Fuckin right TrevorLahey. This is a very efficient system you have going. And thanks for the incredible photography. Thanks for the inspiring thread.
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Thanks for stopping by and for the kind words, bud!
Grow on!
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Day 67
And the seedlings
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Having some difficulty hardening one of my outdoor plants off. Sun hits her even for 10m and shes damn near dead. Just been misting her down during sunny hot hours but it’s an uphill battle for sure.
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Amazing grow.
what’s the tropical sativa looking plant with those beautiful sparse calyxes?
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Thanks!
The plant in question is a Dark Spark from @Mr.Sparkle , it’s not a common mutation but has some interesting qualities.
We have a recent discussion about this trait here:
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Your doing great for a small home made LED light grow. I wonder how mine would do in flower, under the ones I use for vegging. I got mine from the dollar store and crappy tire when they had some on sale last year. I got 36 of 5000K and 3000k 12 watt bulbs.
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Plenty of discussions here about SIL (screw in lights) efficiency. My recent run is a poor example, but I tend to pull out about 1.5gpw out of these lights which is comparable to higher end LED setups, so for a budget light rig its hands down the best option.
I use 9w bulbs, as I find the higher wattage ones put out a little too much light/heat for the density i like to run them at.
I used to be large scale, HPS, expensive nutrients, gallons and gallons of water and medium.
My ROI was just not there. I sold or repurposed all my large scale indoor gear and downsized everything to a microgrow scale. Allowed me more control of my grow and also gave me more tine with each plant individually. Both of my cabinets combined cost less than $50 per run, electricity/food/medium included. The cabinets themselves including electronics and lights cost less than $200 each. This is an extremely low budget setup lol.
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Yeh that’s my kind of style lol.
Mr Low Budget is my second name 
The dollar store is my favourite shop. Everything I do is because I didn’t want to have to pay someone else, to do, or produce it for me. I have always been soil and organic.
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Oh Dollarama is a god send haha
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This is my end goal. I plan on running my spectrum king for a few more runs and sell it off to have a badboy microgrow I’m looking into going how @Palindrome is running his two cabinets but probably on a smaller scale though as my house isn’t that big and I no longer have a garage 
I am also curious as well @Shadey it’s interesting to see how even low cost LED house bulbs are doing pretty well to get what look like nice dense buds. It’s all inspiring work @TrevorLahey so keep it up bud 
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Gotta say, if I were to build ground up with a bigger budget I’d be looking at @Palindrome 's system as it’s the best way (IMO) to get a good turnaround time growing photoperiod plants.
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Are those in the starter pots? 
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They’re in 7gal pots now. Funny thing, they were in small 4" pots up until a week or so ago lol
Not sure if I’ll have to up pot them again, as I want some trees but trees have a hard time finishing in my climate.
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