Naughty.Psychonaut

No. pulling the same amount of wattage from the wall for the same amount of hours gives you the same amount on the electricity bill. I wish it was just black and white though, but when concidering the output you are paying more for less, together with the speed of degredation from the HID bulbs and ballasts, trying to keep them cool so they don't run out too fast, if you wana add to that grab a proper light meter and let's get real sciency. 600w LED gona give you best output over a longer period of time with less maintenance. where as we all know why HID have to be maintained/replaced from time to time, cause the gradient is even steeper when looking at the PAR output over a longer time period. so do you pay more for less? yes

Hope everyone is doing well! Life is just life-ing, been away from home a lot, couldn't have expected my plants to stay in the best shape Had one or two nights a week I would be able to pop in and see if everythings OK, so for about just under a month the plants were all basically just watered. picked up a few deficiencies and it seems one of the mothers got spider mites, first time for me in a loooooooong time. probably gona be a bit of a battle. I still have all the plants though, nothing died, nothing looking like I can't save it. I am home now, but from here on forward my life will be shifting a gear in terms of being preoccupied and not having much time for hobbies. However, this weekend I'll be home most of the time, gona focus on getting things up and running again. Some sad sights to see, but I'll be posting photos either tonight or tomorrow. Have a lekker weekend!!

electricity wise when using HID you paying for a heater that makes some light when half the wattage gets put out in heat, running a HID cost way more than LED so you not getting less light you just paying extra and getting more heat out of thw deal. where as with LED most of what you pay for is being pushed out in form of light. on the rating charts a bunch of the LEDs with the samsung diodes and meanwell drivers outcompete HID of the same wattage. just have to look for the right one. most commercial LEDs are still pretty shit so still very easy to buy the wrong one. if you going for the heat from the HID, it would just be a lot more practical and cost effective in the long run to get a higher quality LED and just grab one of those small fan heaters that have built in timers, just for the winter. I got one and it's almost overkill in my small space. I had to buy an additional timer, because the lowest setting -15min off 15min on- on the heater was too much. had to put it on 15min on every hour. just a suggestion.

Welcome @maRAUjuana First, DON'T PUT PH UP AND DOWN IN ORGANIC SITUATIONS.... you could, but that makes it no longer organic and a drop of it literally wipes out half your microbes and bacteria. those chemicals are stroooooong that's why a drop can make such a big difference. Rather use organic substances to either raise or drop ph in an organic grow. organic ph up = bicarbonate of soda. organic ph down = 100% lemon juice. On the topic of the ph pen itself.... I would rather suggest getting a ph or a ppm pen respectively. As with all electronics in life if it's a "one thing that can do it all" situation it tends to be lesser quality. I mean you can guage this off just the price, buy cheap you shoot yourself in the foot. Buy the right thing you'll only need to pay once. This is why you wont find a company like blue labs with a "one pen that can do it all". They have many different tools that can do one specific job very well. with both the ph or the ppm you obviously never want inaccurate readings. so quality is key here..... even with quality you'll hear with the very very best quality ph probes they need to be calibrated regularly, because their accuracy swing with use. the cheaper quality you go the quicker your accuracy will go out the window. I have heard of countless growers buying cheap ph/ppm probes just to toss them after a grow or two, because they realise how inaccurate they are and if you have inaccurate readings you'll cause more problems than anything. it's also impractical to have to calibrate a pen with every use just to make sure it's still accurate. I got the bluelabs ph pen and the ppm pen, I use them, because they have helped me a lot more than any human has, although in organic situations every second grower will break their heads over the fact that they believe you shouldn't test your organic soil just look past those people... let them not test their soils.... we'll see who has the last laugh I'm an organic grower and use my ph pen once a grow, sometimes I skip over it and only once every second or third grow depending on what I did with my soil before going to use it.... I use my ppm pen way more often. couple times a grow sometimes with a guarentee runoff ppm test of the soil I cooked before transplanting into final pots. I make AACT from time to time, have to test the ppm before I give it. getting into KNF will have to do a lot more testing on my side. I would suggest BioBizz, Grow, Fish and Bloom as your nutrient line. if you think of reusing the soil in future, I would suggest keeping it alive by regularly adding microbes and microbe food. this will form a symbiosis in your rootzone and help break down any nutritive compounds that are not yet accessible for uptake through the roots, and make it accessible. Microbes - there are many many many inoculant products, you can choose any mycorrhizae product. Food for microbes - there are already some in the organic nutrients you'll be using, plus a good topdress of worm castings about 3 times a grow. the molasses you got there is a super food for your microbes. then look into KNF (korean natural farming) you get all kinds of microbe bombs you can make at home with resources you probably already have... Actively Aerated Compost Teas. Sprouted Seed Teas. Fermented Plant Juice. Lactobacillus Acid Bacteria Serum..... so many

Planning really is key, but then again our hobbies just have to take back seat when life gets busy. been home for a total of 5 hours in the past month. Carried my plants into my greenhouse, all in veg under a 18/6 flood light. I just swing by to water them. tents are down. Hope all is well! Till further notice

I think biological control is your best bet right now. luckily aphids are on the menu for most predetors.

