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Hm, i think thats the problem with my soil too more or less. I have to go over another soil or try something more forgiving. I think maybe 1 part light/flushed soil with worm casting and mycorrhizae powder, 1 Part coco well mixed with 1 part perlite and a 2 inch layer of clay pellets on the bottom of a big ass airpot sounds worth a try for my next seedlings. Maybe a lil more or less of each but i like the idea of using these components
Something else, could not hold fingers still. I changed the spectrum of my lil 18x5W Epistar LED panel. I removed 4x440nm blue and added 2x2700-3000K warm white and 2x660nm red.
So this sink has 10x blue, 4x 9000-10000K, 2x 2700-3000K and 2x660nm red on it right now. I am exited how that performs. The basic stuff with a very cold touch.
Once the starboards are placed the diodes are really easy to change after you managed to get the stuff together. A lot more handy than on a big tight board at least.
This is all cheap material, but how we all know these 5W diodes can grow some tight and bushy plants for a while when cooled right, and i have about 150 more of em to build stuff including 5 more drivers like this one that can push 20-80V at 0.7 Amps and has a slot for 12V in the driver. You can open them by hand, pretty cool plug and play style.
You can do the math on your own.
For 5W diodes you can say as a rule of thumb
blue, all whites and bright cool stuff like that use arround 3,6V
Reds use 2,6V
diodes like ~730 are 2,2 or a lil more
I hope you get the picture
i went for a whole lot of new blue diodes because i want to try to control the stretch with such a small area and get a tight noded small plant to fill a 1,7ft scrog for example.
And when i say ok 'flowers please' i can remove most of the blue and cooler whites (3,6V) and add a whole bunch of red (2,6) within minutes soldering them to the mounted starboards. Then they will stretch due to the lack of blue looking for light and then boom, red cola army.
So now thats justbthe lil test unit. I prepared LEDs last week with Arctic MX4 on Starboards and glued them down to a cheap heatsink with cheapest silicone based thermal glue and hotglued an Arctic F12 and the driver on top yesterday. It ran like a charm the whole day sink cool to the touch.
I will test this new nugget spectrum 2.0 on that plant till next week when the new tent is up. maybe keep it going like that until i get my hands on all the parts for my 3 channel COB x 5W hybrid on a 350x350mm/~14x14 inch aluminum plate. 4000K allround COB in the center, switchable veg and flower spectrum arround it. Love the idea. The old 5W LED lower efficieny of course, with a pretty good 4000K COB at 50W the efficiency still be round the Lm/W mark of a good HPS and it will be - > cheap <- to build, flexible, cool enough for a small grow tent and pretty unique too.
Blabla, you want pictures right, well, tried some well sealed and only aired 2 times since early december dry sugartrim, man, that stuff is awesome. Better then the last jar i had out open every day for quite some weeks now...blabla again.
Oops, there they go
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Current Grow SeymoreNuggets Flowering Journal - Nebula & Atomical Haze - Soil - 2x3 - 420W DIY COB
My journey seeking the light. Found some
SeymoreNugget's DIY talk - Building lights - Sharing ideas
Something else, could not hold fingers still. I changed the spectrum of my lil 18x5W Epistar LED panel. I removed 4x440nm blue and added 2x2700-3000K warm white and 2x660nm red.
So this sink has 10x blue, 4x 9000-10000K, 2x 2700-3000K and 2x660nm red on it right now. I am exited how that performs. The basic stuff with a very cold touch.
Once the starboards are placed the diodes are really easy to change after you managed to get the stuff together. A lot more handy than on a big tight board at least.
This is all cheap material, but how we all know these 5W diodes can grow some tight and bushy plants for a while when cooled right, and i have about 150 more of em to build stuff including 5 more drivers like this one that can push 20-80V at 0.7 Amps and has a slot for 12V in the driver. You can open them by hand, pretty cool plug and play style.
You can do the math on your own.
For 5W diodes you can say as a rule of thumb
blue, all whites and bright cool stuff like that use arround 3,6V
Reds use 2,6V
diodes like ~730 are 2,2 or a lil more
I hope you get the picture
i went for a whole lot of new blue diodes because i want to try to control the stretch with such a small area and get a tight noded small plant to fill a 1,7ft scrog for example.
And when i say ok 'flowers please' i can remove most of the blue and cooler whites (3,6V) and add a whole bunch of red (2,6) within minutes soldering them to the mounted starboards. Then they will stretch due to the lack of blue looking for light and then boom, red cola army.
So now thats justbthe lil test unit. I prepared LEDs last week with Arctic MX4 on Starboards and glued them down to a cheap heatsink with cheapest silicone based thermal glue and hotglued an Arctic F12 and the driver on top yesterday. It ran like a charm the whole day sink cool to the touch.
I will test this new nugget spectrum 2.0 on that plant till next week when the new tent is up. maybe keep it going like that until i get my hands on all the parts for my 3 channel COB x 5W hybrid on a 350x350mm/~14x14 inch aluminum plate. 4000K allround COB in the center, switchable veg and flower spectrum arround it. Love the idea. The old 5W LED lower efficieny of course, with a pretty good 4000K COB at 50W the efficiency still be round the Lm/W mark of a good HPS and it will be - > cheap <- to build, flexible, cool enough for a small grow tent and pretty unique too.
Blabla, you want pictures right, well, tried some well sealed and only aired 2 times since early december dry sugartrim, man, that stuff is awesome. Better then the last jar i had out open every day for quite some weeks now...blabla again.
Oops, there they go
.
Current Grow SeymoreNuggets Flowering Journal - Nebula & Atomical Haze - Soil - 2x3 - 420W DIY COB
My journey seeking the light. Found some
SeymoreNugget's DIY talk - Building lights - Sharing ideas