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Bueno Grows w/ DIY COB LEDs
- Thread starter Bueno Time
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i'm getting lost lol
the last run was done with:
35 Bridgelux Vero 10 4000K COBs + 14 total 630/660nm red LEDs on 20mm stars
right?
Yes, still the same fixture I've been using for a "long" time now. Haven't changed anything in a while.
Day 17 12/12, down to only one TPOG female. Popped my last 5 seeds, got a runt that I chopped because it just wasn't growing over 6" tall, and 3 males. Put the 3 males outside a couple days ago to mature until I can collect a little pollen but I think they are about dead now from the weather here so probably will be no TPOG F2s...
VGS Bubba S1 #7
SCS Truepower OG
VGS Bubba S1 #7
SCS Truepower OG
Hey Dion, been a while bud. Did you ever get your DIY LED fixture(s) made?
The TPOG was on top of a cardboard box to boost it up when it was smaller and has grown a lot in height so I recently removed the box and the canopy is about even currently. But yes the Bubba scrog is getting pretty wild, she definitely stretched and filled in a lot more than I thought it was going to.
Dion
Active member
hey
not sure which fixture u are talking about
the last one I build was for a member here check it out
https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=65280
im itching to build a 4000k cob based light with 25% 620nm and 660nm monos but no one has commissioned me for a build and I cant really justify switching out my 3000k cxa2540s just because it would be cool lol
its always nice when a canopy fills out
good luck with this round and thanks for sharing
Day 28 12/12.
Hopefully the damn TPOG stops stretching I just moved the light up to nearly max height in the tent and boosted the Bubba up some more on another box and defoliated some more after the pics. The scrog is way overgrown but should still work out ok, hopefully the buds get bigger soon they are pretty small so far but I dont expect them to get very big at all.
Hopefully the damn TPOG stops stretching I just moved the light up to nearly max height in the tent and boosted the Bubba up some more on another box and defoliated some more after the pics. The scrog is way overgrown but should still work out ok, hopefully the buds get bigger soon they are pretty small so far but I dont expect them to get very big at all.
Bueno, have you considered using higher color temp veros like 5000K, with the 660nm reds, as the 5000k whites put out a heap in the 450nm royal blue spectrum, which is because that's the LED used behind the phosphor, 450nm is one of the two main peaks in PAR 660nm being the other one.
https://www.illumitex.com/photosynthetically-active-radiation/
The idea being that you run just the 5000k whites during early flower to control your stretch, then switch on the 600nm reds when you are happy with the stretch. 660nm reds are more efficient than the warm white phosphor, so you have enough of them to do most of the flowering work, rather than rely on the whites to do it.
https://www.illumitex.com/photosynthetically-active-radiation/
The idea being that you run just the 5000k whites during early flower to control your stretch, then switch on the 600nm reds when you are happy with the stretch. 660nm reds are more efficient than the warm white phosphor, so you have enough of them to do most of the flowering work, rather than rely on the whites to do it.
I just found this recent video, that tests a similar strategy to what I mentioned in the previous post, they are using 4000K whites with 660mn reds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3tBQEH4lsE
Cree are comparing results to a popular HPS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3tBQEH4lsE
Cree are comparing results to a popular HPS.
Day 35 TPOG #8
Day 35 12/12 Bubba S1 #7
Day 42 12/12
Here's an overview of the tent.
Truepower OG #8, shes smelling fire, this one is True OG dominant with an earthy lemon pinesol OG aroma with a hint of blue from the Blue Power. Really good strain cant wait to smoke this one, been a long time since Ive smoked some TPOG and this one is looking/smelling to be my best one from the pack.
Here's an overview of the tent.
Truepower OG #8, shes smelling fire, this one is True OG dominant with an earthy lemon pinesol OG aroma with a hint of blue from the Blue Power. Really good strain cant wait to smoke this one, been a long time since Ive smoked some TPOG and this one is looking/smelling to be my best one from the pack.
Truepower OG #8 Buds
Day 42 12/12 Bubba S1 #7
Day 49 12/12
I've been running the COBs at 140w of the 210w potential of the driver. The heat sinks I chose are undersized for anything much higher than where it's set without installing cooling fans. With the red mono leds included its around 160w total I think.
Day 56 Bubba S1 #7
Truepower OG #8, about two more weeks or a few days more I think
