First stealth dresser grow

The other thing is that you may have a lot of blue which helps contribute to the short bushy growth in veg. Might want a lil more red [specifically deep red] for flowering.

I was planning on that when I actually flower. I will replace all blue with 2700k

HybridSteve-0 said:

I was planning on that when I actually flower. I will replace all blue with 2700k

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word.....didn't mean you have to replace it all. I like a little blue in flower, should be there imho 2700k doesn't get it all....I flower with an all white spectrum too, but it is more like this 2:4:5 5000k:3000k:2700k

I'll have to try that out next time.... are the benefits of this way better and how? I'm quite interested lol

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Thanks for the replies, I appreciate it I just made a new cfl hood and heres the updated pics that were supposed to upload last night lol

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Looking good bro

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I'll have to try that out next time.... are the benefits of this way better and how? I'm quite interested lol

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Are you sure you have never grown before ? Lol keep up the good work . :-$

Never lol I can't even keep grass growing in my yard lol thanks for the support

nice bush man keep it up

Nice grow man check out my bag seed micro op. These two r 10 days in veg from seed. Organic mg moisture control medium under my 250hps which is a little intense for them. Anyways only gave them water so far. Gonna do a feeding in bout 5 days. They will get BC boost And BC grow and a shot of thrive alive b-1 and a shot of magical.

I don't know what strains they r but I only grow bag seed . These particular ones at only ten days old smell like skunks having sex in a gasoline jacuzzi

Heard that lol they're looking happy... I'm starting on a bigger and better grow cab out of an armoir tomorrow. I'll be starting a new thread every one please check it out and give me all the feed back you'd like to. Thanks to all that have been supporting me #Grow long, Grow strong

Ill definitely be following your grow those are some beauties yahoo got going on man

Thank you... thank you very much

HybridSteve-0 said:

I'll have to try that out next time.... are the benefits of this way better and how? I'm quite interested lol

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Do have a day to read?

In short

Ideally it is nice to have 15-20% of blue in flower. The 2700k warm whites do have small peak in blue, but maybe only 5-10%.

A good tradeoff recently has been using 3500k and 3000k ww spectrums which have anywhere from 15-25% blue wavelengths usually in the 430-470nm range. 6500k and 5000k cfls both use these as dominant wavelengths.

Usually people in the LED world add 450nm deep blues and 630,660 and 670nm's to the white spectrums to achieve a sort of "full spectrum", we are tricking the plant after all, not trying to replicate the sun.

Why do we even care about specific wavelengths. i.e. nanometers [nm]?

well because we are trying to mimic photosynthesis and enhance chlorophyll production throughout the grow cycle. Notice where the area of both sides of the peaks for Chloro A and B are, one side is between 430-470nm and the other is between 630-700nm.
This is also the chart for PAR, photosynthetically active radiation.



This has caused a shit storm of cheap LEd lights however, because people are focusing only on red and blue and typically forget the rest inbetween. Enter white's, which typically have a fuller spectrum encompassing a larger portion of the PAR spectrum [which is also the diagram]...

Green is a bastard child and white cfl's and led's, both have moderate amounts. Green will penetrate up to 50% of the amount of light under heavy light concentrations [think large bottom buds], and is not generally adsorbed by the very top structures of the plant.

So....adding a touch of a bluer white cfl [15% of overall wattage for shit n' giggle] added to your ww cfl's should really help increase plant growth and at least health.

Told yah...its a bit much

Very informative my man. Yet keep in mind that simplicity is the key. Imo I've found it absolutely annoying trying to achieve optimum conditions. After all how well can we actually mimic what the power of a star does to these plants you can try if you want though peace and happy growing.

heavyset said:

Very informative my man. Yet keep in mind that simplicity is the key. Imo I've found it absolutely annoying trying to achieve optimum conditions. After all how well can we actually mimic what the power of a star does to these plants you can try if you want though peace and happy growing.

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You are correct, we are actually trying to trick the plant into thinking that we are mimicing a full spectrum so that the plant will photosynthesize. Copying the sun is hard, fully agree.
But after many moons of reading and catching up, I feel like this might be a step in the right direction, might
To me lighting is also about quality of medicine, not just quantity and tweaking of the light spectrum has really just begun.

Take all this with a grain of salt as lighting can be opinionated, I fully realize, but I haven't even scratched the surface. We haven't even talked intensity of wavelength. I only covered the spectrum vaguely to get people asking questions or doing their research.

Whether you grow in a 100w cab to a 10x10 room.

Sorry bro if I offended you I felt your knowledge was very well stated. I agree growers should have some basic understanding on the different light spectrums and the way that they effect cannabis growth. No harm my friend.

I wish they would legalize so that we could all do team grows and become more one with the synthesis. Thank God for people like you who care to inform and the technology that allows us to communicate with one another.Grow on brother peace and love.

Here she goes again I'm thinking sativa dominant. 14 days in veg from seed 250hps organic.

@heavyset no worries bruddah! just here to share and learn like the rest! @Teamgrow

@HybridSteve-0 looking forward to Round 2 !