bboyfromwayback
Well-known member
I just noticed that this month is my 1yr anniversary as a GWE member. I’m a long time grower, only I’m old school and skittish as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs when it comes to my illegal hobby. Due to that I never researched growing online over fears of being busted. Then things changed.
In January of 2020 I decided to try switching over to LED’s to eliminate the heat issue with HPS summer grows. I first attempted to replace my 400w HPS with a Amazon burple that claimed to produce the same as a 250w HPS at only 80w 😂😂😂 (yea I fell for it but it had tons of great bot reviews) I never even made it to flower with that light. It didn’t take me long to realize it’s description and the reviews were bs. If it can’t veg as well as my 200w T5 fixture, how’s it going to flower better than any HPS?
Anyways, I have to thank Amazon for their bs light/description/fake reviews because they got me doing something I’d never done since the invention of the internet, I researched growing marijuana which eventually led me to finding GWE.
It was after reading a few articles I decided these folks seem to know their stuff and went with Nebula’s LED recommendations of either HLG or Electronic Sky. Thanks to covid and the first round of stimulus checks HLG’s were on back order and since I had the money to burn I went with the more expensive Electric Sky lights and 4 grows later I couldn’t be happier with my choice. I only used my portable ac a couple weeks last July and my plants have more color during flower than I’ve ever had. Not to mention they’re frostier Bc the HPS isn’t burning those pretty tops.
Since joining this site my part time hobby of only growing a few clones from my moms when our supply starts to get low has turned into a nonstop 2 tent, perennial grow. I’ve ordered seeds online, found auto flowers as a neat little side grow, bought another tent/fan/light 😂, discovered how to manifold a plant (which beats the crap out of a mainline timewise), discovered edibles, tincture, Cana butter, found out that the Magical Butter Machine is worth its weight in gold, as well as numerous tricks and techniques used by other growers that’s really made this hobby fun. Now instead of growing a plant just to have some smoke I’m doing experiments and trying new things. Who knew, a old dog can learn new tricks.
To all the growers on here I’ve talked to over the last year, made comments on their posts and they’ve commented on mine (too many to list but they know who they are) or I just glared at their plants in amazement, I thank everyone of you with the utmost gratitude. This site and it’s members are an absolute wealth of knowledge. So once again, much thanks and appreciation ðŸ™ðŸ»
BTW that cheap ass 80w burple has proven to be effective as a low wattage heat source in my veg tent when it gets super cold 🤷ðŸ»â€â™‚ï¸
In January of 2020 I decided to try switching over to LED’s to eliminate the heat issue with HPS summer grows. I first attempted to replace my 400w HPS with a Amazon burple that claimed to produce the same as a 250w HPS at only 80w 😂😂😂 (yea I fell for it but it had tons of great bot reviews) I never even made it to flower with that light. It didn’t take me long to realize it’s description and the reviews were bs. If it can’t veg as well as my 200w T5 fixture, how’s it going to flower better than any HPS?
Anyways, I have to thank Amazon for their bs light/description/fake reviews because they got me doing something I’d never done since the invention of the internet, I researched growing marijuana which eventually led me to finding GWE.
It was after reading a few articles I decided these folks seem to know their stuff and went with Nebula’s LED recommendations of either HLG or Electronic Sky. Thanks to covid and the first round of stimulus checks HLG’s were on back order and since I had the money to burn I went with the more expensive Electric Sky lights and 4 grows later I couldn’t be happier with my choice. I only used my portable ac a couple weeks last July and my plants have more color during flower than I’ve ever had. Not to mention they’re frostier Bc the HPS isn’t burning those pretty tops.
Since joining this site my part time hobby of only growing a few clones from my moms when our supply starts to get low has turned into a nonstop 2 tent, perennial grow. I’ve ordered seeds online, found auto flowers as a neat little side grow, bought another tent/fan/light 😂, discovered how to manifold a plant (which beats the crap out of a mainline timewise), discovered edibles, tincture, Cana butter, found out that the Magical Butter Machine is worth its weight in gold, as well as numerous tricks and techniques used by other growers that’s really made this hobby fun. Now instead of growing a plant just to have some smoke I’m doing experiments and trying new things. Who knew, a old dog can learn new tricks.
To all the growers on here I’ve talked to over the last year, made comments on their posts and they’ve commented on mine (too many to list but they know who they are) or I just glared at their plants in amazement, I thank everyone of you with the utmost gratitude. This site and it’s members are an absolute wealth of knowledge. So once again, much thanks and appreciation ðŸ™ðŸ»
BTW that cheap ass 80w burple has proven to be effective as a low wattage heat source in my veg tent when it gets super cold 🤷ðŸ»â€â™‚ï¸
