MY 90watt led ufo tri ban

[wingedson]

potofgold, beautiful grow my friend! A buddy of mind has some LED grow's going, and while his bud has not looked like much, I have never had a cleaner, smoother high, or a better taste. Your buds look amazing, as good as anything I have grown under 1000w HPS. The trichrome's all look very bright, smooth, and milky! Nice work mate! I am thinking of setting up an LED grow in a Sun Hut type space, due to living in a 1 BR apartment now. I will keep checking this post, I am interested in what your harvest weights are! :thumbsup:

[headshake]

good looking harvest POG! i plan on getting (or building) some LED lights in the future. always so much to do and so little time and money!

-shake

[potofgold]

i harvested a little over 3.5 ounches dry. but i only got about 2.5 onches that were smokeable. when i can home and checked on my buds the spider mites web up alot of my buds. i took a big hit because of those little fu$kers. the shivias where able to ripen barley, but the super skunks were premature buds. i wont even smoke them because their so $hity. i will probley toss them out. the shivas were nice and dense and are some killer buds. they got me super high befor i even cured them. right now their in the jars curing.



so the high temps i had and those mites fu%ked me and my grow. the mites also web up my fat tops so those got threw out. man i didnt even get the chance to smoke my tops! i am realy pissed that those mites messed up my plants so bad. and the high temps just made them hatch faster.



i hade no chance but to pull my plants eirly, they just werent growing anymore and i couldnt get them to finish i spent 3 or 4 weeks trying to let them finished, then i relized i would take my loss and not wast more time i could spend bombing those mites for my next grow can start.



you can belive its war on those mites now. i have three differnt bombs, a no pest stripe, and some watered down bleach for the walls. for the next few weeks their will be war in my grow room. once i get this all tooken care of i will get me some more clones and start that led test between the 180w vs. 126w.

[FreeDaHerb]

I highly recommend introducing ladybugs in your next garden to take care of those terrible little spidermite bastards...they are extremely ferocious predators those pretty little ladybugs and they will tear the shit out of some mites for real. You can order them online from like lowes or home depot..they're cheap and alot of people use them in their outside gardens so it's not really something you have to be worried about getting delivered to you. Plus they are cool to watch when you get high hahah :hippy:

[potofgold]

right, i got my clones for this led test, heres the link. i wont be posting too much on this thread since its an old one. ill be on this new one from now on

http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-gr...ml#post2033244

[chasthanhburns]

I hope I'm not being an ass and I hope you don't mind me barging in here, but I have to ask some questions about the whole "light lockout" thing you mentioned earlier.

Is that suggesting that somehow LED's have become so powerful that they are stronger than natural sunlight? To my knowledge nothing compares to sunlight, and I've never heard of a cannabis plant getting too much sunlight. Can you post some info, or where you heard that?

Logically, I just can't wrap my mind around it. Light lockout?? Maybe it's like string theory, or the googoplex, and my human mind just doesn't have the capacity for it, but I'm smelling something afoot here.

I can garentey that it does i am now using 400 watt hps in a ducked hood with 250 cfm fan to cool it. i keep a temp between 82 and 95 in a 3x3 area. and you can see the spoting and browning bad under the light and at the sides agianst the mylar. 30000 lumnes is the most sun light can give im pushing 54000 right under and at edges and can garantey that if i moved my light down i could easly push lumnes up over 100000 and probably kill my plants over night.

[irydyum]

Now you are just pulling numbers and theory out of your ass. The sun puts out 30k lumens, cmon now. Per what, square inch, square foot, square mile, what?

Maybe it's heat burning the tops of your girls? 95 degrees has the capability to do that, especially if your canopy temp is higher. Why do you think mylar blankets are used for emergencies? The reflective side has the ability to reflect heat also, thus keeping us warm inside them. Maybe that's why the edges are browned too?

This is my problem with this claim of "light burn". The only time I hear people complain of it is when there are 3 other variables in their grow that are fucked up. It's never on a dialed in healthy grow that someone gets "light burn", or "light lockout" or any light issues for that matter. It sounds to me like many cases of poor troubleshooting.

[Weezard]

Now you are just pulling numbers and theory out of your ass.

True, dat!


The sun puts out 30k lumens, cmon now. Per what, square inch, square foot, square mile, what?

Maybe it's heat burning the tops of your girls? 95 degrees has the capability to do that, especially if your canopy temp is higher. Why do you think mylar blankets are used for emergencies? The reflective side has the ability to reflect heat also, thus keeping us warm inside them. Maybe that's why the edges are browned too?

This is my problem with this claim of "light burn". The only time I hear people complain of it is when there are 3 other variables in their grow that are fucked up. It's never on a dialed in healthy grow that someone gets "light burn", or "light lockout" or any light issues for that matter.

Um, Wanna see some pictures?
At about 100k LUX (to humans), I've had some serious bleaching.
And more from the blue, than the red, (Not heat)

It sounds to me like many cases of poor troubleshooting.

Most is, some is not.


Aloha IR.
Actually growth stops at the "saturation point" which is different for different kinds of plants and amounts of CO2.
I think it's about 91k LUX m2 of full spectrum light.
Above that bleaching does occur, just not with UFos.
I was unable to bleach tops with the 2 UFos that I helped folks with. the 1W. diodes don't have enough "juice" but the cheap ones will cause heat burn at about 1/2".


And no, they are not "brighter than sunlight".
The are just a hell of a lot closer than the sun.

Read, brah, read.

The Growing Edge Magazine - Rays of Life


Good info on the saturation point.

No accept dat?
Fine. jus' google "light saturation point" and get comfy.
Did not like da smell of dat 30klux comment.
We know where you got it from :S3:.

Aloha,
Weezard

[irydyum]

At least I can wrap my head around that, and get an explanation from someone who has experienced it. Friggin sheep are all gone bro...

[Weezard]

At least I can wrap my head around that, and get an explanation from someone who has experienced it. Friggin sheep are all gone bro...

Less Bah, more humbug.
Yup, old post too.
Still, it's an opportunity to share good info, yah?

1st hand "experience" is often marred by the conclusions drawn when one lacks key information .

So, I'll be off reading for a while.

Aloha nui,
Weezard