I have the blues...

[Laughing Grass]

That's pretty cool. I made a strip light fixture years ago to go with my HLG 300 light. I learned afterwards that I used a blue heavy spectrum LOL.

Newbs

Nice to have someone so knowledgeable about diodes and spectrums here.

 

[Rocket Soul]

That's pretty cool. I made a strip light fixture years ago to go with my HLG 300 light. I learned afterwards that I used a blue heavy spectrum LOL.

Newbs

Nice to have someone so knowledgeable about diodes and spectrums here.

I had the opportunity to build and see grow several different versions of growlights growing the same genetics - its a really good eyeopener for how different the same genetics can smell and behave.

 

[Laughing Grass]

I had the opportunity to build and see grow several different versions of growlights growing the same genetics - its a really good eyeopener for how different the same genetics can smell and behave.

Do you favour flowering specific lights?

 

[Rocket Soul]

Do you favour flowering specific lights?

For leds - Most def
Low and wide blue, mid to low green, full/massive wide red. Kinda similar to HPS but with a little more blue and uv.

 

[curious2garden]

For leds - Most def
Low and wide blue, mid to low green, full/massive wide red. Kinda similar to HPS but with a little more blue and uv.

These are my flowering lights. Although vegging plants and yes even my seedlings have absolutely loved this spectrum. Is this at all similar to what you refer to? What would you increase or decrease in terms of spectrum. Because this one has grown like no other light I've ever used. HLG seems to be having some issues lately and I've been hearing about delays and delivery issue so i'm concerned and readying to search out new lights in the future.

Scorpion Diablo X

 

[Rocket Soul]

Probably better to get the l

These are my flowering lights. Although vegging plants and yes even my seedlings have absolutely loved this spectrum. Is this at all similar to what you refer to? What would you increase or decrease in terms of spectrum. Because this one has grown like no other light I've ever used. HLG seems to be having some issues lately and I've been hearing about delays and delivery issue so i'm concerned and readying to search out new lights in the future.

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Ive never grown with these so hard to tell. From what ive gathered: putting all/most red in a 660nm spike like that isnt optimal. 660 reds are super efficient which gives nice numbers for marketing but i dont think its ideal for flowering quality. Though i cannot say for sure as im still trying to test things out. I would spread that red from one giant spike to a wider spectrum, specially boosting the part around 600-640.

Edit: ill drop some spectrum shots of what i wanna try out in the other thread

 

[curious2garden]

Probably better to get the l

Ive never grown with these so hard to tell. From what ive gathered: putting all/most red in a 660nm spike like that isnt optimal. 660 reds are super efficient which gives nice numbers for marketing but i dont think its ideal for flowering quality. Though i cannot say for sure as im still trying to test things out. I would spread that red from one giant spike to a wider spectrum, specially boosting the part around 600-640.

Edit: ill drop some spectrum shots of what i wanna try out in the other thread

I'll head over RS, thanks!

 

[Rocket Soul]

These are my flowering lights. Although vegging plants and yes even my seedlings have absolutely loved this spectrum. Is this at all similar to what you refer to? What would you increase or decrease in terms of spectrum. Because this one has grown like no other light I've ever used. HLG seems to be having some issues lately and I've been hearing about delays and delivery issue so i'm concerned and readying to search out new lights in the future.

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The one thing i do like about this spectrum is that its relatively low green- in all our tests green was associated to loss of "in your face" smells to something more mellow, (maybe even complex?) for example: Rainbow Chips under our better spectrums had a very clear fruity/mint loud nose and chocolate taste (well, you could taste the chocolate if you eat some to bring out the taste). Very much a dispensary/smoke club profile, like and stand out go to kinda of smell.
In the higher green spectrum, even with added uv, this turned into some kinda spicy lavender (maybe even licorice? Im not that good at smells and flavas) kinda thing - not bad but not the kinda thing 9/10 would go for.

The plant green response which can be summed up as intracannopy/structural response. The one part of a plant or tree where green is prevalent is deeper into the cannopy, behind a bunch of leaves. It can be summed up as:
- reversing of the blue response, meaning:
- inhibiting transpiration
- reversing blues effect of shortening of node spacing.
Morphologically:
Green recruits plant resources to grow thicker denser fibrous tissue, the kind of tissue needed for sturdy branching - it grows stick (and very likely higher abundance of leaves though this is more my own observation rather than based on science papers, possibly also due to high blue content in most modern growleds).
Personally I dont think anyone is growing weed to get more stick, were all in for fragrant juicy bud. Sending resources towards stick and fiber is not going to do any favors for smells and taste department.

TBC

 

[Rocket Soul]

Ok, so i still have the Blues but this time its not sad.
Got 2x Blueberry crosses from my buddy Earl sprouting and going into pots tonight.

Had to nuke the terrace with bleach and bug spray: leaving the old pots around from last year with soil in them have attracted the Borg, the red creepy crawlies. Been bleaching the shit out of pots and everything the whole morning.

Never grown blueberry, but i had some very nice blue dream a couple of years ago so why not?

In a few weeks ill head up to my growbuddies for harvest of the test grow and bring back a some La Bella clones which should be good aswell, they finish fast enough for my terrace.

 

[Rocket Soul]

Here are the wee ones, 2 Blueberry Cherry fems.

Reading back to last years grow it looks like i havent learned a thing: still doing seedlings in heat waves.

They were planted on friday, broke ground on Saturday/Sunday. I had them out in the sun at midday but they started tacoing a bit so now chilling in the shadow.
Weather is cooling over the next few days so i think they should be fine. I may try to figure out a way to subirrigate these cause i may be away in August.

 

[Rocket Soul]

Good morning
Heres the little ones one week after breaking soil. Not much happening, they got properly soaked in the rain a few days ago so just waiting for the pots to go dry for now.