Omnibuddy Custom LED Grow

Since my system has gone through many stages of upgrades over the last few months, I thought I would post a bit more information about the setup.

This is a diagram I made to represent my flowering area. As you can see it is a heavily LED dominant setup with T5 and UVB support.

I am currently growing bushy plants in a dense area of about 4ft by 5ft.

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LED units are only putting out 80W to 90W, so the breakdown is:

(3) 120W Purple Dual Band LEDs @ No Less Than 240W Realized Light
(1) 120W Blue Quad Band LED @ No Less Than 80W Realized Light
(6) 24W UVB @ 144W Realized Light
(2) 4ft T5s with (2) 54W 3000K T5 Bulbs In Each @ 216W Realized Light
(4) 2ft T5s with (1) 24W 300K T5 In Each @ 96W Realized Light

Totals Realized Watts for Flower Lighting: 776
Running Flowering Time of 12/12

OG Larry Curing

Today I cut the stems out and began curing. I am going to try to cure in pint size canning jars.

I plant to cure for four weeks.

The weigh-in today was 2.9 oz.

I've been trying to decide what plants to continue growing. Right now there are some clear losers and clear winners.

OG Larry (Yes)
Turned out very nicely and I will definitely keep this one going.

Jillybean (Yes)
female (I keep checking for herm) but is growing with amazing vigor compared to it's five neighbors.

Pineapple Punch (Yes)
One of these plants is pretty pitiful. It is puny in size and will definitely not be grown again. The second Pineapple Punch was doing very well. It had an amazingly thick and strong stem and nice growth. Unfortunately this one hermed due to mite poisons. I have a non-hermed clone taken earlier on and will give this strain one more chance.

707 Headband (No)
Just isn't my style so I won't continue this strain.

Sage OG (Probably Not)
seems to have short dense nugs. I guess the weigh in will be more telling.

Lavender (Undecided)
Undecided

Vortex (Yes)
A very fast grower and nice looking plant. This one has some potential.

I am setting up some new T5 lighting in the flowering room.

I have 10 of the 24w 3000k 2ft T5 lights. I have decided to wall mount them as a ring around the sides of the grow space. This should allow for larger buds on the lower portions of the plant.

Its great to read how well OG Larry turned out, you'll have to give us a smoke report after she's done curing :) You've really grown some different strains there and I always find it interesting to see which ones suit different people and why.
I'm trying to decide a similar thing too at the moment. I love my Kandahar but there's 2 distinct phenotypes - tall and leggy or short and stocky - and its a matter of which one to carry on with that suits our grow space (both smoke great).
Are you able to post up some pics of your flower room upgrade? I'm curious to see how much difference adding the T5's will make, its not something I've done yet and its always interesting to see if its worthwhile trying.

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Originally Posted by rattlingdags

Are you able to post up some pics of your flower room upgrade? I'm curious to see how much difference adding the T5's will make, its not something I've done yet and its always interesting to see if its worthwhile trying.

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Hi Rattlingdags,

Here is a photo of my Flowering setup. As you can see there are (10) 24w T5 lights wrapping the chamber.

Good stuff!

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IMHO my friend you need to drop those LED lights closer. You are not getting much penetration from what looks like 18 inches away, considering my big panels are only as intense as the sun from 9-10 inches.

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Originally Posted by khyberkitsune

IMHO my friend you need to drop those LED lights closer. You are not getting much penetration from what looks like 18 inches away, considering my big panels are only as intense as the sun from 9-10 inches.

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I definitely agree. I am struggling with this issue because it is hard and time consuming to raise and lower my lights. Unfortunately, because of the tight space, I found I needed the height so I can lean over and squeeze in there to manage the plants.

I think creating a new system to hang the lights would help. I have been considering PVC piping. Then I can support the lights from a PVC structure instead of from the ceiling.

I also saw some pulley cords made to hang lights. I have a friend that is using some from the hydro shop, and it was a simple and convenient design. It would possibly make raising and lowering lights daily an easier process...

Any recommendations to better automate raising and lowering a large number of lights?

Over at a friend's house I built a multi-light rack from some cedar, then put it on those light yo-yo pulleys. Picture included.

Wow thats some set up you put tpgether for your freind Khyberkitsune,Its always interesting to see the difference in knowledge that some of you americans have compared to us Irish when setting up grow rooms.