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Issue #396 - Sunday, November 17, 2019
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- You asked and Nebula has delivered! She completed a grow-off between a 250W HPS and Viparspectra LEDs using the same strains in both tents. You might have read about the results, but now you can see how the whole grow played out!
- Get the full supplies list for today's grow journal. Also don't miss the lab reports of the results!
- We got mentioned in a post on the High Times website! 🤩 I'd be lying if I said we weren't super-excited! (Check it out here)
- So many good pictures, it tough to pick from them all! This week I took the easy way out and chose pics from 3 different growers. They've all earned their spot here, but the 3 pics will make you green with envy!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
~Albert Einstein
Nebula's ViparSpectra LED
🤜 vs. 🤛
250W HPS Showdown!
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by Nebula Haze
I recently received an email from a GrowWeedEasy.com reader. The message had only six words. It was a simple question, yet surprisingly hard to answer.
“What’s the best cheap grow light?”
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I remember being obsessed with that question when I first decided to grow cannabis at home in 2008. I was on a shoestring budget to say the least. I understood I needed a grow medium like soil or coco, plant containers,
and nutrients, just like the potted plants I had on my balcony. I wanted to grow at least 5 ounces of weed at a time but I wasn’t sure which grow light could do that on a small budget. The sun is free, but grow lights certainly aren’t! Trying to determine the best cheap grow light online was confusing. It seemed like there were a thousand different opinions and no clear answers.
I was able to find a high-yielding grow light setup for under $200 back then, and you still can. In fact, today you actually have far better grow light options in that price range than I did. Yet a new cannabis grower faces so many choices it may actually be harder to sift through all the conflicting information now than ever.
Which of these cannabis grow lights under $200 produced the best yields and bud quality?
That confusion is what inspired this grow journal in the first place. I’ve tried just about every grow light for cannabis over the last decade, and there are clear winners and losers (the 315 LEC may be my favorite so far, though next, I’ll be pitting a 315 LEC against an HLG 300 Quantum Board LED and I’m really excited to see which one performs better).
I’ve learned that a high price tag on your equipment doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to get good results (and vice versa). I’ve tried expensive grow lights that got poor growth and results, and cheap grow lights that produced stellar density, yields, and smell. I’ve always wanted to do actual side-by-sides with different grow lights so you can see the differences for yourself, and I finally have the space to do it!
This grow journal focuses on cheaper grow light options, featuring two popular cannabis grow lights that cost under $200.
- ViparSpectra makes popular yet relatively inexpensive LED grow lights (there are cheaper brands, but ViparSpectra is one of the most established of the “cheap” LED cannabis brands)
- HPS lights have been used by cannabis growers since the 70s. Initially, HPS bulbs were used mainly for street lights and weren’t available to individual consumers. There were actually cases of people stealing HPS street lights and using them to grow weed! The technology has been honed for growing plants over the last half century, and HPS grow lights are now one of the cheapest grow light options for cannabis growers.
I decided to do a comparison grow between these two “cheap” grow lights and share the results with all of you.
The good news is that both types of grow lights produced stellar buds. I can say as someone who’s been smoking these buds over the last few weeks that every single plant produced great weed.
But was there a clear winner?
ViparSpectra LED plants before harvest
250W HPS plants before harvest
At the bottom of this grow journal, I’ll give a summary of the results, as well as share which one is really the best grow light. You may be surprised how it turned out! I know that I was.
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"Hey first off thanks for all the great info. It's my first time growing legally (non-guerilla gardening) so the info helps a lot.
I thought I might mention another cheap and effective manner in ridding plants of fungus gnats that you didn't include. Simply top the buckets, pails, etc. whatever you are growing in with an inch or so of sand. As long as it's granular enough the layer will dry out rapidly and prevent them from being able to burrow or lay eggs. I'd also recommend also using a natural insecticide and as always a fan but the sand truly helps a lot to control the numbers of
gnats. It's worked for me anyways and for the first time in 28 years of growing, I have "hightimes" quality buds. "
Mike
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That's a good tip, Mike! Using a thin layer of sand is a good defense against fungas gnats since sand dries out quickly and leaves gnats without the moisture they need for their young to survive. 👩🏫
...also, we got mentioned in High Times! I know that's out of nowhere and it's the last time I'll mention in the newsletter; it's just really exciting!
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"Just a nice picture of some Dark Star I harvested this week. I’ve never grown a purple strain that really turned purple and this one paid off!"
~WizardsNThings
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"Frosty AK-48 autos from Nirvana. 36 days in flower. Grown in soil with 30% perlite added, Advanced Nutrients trio, Big Bud, Overdrive, CalMag, Terpinator, and Great White for the roots. Enjoy!"
~jacweed22
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Grower: Joe
Wow! I think Joe didn't include a description because he realized these pics speak for themselves! (Click for a larger version)
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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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