Grow lights!!!

My answer is, what is your goal? LED's are good in veg, and decent in flower. I bought CMH lights about two years ago as well as some HLG LED's. I have a similar light to the one you are using as well. The best light out of all of them is my CMH light. It grows the best plants. You do not need to buy another light though. That LED you have will grow in both stages. How well is a completely different discussion.

 

That LED will provide you with a decent yield, and if you come into a few bucks look into a CMH light - any one is fine. It's what all the professional growers are using.

 

My 550 Horticulture Lighting Group LED puts off more heat than it. It's about average on the heat scale. It would probably be about the same heat as that one you have now.

 

I keep mine at about 28 - 30 inches with a fan blowing between the canopy. This is the result. Heat will cook your trichomes.

 

Cool, you'll do great. Are you doing the NO TILL soil recipe from the No-Till Revisited post? Just trying to get a base of understanding of what you are doing so I can help you along your way.

 

Don't sweat it this run but start to pull together these materials for your next soil.

Close but read page 1's opening statement from MOFO
No-Till Gardening: Revisited

Base soil mix:

1:1:1: CSPM (Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss) : Pumice/Lava rock : Compost - Malibus B/U is an excellent choice if it is available in your area.

Amended per cuF with:

1/2 - 1 cup Neem or Karanja
1/2 - 1 cup Kelp
1/2 - 1 cup Crab/Crustacean meal
1 cup MBP (Malted Barley Powder)

1/2 cup Gypsum (nice sulphur source)
4-6 cups Basalt
6-8 cups Biochar

 

Yes, it's a better soil mix for No-Till Gardeners. Take a second to read that opening statement from Blue/MOFO on that link I sent you. Blood Meal may be a good choice if you plan on vegging your plants for 90 days, and then I would just do it as a top dressing. Again, read the post, see if no till is for you. There are so many ways to grow but I settled on no till because it's the cleanist smoke you can grow. I just water my plants now, no slurry's, tea's except for an occasional Sprouting Tea but other than that just water.

 

That's a great soil mix,I would add 1/2 cup of fossilized oyster shell flour to it, that soil will get better with age,
with top dressing between cycles and using teas (kelp,neem etc.) your not feeding your plants your feeding the soil, LOS ftw.

 

With todays LED tech you can get spectacular results.


Sent using the internets.

 

That's a TLO mix, and will work great for that style of growing. If he's interested in no-till, I would approach my container differently.