I received my review and testing package in the mail today - 3 business days after confirming my mailing address and paying a couple bucks to broker the package across the border from Grower’s House headquarters in Arizona to me in central Canada. Everything was packaged nicely and arrived in great condition.
The remote ballast is chunky and simple - mount it outside the tent (the included power cord has some decent length) and plug it into your timer and it’s ready to go.
The Sun Systems reflector is light and solid. The bulb holder is mounted tight, the power cord is probably the highest quality I’ve seen on a light fixture - super thick and very flexible - and has more than enough length to accommodate mounting in any tent.
The Philips 930 Elite Agro bulb is a great full spectrum, full cycle bulb. I expect it to perform well. I did, however, notice that the external glass shield which surrounds the inner bulb is loose and has some play to it and can be felt moving. I’m not sure if this is standard for the shield on CMH bulbs. If anyone knows for sure, please chime in and let me know.
I’ve got the fixture hung over my plants in veg right now, covering about a 3’x3’ space. The fixture is happily throwing out 300 - 400 micromoles across the canopy at a distance of 24".
I received my review and testing package in the mail today - 3 business days after confirming my mailing address and paying a couple bucks to broker the package across the border from Grower’s House headquarters in Arizona to me in central Canada. Everything was packaged nicely and arrived in great condition.
The remote ballast is chunky and simple - mount it outside the tent (the included power cord has some decent length) and plug it into your timer and it’s ready to go.
The Sun Systems reflector is light and solid. The bulb holder is mounted tight, the power cord is probably the highest quality I’ve seen on a light fixture - super thick and very flexible - and has more than enough length to accommodate mounting in any tent.
The Philips 930 Elite Agro bulb is a great full spectrum, full cycle bulb. I expect it to perform well. I did, however, notice that the external glass shield which surrounds the inner bulb is loose and has some play to it and can be felt moving. I’m not sure if this is standard for the shield on CMH bulbs. If anyone knows for sure, please chime in and let me know.
I’ve got the fixture hung over my plants in veg right now, covering about a 3’x3’ space. The fixture is happily throwing out 300 - 400 micromoles across the canopy at a distance of 24".
https://youtu.be/AjkEJjlzGv8 here’s a nice, quick way for Android users to get a rough idea of the PPFD your lights are putting out without spending $500+ on a good quality quantum meter.
This one has a lot of leaf curl. Still trying to figure out if I can account for it by changing its feeding. It might just be genetically curly - part of the fun of popping new seeds.
Notice how the sets of leaves alternate direction? Sets 1 and 3 have the branches growing out to the sides of the main branch, while set 2 will send a branch growing towards the center of the plant.
This is what I do want. Red is the growth direction from the topping I did previously, orange is where I want my new tops to be after the second topping, and blue will be the final tops if I decide to top the plants 3 times.
This should build a nice, uniform plant with a full canopy.
Light is still at the same height and working wonderfully. Tent temperature is still way lower than with my 600w LED, which is great in veg. If I was in a 3x3, this light would be perfect to take me full cycle.
Thanks! I’m going to put together an update this weekend. Weeks’ been crazy! I transplanted the Solo Cup plant into a 1 gallon pot like all the rest. Been running into a consistent calcium deficiency that none of the other plants were seeing which I think has to do with the cup not being able hold enough nutrient solution. These girls are hungry!
Going through a growth spurt I’m sure they are starving… I’m sure you you have just the thing to bring up the calcium do you think that calmg from general Organics would be good if I had the same problem?
Any CalMag supplement will do. I use a 3 part dry fertilizer that has part B as pure calcium nitrate, so I mixed up a 1000ppm solution of that and have been spraying them twice daily to get them to bounce back. Also adjust my reservoir to bump up the calcium. Hopefully the problem is handled.
Haha, or maybe this is just what I get for running 4 new plants at the same time.
… They’re looking really pretty
do you think that calmg from general Organics would be good if I had the same problem?
