Amare Technologies Solar Spec Insights

[mr. gt]

tagged. I've seen the pound plus led thread where every grow yielded more than a P. That was a pretty impressive selling point. I believe they weren't near 1gpw at the time though.


Since you have good communication with this AT, would you mind asking if he ever considered a Vertical Led setup. Possibly not because of the 'special market'

~mr. gt

 

[PetFlora]

1 #+. I could have gotten that under the SPYDR last grow, if, I had 2 Big Mex instead of one.

But I'm glad the other pheno was Blueberry Cheesecake as the BM knocks me on my ass. The BM yielded > 222gms trimmed dry bud

Vertical leds are simply bars turned 90*s

see BML Custom tab

Update

Big Baby (on the left) is just about 100% AGAIN.


I raised the panel another 2"


The moral of the story, don't put babies under such high intensity panels


I did this out of necessity as my veg tent crashed ~ 2 weeks ago, and I had sent the SS 100 to someone else


I would replace the SS 260 with the 2 x 150s, but the new tent should be here Monday


The plant in the lower left in the nursery is not doing well due to roots not hitting the nutes yet.

I need to take her out of the Air Pot (effectively lowering her) so she can soak up more nutes


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[PetFlora]

The 3 plants that weren't getting adequate watering are bouncing back nicely

I cleaned the tote as there was some algae building up

Wednesday's pics should be clear evidence that this was not a nutrient deficiency

 

[PetFlora]

I effectively raised CaMg by increasing ppm to~ 500

The 3 that took the hit are recovering quite nicely, though well behind in development

My new tent finally arrived

I will set it up and with 2 Solar Spec 150s (look for new thread) continue to veg the plants not kept under the 260

The reveg under te BML SPYDR is ~ 2 weeks from harvest

Once it's down, I will take one of the 2 plants from the 260 and begin the side by side comparison

You might notice a couple large leafs have curled a little. This was from Fiming her

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[PetFlora]

Babies got hair cuts

FYI, what appears to be be males, may not be, and vice-verse

I cut light hours back to 14ish and raised ppms to 600ish to force sex

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[PetFlora]

I cleaned the tote, which develops algae over a week due to canopy not yet big enough to shade the entire tote, so each watering a lot of water is getting hit with the light

I also lowered the 2 totes some 4" which keeps the SS 260 at 30" for the 3 smallest plants

I set up the new 2 x 4 tent, but a new 32 x 32 x 76 is waiting for me to pick up by Tuesday/Wednesday, so will wait for it to set up the 2 x 150s

 

[PetFlora]

The babies are really looking good since changing nutes and effectively raising the lights

Not sure when I can begin lowering the 260 but I can't raise it and the plants are growing

I cannot find 2 magnifying glasses somewhere in my house, to check for sex, but do have a jewelers magnifier

Alas, it looks like the plant on the left is one super bushy male

Could be a couple tall females among the babies, a sign of BM pheno

 

[PetFlora]

Here's a hot tip

Hydroponic Research makes +Size, a flowering amendment, that is ALSO good for starting seedlings/clones

From HR

"Use at .2grams per gallon for seedlings and clones. A little goes a long way."

 

[PetFlora]

UPDATE

Plants are really filling in/out

I took these pics at first lights on. ~ 1 hour later the leafs are reaching up toward the SS 260

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[PetFlora]

I am so excited by how fast they are growing, and how well they are doing under a much lowered light to canopy

As you can see the panel is < 10" from the tips of the 2 tallest plants (in the back), which I am hoping are 2 Big Mex females

5 days of steady rain has prevented me from properly airing out my new tent, but it's going to be dry for a few days, so by tomorrow I will erect the new tent and move the shorter plants (likely BBCC) under the 2 x SS 150s

Between the reveg and the solo plant I have more than enough BBCC, so might just compost them and start a new strain. Critical Mass anyone?

