my cfl-led grow

[beef74]

howayah folks-heres a quick pictorial catch up of my cfl/led grow-500 watts-50/50 led/cfl.2 1/2 quart containers of rockwool and hydroton-hand watered with gh flora nutes.

[beef74]

the 2 less developed plants are himalaya gold-7 and 18 days flowering respectively.The three more developed plants are nightshade now at 26 days of 12/12.Heres a couple more day 26 pics.

[beef74]

and heres my other auto/ clone veg tent-

[justanotherbozo]

high bro, lookin' good.

btw, can you take some pics with just the CFL's? the LED's throw some odd
light so it's difficult to see if you have any issues going on.

[beef74]

high bro, lookin' good.

btw, can you take some pics with just the CFL's? the LED's throw some odd
light so it's difficult to see if you have any issues going on.

thank you my friend, and no prob-I'll post a green pic this evening -they're little gals so I can easily takem out a snap some pics.Thanks for stoppin in-peace

[beef74]

figure I'd show my boring hps/cfl grow-250whps-hortilux,150w cfl- blueberry dutch passion-just to show you guys what I usually get with hps-for comparison- tell me what ya think/ I think hps is still king- hey, I'm no zealot.

[beef74]

and heres the led/cfl grow-I forgot the lights off pick guys-sorry, I'll write a note so I remember tomorrow.peace

[JohanD420]

Those look very NICE! how far in are they? Keep up the great work!

[perpetr8r]

figure I'd show my boring hps/cfl grow-250whps-hortilux,150w cfl- blueberry dutch passion-just to show you guys what I usually get with hps-for comparison- tell me what ya think/ I think hps is still king- hey, I'm no zealot.

Sweet looking! Hope mine get like that :) How was the dp blueberry when it was done? I'm growing some myself currently. I am curious to know if you've had any issues such as I'm having with one of them :)

Thanks! :hippy:

[beef74]

Those look very NICE! how far in are they? Keep up the great work!tnk you kindly-the plants in the above pic are 27 days into flower-18 days and 7 days respectively- the hps plants-the more developed are 6 weeks in.So close.

[beef74]

Sweet looking! Hope mine get like that :) How was the dp blueberry when it was done? I'm growing some myself currently. I am curious to know if you've had any issues such as I'm having with one of them :)

Thanks! :hippy:Thanks man, and dp blueberry is a sensitive gal-to just about everyting-be careful, and very moderate, with chem nutes, I use Pura Vida, and BioBizz, with DJ Shorts strains-god, that mans a genius, but his stock seems, IMHO, to like organic nutes a little better.

[beef74]

and todays pics

[beef74]

heres todays pics-

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couple more

[WeayLay]

Wow, LED Technology has gone a long way, that's really cool. Good luck on your grow :D

[beef74]

Wow, LED Technology has gone a long way, that's really cool. Good luck on your grow :Dthank you kindly- heres todays pics

[beef74]

gettin bigger

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couple more pics

[beef74]

todays pics-

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lights out pic

[beef74]

packed the veg tent today-4 la confidential-3 nightshades-2 blueberries.ffof potting soil+hydroton-ph balanced water

[beef74]

day 33 pics-

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equiptment and lights out pics

[beef74]

pics from this morning

[beef74]

packed the veg tent today-4 la confidential-3 nightshades-2 blueberries.ffof potting soil+hydroton-ph balanced water
jus to update ya's-the veg/auto/clone- tent has 2 90w ufo's, and 2 12w cree 1w diode fixtures-1 cool/ 1 warm

[beef74]

heres day 39- the diesel ryders in the purple pic are a month old-the sprouts in the cups are-2 blueberry,2 nightshade, and 3 LA Confidential-an OG KUSH strain-from what I've read-

[beef74]

nightshade harvest

[beef74]

it wasnt too long ago that people, myself included, dismissed leds and cfls as weak alternatives to hid-I'm not so sure about that now.peace

[ForgetClassC]

so you are using hydroton as a sub-straight in turn for soil rather than doing hydro? If so, how do you apply your nutes?

[Joefarmer]

Nice grow bro!
I see you've got the curly cfl's as a supplement. Do you know if the tube cfl's work just as good? Perhaps some t5's.

[justanotherbozo]

Nice grow bro!
I see you've got the curly cfl's as a supplement. Do you know if the tube cfl's work just as good? Perhaps some t5's.

high bro, just thought i'd jump in here and say that the tube type fluoro's work
just fine and, in fact, the T5 HO's are the top of the line in fluorescent lighting.

not knowing how familiar you are with fluoro's let me tell you that that designation
'T5' refers to the diameter of the bulb, so a regular shop light fluorescent light is
usually a T12 and the T5's will be long and much more slender, almost half the
diameter of a standard broom stick.

anyway, i'm a micro-grower so my needs are relatively small.

here's a few pics of a new mother cab i'm finishing up tonight, just waiting
for the drill and the camera battery packs to re-charge.

note that i'm using a 4 bulb, 2 foot, T5 HO light as my only light for this box,
for a total of 96watts, 24watts per bulb.

i expect that to be enough to keep 15 bonsai mothers and still have room for about
a dozen rooting cuts.

[Joefarmer]

Nice. I've got the Pioneer Jr. IV myself for starting my outdoor babes. I was thinking of adding it to my Procyon 100 for flowering but space is limited so I will probably just use the 100w bulb. Stay tuned for the log.