Oh yeah, for sure use them still they can do wonders for younger plants! Just be careful of thinking it was just the enitial burst, though. You see the thing with these bags are that the mycelium is alive and it's busy consuming the substrate, as it's doing that it's actually breathing. if you put it on a timelapse it actually looks like a working lung and everytime it expands it consumes a little more of the substrate. crazy thing is it doesn't just look like a lung.... without the consuming part of it, mycelium, even the fruit body of the mushroom, breathes exactly like humans. Oxygen in Carbon Dioxide out so it's a lung that lives and feeds on its own and grows mushrooms every now and then to reproduce untill the bags are fully colonised they gona fluctuate, few hours of releasing higher levels of CO2 and few hours of releasing less and overall just kinda slow down and reduce CO2 production till it's fully colonised. but yeah, because it's a living thing you kinda have to know how they "act" and use that to your advantage, but you can't really regulate them the way you can regulate a CO2 tank. so it becomes a little harder if you trying to achieve a specific ppm. younger plants, such as you have there, love a good fluctuation of CO2. once the bags are fully colonised cut a few 5 to 10cm holes in the bag, keep it moist by taking it out the tent and giving it a spray of tap water 3 or 4 times a day. see if you can grow a mushroom! Aaah, summer rainfall with cold dry winters, that can be a tough one for indoor growers! Whaaaaaat 13% RH outside? that's dry as fuck How constant is that 13%? Those conditions can be hard to manage, but you definitly made the right move with the humidifiers and dehumidifiers. The quick fix solutions kinda go out the window if you live in an area like that. What lights you running? Do you have natural high RH during lights off? or what's the reason for added RH with lights on, but not when lights go off? Idealy, for cannabis, you want a lower RH during lights on than during lights off. As much as we can we should try replicate how they grow in nature and if you look at the places cannabis favour they have dry summers and wet winters. Hot days and cold nights. During the heat there is very low RH and during the night the RH goes way up. as far as my knowledge allows me, I think high temp + high RH = high probability for PM. amd the low temp + low humidity = stunted/slow growth.

Hey bud, hope you well! Those bags work nice for people who have more airtight grows where the plants deplete the CO2. in a completely sealed grow room you'll need to pump in CO2 from a tank. in a room that has sufficient FAE you won't really need those bags, because with every FAE you get fresh new C02 aswell. those bags are also beneficial to people who live in very very low RH areas. I am in Western Cape, never needed added CO2. Infact, I always need to lower the RH so my circulation and extraction fans are constantly running from the day I plug them in. I just turn the extractors higher and lower depending on outside RH. rainy cold wet days - extractor on high. warm humid days - extractor on low. this is also only for the flower tent as during veg it's beneficial for plants to go through RH fluctuations. I grow bulk mushrooms, I inoculate 100's of these bags, when I first heard about these bags I had to try it out myself. They do pump off quite a bit of CO2, but only for a while, after the first 2 weeks they they release much less.

you got this man you got the right attitude to start with, you're waiting for the right time, planning nicely and getting everything nicely set up here. very good start!

Hey bud, sorry I got a bit distracted and taken away there from our private conversation will be getting to it first thing in the morning. If you want I can include some more information about this as there's a bunch more to it, but yeah the gist is that once your ph is out of range the plants stop taking up certain nutrients. this sounds perfect you gona do any kinda microbial inoculants? probably not completely necessary as there's already a bunch in the worm castings, but you know the more life in the soil the better

