300w Viparspectra LED 2x3' tent grow in soil

Olive Drab Green said:

The only thing he's expressing is that the Tasty is legitimately more efficient. For 78w at the wall, it puts out, as I said, 60 more micromols at 24" with slightly smaller window than the 450w, which uses about 206w at the wall. So, your choices are, either pay 60 extra dollars for a COB build that will use less energy over time for more upfront money, or pay less up front for something that's still efficient but is a little over twice as less efficient, and slightly less powerful. That's obviously up to the hobby horticulturist in question.

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73T_M3_!N_M@$T3R_W00 said:

I'm running the ViparSpectra 600, have had it since August. Using it for pretty much full cycle, only other lighting used was cfl for early veg. This is 3 of 4 surviving plants, he was the youngest and weakest of them all, oh and he was the only male. Flipped lights on the Nov 13 in the morning, cycle on is at night. Small plants pic was taken Oct 28, the next was yesterday.

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73T_M3_!N_M@$T3R_W00 said:

Just an update on my ViparSpectra 600 grow is my 4th grow ever. I am growing the same strain as my first grow, I call it Enigma because its effects are different every time one smokes it, a quick background. My first grow I yielded 14 grams from one Enigma plant with 2 68W CFL's, but I made many mistakes. My second grow was all males, so I pollen collected from the afghani and C99 males I had growing at the time. My third grow was under a cfl array I made but only pulled an ounce from them, they had pest issues and heat issues almost whole growth. this grow has been virtually issue free, and I converted from cfl to led. I am definitely noticing the power of led. With led I believe a Scrog is still the best approach.

So we are now at day 26 of 12\12 and these Enigma's all have definitive differences. The front plant on the left smells like a sweet berry, the plant on the back left smells like a sweet citrus berry, and the last plant on the back right smells like dirt and pepper. All three plants are already very frosty and sticky.

I would like to see how your plants are coming along Customcare.

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Customcare8255 said:

Thsnks for the interest! Your plants look gorgeous 73T. Im currently at day 50 or so of flower. Shes ripening quickly but I'm not sure if the amount of yellowing is normal. I just cut her feeding a week ago and she looked great until then. I'm thinking normal ripening of the flowers but idk. Let me know what you guys think. First pic from 12/11, 2nd & 3rd pic from 12/15.

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73T_M3_!N_M@$T3R_W00 said:

I'm assuming you have been flushing for a week, and with my limited knowledge it is my understanding that the yellowing is a apart of the flushing period where the plant starts to use up its reserve nutes and move the mobile nutrients from the fan leaves into the newer growth. The movement from the fan leaves to the new growth is what causes the yellowing I believe.

Just an observation, but based on the dates of your photos and posts, isn't your plants at day 41 of 12/12. I would think you could potentially be flushing to soon as I notice that your plant seems to still be producing a bunch of white hairs and it doesn't seem to have fattened up yet. I generally start flushing around day 60. That doesn't mean that I'm right though.

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73T_M3_!N_M@$T3R_W00 said:

So I'm on day 47 of 12/12 my girls haven't produced new pistil's in almost a week. Looking at them through a jewelers scope I have found something beautiful. The stalks on the trichs are beginning to turn purple. I started flushing mine yesterday. They are almost finished I have some decent ambering but was not gonna post pics of that since the purple trichs pics were such a pain to take.

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Customcare8255 said:

Good stuff! Looks like they're coming along nicely

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73T_M3_!N_M@$T3R_W00 said:

Custom, How did your girl turn out? I was looking at my girls yesterday and saw the top almost non existent new growth spots putting out bananas, so I culled them, day 56 12/12, not sure about the amount but they are some heavy wet buds, and dense as shit, once they dry out I'll get a weight per plant, and a total.
I hope your girl performed well.

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Customcare8255 said:

Hey everyone, thanks for the interest! Especially 73T, sorry about the late update.

I ended up with just over 3 ounces dried when I cut her down. Just one of the colas was 14gr dried. Awesome producing plant. Plus or minus she flowered for about nine weeks and everything turned out amazing. Even the flarf! Super sweet and fruity. I have another project going on but haven't been taking too many pics just because I've been so busy lately.

Keep the posts up for all the LED non believers! These threads help alot of people who are just starting out. Ill be posting on the four ladies I have going when I flip them to flower.

Talk to you all soon!

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BM9AGS said:

Ahh right. After all of that justification you've never finished flower with them. Well they're not expensive at least.

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Customcare8255 said:

Hey everyone, thanks for the interest! Especially 73T, sorry about the late update.

I ended up with just over 3 ounces dried when I cut her down. Just one of the colas was 14gr dried. Awesome producing plant. Plus or minus she flowered for about nine weeks and everything turned out amazing. Even the flarf! Super sweet and fruity. I have another project going on but haven't been taking too many pics just because I've been so busy lately.

Keep the posts up for all the LED non believers! These threads help alot of people who are just starting out. Ill be posting on the four ladies I have going when I flip them to flower.

Talk to you all soon!

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