ACE (and other sats) Indoor Tricks

[YukonKronic]

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Lol I love that we happen to use the same fencing for our SCROGs... I’m curious about the numbers up the side of the door to your cab though... is that the ppfd at various distances from lights?

 

[Terpene]

I’m curious about the numbers up the side of the door to your cab though... is that the ppfd at various distances from lights?

All of my numbers are from my often mentioned $5 ghetto swing-style light meter:

This meter reads:
2300-2500 outside in July at noon
1500-1600 under a 1000w HPS center of canopy at closest reasonable distance
1000-1200 outside in bright shade
900-1200 in most 600w canopies (HPS, MH, CMH)

I've had the thing FOREVER and have used it to setup all of my grows to pound out flower with little bulbs. 1200-2k is the sweet spot, anything more is overkill and tends to bleach em. The numbers up the door are there for a quick glance. That way I can say, my screen is at a 750, they're at about 1000-1200 now. As they stretch up to the lights, they should be 1500-1800 or so..

 

[plantahumana]

All my respect for the information in that topic!

Terpene I set up a configuration very similar to yours, I hope to have flowers similar to yours too!

Thank you for all this information that is so important for anyone looking to get the crop right.

 

[Terpene]

3 phenos of the Boats N Hoes #5 x Honduras Panama S1 which looked very similar in veg (same smells, growth rate, leaf shape, etc) are looking VERY different in flower (same stretch though).

 

[Ur Humbl Nr8tor]

Looking good, Terpene.

 

[lLucky]

Indeed looks great Terpene!

 

[OfCourse]

Thanks for all of this info Terpene. I switched my veg and seedling gardens over to full SIL a few weeks ago and did the Greenhouse today.

 

[Ur Humbl Nr8tor]

Looks good OfCourse

 

[OfCourse]

Looks good OfCourse

Thanks. I just dusted everything in there with some Malawi Gold pollen


Purple Honduras Haze, Panama Haze, Oaxacan, Malawi Gold, Haze x Kali China, Ethiopian and Island Time (2 phenos).



Green Honduras Haze is in there too but it just threw some pistils a few days ago. Hopefully I'll get a branch to pollinate before the MG male has to come down.

 

[Terpene]

Glad others are seeing the same results as I have.

Boats N’ Hoes x Panama Honduras S1 at 10 weeks under the air cooled screw-ins.

 

[OfCourse]

Indoor Flowering Upgrade

Indoor Flowering Upgrade

I'm in the middle of transitioning the indoor flowering room from two 600W MHs to 60 13W SILs. I made the same style of frame that I made for the veg room and greenhouse out of 1x2s. Each frame holds 12 bulbs on clamps.



Really glad to finally be making this upgrade. It should help a lot with the heat issues and I am exited to go from 1200W to ~780W.


Most are 3000K but there are some 5000K bulbs in there as well.


Left to right in the front there are 5 OTH, one Malawi Gold (same bucket style), 2 Snow Moons and Orient Express on the right. Behind them are more Ace offerings like 5 Panama phenos, Purple Haze X Malawi, Purple Honduras haze and a few I can't recall off of the top of my head.

 

[OfCourse]

Glad others are seeing the same results as I have.

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Boats N’ Hoes x Panama Honduras S1 at 10 weeks under the air cooled screw-ins.

That looks lovely Terpene. Do you have an estimate of how much longer?

 

[jonhova]

Hi Terpene can you show a little bit about your carbon scrubber for your cabinets? Pardon me if i missed one of your previous posts showing it off. Id like to build something similar to your setup. Im also interested in your light trap and how large you made your intake holes on the new cabinet.

The air cooled lights is genius especially during hot southern california weather.