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Old January 4, 2019   #14
SQWIBB
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Thankyou very much Lisa, I appreciate the kind words.


My potting mix has worked out pretty good so far, I believe anyhow.


The beets I dont expect much, They were planted before I planned on doing this grow room thingy.



Believe it or not, the Beets, Romaine and BSS were all planted in old potting mix from my aquaponics pepper plants and leaves.


  • Leaves






  • some 10-10-10






  • Old Potting Mix




Be carefull with manufacturers specs on wattage, my Roleadro LED Grow Light, Galaxyhydro Series 1000W lights, IIRC it's actually 132 actual watts.

My Viparspectras are 700 watt leds but actual watts is 325 watts, more than 2x the output of my Roleadro led's, but rated 300 watts less.


I'm not going to get into, Watts, Lumens, PAR and how the manufactures rate their led's because there are too may variable and I don't want the L.e.d. police beating me over the head with their Led Billy Club!


Whats nice about the led's is they dont have to be 2" from your plants and makes maintenance of the plants so much more pleasurable.
I would get them dam lights out of mothballs, rig up a safe curtain or something and fire 'em up.
Oh and take pics, plenty of pics.
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