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Thanks for the comment! You're right that its not a lot of light? But this is just for veg. And i'm going to give one of the plants to my friend tomorrow. So i'll be vegging 4 plants under the 400w. The light is also in an adjust-a-wing reflector. With all that in mind I think i'll be okay, seems to have worked in the past. I'll be moving them to a different room for flowering where I have two 600w HPS lights, so 2 plants under each 600w.

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Color was wrong but LEDs can put out plenty UV which can burn plants.
10pcs 1W 3W 365nm UV LED Ultraviolet . Op describes classic case of sunburn/transplant shock.

The spydrX a full spectrum light it goes 400-780nm. Some where in that light spectrum the plants are being burned.

I am talking about "floating row covers" not shade cloth. I have used floating row covers for many years covering transplanted outdoor crops. With excellent results. It does lower light levels ~10% which is perfect for this application. You can double or triple it if you need to.


Not everyone can just raise their lights indoors. I am not suggesting floating row covers for the entire grow. Just create a beneficial micro-climate for a week two to recover and adjust to their new environment.

for starting get a shelf that can hold 1020 trays. you can zip tie led shop lights to each shelf easy. This will also work for most vegetables / microgreens in case you ever want to grow other stuff. shelves make the most of the floor space also is useful for supplies. example

shed will get warm and very humid, you will need an exhaust fan. also need a circulation fan.

if you want to grow big plants in the shed probably will only get 1 or 2. just get a 10-20 gallon fabric pot and some coco coir + hydro nutrients. but it probably much easier to just start from seeds / clones inside then transfer them outside when they start getting big.

I wish I had more details on the strain. The seeds are from a friend who has been growing outdoors for probably a decade. He originally planted pure strains of afghani and blueberry and has just been growing with the seeds they've been producing for years without tracking who pollenated who, so it's kind of a grab bag on how much of each are in these ladies.

My DIY chiller...I'll start off saying I was using frozen water bottles once I got into flower to keep my temps down, and it was just a horrible experience. Changing them 2 - 3 times day (if I could), jostling my res lid up and down to put them in, temps are up and down, etc. PITA. I really wanted to just buy a chiller at that point, but I couldn't justify the cost for a 3'x3' tent. So I bought a stainless steel wort chiller used in home brewing and ran the tubing into a 5 gallon cooler you can pick up for $20. Dropped a 185 GPH water pump in the bottom of the cooler (my left over pump from using a top feed in veg) and the wort chiller in my res. I keep 2 or 3 frozen 2 liter bottles in the cooler. With the wort chiller circulating in my res, the temps dropped from 74 to 65 in probably 20 minutes or less. It works so good at pulling the heat out of my res I decided to get a temp controller to turn the water pump on and off. I wired a Ranco ETC temperature controller into the mix and set the temps for 64 - 67 degrees. Pump circulates once the temps hit 67 and shut off at 64. The frozen 2 liters keeps the water cold enough to stay in range for 2 - 3 days before swapping out new ones. Granted a real mechanical chiller is set and forget, but for a rough total of $150 I'm pretty satisfied with what I put together. Plus a chiller uses 200-300 watts of power and still requires a pump, so I'm able to cut that cost out as well.

EDIT: Here's a (bad) picture where you can just see the top of the wort chiller coming out of my res. I cut a slit in some paper plates to slide the chiller tubing through to cover the hole. The cooler sites just outside of the tent.

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but seriously now, do you have fertilizer dedicated to veg and flower? If you don't already, maybe a pH pen to make sure you water is properly pH'ed. If you're worried about smell, maybe a carbon filter?

You have most of the essentials right now. The light, the timer, the grow tent environment (mylar). All I could really think of I added above. Good luck with the grow!

Your light needs to be closer.
It’s stretching.

Do this:

add more soil to your cup there, bury maybe 60% of that stem get an oscillating fan blowing on it 24/7 (this will cause it to dry out faster so water when top 1cm dries) and then get that light about 6” away from the leaves.

Then you’re good to go. For a while. Like that other person said you’re going to need a lot more light.

try this

Edit: also go around the bottom rim of that cup and cut slits all the way around with scissors. Drainage is important. Don’t let roots sit in pooled water.

Then go to growweedeasy.com and start reading. Read front to back seed to harvest. Then read it again, again, again and again.

Cool tricks I use:

Use a cheap pop-up laundry basket for a cheap drying rack you can buy any where.

These racks are my solution to getting pots off the ground. They stretch across my 4ft tents and hold up 5gal Smart-pots. 3 of them will cover the base of a 4x4. Super Sturdy & I really like how it looks.

General hydroponics is a pretty common nutrient line that a lot of people have success with.

https://www.amazon.com/FloraGro-FloraBloom-FloraMicro-Floralicious-Quarts/dp/B079S2SFC4/ref=sr_1_4?crid=18WXYPZ0ERSIX&keywords=general%2Bhydroponics%2Bnutrients&qid=1556688100&s=gateway&sprefix=general%2Caps%2C268&sr=8-4&th=1

Lots of good ideas in here, but it just looks over watered at first glance. Gotta really let it dry out between watering. I find these cheap probes do a fantastic job.

4 seedlings in one pot???

Uhh, you should really seperate those those or you'll have a mess on your hands in about two weeks.

In using a hps and led combo, but my tent is 2m x 2m so it's a bit simpler to balance it out.

If you go with led, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phlizon-Greenhouse-Spectrum-Thermometer-Adjustable/dp/B075SSV6C1/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?keywords=led+1200w+grow+light&qid=1563961900&s=gateway&sprefix=Led+1200&sr=8-6
You can't go wrong with these, I've used them for the last year. And had three nice crops pulling average of 1.4g /w

My buddy has a few of these in a 2x4 currently. It’s neither of the two you listed,
but it puts out 103w and has a good spectrum.

Here is a pic he sent me of his plants with the light I linked. It’s a solid light for the price.

Well, you where lucky in your choice then. I had mold on my harvest while my humidity meter said it was 60%. It turned out to even point at 60% while put in a wet towel (where it should read 95-100%). I found a lot of stories how much consumer humidity meters are inaccurate, ranging from 5% off to 25% off.

On amazon you can buy the xikar for 19$ https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004167OY4/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1475246693&sr=8-7&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=xikar&dpPl=1&dpID=514tS8f0qYL&ref=plSrch

I agree, I would not spend too much on the tent, and spent the most on the light, I would suggest the AC Infinity filter fan it is light powerful and adjustable