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Issue #512 - Sunday, February 6, 2022
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- It's 2022 and LEDs are the most popular type of indoor grow lights for personal home growers. But how do you know if your LED is giving too much light to your canna-babies? This helpful article from a friend of the site will give you all the info you need in the time it takes to drink a coffee. This short-but-sweet guest post comes from our friend Dan over at Green Sunshine.
- One unexpected symptom of too much light is that pollen sacs or yellow bananas can form, which cause your buds to grow seeds (at least with strains that are sensitive to light stress). Learn what this looks like and how to prevent it!
- Weigh-in for the autoflowering grow journal! Find out which grow style ended up yielding more weed!
- Babies, buds, and bananas! Those three words will summarize what's waiting for you in the trophy picture section, but the words alone don't do the pictures justice; you'll have to see them to know what I mean! Also, I'm pretty sure one of the people in the trophy pics section snuck in...
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
~Maya Angelou
LED Grow Lights:
Too Much or Not Enough Light?
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Foreward by Nebula Haze: Today’s short-but-sweet LED grow light tutorial was written by Dan from Green Sunshine Co. (creator of the Electric Sky ES180 and ES300 LED grow lights) about cannabis light burn, light stress symptoms, and the right distance to keep your LEDs from your marijuana plants. Green Sunshine Co. has been sending me grow tips for over 3 years since I bought my first ES300 LED and the emails often contain helpful tidbits of info. I received this article as an email the other day and got permission to republish it in this newsletter. I think the
info is useful to all LED growers even though it was originally written for Electric Sky LEDs. I added notes with pictures of my marijuana plants to help illustrate each point.
~Nebula Haze of GrowWeedEasy.com
P.S. My comments are in italics and I used pictures of my plants as examples.
How close should you keep your LED grow lights from your cannabis plants? Read this LED tutorial about light stress by an expert LED grower!
I’m sharing with you some things I wish I could tell myself many years ago when I started growing with LEDs…
One of the first things you should master with LED growing is understanding when your plants are exhibiting signs of stress from too much light.
Learning to course-correct a light intensity mistake will save your grow.
What can happen if your plants begin to receive too much light is that they will begin to stress out and slow their growth. If you don’t catch it in time, it will impact the speed of your plants for the rest of the grow period.
You don’t want this to happen.
If it’s your first time growing under LED, or your first time growing at all, remember that you can almost never go wrong by keeping the LEDs further away. You can easily have a mistake happen with the light too close.
Believe it or not, you can get amazing results all the way through the flowering stage with your Electric Sky lights kept 3 feet away the entire time. The lenses keep light going right at your plants.
As your lights get closer to the plants, intensity changes quickly. So if your light was 12 inches away, move one inch, and there’s a big intensity difference to your plants.
The further the light is away, the less intensity changes as you move up and down. You get forgiveness and “wiggle room”.
Additionally, if your plants are of various heights, each plant will receive a more equal amount of light when the lights are far away.
Stress Signals and What Happens with Light Burn
Here’s what to look for to understand if your plants are “stressing out”…
Look for leaves turning from darker green to a lighter lime/yellow color. This can either mean light burn (like a sunburn) or the beginning of whole plant stress.
The entire plant will turn this lighter color when it gets stressed out. If you’re seeing this happen, back off on the intensity and leave it there for a week.
Quick Tips for Intensity and Distance
First, for young plants...
Look Out for Herms in the Flowering Stage!
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I love weed whether it's got seeds in it or not, but we are all typically trying to grow buds that don't have any seeds. There's two things you need to do to prevent seedy buds.
- Start with good feminized seeds - these won't make male plants that produce pollen, and a trustworthy breeder reduces the chance of "herms". Then after buds start forming....
- Watch out for "herms" when plants get stressed out (like if they're getting too much light from a too-close LED) - pictures below!
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Grow Journal Update: Final Yields!
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I grew two tents with identical autoflowering strains under ES300 LED grow lights. The plants in one tent got topped and trained, while the other was left untouched (plants only got water from seed to harvest).
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Which one ended up winning for yields.... The trained tent, but only by a hair.
These are the final weights with the strains ordered from left to right in each tent.
Untrained tent - This tent was grown naturally without training. Each seed was germinated and after that the only thing I did was give the plants nutrient water from seed to harvest. They grew out of control without any training or bending. With so many leaves they were a pain to trim and buds tended to be somewhat airy, but overall the tent yielded great!
