Lighting Noods grows SBR-70's, RSD's and a CC

[phoenix rising]

Just got caught back up Noods and everything looks great! Looks like your on your way to yet another spectacular grow my friend!

 

[DubV]

Looking good my friend :thumbs: As for foliar feeding with leds, I would just make sure to put a wetting agent in the feed. 1/2 teaspoon per gallon of liquid detergent. This will keep the feed from beading up on the leaves and causes little light prism bleach spots on them bro :smokebuds:

 

[stylez]

Top shelf setup, Noods:smelly:Lots of big dank buds in your future:thumbs:

 

[Noods]

Thanks Dub! I use a lot less, actually. (That's when I remember to use it ) When I make a Fishy or Kelp foliar, it's usually about 500ml in the sprayer with just my finger tip smeared full of detergent that I then swirl into the mix and shake a little. It gives just a very few bubbles... I don't do it with wetting down seedlings though, so I guess I'll have to watch that now. Thanks my friend! :smokebuds:

'Sup Stylez! Thanks buddy! :smokebuds:

 

[komach]

Beautiful!

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[WVTurtle]

Noods what are you CFL's hanging out of? I cant tell what you got going on there but it looks interesting. :thumbs:

 

[Noods]

Hey Ko, Thanks! :smokebuds:

Turtle buddy, ~Click Here~ for an explanation and some better pics of it all.
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[WVTurtle]

Read the whole thing but not much detail about how you mounted the bulbs in the pvc pieces.

 

[swampman]

Isn't Yucca based materials good for that too Dub .....i have a few tiny spits as my little grew really close one day ...sorry What kinda detergent ??? ...
I read Yucca is also a good surfactant

 

[Noods]

Read the whole thing but not much detail about how you mounted the bulbs in the pvc pieces.

Sorry about that Turtle. I guess that part is missing in that thread that I linked for you. There's a link to an Article from Andy Botwin in that thread, where he goes into great detail about how he made his using the same materials. Allow me to paste a quote from the Users Manual that I did a while ago. The setup looks pretty sloppy, so I'll let you click on the pics links if you want to see them. What I wrote makes much more sense if you see the pics, but they're so big and cluttery. I hope you'll forgive my laziness:

Ok Stone, this is my current chaos. The upper right hand corner of this picture gives evidence to the tweaking I've been speaking about. My weekend starts tomorrow (tonight, actually) and it's supposed to be sunny tomorrow. I'm planning on putting all the little ones in my sunny window so I can do some house renovations for them.

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This is the normal plastic piping that you find in the building supplies stores all over the place. Well, these are T-Joints for those pipes. They are tight fitting with rubber gaskets.
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I was planning on putting some sort of safety gizmo connecting the top of the fixture to the bottom while they hang vertically to keep them from slipping apart, but don't need to. They are very tight and snug.
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These are just plain old 3 for a Euro E27 sockets that fit right tight and firm in there, thanks to the rubber gasket in the T-Joint.
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As you saw in the first pic, on the right side, it's four T-Joints stuck together, wired through, and hanging by these hooks on chains. Four holes here on top and four on the bottom so they can be hung horizontally as well.
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The wiring is the hardest part. It's a bitch because it's like a puzzle, working inside and around the T-Joints. It's easy to figure out the puzzle, you just have to start one at a time and not with all the T-Joints connected. You have to:
- feed the wire into the end of the joint, and back out of the hole where the socket will be inserted.
- connect that wire and the lead that is going to the next socket in the next joint.
- insert the socket snugly into the joint.
- feed the second lead into the second joint, through the hole where the next socket will be inserted, and connect the second T-Joint to the first.
- repeat a few times.

Since you need a lot of play in the wires to be able to connect the sockets outside of the joint, you have a lot of wire inside for care free adjustments. Too much wire inside would be bad though, and cause congestion and stress and maybe sparks if you're unlucky enough.

I hope I could give you a little insight.
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:smokebuds:

I hope that helped a little. :smokebuds:

Isn't Yucca based materials good for that too Dub .....i have a few tiny spits as my little grew really close one day ...sorry What kinda detergent ??? ...
I read Yucca is also a good surfactant

You're absolutely correct, Swamp. :smokebuds: