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If I remember right you are growing in a 2x8x11 closet. If you get this one, it has a dimmer on it. If you have a smartphone download a free app called Phontone from your app store, it works as a par meter so you can adjust the intensity of the light. If you plan on growing in a closet you need to figure out how to get airflow circulation and a way to get the heat and humidity out.
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I see there is a $50 off coupon. I would buy the higher wattage. Its better to have more light if you need it. And since it can be dimmed id get that one. The one you have picked will work ok. Not great but should work.
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Great light but id recommend something more suited for a 2x6 or whatever room as the sq ft of this light will shadow some spots for you
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I do not have any experience with the light you showed us, but I’ve personally been using this Lazerlite 720W LED-valaisin | Täyden Spektrin Kasvatusvalo – Cropper for a while, and it’s been working great.
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Welcome to the forum! Well the light has decent features. I am curious though as to why they do not mention anything about a controller. You can see the driver/ballast has connectors for a controller and if you look at the knob there is an “ext” setting. When you have a controller hooked up to this light you turn that knob to ext or external control and you can set different parameters in the controller and also have it timed through the controller to turn on and off? There definitions of the led type and colors are kinda vague? White and red ok. No real mention of the type of led chips or what manufacturer made them? Nothing about far reds in the led spectrum? Just white and red. You really want both red and far red. It simulates the end of the growing season a lot better than just reds. Id do some more reasearch on other lights. Any other lights your considering?? Post more links so we can see what you have picked out. Lights are important and being cheap does not work so keep looking and posting here so we can help you get a good quality light and save money. And welcome to the forum again! Oh and where are you from? @aadenc0108
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I ended up buying this light, and have another of the same on the way. My plants seem quite happy. Have been somewhat stinky for about a week now
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I am from arkansas
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Here are my plants now, the larger ones are autoflower and are about a week ahead of the smaller ones
Also, I think it was yesterday, I noticed some yellow spotting on my leaves, I think I had been overwatering. Here is the spotting
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Looks like a nutrient burn from something sprayed or dripped on the leafs. Just watch the new growth for issues.
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How are they looking this new year?
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What are those small plants on? Is that a book covered in saran wrap? I like to use shelf liner and just 1/2" particle board for quick shelf builds. Then i set those up on bricks for easy height adjusting.
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Those got transplanted to coir in fabric pots. But it was a small metal grate with cardboard and plastic wrap lol
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Well, the autos woke up on the wrong side of the bed for the first time, very droopy and soil was dry as I am trying to figure when to water. The autos and seedling got water today.
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Gosh I wish I don’t rush into this lol.
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Your plants are fine, but you need to water through though, coco is very forgiving and drains well, and also holds water well, but does it with good aeration. You look like you have your nutes dialed in just fine. Water those pots until you get runoff put something under them to catch the water. If you let the pots get too dry the coco will allow the water to run through without really getting moist through and through.
What I do when I let them get too dry is to put about half the water in slowly, then leave them sit for around 2-4 hours, then water again until you get water running out of the bottom of the fabric pot. Once you get dry pockets it is hard to get rid of them. Water through and then don’t water for a few days and water through again until runoff. This helps to get oxygen into the bottom of the pot where it stays the most moist. And of course the smaller the pot, and the bigger the plant, the quicker it will go dry. You can purchase surfactants that will help re-wet your medium should you get dry pockets. Be sure they are for wetting plant soil.
But also be very careful of overwatering, and over fertilizing. Those are the two most common mistakes new growers make.
Your doing fine, and no harm done yet.
Marty
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The droopy plants are in soil not coir
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Couldn’t see the soil for the leaves lol…but no matter it’s still too dry.
Marty
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Yes this is why i dont use coco any longer. It dries very rapidly and root prunes and get dry pockets and have to add call mag to it a lot. This is another reason i don’t use fabric pots either. The dry to fast and im gone for 12hrs so i use the plastic potting bags for moisture evaporation control. Little things like that make my grows simpler and i always try and grow k.i.s.s style…keep it stupid simple. The more things in the equation, the more things can go wrong.
I always do this
- New grow cup/then a new grow bag every grow
- Fresh promix.
Basically clean new everything everytime i grow. Fresh sterile and always the same way.
I like tupur but too expensive. I prefer promix-hp its like coco and soil. Then i amend that with my mix additives i like to use.
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And this might sound strange, but a LONG time ago there was a guy that made a little grow chamber, can’t remember the name of it, but it had three U shaped Phillips florescent bulbs in it. It also used pure Sphagnum moss, not the peat part the dried living sphagnum top plant part. Extremely fluffy and held water super well. It had a set of watering tubes, and operated somewhat like the Autopots, but without any air stone, valve or air pump involved. Along the lines of a wicking type setup, like an autopot without the valve or injected air, it was about 3 ft tall and there were three panels you could open but they were mirrored so it was light proof. I never was able to get anything worth a damn out of it, but it was like Promix, just pure Sphagnum moss as a medium. Promix is the finely ground top part of Sphagnum peat moss mixed with pearlite.
I used to sit there for hours with a pair of scissors and finely chop up pure Sphagnum moss and then mix it with pearlite to make my own medium, this was the days long before you could walk in and get good grow medium. And coco never passed anyone’s lips as a grow medium. I still have several boxes of Sphagnum moss in it’s natural form long stringy fluffy tendrils. It got really expensive so I stopped buying it. It is used for exotic plants like air plants and orchids etc.
I’m just musing about some of the stuff us old timers went through before this all became so available to buy. No Amazon, no fancy nutes, no PH meters used, it was a wonder we were able to grow anything and keep it alive till harvest lol.
Marty
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