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Thank you for this valuable video. I soaked sunflower and calendula seeds for 24 hours and i got a very poor germination rate. I guess a hour of soaking will be better.
😂 cheap space blankets are not easier to clean unless you mean just replace them😂 but fr foil is easier to clean my setup has 90 something % mylar space blankets n honestly tin foil is better in some ways but same can be Said for mylar like how tape sticks to mylar miles better to the point where I can use half as much tape n be stronger then the foil 😂
This is almost useless. What you are measuring is the light that hits the floor, not the plant. Take the emergency blanket vs the tent material. The emergency blanket only reflects light down to your meter, while the tent material is designed to reflect light up and to the sides as well. All that reected light that would hit the plant from the sides and even at the bottom of the sides is not measured in your test. Therefore, you need to measure all surfaces equally, sides, top, bottom. The bottom would also be covered with plants, so you need some low reflective surface at the bottom too. Cheers:)
Growing in a wardrobe has one more advantage over a grow tent - *stealth* I had a similar setup many years ago, in a rented apartment, which was inspected (a brief look-around) every 3 months by a letting agent. A cheap 2-door wardrobe with a carbon filter, a cheap-ish 150W LED panel and 1 autoflower plant in a oxy-pot DWC, LST'd on a mesh net. Never had a problem. It was producing around 100g of dried bud every 2.5 months. My worst harvest was 90g, my best was 135g. The guy inspecting the property, each time was just a few feet away from the "growdrobe" and probably looked right at it many times, without ever suspecting there was a gorgeous weed plant in full bloom in there. This would never work with a grow tent, they are way too recognizable, even the smaller ones.
Hey dude just want to say that was a well done test and some good info to go along with it. I've seen another test to see how quick seeds can get to root, and it was less than a day, and once rooted the seeds were transplanted with 100% success rate. The starting of the soaking was different, with an alternation of going between very warm and very cool water, a few seconds for each and then put onto a tampon layer, which got warm water and a tampon layer on top that didn't have water pooling up that high, so it was moist but not full of water drowning the seed. He got to sprouting sooner doing it that way. I think I'm going to try 6, 9 and 12 hours for soaking in cups on a heat pad only to keep the water warm, doing the same in mild temp water, and then do the test of taking the seed back and forth between warm and cold water and then with all methods do the tampon thing I mentioned above so I have multiple ways of wetting the seed. Another person shows first putting seeds in the refrigerator for a time period before taking them out of the package to simulate winter, he also had a very high success rate, the soak time was shorter like maybe around 6 hours and he used tea. So now I'm being hit with ALL KINDS of ideas of what to try. What I know though is you need a controlled germination area, being able to maintain the temp and a heat pad under the trays as peppers want to germinate in warmer soil.
How well do you think Holographic tape would work its reflective and it reflects every color. In theory it might increase light and the spectrum of light?
Anything that's pure white or silver reflects the entire spectrum to begin with, holographic tape would actually be less reflective. I can say that a thin coat of white primer on aluminum foil is impressively more reflective than primer on bare wood.
Some questions please, I saw someone asked about mirrors already, but what if I used the most reflective only on the door and aimed the grow light at it ?? Thanks
Cool build. Looks fun. I never get tired of unzipping my grow tent. I have a small wire frame shelf unit inside mine, so I can have layers too. Works well for me.
Thanks for the video but this test isn't a very good one. I think to best see results you should do one under 3K, one 4K during veg and then change out the 4K for a 3K during flowe to se ethe true difference when compared to an ideal environment
I would say 6500k is much better, it grows plants better and faster. With 3000k and 4000k your wasting energy when you can spend the same energy on a 6500k light growing plants almost twice the size and strength.
@nosam5k It wouldn't concentrate. Rather, reflect light as it is (that's why we use mirrors because of fidelity). Other reflective foils, let's say aluminium, they kind of spread out light more evenly, so the risk of burn and hotspots isn't that high. But again, I'm a newbie when it comes to indoor gardening. I'd love to see the mirror growbox. It must look amazing, so feel free to build one!
Color temp and actual photosynthetically active radiation aren't entirely correlated. There are two fairly narrow wavelength ranges of light that most effectively produce photosynthesis, one is blue and the other red. Different lights of the same color temp typically have different mixture of those wavelength. 4000k actually falls into what is generally the worst in terms of PAR being not especially high in either the red or blue wavelengths plants need but higher in the green part of the spectrum which is virtually useless to plants. 2700k is typically decently high in the red while 5500k and 6500k are good in the blue region.
