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Plants will benefit from side lighting, but undergrowth lighting doesn’t do much good. Plants only photosynthesize on the top part of their leaves.

yes 25 is the smallest. If you were only going to do 2 bags, I would go with the 220 work bag and the 25. You will get everything in between and the hash would be a mixed quality, but it would be the easiest way to get a nice amount of hash.

All kinds of ways. I enjoy a kiseru pipe if I’m doing hash by itself. I hear it can be vaped just as easy as anything else. You can dab it. High quality stuff,which is full melt, dabs as clean as rosin. Hash with more plant material can be dabbed but the nail will need cleaned of the residue it...

I use a 220 work zipper work bag. It then goes to a 160. This usually collects what larger material that gets thru the 220. Depending on the strain, I will get a little return, sometimes I won’t get anything. If I do this usually goes into edibles. My second bag is a 120 followed by a 45. These...

Looks great! I’ve found that you only really need a lot of ice in the beginning. When it melts and you have more water than ice is what you want. If it’s hard to turn you have too much ice. Ice is there to drop the temp of the water. It’s the current of the stirring that breaks the trichome...

I’m just concerned with the dimming. This won’t be for my cannabis, so nothing else is really a huge concern. Just want something cheap that will keep my houseplants alive thru winter until the spring lol.

Anyone use the Viparspectra VT300? I was wondering how far the dimming goes down to, or is the dimming only on startup?

I just built the 550. So far I have only seedling going but the light itself is intense! You could go with one of each lol.

One of our sponsors, LED Grow Lights Depot, has a lot of really awesome review videos on youtube, including the “best of”. But these are all on LEDs specifically.

Thanks SmokingWings! That info on Biochar is definitely new to me. Guess I can hold off adding until enough volume of soil and castings is added to thin it out lol.

Absolutely. Gotta love decomposition!

I rotate my soil. When I’m finished with a grow the soil gets dumped into a black tote. I add granular organic fertilizer, as well as mycorrhizae and Biochar. Water is added to field capacity. It gets mixed up and the lid slapped on. It remains undisturbed to “cook” while another grow is taking...

I finally decided to upgrade after 4 years of growing in a cheap 2x4 with a cheap 600w HID system. Traded up to an home built HLG-550 v2 Rspec in a Gorilla 4x4 shorty! This is gonna be awesome.

I definitely see some good amber coming thru. They are in the harvest zone for sure. Some growers prefer to go for more amber before the chop. It gives a heavier body buzz than harvesting when there is little to no Amber present.