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These were in red cups for 80 days or so before I transplanted. They have been topped at least two or three times already. I bent a few over a week or two back but they are due again for LST or topping.
The Photontek is supposed to cover more red but I have no idea if it does. It doesn’t have any separate controls for it.
If it’s cheap to send I’ll try it. I recall you use them for like 15 minutes either at the start or end of lights on?
I mounted it on a piece of thin sheet metal then bent it around my ballast there's no weight to it like a couple grams. I use it for 15 min, 5 before lights out and 10 after. My timer on that light only has 15 min intervals. I saw a video recently that said 8 min was the sweet spot so I'm close enough. I'll ship it tomorrow, my wife has an eye appointment in Halifax so its an outing...lol. I get to sit in the car and wait a couple of hours while they spend 10 minutes looking at her then send her on her way until the next one..
I’ve been using biochar for a couple years, but I also reuse the soil and just rebuild it (as long as there were no issues in the grow) so I’m hopoing at this point, the bio char that is the oldest is really cooked In well. I can’t actually say its made the grows better, probably more as a wholistic approach, it was part of the improvement. So were learning patience, better watering/dryout practices, better feed practices … in other words, many things have changed, which one(s) moved the needle in the right direction? Don’t know, I hope I am’nt moving the needle in the wrong direction with and recent changes.
We use it too .makes it hard not to having a wood burning stove.the biology is supposed to love it.
I’ll be leaving the biochar out for the rest of the grow. I should have charged it first but due to time restraints I skipped that part thinking it would be okay and charge up on its own over time.
Hey, the far red puck will help with the color and plant health but if there is an inherent problem IE: nute deficiency it won't do much to help. I wouldn't use 1st 3 weeks of flower unless you want more stretch. After using my blue lights for a bit too long I needed to stretch mine out a bit so just 4 days of the reds at lights out did what I wanted to them. I'll use again after 4 weeks in flower and stretching is over. I like playing with my colored lights......Did I mention my green light, I run it with the rest of the day lights on, not sure what it does, its supposed to enhance the other spectrum's ......what ever the fk that's supposed to mean...lol....its pretty so there's that....lol20260327: GG#4 JW & SB#22
Plants are looking much better. Yesterday I dropped the Sensi Cal Mag Extra 4:0:0 and fed FFGB 6:4:4 and 1 TSP epsom per gallon instead. Some leaves have darker stripes or areas.View attachment 127441
Talking with Pipecarver about these early yellowing or lime issues. He thinks about 15 minutes of far red LEDs 5 minutes before lights out will help with that.
The Photontek SQ300W has 730nm far reds but it’s always on, no separate controls for them. He thinks that might be overkill but doesn’t know for sure. It does explain why I get a lot of stretching.
So Mr Carver was nice enough to send me one of his far red LED puck lights.
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Photontek specs.View attachment 127445
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I’m going to see if I can hook it up in the middle of the quantum boards in the second tent that has no far reds. It’s just two 220w panels joined in the middle so I should be able to put the light under the seam this weekend. View attachment 127444
No one around here has wide shorter 3 gallon soft pots so I started cleaning the green ones from the last grow. They aren’t as wide as I want but these plants have been in small containers much longer than I wanted. I should have been able to flip by April 1st. Now it’ll be mid April after they have time to root in the new pot.
Very tired. Gas company finally fixed things and this weeks bill shows it’s fixed and over with. But the City Water and Property Tax bullshit is still going on. They can’t be this stupid or incompetent. He’s a director for f**k sakes. So it has to be intentional trying to get us to walk away. I’ve clawed back about $6750 of the stolen $8500 but they keep making excuses and sending the wrong paperwork. Even the director hasn’t been able to tell me where $865 he admits he owes us has gone? WTF? So I feel like I’m banging my head against a wall for the last however many years and it’s just draining and frustrating. But I’m not giving up, I can’t after all this BS.
I plan to get most if not all the plants transplanted this weekend in a new soil mix. Now that things are better I’ll stop the liquid nutes and let the dry nutes in the soil mix take over again. Still don’t know what went wrong this time.
Have a good weekend people.
I have some UV and IR lights that I will be putting in the tent after this grow. Really interested in what UV does for the plant
UV light scares me a bit. I know I'll look at the lights and fry my eye's eventually if I buy them. Its the only reason I haven't bought any already. I screw up far too many times to trust myself with dangerous lighting.
