600w mars hydro 192x3 first led grow

TheChemist77

TheChemist77

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hey odysseygrower, just found this thred and read up, nice grow.. i had asked on other threads about the mars led's and was told they are cheap crap,,and u get what u pay for....ur grow looks very good and im impressed on the mars led.. anyways can u give me a link to the mars light u have from amazon? i just switched ovewr from hps/mh to the new ceramic discharge lighting after 20+ years under hps/mh and im happy with the change so far.. i wanted to try led but as i said i was told the mars was crap and didnt want to spend a thousand dollars to cover a 4x4 grow...
ended up spending a thousand on 2 315 watt cdl's to cover a 4x6ft flood table,,but id like to try an led still,,im just kind of wearry with led as the tech is always improving and im scared the led i buy will be outdated in a year...also it seams watt per watt u need a 600 watt led or 600 watt hid to cover a 4x4 area so were is the electrical savings? are these guys in the led threds blowing smoke up my a$$?? seems your doing just fine with that mars led, and covering a 3ft square area correct? are u using any other light with it or just the led?? anyways good job,,grow well,,and good will
 
OdysseyGrower

OdysseyGrower

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TheChemist77 said:
hey odysseygrower, just found this thred and read up, nice grow.. i had asked on other threads about the mars led's and was told they are cheap crap,,and u get what u pay for....ur grow looks very good and im impressed on the mars led.. anyways can u give me a link to the mars light u have from amazon? i just switched ovewr from hps/mh to the new ceramic discharge lighting after 20+ years under hps/mh and im happy with the change so far.. i wanted to try led but as i said i was told the mars was crap and didnt want to spend a thousand dollars to cover a 4x4 grow...
ended up spending a thousand on 2 315 watt cdl's to cover a 4x6ft flood table,,but id like to try an led still,,im just kind of wearry with led as the tech is always improving and im scared the led i buy will be outdated in a year...also it seams watt per watt u need a 600 watt led or 600 watt hid to cover a 4x4 area so were is the electrical savings? are these guys in the led threds blowing smoke up my a$$?? seems your doing just fine with that mars led, and covering a 3ft square area correct? are u using any other light with it or just the led?? anyways good job,,grow well,,and good will
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It's pretty much a 4x4 scrog I'm covering with the light. It draws 370watts with both switches on at 110v even less at 220v
Veg is less power with only 1 switch on
Just because it rated at 600w the power consumption is much lower

I've not had any problems or burnt out LEDs in two veg and flower cycles. Seems well made to me.

Just my 2 cents peace
 
OdysseyGrower

OdysseyGrower

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Well I had a lot of problems with fox farm soil.
gave my clones caterpillars and some type of burn that stunned them bad and they looked like crap....water only feeding.
I'm not really sure what happened, but I will not use them again. that's for sure.:finger:

here is the StarBud all sickly from the fox farm soil. 8/22



So I ended up buying Roots Organic soil and did a 50/50mix with a coco coir 70/30 perlite mix.
Transplanted to 7gal pot. I rinsed most of the old fox farm soil away.
Vegged two weeks or so, to recover the plant. no nutes, just water and nutes from the organic soil.

I gotta say this soil/coco mix is awesome. healed my plant up great.
I'm now flowering and on my normal feeding cycle as posted before.

this is 9/22 day 11 flower




this is 9/28 day 18 flower



I also grew some blue oyster mushrooms from my Co2 boxes.



used vermiculite and coco coir substrate mix Vermic70/Coco30 and re colonized the bags and taped closed. free co2 to re use now.

about it so far. back on track.:leaf:
 
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OdysseyGrower

OdysseyGrower

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well I got some Candyland og at the rec shop here in WA and got 2 seeds in my 1/4oz


sativa dom platinum gsc and gdp cross. gonna try them out already cracked open and in rock wool for now.
 
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