I know a guy that used the bio line. Grow + Bloom + Enhancer with Freedom Farms Formula 1. good results. mixing that stuff in with FF premium classic will be way too much nutrients for your plants. if you mix in with pure coco/perlite mix, just make sure it's buffered. I am not sure if these dry amendments will provide sufficient cation exchange sites, you might end up with PH swings as it's not really a living soil in that case. If you going the buffered coco route you'll be doing more of a hydroponic style grow with organic dry amendments, which means you gona have to keep checking PH. either way, you gona have to keep inoculating mycos on a monthly basis to help break down the nutrients for best results. I can remember he mixed the soil for the first phase pots with the recommended amount of just the Grow amendment. when time came to repot into second phase pots, mixed recommended amounts of Grow + Bloom into the new soil going into the bigger pots. topdressed with Enhancer mid flower giving the stuff time to break down to be available towards end of flower. reason he's not using it anymore also linked to price cause he got more or less the same results using biobizz Grow, Fish + Bloom.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, nothing? waited a while, but... complete radio silence from our local SJW's...???? wow, funny how people respond differently to different people, hey? almost like they're not true to themselves or something hhhmmmmmmm........ ooooooooohhh whiiite kniiiiight @Nope there's another forum member in need of some of your super amazing hugs and magic would you be so very cool again to grace Totemic with your awesomeness??? how about @The_StonedTrooper where's your mighty love now? oh please, come save us with your super good forces!!! you're soooo mighty your love really made a change there....... you guys are just a human we all are. nothing wrong with that. your "love", which I have not felt in the slightest, will go unnoticed untill you learn to love yourself. some of you in for a rude awakening and I won't even have anything to do with it. at this point it's funnier than it is serious. It's been an exhilarating experience, loads of fun was had, it's been great entertaining you personally, my favourite part was the 20 different analogies thrown my way, none of which had anything to do with the original point and was completely different situations all together scrambling to find anything to oppose me while being "more holy than thou" fuuuuuuck me If the weed is good I smoke ze fook out of some Apartheid Kush, cause I am able to not let my feelings get the best of me or cloud my judgement. sometimes I get offended by words too, but at least I know that's within me and not someone elses problem. I can't choose what people say. No one can. Period. it just takes a second to realise that I can't do SHIT about it, only thing I have control over that I can change is my perspective. The sooner we make peace with that, the sooner we will find peace within. I didn't write the rules

@The_StonedTrooper there'a literally no negativity at all here, if you feel it it's only on your side man. I am not gona be all "ahw you need a hug" "I love you" "here's some magic" none of that fake bullshit. we're on the internet, you really think you above anyone when getting offended by words? I give it to you straight and one day when you all big and grown up you gona understand what I am saying here right now. you might not like me now, but one day you gona say "daaamn, that crazy guy on the cannabis forum was right...." and I'll still be here

do yourself a favour, read it

Lol bro I am cool as a cucumber, I reeeeeeeeeeeeaally don't need to take it easier than I already am just cause what I say fires you or anyone else up, doesn't mean I am fired up. I can go on and on and on and on, and my point is gona stay the same! Look, one side of the debate is, "that name offends some, change it based on the fact that they can't control their feelings" Other side of the debate is, "No, that's a waste of time and it'll never happen cause you can't control the world and you can't control words, curb your feelings and don't try to tell people what to do" Now you tell me I have to take it easy? I am literally trying to explain to those who take offense to words to take it easy there is a gap here...... I can type for ages brother, we can go in deeeeeeeeep, if you care to indulge. Don't think I am upset when I am being consistent and making one clear statement over and over again. I can stop, but I really don't wana! Also, it's very entertaining this conversation has gone in all directions. Original statement was that a weed strain name should not be used cz it's offensive. right? then I go on to say that's not gona happen so no point in saying that and also no point in taking offense. then the argument goes on to everyone feels differently, like I didn't know that just because I offered a better way to look at it. so I say again the same thing, no point in getting offended by words. same thing I said before...... nothing changed? then I hear all kinds of things how the name was stolen, how it's offensive to call some one asshole, how people shouldn't name their kids Dick or Fanny, literally ducking and diving the original point and making all kinds of crazy analogies none of which where valid or had any contribution of an offering for any kinda solution at all? what's the real alternative here? only use words that don't offend anyone ever? that's impossible my guy, think about that for a second. but thanks for the love, sometimes love can be tough too, you know? tough love.....? just cause I say hard to hear things don't mean I am upset with you or anyone or even in general at all. Maybe if you take it a bit easier then you'll realise how easy I'm taking it.

woooooow! geeeee, you're SO cool! I wish I could be as cool as you your magic and your hug reeeeeeeaaally helped........... I wana see the long response, feel free to drop me a pm if you don't wana do it publicly. As you know I love a good conversation.

literally the people who want the rest of the world to jump when they feel offended are the ones portraying this attitude. think you got things a little backwards. but anyway

@Nope wrong thread maybe?

alternative is just buying a door and putting a lip inside the entrance with some of that rubber on it.

