LED grow test, comments wanted

[rtgcel]

What do yall think about my grow? Trying to work it out with some LEDs.


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[bigtopsfinn]

I think the LED's are making progress, nice grow :thumbsup:

Still, without having the nugs in hand and trying the finished product, I don't think I'd make the switch from my HPS just yet ;)

Some more info on the setup would be nice. What strain are you growing? Veg and flowering times? Yield?

[Weezard]

Very nice!:cool:
Wattage?
Colors?
Strains?

Aloha
Weezard

[ForgetClassC]

Just to note, those lights seen are 6 cell units. On the site the poster gave on another thread, the 3 cell units are around $800, just to give readers a point of reference. They do look very nice though.

-C

[martyrprojekt]

I think the only way I would be willing to use LEDS is for supplemental lighting at this point. I know some say the technoology is there...I want nice big and dense buds...I know my HPS lights can do that. :jointsmile:

[redtails]

I don't know, from what I keep hearing the LEDs make for frostier, better flavored nugs...Density isn't too much of a concern for me, I don't require much weight, but flavor and smoothness definitely are! When I get back into growing I'll be picking up some LEDs, especially since in my area it gets to around 125 F outside every summer...Seems like a substantial savings for ventilation and electricity costs.

[rtgcel]

It was bubble blueberry. The lights have 4 different types of emitters on board. Each three CEL runs 64 watts through my "killowatt" meter and I used two to flower (128 watts total). 18/6 veg and 12/12 flower. It took about 3.5 months start to finish from a clone. About .875 gram/watt min yield. Very potent and super smooth product. Im still a pretty "green" grower so any advice would be helpful.

[Weezard]

Mahalo!
"Im still a pretty "green" grower so any advice would be helpful. "

I'll take yer word for da pretty.:D

The green makes me curious though.

Why green leds?


I'm quite happy with blue and red.

As for advice?
Lose the Hydrotron and look into coco coir.:cool:
It's a good medium for led growing.
I do have some experience with both.
And have posted hints with my album pictures.

Aloha.
Weezard

[stra8outtaWeed]

i can't see the pictures here...the net won't open them...but i am with Weez...why the green LED's...they sell green lights so you can enter your flower room during dark cylce w/o interupting the plant...so if a plant cannot see the green wavelength's why include it in your setup?

[rtgcel]

beta carotene needs green light.

[stra8outtaWeed]

again~if grow shops are all selling green LED lights to use for entering a grow room in the dark cycle without interupting the plant...how does it see it the green to make beta-carotene? does not make sense to me! my LEDs have some fringe spectrum lighting but no green!:hippy:

[ForgetClassC]

The only thing I can think of is the small amount of the flowers that are not green, like the pistols, but I don't think those produce, they are just produced. I don't know.

-C

[rtgcel]

As for advice?
Lose the Hydrotron and look into coco coir.:cool:
It's a good medium for led growing.


I tried Cocofiber and ended up with a lot of gnats in my apartment. Is there another alternative?

As for the green. I tried custom lights with green and with out and the green ones caused tighter nodes and faster, fuller growth.

[khyberkitsune]

beta carotene needs green light.

Not necessarily. The Emerson effect can just as easily work in a plant to downshift blue light that isn't used into green quantum incident light to give BC what it needs. You really want to drop the green out, as it actually works as a growth inhibitor and has very little photosynthetic effect.

If you want to directly stimulate BC and include some photosynthetic effect if you just don't want to find more blue modules, look for more aqua-green LEDs in the 500-510nm range