LED growing- An instructional grow log

[cmasfca]

I've never seen a pink grow before.....

Red + Blue = Purple silly!

Keep us updated Stealth, I'm interested in this :thumbsup:

[Blumen]

You might be able to set the whitebalance in your cam. You have to use a white sheet of paper (or better slightly grey, but white will do) and take a reference picture for the camera of it under the pink light. The camera alters the colors accordingly, but the plants would still look dark, since there is no green in the spectrum

[SnSstealth]

good idea rock,ill take a few babies out for pics.., as far as the nutes go...i got the 6 nute set from fox farm, using their soil too. they call for nutes at week one. its not for flowering, you got me as to why the call it big bloom, lol, but its for veg. tiger bloom is for starting flowering. just following their feeding chart man.lol. i have a buddy who used their line and had amazing results. and no man skirt here, lol...i wouldnt be on this site if i knew everything and had a sandy vagina....heh...im just trying to be the guy to let everyone know if these LEDs will change our growing habits. initial investment was kinda harsh, but will pay for itself after a harvest or two...the entire room only raised 3 degrees! and the room only pulls 450w..lights fans ozone and all. so either im out a BIT of money, or we will see a revolutionary grow...one of the two...lol
so i guess the grow intgrity will be fine for 2 min a week to pull one out for pics, or i may put a few regular bulbs in the room for photo sake. just turn em on for that. ill take some more pics when the lights come on and post em. heres a link for those nutes rock
http://www.foxfarmfertilizer.com/soilfeed.pdf

thanks for the help and comments guys,
and gal, (weedhound)
whiskeytango

[Rock.Steady]

ok, reason i assumed those are 'bloom' nutes?
i also use FoxFarms.
"Grow Big" in veg stage
"Big Bloom" in flwr. stage
so, the wording had me baffled. if its designed for veg, have at it.

as to your lighting and pix, a suggestion,,,
just a suggestion....

get 1x 26/100W (blue/daylighter) CFL, mount it in your grow area.
when u want to take pix, switch cfl ON, the LEDs OFF.
take your pix and reverse ur lighting back.

it'll get to be a PITA to be shufflin pots in n out just for pix.
plus, less chance of stressin em, if u move them less.
During the veg stage especially, they can definately take a decent level of abuse, but once u go to flwr, handle with care.:thumbsup:

[Rock.Steady]

hey man, i looked at that chart, same one i lost months ago.

here's my thinkin, FWIW

gotta go by the Nute levels. N-P-K

Grow Big (says right on bottle "for lush vegetative growth") and is 6-4-4 (strong N for veg)

Big Bloom is 0.01-0.3-0.7 and u do use more of this per dose than the Grow Big. (nearly no N)

thats my story and im stickin to it.

[Opie Yutts]

SnS, many people think it's wise to use a little bloom nutes during seedling growth. I do just fine without it at this point, but I'm using a 1 part granular mix that's supposed to have everything needed. I add some stuff though, CalMag and SuperThrive mainly, but they don't want hardly anything in their first 2 weeks except a little B1 of your choice.

A couple photo hints. Take your camera off Automatic mode and put it on Program. You should be able to force flash, providing you've popped up the flash thing. No matter what light is on it will make the plants green, mostly. Also you could take photos when the lights go out without a problem, and use a fluoro for lighting, or flash or both. Regardless of what people tell you, this will not make your plants turn hermie. Especially if you do it right after or before the lights are on. The plants are not so chronographically inclined that they would know the difference between 12 hours or 12 hours and 5 minutes of light. I've worked in my closet for hours at a time after lights out. Many times. No problems yet. It's good to see the purple LED color or actual color of any lighting system, but you ought to put in at least a couple photos of what the plants actually look like. It's kinda hard to tell when they are purple all over. If you do so, we still will consider it an all LED grow. Flash from photos does not count.

I am interested in what and how many nm the LEDs are in your lights. I would be surprised if there is more than 1 blue and 1 red, and I think LED lighting needs more than two if it's going to be as efficient as possible.

[SnSstealth]

ill try the flash here in a few min and see if that works. i just didnt wanna hear anyone say it wasnt a true LED grow. and i thought i was following the chart, big bloom week 1, 2tbl per gal. just started the grow big last night.gimme a few min, and ill be back to post those pics

opie, ill have those specs for ya in the next post with the pics

[Opie Yutts]

Cool, and I would just keep following the chart. I think that should do wonderfully. I've always wanted to stick to the Fox Farm chart but I just didn't want to spend all that money. I think if you are successful I may try it, since I pretty much have all their stuff now, at least for hydro.

[SnSstealth]

yeah man, my other grows worked GREAT following their schedule, and since i spent DOUGH on this grow....lol...it better work, i got all six soil nutes from fox farm, 7 bags of fox farm ocean forrest, and the beige pots i am testing roots organic soil. i figure if im gonna go out on a limb and do a grow like this, might as well go all out. didnt hurt that previous harvests paid for this set up....lol
ok one pic is out of the room
others with flash, ill try the construction paper behind them next. them if that doesnt work, we'll just put an incandescent blyb in there somewhere....do these look on time? they sprouted 7 days ago...stretching a lil?...first set of 5 leaves are starting out

thanks guys
whiskeytango

[SnSstealth]

tried to edit to late i guess

oh and opie, 56 CREE* Xlamp high power LEDs 40 red 635nm, 16 blue 470nm, and im getting 4-5k lumens at eh base of all the pots. i know the lumen output is not rated the same as hid. more on that later