LED grow NO.2, testing the Pro-Grow 260 and Rhino Seeds.

Nice looking plants Silent Leprechaun, man, for 4 weeks you really get them to stretch out. I've never heard of seaweed and tomato. Immediately googled and found Neptune's Harvest Organic Fish and Seaweed Blend Fertilizer, 2-3-1. on amazon, but i also found something else called, Garden-Ville Sea Tea and Garrett Juice Folliar Plant Food , all on amazon. I'm looking for some kind of organic fertz. Yesterday I was looking at Jack's Classic Duo, but now you've got me interested in Seaweed. From looking at your pics, i think I'm getting close to Flowering. Great post dude.

Here you go dude.

The pictures below contain names, addresses and phone numbers. You can order online. I think they are just about the only company in Ireland that sell the stuff and it's a really good price.
I got a friend to buy it for me on a credit card. I wouldn't even have ferts come to my door. Always be careful and stay off the radar ;)
The stuff lasts forever ! I also use Bat guano and Worm Castings.

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you appear to be right on track! Keep up the good work

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Thanks for the pics Silent Leprechaun of the items. I purchased Jack Classic's All Purpose and Bloom Booster. By the time I start flowering, I'm thinking about the Neptune's Fish and Seaweed Fertlizer, or Garden-Ville Sea Tea. I'm really impressed with your Growth. Man, that's crazy how fast your girls grow. Great Job Silent Leprechaun.

Hey Silent Leprechaun

How good is the Pro-Grow 180? I was looking at the 260 and ran across it. I've got a small grow so hmmm, but I wonder how much light will i lose from not going with the Pro Grow 260. My main goal is to grow a couple of plants within the 12 weeks period. 4 Veg, and 8 Flowering, but I'm not sure if the lights I have will do that. I can send one of my lights back, and get refunded and purchase either 260 or 180. But, I think I will always have that question in the back of my mind if I purchase the 180. Should I have gone with the 260? haha
After seeing your post, that really does it for me with the 260, but I was just curious if the 180 would handle small grows in a timely manner.

I've ruled out the Solar Flare because of 2 year warranty.

Also, What soil medium is inside your Peat Cups at the top of the thread?

The Pro-Grow 260 is perfect for my 90cm x 90cm floor space.

Be careful that you don't overcrowd your grow room. I made that mistake in my first grow and the plants spent most of their energy trying to grow over each other to get the light.

If your floor area is the same as mine don't grow more than 4 plants in there. You could grow 9 plants in my space in a SOG grow but I'm guessing you aren't doing that.

You want your plants to get plenty of light and you want the light to penetrate the canopy. You also want to plants to relax and produce buds and not compete too much with each other.

In the end you will have 4 plants happily producing bud and not leaf and stem. Think of all the energy, time and nutes being lost there !

I wouldn't get the Pro-Grow 180 if you intend to grow 8 plants under it. For 8 plants you will need the Pro-Gro 400. my friend just bought one of them for her large 1.2 x 1.2m tent.

There Pro-Grow 400 are beasts :)

Just tell me your floor area and I can give you an estimate of how many plants you can grow comfortably in there. I can then give you an idea of the size of light you will need.

I only used good quality potting soil in the peat pots. Never use anything with added nutes when growing seedlings. Keep the soil as plain as possible so you don't burn/stress them.

Take Care

S.L.

Typo above, I meant to say : "The Pro-Grow 400 are beasts".

My grow room size is 4ft x 4ft x 6ft. But I only plan to grow no more than 4 plants in there at a time. MAX. To be honest, if I can get 2 girls to grow nicely and on schedule, then I would be satisfied with that.

From my conversations with you and stezzyd, I have learned about good soil and ventilation. And yes, you have mentioned that you can have the right light, but if you don't have the right soil medium, it won't grow like it can or should.

I'm satisified with your answer about the 260. That's the way I'm going. The only problem I will have will be waiting on the refund from the initial light to be returned, and thus then purchasing the 260. So I will be using the 1 100 watt UFO and 2 CFL's and continuing vegging until the 260 comes in. Could be another month of vegging. wow, this first grow hasn't been bad. Just learning a lot from mistakes and correcting mistakes during a grow can add time from what I've noticed. But in the end, let's hope it's all worth it.

Thanks Silent Leprechaun.

260 it is, and can't wait.

glad I was some help. You won't be sorry with the Pro-Grow 260. It only uses 190w and the veg and bloom spectrum are switched.

I use the veg spectrum (white/blue) LED for the first week so the seedlings don't get stressed. Strangely this LED looks very much like daylight when switched in the veg mode.

After a week I blast the plants with the full 190w, both spectrum on ! In the last 2 weeks of bloom its a good idea to use just the red spectrum. I keep the CFLs running all the time.

So I switched my lights to 12/12 2 days ago and I can already see that they are all female, well, they were feminised seeds so no surprise there :)

Here are a few pics, maybe you might see those tiny pistils !! :) They are tiny right now though... You won't see them I think.

They are exactly 35 days old by now so bang on 5 weeks. They are all around a foot tall by now and about a foot wide with plenty of nodes. Lots of nodes make a nice bushy plant.

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That first pic is great. Kinda like those pictures that are taken with electron microscopes.

Anyways, I'm another admirer of your Irish toil and trouble via LED. I picked up the Hydro Grow 21x pro- so far so good. Very cool technology.

Cheers!