Mars Hydro Mars Hydro SP3000 Grow/Review by The Mugwamp

SP 3000 Week 2
  • Update 2

    One week later and I'm pleased to say, everyone is looking happy, healthy and growing nicely :yay:
    I have to say, I do like the dimmer control on the SP3000 :thumbsup: my TSW 2000 was the older dimmable version, which you had to use a screwdriver and insert it into each of the two drivers to dim. Which was a right pain in the arse, especially as I had the drivers on top of tent, so I never had it dimmed once. This dimmer is so much easier :smoking:

    This grow is mainly Photoperiod, so I need the two Seedstockers Wedding Glue Auto Solocup girls to get a bit of a wriggle on. I was hoping they'd be close to finished by the time I have to switch light cycle, we shall see.
    The other two Solocup girls (SSSC Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush) I'm not too worried about how they'll turn out, I am interested to see how they finish when I do switch to 12/12 though :shrug:
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    Seedstockers
    Wedding Glue Auto - Solo Cups
    Day 48
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    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush - Solo Cups
    Day 13
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    Discreet Seeds
    Mac #1
    Day 12
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    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Strawberry Cookies and Black Lebanon
    Day 9
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    That's the boring first week and a bit done :woohoo1:we should see the photo girls start to take off over the next week or so, fingers crossed :rofl:
    So till the next time :pass:
     
    SP 3000 Week 3
  • Update 3
    Week 3
    All looking healthy and still growing nicely :yay: and so far, I'm very impressed with the SP3000 :clapper:
    They seem to be growing stronger and quicker than the TSW 2000 managed for the same amount of time, so that bodes well. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens when the photo girls start flowering, I'm expecting good things there :toke:

    Auto's (all in Solo Cups)

    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush
    Day 21
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    Seedstockers
    Wedding Glue Auto
    Day 55
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    Photo's

    Discreet Seeds
    Mac #1
    Day 19
    All the photo girls will be main lined, of sorts. Topped once and all lower growth removed, leaving just the top node. Then once they have grown 4 nodes, top again and remove the 2nd nodes growth. So left with 4 shoots on each side, which will turn into 8 symmetrical colas when tied down.
    This one I did a few days before the two Super Sativa girls, forgot to get a before pic.
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    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Strawberry Cookies and Black Lebanon
    Day 15

    Before Topping
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    After
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    So for now, all is going to plan :woohoo1: till the next time, have fun and grow big :pass:
     
    SP3000 Week 4
  • SP3000
    Update 4
    Week 4
    All going well so far :headbang: one of my Solo Cup girls is looking a little worse for wear, but it's a Solo Cup, they can be finicky f****** at times :rofl:
    The three photoperiods are the main goal here and so far they seem to be enjoying life under the SP3000 :yay: they have all been topped for the last time, and I'm debating tieing all the new shoots down. I have tied them down the only two times I've tried (mainlining, of sorts) but I end up snapping more than I'd like to admit :crying: so I may just let them find there way by themselves, it'll be safer.

    Photoperiods

    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Black Lebanon
    Day25
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    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Strawberry Cookies
    Day 25
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    Discreet Seeds
    Mac #1
    Day 29
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    Autoflowers

    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush
    Day 28
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    Seedstockers
    Wedding Glue Auto's
    Day 65
    Not as happy as she should be :shrug: I stuck the rougher one in a slightly bigger pot yesterday and gave her a good flush with plain Ph'd water. It's probably a day late and a dollar short with that, but you never know, every little helps :toke: we'll see.
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    That's about it for now, so till the next time, have fun and grow em big :pass:
     
    SP3000 Week 5
  • SP3000
    Update 5
    Week 5
    So far everything is going to plan :headbang: the 3 photo girls had their final topping last week and I tied down all the new shoots 2 days ago. I'm going to give them another couple of days, then switch to 12/12 :thumbsup: not sure how bad it's going to affect the 4 Auto's, but 2 of them are nearly done now anyway, and the other 2 seem to be in a hurry and flowering already, thankfully.

    Photoperiods

    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Black Lebanon (left) and Strawberry Cookies (right)
    Day 30
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    Discreet Seeds
    Mac #1
    Day 34
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    Autoflowers

    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush (Solo Cup Grow)
    Day 35
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    Seedstockers
    Wedding Glue Auto's
    Day 70
    I decided to stick the taller of the two Wedding Glue's into a small plastic pot, as she was looking rougher than a badger's nadger :crying: the 2nd one is in the Seedstockers Solo Cup Comp,, so I had to leave her where she is.
    Solo Cup Girl
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    The other abomination :rofl:
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    So till the next episode, Stay Safe and Grow Big :hookah:
     
    SP 3000 Week 6
  • Sp 3000
    Update 6
    Week 6
    Only change this week was I switched light from 20/4, to 12/12 :yoinks: that was five days ago now and so far, they are all looking pretty healthy still :yay:
    The two Seedstockers Wedding Glue Auto's are pretty much done. They've been on plain tap water for a few days now, so they'll be coming down any day now :thumbsup:
    Autoflowers