Note how full the solo plant is. Now I did Fim her (most likely), and her 2 top shoots are nice and thick. Just don't yet know whether she's a BBCC or a BM, though likely the former


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[PetFlora]

Getting ready to flip, but no signs of sex, so this morning I flipped the switch incorporating the reds as well

I was avoiding this since under the less intense BML this strain stretches like crazy

I was expecting more red hue, but minimal compared to what I was expecting

 

[PetFlora]

Babies are doing quite well being flooded every 2 hours instead of each hour

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[BongJohnSilvers]

Hey PetFlora, I am new here and looking at getting some new LED lights for my 2 4x4 grow rooms. What lights would you recommend? I've looked at the BML and California lightworks. Is there a site for the Amare? couldn't find anything.

 

[PetFlora]

Hey PetFlora, I am new here and looking at getting some new LED lights for my 2 4x4 grow rooms. What lights would you recommend? I've looked at the BML and California lightworks. Is there a site for the Amare? couldn't find anything.

Hey BJS, Amare is working on it. I have seen a glimpse: it is extremely professional, but more importantly, they are quality panels, designed by a mj grower for mj growers, in response to many crap lights he bought

There is no comparison to BML SPYDR in that BML does not have separate o/o switches to control when to add the reds for flower= too much stretch unless you are growing Indica dom

3-4 Solar Spec 150s/tent will likely do you well. He provides discounts for quantity purchase

Contact info@amaretechnologies.com

 

[BongJohnSilvers]

Cool, thanks for the info.

 

[PetFlora]

I removed Solo, as I suspected, it's a he.

I already have a bunch of seeds, so he's gone

Thinking to take the 2 next biggest (still hoping they are Big Mex females)

and put them under the 2 SS 150s, and push to flower

I will leave the rest under the SS 260 and decide whether to kill them off and start new strain

 

[PetFlora]

I hooked up the 2 SS 150s

Can't figure out how to use the H connector to hook them together

Veg lights only for ~ 10- 15 days

Looks like 2/3 on the left are Big Mex females

Once I flip, will move one under the 260

and the rest will either go under another light, or be culled


Probably will start a new thread later today



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[PetFlora]

Been a little negligent with this as I have other threads here using Amare

After reading Med-Mans tutorial, I went dark yesterday

Shooting for 36 hours dark, but since I already had some small buds I might flip later today, so they will get a few hours light before lights out

Be interesting to see what, if anything this does once some buds have set

I wound up with 2 BM females and 4 BBCC females crammed into one 5g tote.

I will separate them into 2 totes tomorrow


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[PetFlora]

For me, using the Solar Specs has been quite the learning curve

Hope this helps others avoid my mistakes/missteps

Sats have turned the corner, but I doubt they will end up comparing to what I did under the SPYDR 600

Keeping them in small net pots early on seems to have Bonsaied them

Also, I had to keep them under the SS 260 along with 6 BBCCs for ~ 5 weeks

and the light was too close

and the Mg deficiency (now adding ~ 400ppm of Epsom salt)

Then I was giving the sats the whites only under the SS 150s, where they needed more reds

Since compensating by putting the sats under red only for ~ an hour at first light, and at the end of day,

followed by full spectrum for ~ 9 hours, they have started to re-energize, but they are not setting the world on fire

BBCCs look fine, though also stymied from their early weeks in confinement

3/4 BBCCs are showing more of a sat main cola with little side branching, by product of the cross

Thankfully, one has vg side branching

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[PetFlora]

Sats

Doing much better

The one on the right is the better of the 2

All new growth no Mg deficiency

Still adding 400ppm Mg + nutes @ ~ 600ppm + HR +Size flower amendment. Will drop it ~ 300ppm next new batch

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BBCC

Bootylicious, aka The Bifurcated Beauty, is Indica dom (BBCC), whereas the Triplets are BBCC (collective about the same mass as BootyL), but expressing more Sat cola style

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