Pro Source LED 180 Watt Illuminator Pro/ Test Grow! Girl Scout Cookies & Skywalker OG

LED TRIAL

Light: ProSource 180 watt Illuminator Pro

Rated @ 180 watts and 200 watts peak power.



However just simply taking this number and dividing it by square footage will not work..

There are four fans on the top of the unit.
Which activate when any one LED panel is turned on.

Note: There are four separate LED panels with four corresponding toggle switches on the top of the unit.
After doing further calculations the kw meter registers 45 watts when one panel is turned on.
And while each panel is switched on the power dose not increase in increments of 45.
Instead the kw meter increases an average of 35 watts with each panel turned on.

So lets do some math..

If each LED panel runs on 35 watts of total power.
And each panel has a 45 total 1 watt LED's.
Then the LED's are running at 77.77% of their peak power rating.

So 4 LED panels @ 35 watts of actual power each = 140 watts of pure LED power.
While the fans are consuming an average of 14-15 watts.

Running at 140 watts per 180 watt Pro Source LED Illuminator Pro should cover a 2x2 area with 35 watts/ft2. or a 1.75x1.75 area will give you 45 watts/ft2


Week: 1 Cloning

Medium: Sunshine Mix #4

Nutrients: Xtreme Gardening Line

Water: Purified

Container: 4" pot

Temp: 80' F.

Humidity: 40%

Room: 3x3 Grow Tent

Distance From Light: 30"

Light Cycle: 18/6



Summary:

This clone was cut one week ago and dipped in Azos.
Azos and Mykos were both added generously into the soil before transplanting the cuttings into 4" pots.
Cuttings were placed in the room on Wed. May 1st 2013 Pics are take on May 5th 2013 only four days later! Roots
No humidity domes were used on clones.

The soil was hydrated before cuttings were added to activate the Azos and the Mykos in the soil and to prevent over hydration as-well as avoiding removing the Azos/solution that the cutting was dipped in from the stem.

Although the LED's provide a bit more light than needed for cloning the lights being raised up 30" did not affect them too bad.They did show some signs of stress from to intense of light, but overall are ok.

Note: The mother of these plants were under MH HID lights. so some shock to the clones is expected. The LED lights are more than over kill for the newly cut clones.. Fluorescence lights provide lower light intensity and are more suited for cloning.
I am going to try a further distance next time for the first few days next time to minimize damage.

Srry about no pics.. I don't have them on a url.. So I'm gonna maybe create a slideshow and upload it to youtube

welcome Mike
I think a member needs 25(?) posts before he or she can upload photos. Cheers.

Posted some pics having trouble editing this post for some reason.. pics are in an album on the site, Albums-Pro Source LED 180 Watt Illuminator Pro/ Test Grow! Girl Scout Cookies & Skywalker OG Enjoy..

I let the clones root for a full ten days.
Plants are doing great on day 5 of veg right now in 1 gallon containers.
Just been Fimmed
They will be in there new 7 gal smart pots in a matter of days.
Will upload the new pics soon and hopefully update the post when I can figure out how on this forum..

Cheers,

BotanicMike

nice grow, the reason youre having trouble with pics is theyneed to be resized. theyre friggin huge....which is nice to look at but the forum gets bogged by big pics

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Originally Posted by Mal420xl

nice grow, the reason youre having trouble with pics is theyneed to be resized. theyre friggin huge....which is nice to look at but the forum gets bogged by big pics

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Lol.. yeah I workin on making them smaller.. Maybe I'll just post the Big ones on instagram for those who would like to see them bigger.. And the pics are easier to look at in a new tab for now.

Albums Day 1 and 8 of Veg

Only purified water (with mykos powder and azos) has been given to the plants so far.
The mykos and azos are only beneficial bacteria and micro-organisms and not nutrients at all. no N-P-K value.
I have not given the plants any nutrients because they have not showed signs of needing extra nitrogen as the micro-organisms in the Azos pull nitrogen out of the air and feed it to the plant systemically.
Also the previous tip curl has subsided and is no longer present.

LED TRIAL DAY 1-15 VEG - YouTube

GSC Day 1 Flower- 12/12 cycle (would be day 22 Veg)

Girl Scout Cookies LED Grow - YouTube

Skywalker LED Grow - YouTube

Quick update for the girls.

We started out with 4 now down to 3. One of the Skywalkers just wasn't performing well so I threw her outside. Will let mother nature care for her. As for the others.

I am going to be using a very simple and inexpensive nutrient line that I have used in the past and had great results. Technaflora's Recipe For Success.

They have had two feedings of Recipe for Success Veg. and One feeding of the Flower Recipe. Along with a weekly addition of Xtreme-compost tea and a bi-weekly application of Cal-carb foliar spray.

They have vegged for a total of 21 days. I induced a flower light cycle on day 22 now Day 1 Flower. Plants are a month old from the mother.

I have separated the girls so they can flower around the clock. The GSC will be awake and flowering during the day for 12 hours while Skywalkers are sleeping. And while the Sky's are awake at night the GSC will be sleepin.

So we are going to be flowering 24 hours a day with two different plant setups. GSC is in there by herself. And the Sky's will be sharing the space.
I have noticed that the GSC has nice Sativa dominant traits in her spacing and "she is reaching for the sky" while the Sky's are indica dominant and more short and stout. Will be interesting in seeing the difference between the two plants growing under LED's instead of HID.

I will also try and update some pics soon for those of you who do not wish to go to Youtube to watch a "short video". I try and keep em under two min! I don't wanna babble on and on behind the cam.. Just trying to show you that the setup is real and no staging..