    Seedstockers
    Wedding Glue Auto
    Day 78
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    The Wedding Glue I put in the little pot a couple of weeks ago is looking a little, let's say, different :crying:
    I'll probably just make some bubble hash out of this one.
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    The other two Solo Cup girls, SSSC Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush, are getting there. Probably the best looking Solo Cups I've do done :yay: hopefully they finish as well as they started, but being on 12/12 from now on, we shall see on that :toke:

    SSSC
    Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush
    Day 40 ish
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    Photoperiod

    Discreet Seeds
    Mac #1
    Day 41
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    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Black Lebanon
    Day 38
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    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Strawberry Cookies
    Day 38
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    SP 3000 week 7
  • SP 3000
    Update 7
    Week 7
    First two are done, literally :crying: the two Seedstockers Wedding Glue Auto's came down a few days ago at day 82. Not the best looking plants, but for a Solo Cup, not too bad. The 2nd one lost the plot after I put her in that small plastic pot, but hey, you can't win em all.

    Seedstockers
    Wedding Glue Auto
    Day 82
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    The other two Solo Cups, the Super Sativa Seed Club -Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush, are still going strong. Could be a couple of crackers, fingers crossed :headbang:

    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush
    Day 51
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    The three photoperiods are looking pretty good, they have been under 12/12 for two weeks now and the first pre flowers have just made an appearance :thumbsup:
    The Super Sativa Seed Club - Black Lebanon has really stretched :yoinks: she's around 4in off 4ft now and I'm really hoping she's stopped stretching now.

    Super Sativa Seed Club
    Strawberry Cookies and Black Lebanon
    Day 46
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    Discreet Seeds
    Mac #1
    Day 50
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    SP 3000, Week 7
  • Update 7
    Week 7
    Week 3 of Flower
    Well, as usual not all going completely to plan :shrug:The Black Lebanon has stretched far too much for my liking, as of yesterday she was standing a little over 4½ ft :yoinks: so many bud sites though :thumbsup:
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    Black Lebanon Fem
    Day 53
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    The other SSSC girl, Strawberry Cookies is at the other end of the spectrum. She is standing a little over 2ft, so a slight difference between them :shrug:
    SSSC
    Strawberry Cookies
    Day 53
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    The third photo girl, Discreet Seeds Mac #1, is at a more normal height, thankfully. Not as symmetrical as I'd hoped, but she's looking healthy which is the main thing :thumbsup:

    Discreet Seeds
    Mac #1
    Day 57
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    The two SSSC autoflower Solo Cups are coming on nicely. Probably another week or so for them :woohoo:
    SSSC
    Sweet Bourbon Auto Kush
    Day 58
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    Sp 3000, Week 10
  • Mars Hydro SP 3000
    Week 10
    As you can see we're fully into flower and as usual with my grows, some plants are looking better than others :shrug: really happy with the Black Lebanon (apart from the fact she's just over 5½ft in places) she is going to be big yield if all goes to plan. The other two photo girls are looking ok, not great, but should produce some kick arse weed if the frost is anything to go by :woohoo1:


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    The two SSSC - Sweet Bourbon Kush Auto's are almost ready for the chop :woohoo: the taller one has been in a dark tent for the last 24hrs and she'll be getting hung, drawn and quartered either tomorrow or the day after :toke: the shorter one is going to be a few more days at least.
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    SP3000 Week 12
  • Mars Hydro SP 3000
    Week 7 of Flower
    The two SSSC Sweet Bourbon Kush Auto girls are finished and jarred :woohoo1: dry weight for the taller one was 51.74g and 53.5g for the shorter one, so not too bad at all :yay:
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    Photo girls are going to be a few weeks yet, the SSSC Black Lebanon has pretty much taken over the bloody tent :crying: the other two (Strawberry Cookies and Mac1) are so so frosty :nono: not going to be a big yield off them though, as with the Lebanon being so big, they are pretty much stuffed in the corners, so they're not getting any room to spread out :shrug:
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    Mars SP 3000 Grow Finished
  • SP3000 Grow
    Day 106
    Finished
    I haven't updated this thread as often as I'd of liked, but life got the better of me for a while.
    Anyway, the three photoperiod girls are now done, the last one I finished taking down today :woohoo:
    First to come down was the SSSC Strawberry Cookies
    Not a huge yield, but man she is so frosty :woohoo1:
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    Next was the Discreet Seeds Mac #1
    I haven't got many pics of her, but she was another smallish yield, 3 or 4 oz at the most, but nice chunky colas :yay:
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    And last, but definitely not least. The SSSC Black Lebanon :clapper: she has to be the biggest yielding plant I've ever grown. She took up the majority of the tent, which probably didn't help the other two, but she has more than made up for it :frog: thankfully.
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    So once more I have to say a massive thank you to @Marshydro :thanks: yet again your lighting has done you and myself proud :clapper: and I'd recommend the SP3000 to anyone, a fantastic light and in the right hands, someone who knows what they are doing, could do great things with one.
    This is my 3rd year of growing my own and man, I still have a lot to learn :crying: but we're getting there, slowly :rofl:
    So till the next time, have fun and grow em big :pass:
     
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