Recently upgraded to Sun Systems LEC 315 Ceramic Metal Halide HID grow light. I've got a small short grow on, 3x3 scrog. Two strains, Barney Farm's Pineapple Chunk and DP Brainstorm. Photos. They vegged for 3 months (45 inches or so) next to a Dinafem Blue Kush Auto that dropped 5 zs, 1x3 scrog, 24/0 the whole way. Ordered my light from a local distributor and turned my plants sideways during transplant to lay under my screen. From a 3 to a 5 gallon dirtpot. It was on the west coast, Washington State, and shipping was truck freight because it was on a pallet. So two week wait for the light, when I was expecting just a few days, global economy and all that. But two weeks more veg for everything under the screen to turn up to the light anyway, lotsa tucking and plucking. Went 11.5 on, 12.5 off and the first pistils popped April 1 two days later on the storm, and one more day for the chunk. My light came in two weeks to the minute and it was hanging that night, which was two days after the chunk popped. So that's what I'm working with. No comparisons unless someone else jumps in. These have been out a short while and there's not much out there, but what little is is pretty positive. So hopefully this will be a good place to reel it all in. 3 days have gone by and those few scraggly pistils are little white spiky balls now, almost fluffy, but not just quite. Maybe in the morning.
I'm a pretty mad gardener in the yard. 30 hibiscus and a dozen hydrangea, another dozen clematis. But I'm new to indoor and cannabis and for witw posting in forums. lol. Would love to see some interest, I think some good points can be raised, because face it, alternative technologies are not just competitive, but are even outpacing HPS setups. Probably most true for the small grower like myself, 1-6 plants.
I'm sure I'm like everyone else and has read and looked up all kinds of light info. Next post I'd like to talk about the reasons why I chose this light, which is a bit of a mashup of all that reading.
BTW I paid $500 total for the light and picked it up at the store. I had ratchet hangers but if you don't, you will, not included. Thanks guys at Boyer Indoor Gardening for your help. Appreciated. And I need to learn how to start an album to post pics. Gotta move that up the list. Smoke em if you got em.
I'm a pretty mad gardener in the yard. 30 hibiscus and a dozen hydrangea, another dozen clematis. But I'm new to indoor and cannabis and for witw posting in forums. lol. Would love to see some interest, I think some good points can be raised, because face it, alternative technologies are not just competitive, but are even outpacing HPS setups. Probably most true for the small grower like myself, 1-6 plants.
I'm sure I'm like everyone else and has read and looked up all kinds of light info. Next post I'd like to talk about the reasons why I chose this light, which is a bit of a mashup of all that reading.
BTW I paid $500 total for the light and picked it up at the store. I had ratchet hangers but if you don't, you will, not included. Thanks guys at Boyer Indoor Gardening for your help. Appreciated. And I need to learn how to start an album to post pics. Gotta move that up the list. Smoke em if you got em.
