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Any links to lights you recommend to buy so that I don’t have 3 lights in a tent?

If you're handy enough to stick a wire in a hole id suggest to build your own.
You could make two lights that are 2x4 each that would give you the most even coverage possible.
Be about $325 each and 325w each.
You want at least two lights so you can adjust coverage .

If not DIY then probably two of Mars SP3000

What’s your opinion on the spider farm 4000

Looks like a pretty decent light.
As long as a light is using Samsung LM301B and Cree XP-G3 Photored diodes or an Osram diode and Meanwell driver then more than likely its a good light.
My only dislike would be that its a Quantum board as opposed to a strip light.
Strip lights have more even coverage and run cooler.

Sorry for the many questions but when u got your water from the fridge, what steps did you take afterwards?

Also could you look up my old profile, Newbie420haze, and check out the photos there. Technically this isn’t my first run but I never got to properly do a seed to curing.

That Mars sp3000 isn’t cheap. 400$ That’s umm crazy

Thats actually fairly cheap for an off the shelf light.
But thats why I prefer making my own.
Mine are made better, made exactly to fit my space and $100 cheaper than the cheapest light I could get thats even close.

Why would I be taking water from the fridge.
Not sure i follow.

I get my water from the outside faucet run through a foot long carbon filter.

I thought I read that you got your water from the fridge? I’ll have to found where I read that on your page

Nvm I read that too fast . Here’s the actual quote of what you said

So I started out filtering my water through fridge filter which brought the chlorine down to a trace of between 0.03 to 0.13.

Gotcha, yeah that was about 5 years ago.
I went from that to buying RO water 10 gal a week and most times got it free because the cashier just never even ask about the 2 big 5 gal jugs in the cart.
But that ended a year ago with covid.
Now I use about a foot long carbon filter that attaches to my hose.

So with that filter do you still have to ph your water, like I want to use less of my ph up and ph down. Is there a way to get rid of me having to do that every watering day? I find that out of all this growing process , this ph thing is my struggle area. Weather it’s plain ph water or water with food both

There is no reason to pH in LOS the soil buffers the water.
Unless your water is insane like 9+ pH.
But in general anything between 5.7 to 7.5 is perfectly fine with LOS.
The soil, microbes do all the work for you

What’s los

Living Organic Soil

Got it. So I am about to water the plants if they are not showing any signs of lacking food , should I just use plain water?

Just go with your gut.
Sit with the plants for a few minutes, they'll let you know what they need.

So I ended up doing the food with water.

Inside a two gallon water sprayer I did the following:

One table spoon of the fox farm bloom
one table spoon of the fox farm grow big
One tea spoon of the cal mag
And two table spoon of the yucca