An overview of the working bits. the light rack was originally built for 3-50" Rapid LED Indus bars running at 250 watts each for a total output of 750 watts (850 watts at the plug). The Indus bars have performed well over the past two years however lately they've been showing their age and I've lost a few clusters here and there as well as a several drivers. Rapid has replaced this line with their DIY COB kits so I'm upgrading as the indus bars degrade. Each Cob is running at 50 watts so the overall wattage remains the same but because the cobs use pin style heat sinks as well as a very efficient driver the new lights run substantially cooler. The photo below shows the round at 6 wks of flower.
Fusion Seeds Lemon Berry (Thai leaning pheno) Oh baby she's a keeper! to the far right is part of the white queen.
and the canopy at 6 wks. Front row left to right: Lemonberry (Lemon pheno GJ cut), Lemonberry (Thai pheno), White Queen Center row left to right: Girl Scout Cookie, Lemonberry (Thai pheno), Girl Scout Cookie Back row left to right: Girl Scout Cookie, Lemonberry (lemon pheno), Girl scout Cookie.
JCIO, for this round I raised the lights until the footprint covered almost the entire 5’x5’ room. This put the lights about 32-34” above the average height of the canopy which in turn allowed me to spread out the plants a bit. For sure the plants are digging the additional elbow room.
They def do good in veg, I think I am going to do a full veg/flower run on what i Got under them now in soil Then do the dwc super grow with them next.
That Thai leaning LB pheno can put out football sized colas .... then the next round turn yellow and get root rot... then the next round grow out with normal colas. Drove me nuts in a love/hate relationship. She seemed to like airflow and heat. Probably why my cool running gardens had such a hard time with it. Yours looks beautiful btw.
