Documenting the new season !
Early start because the weather is crummy here in the Netherlands.
Aji Panca, a (very) mild, Peruvian oddball strain that actually tastes like blueberry.
Frickin BLUEBERRY ! How kick ass is that ?
The first leaves ("cotyledons" in botanical nerd speak) are unusually big.
Never seen seen seedlings with such huge cotyledons.
Assorted seedlings, with White Bullets and Choco Morugas in the back.
These are under 6 small neon tubes that I really should be replacing soon.
It's working, but not all that well.
Bonchi fun !
Just a month before the picture of this CAP219 was taken, this was just a little stem without any green on it whatsoever. As I predicted, this strain appears to be very suitable for bonchi-making. first off because it's a very fast grower, this thing just went off. And also because the branches are remarkably flexible. You can bend them FAR, without them snapping off. This is good for "training" with wire and twine. You want to bend those branches and shape your bonchi.
The pods are not so bad, even, chuck a handful in a Thai type stirfry and you're rockin' that wok.
This was a 7-pot (I think) from my balcony that I totally neglected, it was keeled over (literally) and I thought it was a goner, but when I decided to turn into a bonchi it really bounced back.
It immediately started chucking out new growth. Curiously, no branches, the leaves are fairly large and seem to be growing directly from the main stem. Perhaps that has to do with the red color LED light, which I read results in short, stocky plants.
A bonchi growing on a rock always looks cool. Plus I'm a rock kind of guy anyways.
I made several other bonchis, some of then began to form buds almost immediately. Also pretty weird. Maybe we can get some flowers and buds on them even. Pics to follow soon.
Here's one of the useless chilli experiments I like to conduct for shits & giggles.
Two 7-pot yellows on a windowsill. Obviously it's winter, so the days are short and there is no sun. Left plant gets 30 watts of supplemental LED light, right plant gets 11 watts of supplemental CFL (but bulb is much closer). Let's see what happens. I plan to leave these guys here all throughout the new season.
Homemade, DIY LED panels at work. Seems to be doing the trick even with notoriously finnicky strains like White Bullet. The rest of these are superhots (mainly choco Morugas and Jays Peach ghost) which are also not the easiest strains to grow.
Some people on a FB chilli forum have been talking trash, claiming that what I say about LEDs, light wavelengths, spectrum etc. is "bullshit", before going on to say how LEDs are "outdated" and "obsolete", and la-de-dah.
Now unless you have a PLASMA LAMP in your growspace, which is kinda like having a chunk of the actual SUN in there (at a hefty price). I really don't see how LEDs are "outdated". In fact, they are far from outdated, and seeing as how their performance continually keeps increasing, while prices keep dropping, it would seem their full potential hasn't even been reached yet. So unless you can come up with some proof or data to back those statements up, why don't you STFU. Silly ass. It's that simple.
Lookee here, 14 plants (all Chinense, mostly superhots), under ONLY 90 WATTS of DYI LED fixtures. It seems to be working so far.
JUST 90 WATTS, okay ?
Just saying. My new DIY panel is almost finished, I think it'll work FINE. More about that later.
Early start because the weather is crummy here in the Netherlands.
Aji Panca, a (very) mild, Peruvian oddball strain that actually tastes like blueberry.
Frickin BLUEBERRY ! How kick ass is that ?
The first leaves ("cotyledons" in botanical nerd speak) are unusually big.
Never seen seen seedlings with such huge cotyledons.
Assorted seedlings, with White Bullets and Choco Morugas in the back.
These are under 6 small neon tubes that I really should be replacing soon.
It's working, but not all that well.
Bonchi fun !
Just a month before the picture of this CAP219 was taken, this was just a little stem without any green on it whatsoever. As I predicted, this strain appears to be very suitable for bonchi-making. first off because it's a very fast grower, this thing just went off. And also because the branches are remarkably flexible. You can bend them FAR, without them snapping off. This is good for "training" with wire and twine. You want to bend those branches and shape your bonchi.
The pods are not so bad, even, chuck a handful in a Thai type stirfry and you're rockin' that wok.
This was a 7-pot (I think) from my balcony that I totally neglected, it was keeled over (literally) and I thought it was a goner, but when I decided to turn into a bonchi it really bounced back.
It immediately started chucking out new growth. Curiously, no branches, the leaves are fairly large and seem to be growing directly from the main stem. Perhaps that has to do with the red color LED light, which I read results in short, stocky plants.
A bonchi growing on a rock always looks cool. Plus I'm a rock kind of guy anyways.
I made several other bonchis, some of then began to form buds almost immediately. Also pretty weird. Maybe we can get some flowers and buds on them even. Pics to follow soon.
Here's one of the useless chilli experiments I like to conduct for shits & giggles.
Two 7-pot yellows on a windowsill. Obviously it's winter, so the days are short and there is no sun. Left plant gets 30 watts of supplemental LED light, right plant gets 11 watts of supplemental CFL (but bulb is much closer). Let's see what happens. I plan to leave these guys here all throughout the new season.
Homemade, DIY LED panels at work. Seems to be doing the trick even with notoriously finnicky strains like White Bullet. The rest of these are superhots (mainly choco Morugas and Jays Peach ghost) which are also not the easiest strains to grow.
Some people on a FB chilli forum have been talking trash, claiming that what I say about LEDs, light wavelengths, spectrum etc. is "bullshit", before going on to say how LEDs are "outdated" and "obsolete", and la-de-dah.
Now unless you have a PLASMA LAMP in your growspace, which is kinda like having a chunk of the actual SUN in there (at a hefty price). I really don't see how LEDs are "outdated". In fact, they are far from outdated, and seeing as how their performance continually keeps increasing, while prices keep dropping, it would seem their full potential hasn't even been reached yet. So unless you can come up with some proof or data to back those statements up, why don't you STFU. Silly ass. It's that simple.
Lookee here, 14 plants (all Chinense, mostly superhots), under ONLY 90 WATTS of DYI LED fixtures. It seems to be working so far.
JUST 90 WATTS, okay ?
Just saying. My new DIY panel is almost finished, I think it'll work FINE. More about that later.
