My first grow I had not a clue what I was doing, I have the opposite of green thumbs so I was being "mentored" by two HPS using friends and my setup was the same as it is now but with one 400w hps that sent the tent temps straight up to 40c. I binned it straight away and started again as soon as my first led panel arrived.
Both mentors ranted about shit lights and I'll only get a half oz off two plants etc. because I bought autos too then left me to it
It's a completely different world with LED's(e.g. hard keeping heat in the tent!) so I read everything I could find on the web about autos/leds and anything else I could find and decided KISS was the best idea. Basic nutes, flower then bloom, ph down and a bud booster for flowering.
I build gaming PC's so I treated the whole tent like a big PC case and it seems to work well now that I haven't got a low tech heat source turning watts to heat instead of light
Only things I've confirmed for myself that I think are vitally important are
1. under led's any calmag additive stops the leaves breaking down.
2. true auto's don't give the tiniest s**t what light sequence you use, they grow under light and a rest period seems to do bugger all apart from save energy unless you need a heater to keep your tent warm enough. The regular clones I grew last time were so boring and had a hissy fit if the lights were adjusted by even 15 mins, hence why I'm sat with a pile of unwanted feminized seeds (and I can't do a perpetual grow with anything other than autos!).
My advice, turn your panel/panels on 24/7, feed them what they need and chill out while they do their thing!
Both mentors ranted about shit lights and I'll only get a half oz off two plants etc. because I bought autos too then left me to it
It's a completely different world with LED's(e.g. hard keeping heat in the tent!) so I read everything I could find on the web about autos/leds and anything else I could find and decided KISS was the best idea. Basic nutes, flower then bloom, ph down and a bud booster for flowering.
I build gaming PC's so I treated the whole tent like a big PC case and it seems to work well now that I haven't got a low tech heat source turning watts to heat instead of light
Only things I've confirmed for myself that I think are vitally important are
1. under led's any calmag additive stops the leaves breaking down.
2. true auto's don't give the tiniest s**t what light sequence you use, they grow under light and a rest period seems to do bugger all apart from save energy unless you need a heater to keep your tent warm enough. The regular clones I grew last time were so boring and had a hissy fit if the lights were adjusted by even 15 mins, hence why I'm sat with a pile of unwanted feminized seeds (and I can't do a perpetual grow with anything other than autos!).
My advice, turn your panel/panels on 24/7, feed them what they need and chill out while they do their thing!
