Quote Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
A single 90w would support ten plants for initial seedling/rooting/vegetative stage. When it comes to flowering you'll want to double that or possibly triple that depending upon your room setup. I most certainly would not use a single 90w for flowering 10 plants, however.

If I could get dimensions of your boxes I could probably give you a much better idea of what you'd need lighting-wise.
You gave me the perfect advise, because I'm already a step ahead of you . In tent 1 I will have a 4ft 8bulb t5 floro fixture with 54w 6500K with the supplement 90w LED for flowering (8 plants), and in tent 2 I'll have a 600w HPS supplemented with another single 90w LED for flowering (10 plants). So I think I'm set if you think that a single 90w LED for veg will cut it for up to 10 plants (my pocketbook thanks you).

Now the question is what kind of specs I need for the lights? I know you said that I'll have to get triband to get any decent results and that I should look for a 30% blue: 70% red ratio. The problem is that when I looked into the tribands, everyone posts what specific spectrum of light each of the colored diodes puts out, but nobody posts specifically how many diodes of what color there are on the panel.

Now this is something very crucial to my setup that I don't want to screw up, so I want to make sure I get the correct ones I'm looking for. Do you have any suggestions as to where I should look for the proper lighting that you have previously described to me? And like I said, I like the work you've done and I'm willing to support it, so if there's a vendor that offers the lights that you designed...I'm very interested. And of course I'll be keeping a grow log when everything is finally ready to go, which will add to even more documentation about growing with LEDs to share with everyone here.

And I know you requested more info on my growing areas in order to give me some more specific info, so here it is (btw, these areas are larger than boxes, but when relating to your typical "grow rooms"...they are two small places):

Tent 1: 3.5ft (wide) x 4.5ft (long) x 2ft8in (tall) = 42 cubic feet - Subtracting the heights of the lights and the pots, I have a 2ft tall area to work with (side room is there if needed, so splitting the power to two 50w and hanging them on the sides is a very viable option if necessary) = about 31.5 cubic feet. I might hang a wire grid in this one and run the grid up the side walls and run the plants up the grid to get a few more inches of growth...that or I'll just prune.

Tent 2: 2.5ft (wide) x 6.5ft (long) x 6ft10in (tall) = about 112 cubic feet - Subtracting height of the HPS and the pots, I have a 6ft2in tall area to work with = about 101 cubic feet.

Again, I'm using panda plastic, so you're dealing with that for the amount of reflection.

Thanks again for all the help and advice.

Oh, also, I'll be growing NL and NL x Skunk, which I've heard grows around 3ft on average, so I figured I can make the plants in tent 2 taller to compensate for the shorter plants in tent 1. But on that note, if that's how I'm going to grow them, will 3gal pots be enough for the taller plants or will I have to move up to a 5gal? I'm assuming that the shorter ones (tent 1) will be okay in a 3gal. I'll be germing with an aero system, moving them into a 1gal during seedling/early veg, and then again into a 3gal when the root sytem is ready for it (and I guess 5gal after that if necessary...what do you think about that?).
TreetopFarmer Reviewed by TreetopFarmer on . Noob's First Grow - Advice Needed Hey all, I've been around the forums for about a month now with research and such, but I finally registered because I figured I may as well share my plan and request advice to get it exact. Like I said, most of this plan is based solely upon research. I'm currently experimenting with some reg seeds to get the feel of it, but that's using a small aeroponics system. Now before I start, this is a system that will probably require some money to build, but from what I can put together, Rating: 5