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[kenzar]

how in the world do u get caught for marijuana cultivation anyway? Its the 21st century and we have compact fluorescent lights with next to 0 heat output/nominal energy consumption that can mimic any frequency of light your plants could ever need/want. Was it outdoors? lol who does that?

[Nirgon]

Uh they can watch your electricity to see regular (read: same time/duration basically every day) spikes in usage

Dunno anything about these lights that barely use eletricity. Must be some space age shit.

Go real big - > get caught is true to this day afaik

[Lojik]

Originally Posted by kenzar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

how in the world do u get caught for marijuana cultivation anyway? Its the 21st century and we have compact fluorescent lights with next to 0 heat output/nominal energy consumption that can mimic any frequency of light your plants could ever need/want. Was it outdoors? lol who does that?

Didn't see the drug thing in there, but i didn't delve into it too deeply. Authorities may have noticed it when they were they for something else?

[kenzar]

Originally Posted by Nirgon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Uh they can watch your electricity to see regular (read: same time/duration basically every day) spikes in usage

Dunno anything about these lights that barely use eletricity. Must be some space age shit.

Go real big - > get caught is true to this day afaik

Only reason to use HID bulbs is if you are in a state where its fine to cultivate. I've grown nug in my house for years just using CFLs. To grow 4 plants was the equivalent of plugging in 1 extra computer 24hr/day for around 8weeks, then 12hr/day for another 4-6. With a fan you can literally have the bulbs in contact in/around the plant with no burning. u can grasp a bulb thats been running nonstop for a month and its just warm. That extra energy consumption wont set off any flags, and the heat output is less then a laptop. I recommend it to anyone trying to save a little cash on their herb.

Smell problems? make your own carbon scrubber for like 75$. After these needs are met, the only thing that can get you caught is a big mouth and shitty "friends." Honestly getting caught for cultivation w/ today's tech is just dumb. If you dont like the idea of CFL u can even go LED for LESS power consumption/heat. All it takes is a little knowledge of what freq's/durations of light your plants need for what developmental stage they are in (vegetative/flowering).

Originally Posted by Lojik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Didn't see the drug thing in there, but i didn't delve into it too deeply. Authorities may have noticed it when they were they for something else?

I guess that is a possibility. I never have cops knocking on my door for anything, so I don't know. I do know that unless they have a warrant that specifically states they are looking for marijuana plants, that a locked closet door will send them packing back to the court house for another warrant to open the door. /shrug.

[Hasbinbad]

all this about tunable florescents is jive talk.. those bulbs come in a fixed frequency pattern, and if your plants dont need those frequencies, you're boned.

NASA does tunable LED mats for growing shit in space on zero power, but AFAIK nobody has ever actually done that for weed.

this dude is either on some next level science shit or talking out of his ass about theories.

Show me a tunable LED diy kit and i will literally ask dredge's wife to give u head

[Hasbinbad]

they make some great twisties for veg state, but for budding and density, you need high intensity red spectrum light which AFAIK only comes from HPS

[Hasbinbad]

if you can show me how to tune a led mat to the freqs cherry kush needs in late life, i will solve all of the worlds problems.

[kenzar]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

all this about tunable florescents is jive talk.. those bulbs come in a fixed frequency pattern, and if your plants dont need those frequencies, you're boned.

NASA does tunable LED mats for growing shit in space on zero power, but AFAIK nobody has ever actually done that for weed.

this dude is either on some next level science shit or talking out of his ass about theories.

Show me a tunable LED diy kit and i will literally ask dredge's wife to give u head

Never actually used LED, always preferred CFL as they are much cheaper. And you are right, they are not tunable, but only come in fixed freq's, which means you will need 2 sets of lights, one set for each development stage. A blue freq ~5500k for veg and a nice red freq for flowering ~2700k. Both of which are available at any Home Depot/Walmart/Costco for next to nothing. I always go for a Fox Farms Ocean Forest medium, which sends me packing to my local grow shop. Everything I've picked up about LED's comes from the owner trying to upsell me, so again I'm not sure about being able to tune different light freqs using the same LED board. I just know they are less power/heat than even CFLs.

[kenzar]

Also bud density is just an issue of the proper nutes/light absorbency. I've never had a problem cropping out very dense kolas as my lights are mostly above the plant. Beyond that its just getting some flower density nutes and not burning your plant with them.