I tested one, it pulls 83 watts and says 120 watts. I will have to begin research into this as it is not my area of knowledge. Of course we also know that the integrated fan system takes watts too, though I do not know how many.
More to come as I learn more about this. Please post anything helpful you may know about this khyber.
Tested my "90 watt" and it pulls 65 watts.
Interestingly, my 40 watt T15 ballast runs 30.5 watts.
It sounds like the lesson is to test all of your lights, fans, etc... I bet some of that other stuff doesn't pull what it says.
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Thats very interesting regarding testing wattage. I've been very happy with my leds to date so haven't considered testing what their true wattage is, but might do just for interests sake. Its not terribly surprising to me though that Chinese made appliances are not what they seem - its a shame all the same yeah.
Can I ask Omni what distance you have your young plants from your leds? I have a low height vege area and occassionally the taller ones get a touch of light bleaching, and I don't think its the PL-L thats in there with them. Just curious.
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Originally Posted by rattlingdags
Thats very interesting regarding testing wattage. I've been very happy with my leds to date so haven't considered testing what their true wattage is, but might do just for interests sake. Its not terribly surprising to me though that Chinese made appliances are not what they seem - its a shame all the same yeah.
Can I ask Omni what distance you have your young plants from your leds? I have a low height vege area and occassionally the taller ones get a touch of light bleaching, and I don't think its the PL-L thats in there with them. Just curious.
In general I keep them about a foot away, but I have kept them as close as three inches. I don't seem to get any bleaching issues except when I put my UVB bulbs too close.
On a side note, my friend does get burning with high higher watt LEDs. I think these 120 watt (80 actual...) are low enough wattage to avoid burning.
Personally I would prefer several low wattage lights compared to fewer high wattage lights. This allows a better spread of the light over the canopy area, helps avoid burning, and such... Of course it also means more power bars, timers, extension cords, etc... so it costs a bit more.
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Well my LED guy fell through on some used LEDs that I was supposed to get, so I decided instead of waiting another month for a new order, I would get some more lighting diversity!
I picked up two ballasts with 108 watts of 3000k lights in each for flowering. These should make a nice addition.
I got one today, and the other will arrive tomorrow.
I will post some pics soon!
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Originally Posted by rattlingdags
LED grow - I'm subscribed for sure :thumbsup:
Watch your kitten around your plants - some of them seem to see it like catnip ;)
I finally had to make my space off limits for the lil' cats. My older cat decided that he did indeed think it was fun to chew on fan leaves on the flowering plants only... Odd, but hey, thats a cat with some damned good taste in chronic! Maybe cats can predict bud ripeness in addition to earthquakes? lol
Honestly, I could handle the eyes on the cats when they were in there, but the hair was the final straw!
Turns out those sticky icky buds and bud leaves keep catching little cat hairs. I clean the entire space once every one to two weeks, so after the last cleaning it became off limits to em.
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Oh dear I'm not too surprised about the cat hair sticking. They probably think your growing the plants specially as a treat for them. Dogs have owners, cats have servants type of deal lol.
I find I have to tie my hair up before going into the girls now as on a couple of occasions I spotted hair draped around the tops. My husband even finds my hair in his tabacco and grumps thats its the worst tasting s**t ever, and has threatened to make me wear a hair net (!) in case it gets into the harvest.
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Originally Posted by rattlingdags
Oh dear I'm not too surprised about the cat hair sticking. They probably think your growing the plants specially as a treat for them. Dogs have owners, cats have servants type of deal lol.
I find I have to tie my hair up before going into the girls now as on a couple of occasions I spotted hair draped around the tops. My husband even finds my hair in his tabacco and grumps thats its the worst tasting s**t ever, and has threatened to make me wear a hair net (!) in case it gets into the harvest.
LMFAO......... hair in the tobacco/on the buds....... sounds like me with my wife. Roll up a cigarette, got a damn wife hair in it. I pull her hair off the plants everyday!!!!! My dog don't even shed that bad Lmao
