The blue dots are 11" 11.5 watt uv 395 365 405 nm bars, 4 total.
Red dots are deep 36" 27 watt deep red 660nm bars, 2 total
Yellow dots are 36" 15 watt far Red 730nm-745nm bars, 2 total.
Each corner has a ACI 16" full spectrum Evo mint bars with full uvb/uva and deep red far Red spectrum. 4 total, 12 watts each.
This should cover all my bases.
Have main light on flowering spectrum @ 80% , uv set to come on every hour for 5 minutes, deep red is always on, ir is 30 min before light’s on, 30 min after lights off. It also comes on From 2 pm to 11pm.
Last night did a 1 tablespoon pride lands veg , ½ teaspoon each Great white myco and root wise, 1 teaspoon bokashi, watered in with a 50/50 3-day light seedling tea and bubbled ro with 10 drops General organics CaMg+ per gallon.
Did about 250ml each pot From top, then filled trays with 750 ml of the camg+ water.
5x5 , flipping to 12 12 soon i 3 days. Those got 1 teaspoon each of Great white myco and root wise microbe complete, ½ tablespoon bokashi, 2 tablespoon pride lands bloom, watered in with 500 ml 50/50 seedlings tea and bubbled general organics CaMg+ water.
Hi man, your garden lookin good. Was going true the thread and notice you giving them lady’s (2h) lots off IR How long are you growing whit all these supplemental LED bars?? @Couchlocked
They’re only’ getting 60 min of it at the moment, 30 before light’s on, 30 after
The uv is getting 2 hours.
Just started messing with it the last week
But that’s how THEY say to use ir, me personally want to do 10 on 30 off the whole lit period
As i bought ir for heat only, to drive metabolism. But im hearing that may not be good to do, so if they’ look ok with the recommended IR schedule i won’t change it this cycle, as i need good as possible smoke because everything i can get is hype strain crap. Plus it’s Been 12 year’s since i smoked My own.
My theory is the IR didn’t cycle off with hid, and alot of hid is wasted heat, but then it was hard to accidentally over light plants with hid unless you really put forth a conscious effort. So that say’s LED is pretty powerful, don’t want stilts as plants.
Next run when i can afford to ruin a flower batch, ill get all experimental with it.
But the veg plants under constant t5 + LED look Great imho. BUT t5 is much less ir than supplemental bars
Edit @T0P i just saw i Said 11 to 2 on ir, i haven’t decided to do that
Sounds nice man and am glad your plants are doing good. I don’t have much growing experience whit LED although I had an older generation back in the days these first generation grow LEDs were not best.
Spider farmer suggests 15min IR - 12h FullSpectrum - 15min IR
Marshydro suggests to use IR light for a 30-minute time frame before you turn the lights off. 10 minutes of IR light, then, turn off the IR lights for the next 10 minutes. Finally, turn the lights back on for a final 10 minutes of supplemental IR light. (10 – on, 10 – off, 10- on).
Got me a full spectrum LED bars as they are way more cost efficient and got IR to simulate the light specs during sunset and sunrise in nature. Use them 15min at the begin an end of the 12h full spec cycle whit a 5 min overlaps to get near 12h dark period…
Thank you, there’s definitely room for improvement in my eye’s, but ive seen worse, id Like to had flipped em a Lil Sooner as im looking at plants tall as Kareem