Recent content by mechanicritter

Have you found any cbd seedbanks in the US that take bit coin? That seems a lot safer than cc or mailing cash.

Christmas Harvest time! These little led's managed to keep the plant growing long enough to ripen a dozen or so peppers! The clone of the same plant I just put in a window still has very small light green peppers, so the full spectrum LEDs did speed up the ripening by at least a couple weeks...

That setup is producing some fantastic looking plants! Do you think basil would do that well under LED lights? (I have a 100w cool white and a handfull of 5w full spectrums I was thinking of trying on some purple italian basil.)

At almost 1 month of LED light the paprika peppers are ripening nicely and it even has a few new leaves and flower buds appearing. I should have 6 or 7 edible paprika's soon, and 2 that are hollow and hopefully full of seeds. The little habanero is growing slowly under the leds, but the new...

They are doing good so far. The two 5watters per light stay at about 120f now, and have not had any problems in almost a month of being on. Surprising for a buck each.

Nice, mine are too. They get about 12 hours of led light plus daylight. That's just a guess though, is there a light schedule for perpetual peppering?

It looks like these little lights might actually be having an effect. Warning! May ripen fruit slightly faster than daylight.

That's awesome. "Lets DO this", with a side of pineapple!

That's a nice looking way to mount it. It looks like it should work great for those little guys with all that reflected light in the corner. Another pepper saved!

I got some good seeds a few years back from the New Mexico Chili Pepper Institute. https://chile.nmsu.edu/seeds Their Numex Jalapeno and Jalamundo both grew huge, and the numex sweet peppers were super tasty.

There are some awesome piles of peppers in here! Here are my two late bloomers, a hungarian paprika and a white habanero. I had to bring them inside because its freezing. Threw together a couple leds for them, and am waiting to see how well the lights work. So far so good, harvested a paprika...

An update on the heat these LEDs put out. The 2 5watters keep the top of the bolt at about 150f, and the rest nice and warm. I am adding a couple washers to try to dissipate more heat. I made a second light with more surface area for a test, and it is running about 20f cooler. This second...

Thanks, I used some butcher block remnants since they polish up nice and you can drill\tap them like metal. Since these tiny 5w LEDs came out, I figured I might be able to make a small light for each plant that might actually do some good and not look too crazy for the living room. I have not...

I just finished a project some of you might find interesting, I decided to test out some of the new higher power bead LEDs by making a little lamp for one of my pepper plants. It is starting to freeze and this thing still has flowers on it, so I brought it inside. I am assuming december sunlight...

VPN's should be standard security measures like firewalls by now. Without one there are multiple companies watching everything that hits your IP, and your isp can even inject ads and popups now...