A light trap you say? how often you need to open and close to move through there? Drop sheet with ducktape, just leave one side open or something? otherwise, a low effort DIY door. rectangular wooden beams flush with the walls of the entrance, wooden frame door with soft wood board as the actual door, just one is needed. 2 x hinges and a latch. to keep the door closed. Tyre tube inners or any kinda rubber tubing that'll seal the door, this goes all along the wooden frame you drilled flush into the wall so when the door meets the wood and the latch keeps the door closed the rubber traps the light. so this rectangular beam goes flush on the wall all along the inside of the entrance, creating a "step over" or a "lip" inside the entrance (you need the outer frame to be strong enough to support the weight of the door, use coach screws so the weight of the door doesn't pull the frame out the wall) then you build you door with square wooden beams (it's cheaper, and you'll need enough of it). measure the hole you wana close, add 2cm on each side, now you know how big the door frame must be. take the square beams, build the frame this is a good DIY door frame example, mind the free hand drawing now you slap some thin, cheap, soft wood board on it to make the actual door, literally this paper thin wood sheet will work 100% fiiiiiiiine. have some left over in the garage, will take a photo then you gotta line the door with this rubber, you can buy it at autozone, it's meant to make cars water proof. so it'll work for light. now you just put the hinges on the door, easy peasy, get a thin object to raise the door 2-5cm off the ground when making it level so you know the door moves freely. the light trap will come from the rubber seal, hinges are the second easiest part. now for the easiest part and that everything is in place, you just need the door to stay closed. a simple latch will do, many options.

Sometimes it's the things you hear that hurt you the most that finally sets you feee. This is help, the hard to hear stuff. like you said, peace is beter than....?? last one is a real stinger, but it needs to be said. it's literally a matter of understanding. like they say, trauma can really change a person, but then again SO DOES HEALING

easier said than done, show me you care?

lol I am not emotionally connected to this one bit that's why I am saying what I am saying making my point while people are playing white night for others' emotions, and like I said I wana understand life, it's just that there hasn't been a single drop of mind altering information literally everyone can be against me here, it's not gona change the truth. it's the classic "the truth = unpopular opinion" and that's again cause people are incredibly soft. sometimes it's the things you don't wana hear that can make the biggest change in your life. and like I said before, everyone can benefit from this peice of information. it's advice people can use to improve their lives. if you wana get offended by self improvement that's another level of not understanding that we can get into on another day sometimes smarter people don't have to sink to the level of others to try and explain shit. either you understand it or you don't. period. I don't have to stop making my point to save other peoples feelings like I said, I never did anything directly to anyone, never called anyone names never cursed at anyone, never wished harm upon anyone, never did shit to offend anyone. or is my opinion what offends you? again my point on how people are seriously too touchyfeely in 2022. it's a shame. If I said you randomly offend me while you have done nothing to offend me, who needs to work on themselves? me or you? we can't just let people be offended, everyone wants to be offended by what personally upsets them. soooo, if I didn't say it was a problem, but rather said I am offended by it, does that mean the whole world must change to better suit me? or do I have to change to see the world in a better way? serious questions I would reeeeaally like answers to. so far I have asked so many quetions and every time I get the same "but their feeeeelings" and that's not an answer at all. if you care so much, at least answer one of my questions? don't hit me with the generic "everyones different, everyones feeling" bullshit. that's not gona help me understand anything. that's my point exactly. when an individual gets offended by words it's something that needs work on within themselves cause they let themself get offended, while in reality NOTHING WAS DONE TO THEM. no two ways about it. how can I be open to peoples feelings if their feelings are based on irrational personal short comings? and yes, the inability to distance words from feelings is a shortcoming. in order to move forward you need to learn, in order to learn you need to put your feelings aside. people with overwhelming feelings go to art school and those that don't make it in art school become Hitler, full sircle. people with overwhelming feelings who see shit by how they feel as an idividual kinda aren't the most fun to be around either. life can be great, but it must be awfull getting offended by words. if nothing else, I feel sorry for those people, which again makes me wana help them. but noooooooooooo, even explaining it is offensive now

Well, I wasn't fighting with anyone or did I call anyone an asshole or do anything to directly offend anyone? There are degrees to everything in life and as I have mentioned before there are a lot of things that are offensive that need to be called out for, I 100% agree with that. I did not once say no one has the right to ever be offended about anything Everyone's gona be offended by random stuff, but give me your honest answer, and I mean no funny business I just wana understand how life works. Do you really care what offends me? And if I told you, would you change your everyday life to better suit me? Honestly.