Indoor 1812 citizen COB grow

[Free Flow]

I'm surprised you feel the Cobs don't have the power you're looking for. I feel exactly the opposite, I mean I used to grow with 1k hids and honestly nothing can beat that but I feel like my cobs are way more efficient and just as powerful using less power draw

 

[fatcalvin]

So I think they do have good power now that I have 3 on one of the drivers. I feel though with the 3x3 space I have I'd need to run 3 drivers at 185w each which would save me about 45w an hour. With that the light spread is not the best and I feel like I could (and have) get more out of my 600w hid in the same area. I do like the low heat of the cobs. I feel like personally that a high cob count with a low drive current is probably the best option but the cost of the cob and heatsink would negate the option of running that type of set up. Idk though maybe I'm doing something wrong but I can look at my mother plant and look at my sog and see a major difference in size.

 

[fatcalvin]

So the issue I had was because of having 4 cobs per driver. With the led in the middle and only having 6 cobs going I can see the buds under the cobs tightening up. I will probably get 1 more cob and driver and run 9 over the 3x3. I think that would be good for lighting it. Although it will only be slightly less then the wattage of my 600 I feel like it could produce good quality bud. I will get some pics this weekend of everything.

 

[fatcalvin]

Well I got some pics. I can tell the difference in the density of the tops now that I reduced the cob count. They are very close to being on par with what I was running with the 600w. I think if I would have started out with them the way I have now it would be pretty close to what they should be. Anyways here are some pics of all the girls. They have about 2-3 weeks left I feel.

 

[fatcalvin]

So I was looking over my big girl and I saw a couple of the tops had bananas. What would cause just a few of the tops to hermi but not the whole plant? I'm thinking either light stress or there was a few times when the bucket got low on water so maybe stress from that. I cut the bananas off and going to finish them out

 

[fatcalvin]

Sometimes things don't stick out to you like they should. Today I realized that my water cooler has a RED led display right on the front....... which could be the reason for my plants that hermi'd. But it's weird because it is closer to my flood tray than my mother plant. Sometimes it's the little things that get you. And I know better because I've taped up all my lights on my fan and my dehumidifier.

 

[fatcalvin]

Everything still looking good. Some of the buds are getting so big they are starting to fall over. Going to hit them with a ripening feed today and start my flush this weekend. Probably will flush for about 7 days.

 

[fatcalvin]

Did a flush today on everything. Going to chop this weekend. It will be 10 weeks of flower. There is some amber so this last week should put them right where I want them to be. Will get some pics for sure.

 

[BigSm0]

How’d you make out with the plants sex change? Hopefully no seeds

 

[fatcalvin]

Not sure yet. I don't see any.