Led grow with cheap led

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Okay so my first post here I’m using a maxsisun 300w led grow light one of the cheapest ones on Amazon I use bcuzz nutrients from gro to flower with little mg I do grow in mg currently my temps are 70 to 77 humidity is in the 30s I dont have a ppm meter or all of that I just wanna know what you guys think about my plant it is 4 weeks in flower random bagseed is why I call it rs#4 she’s the fourth one to sprout and the only one to make it

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Looking great for the low wattage for sure

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To me looks dont matter what does is getting the most out of what u got. Every set up can be tuned to perfection. But looks good so far to me.

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Looks Surprisingly dense for the low wattage. A little nute burn or light burn but still looking like nice, smokable buds.

Welcome to the site.

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Thanks guys I have 150 actual watts going on in there I will keep you guys updated and will introduce you to my other bag seed OG t when she recovers from the accidental topping lol

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It was light burn my light was 7 8 inches from the top its now 12 to 14 from the top

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@Benjisavage if you have the hight you can hang the light 18 in above I had to install a fan to circulate the air better
I have a low ceiling hight and my plants are an inch below The light right now damn sativa side of her took over lol

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Yeah I have 4 ft the light hangs about 6 inches from that then my plant is 15and a half inches tall to with he pot like 5 inches that’s about 2 ft between my lights and the canopy I could raise it or lower if I wanted

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I have 2 of the Maxsisun 300’s and a 450. They have dimmers, so you can set them 12" over your plants and run them at 1/2 power until the plants can handle full power. I think they’re very nice, underrated lights; 12-bands including IR, and veg/blm dimmer knobs. The internal cooling fans are variable with the lights… nice lights. I think the actual wattage is around 142 and 200?

Edit: I just looked on Amazon and the Maxsisun 300 is not the same one I bought a few years ago… the current model has on/off, the older model has 2 dimmers for blue/red spectrums. Anyway, I’ll be curious to see how yours performs :runner:

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Yeah mines has no dimmable switch I’m going to get one with the veg and bloom dimmable switch I think its the 600 they are nice lights this my second grow with it but my first complete grow

this my headbanger plant that I had growing

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The Maxsisun 300s that I have are like this…

I think they were $78 when I bought them on Amazon 3 years ago.

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Yeah see that’s the old one I have this on<img src="/uploads/default/original/3X/0/2/02f9a5272cfaeb4c7eaf70c37e49251d03a686a5.jpg" width=“375” height=

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You’ll be able to grow nice plants with that :slight_smile:
They’re a bit old school compared to the surface mount diode arrays of today, but economical, and the reflectors really help to diffuse the light. :rotating_light:

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Thanks that’s good to hear

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What was you average yield per plant and how long did you veg ? I’m running two 12/12 from seed plants one sativa dom the one I posted and one indica dom <img src="/uploads/default/original/3X/7/2/727d1bd9249c387213445924982d72bff404ee5f.jpg" width=“666” height="499"og t she is a little rough little light looking but she’s good now she’s 6 days from first pistils so 6 days flowering

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At the time I harvested the plants shown here I got about 210g per plant wet weight. Not huge, but I’m only growing for myself. If you figure about 25% of the wet weight after dry/cure, probably about 2oz from each plant. These had 40 days veg, and 60 days flower time.

Since these pictures I added a 4x4 tent with 600w hid lighting. There is a big difference between a couple of 140w LEDs and a 600w HID. You can even feel the difference.

I’ve seen some “micro-grows” here that look great, and could be more of the direction that I’m heading since I don’t need that much weed around. I like growing and experimenting and don’t want to accumulate stash too much faster than I can use it… so I’m reading the grow logs and may try growing some of those little bonsai plants. Quicker to flower and taste test for pheno hunting, too. :sunny:

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Yeah looks nice I’m trying to get a average I veg 30 days then flower 60 to 70 so 90 to 100 days from seed what is a bonsai?

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Impressive!! Love the setup! “The Lab” , Right on! Both of you are doing great. Have a nice day! :relaxed::+1:

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