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Off the shelf retail store screw-in LED and CFL bulb comparisons
- Thread starter blynx
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PCBuds
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HIDs are old school.
They're just heaters. Lol
You may want to consider LED for your whole grow...
That's what the greenhouses are doing.
You might be right. Idk how accurate the lux apps are but I just tested one and this b saying I got 20 thousand lux at 12". It's looking a little strechy that's why I was trying see how low I can go. I'm just do 20" and see how it goes.
Lol they are. My 315 raises my 5x5 about 5-10 degrees which is good for me in the winter. That lamp firing up is satisfaction you can't get with LED. I got an HLG 550 just don't know if it's worth firing it for one seedling.
20K is a lot. I can veg with that. 8K is fine while it gets it's act together. 4K would be miserable and 12K pushing it along.
There is an issue with what it is though. I believe a thin leaf variety to be more accustomed to equatorial conditions. While a broad leaf will collect light from a few candles
There is an issue with what it is though. I believe a thin leaf variety to be more accustomed to equatorial conditions. While a broad leaf will collect light from a few candles
PCBuds
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I'm going old-school incandescent for heat... 2 sixty Watt bulbs.
I've got 100 Watt bulbs if it gets really cold.
It keeps my wine/CO2 generator happy too...
She looking much better than mine. How old ? My baby still fighting with the shell. I usually take it off for them but this time I'm let it go all natural. It's looking like she gonna be all natural dead here in a couple days. We'll see.
chronosync
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you try drops of water on the stuck shell? a little spray and drops of water on the helmet a few times a day has worked for me
Im'One
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Put a drop water or hydrogen peroxide on the shell. With five minutes carefully pry it off with a need point or tweezers you may have to gently hold the trunk...stem...whatever. If it doesn't come easy then drop water again. Best sure to get the skin looking stuff that's under the hard shell also.
PCBuds
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PCBuds
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These are my SIL plants...
4700 lumens total.
The lights can be closer once the plants get bigger.
Did you tread on it? it looks like a rosette. Rosetting (sp) is a thing. A deficiency sign. Ca or P perhaps. At this point I would be reaching for an incandescent lamp to get some far red illumination on the top. That could trigger the
Oh it's snowing!! (I know it's nothing new there, but here it's mystical still)
Oh it's snowing!! (I know it's nothing new there, but here it's mystical still)
Right on !!! Thank u all for the suggestion
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PCBuds
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If you crop your pictures a little bit before you upload them, then they won't get rotated, and if you copy the BB code to your post, the full size picture will show in the thread.
chronosync
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my new light
chronosync
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something I grew with a similar light I made
chronosync
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Thanks to blynx for starting this thread and all the SIL pioneers, experimenters and contributors. I never would have thought it was possible. -Thanks guys~