- Zweet Grapez: 97.94g
- Lemon Auto: 38.08g
- Critical Purple: 65.12g
- Sour Diesel: 98.27g
Total: 10.6 oz (299.4g)
Trained tent - These plants were topped and encouraged to grow wide instead of tall. In the end they were much more orderly, and even though the plants were less than half the height the buds were bigger and denser so they have higher overall bag appeal. In the end, even with the smaller plants this tent actually ended up yielding slightly more!
- Zweet Grapez: 98.18g
- Lemon Auto: 69.25g
- Critical Purple: 79.32g
- Sour Diesel: 60.98g
Total: 10.8 oz (307.73g)
Wow, the plants looked so different but the results were so similar! I never would have guessed.
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"Your site is great! Always interesting. Keep up the good work and happy toking!"
~Amy
I feel like people have been telling us "happy toking", or to "keep toking" a lot lately. Toking is a great word that I don't use enough... 🤔 ~Sirius
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"Keep up the good work GWE, big thumbs up to you two."
~King
And a big thumbs up to you, too. 👍 ~Sirius
"Your newsletter is the highlight of my Sunday mornings. Thank you!"
~Craig
That really means a lot. We'll keep working to make it a pleasurable read every Sunday until our arms fall off. 😂 ~Sirius
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"We live in a split second, whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your might."
~Major Stamen
I love the little skeleton that's hanging out with your plants. I bet he's saying, "We live in a spliff second..." 😂 ~Sirius
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"Had a plant nanner on me (removed it from the tent, don’t worry) Since I had my loupe out took a look at it and saw this. Are these pollen sacs on the nanner?"
~Michael
Nanners are essentially the inside part of a pollen sac. They grow without the petals on the outside. They're like if a pollen sac grew with just the inner important bits. You took a fantastic picture! 📷 ~Sirius
"I'm growing these seedlings and I think the closeup picture is crisp. Feel free to use them however you want!"
~Nebula
I'm glad you learned how to grow fro-...wait a minute. Nebula? Are you sneaking in pics of your own plants?
~Sirius
Quick Guide to Plant Problems
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Tell the Scammers "Hands Off!"
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Don't let scammers leave you sandwich-less!
I wish scammers only stole sandwiches...
Unfortunately, that isn't the case. Instead, scammers make off with terabytes of personal information and billions of dollars in money stolen from honest people. The best thing we can do is stay vigilant for ourselves and those around us. The better we are at spotting these scams before they happen, the less successful the scammers will be. Eventually, we can squash scamming and laugh as these thieves are left sandwich-less.
Remember when it comes to buying seeds: Real seed businesses don't contact you. They let you contact them. If anyone messages you to sell you seeds on social media, look out! It's possible they will take your payment and send nothing. Always take a second to think before sending money to anyone, especially if they contact you (whether by DM, text message, phone call, email, etc.).
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Recommended Cannabis Seed Sources
These sources have gotten great reviews from our readers:
- Seed Supreme – California, United States
- ILGM (I Love Growing Marijuana) – California, United States
- Herbies Seeds – Europe (seemingly out of the UK and Spain)
We encourage you to forward this email to a friend in need!
GrowWeedEasy.com has hundreds and hundreds of pages!
Check out some articles you may not have seen...
- Nebula’s Auto-Flowering Grow Journal (Topping vs Natural) - Did you like the article from our buddies over at Green Sunshine? Did you know we used their lights on Nebula's "Topping vs. Natural" grow? Click the link above to check out the beautiful plants we grew under some of their lights.
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Which LED Grow Lights Work for Cannabis? - When LED grow lights were still relatively new to the scene, you had to be careful because so many of them were terrible. These days, LEDs can grow some fantastic weed, but naturally, some LEDs are better than others...
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Kind K5 XL1000 LED Grow Journal – 1.3 lb Harvest! - Here's a journal from a reader of our site. This is an LED we haven't used ourselves, but the pictures show that this is a light that can be successfully wielded when in capable hands. This is another testament to the fact that LEDs of many types will get the job done.
- 7 Tips to Improve Cannabis Bud Quality - Nebula and I have been growing our own weed for well over a decade, and our bud is pretty darn good, in my humble opinion. However, I'm always open to new ways of making it even better, because why not? This page will give you lots of tips for leveling up the quality of
your homegrown weed.
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Nebula Haze:
When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to!
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Sirius Fourside:
Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics).
"Growing cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
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