Bud Love
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Absolutely @JonThanks! And good call on minding the girls when the booster goes on. It does increase the wattage a LOT - 130 watts, from 550 to 680. The light claims to be able to be as close as 6" in budding and as far as heat it can surely do that. Six inches below this light is less than 85 degrees (AWESOME), but at full power with the booster at 6" I measured it, and it's like 1500+ par! If they can take that I'll be shocked and impressed. I'll probably bud them at around 1200 unless they show me they can take more. Never worked with a light this powerful and with such a gigantic and even footprint. And if I fill the scrog sweetly and they all come up at the same level like they're supposed to, I just might pull a great yield.
My personal yield scale for the photo tent is this:
- 1.5 to 2.0 lbs. dry weight = disappointing
- 2.0 to 3.0 dry weight = expected
- 3.0 or more dry weight = I'm jumping up and down out of my chair
With the upgraded light I just installed in the auto tent (too tired to do pics/post tonight) I now run that quantum board in the middle flanked by the two 1200 watt blurples on REDS only. So the canopy is between 1100 and 1250 all the way across all nine plants! The two outer rows are now getting more reds than the middle which is right under the quantum board and all full spectrum other than the reds overlapping. So I put the Pineapple Express in the middle row cuz they're not quite budding yet. All the other six are, so they took the outer two rows and are getting tons of red AND full spectrum. It's gonna make the buds go NUTS.
This is the time when all the hardish work is done, and now I just gotta keep them watered and fed. I don't count filling the scrog screen as work at all. I'm gonna have a blast doing that. I can see the flip on the horizon! Starting to actually be FUN.
Wait til you see the upgraded auto tent tomorrow. Have a great night.
My personal scale for the auto tent is this:
- Less than 9 ounces dry weight = I quit (lol)
- 9 to 13.5 ounces dry weight = expected
- 13.5 to 18 ounces dry weight = way enough to make me happy
- 18 ounces or more = Nirvana
I also believe those numbers to be reasonable with nine extremely healthy autos under plenty of great light. All of them were LSTed, so they're all pretty bushy with TONS of side branching. I can already see from the Gorilla Zkittlez who is budding like a madman that she's gonna be significantly over an ounce. She's been budding for only 15 days and there's already a half ounce on the plant dried, easy. I'm shocked at how fast her buds are growing each day.
- Anything over 18 ounces dry weight = Nirvana
I know you're gonna tell me to not worry about the yield, and that it's free bud, and to not put pressure on myself, etc...but that's not how I roll. I gotta have a goal. I think for a 5x5 scrog with the plants I have going the above yield estimates are reasonable.
I love the thought of max yields and those yields sound pretty darn good.
Your gonna nail more than 2oz a plant off those autos. For sure. More like 3+
Thanks for your time again matey