LED Ahoy!

[khyberkitsune]

Sorry I haven't been around. I'm working on new panels with 100w diodes in them and I had to go to the optometrist to get special temporary glasses because my dumb ass stared at it for too long. I'm better now!

Anyways, for me, I'm perfectly content with what gets grown under my LEDs. Right now, the tech is most certainly out there and surpassing T5 units as long as they are properly configured. Poor configuration = poor performance. Don't count on HID being 'out' just yet, as we're still waiting on 150+ lux/w outside of the lab.

For now, at the current level of LED tech, 300w LED ~= 600w HID for flowering/fruiting. 120w LED ~= 600w HID for veg. As long as you distribute it around and keep your plants smaller, you can actually yield more as you've got more canopy of cola.

In fact, I'm about to take maximum advantage of that sort of situation in my growing area - I've just finished working on a new SoG system. Here is a picture for you.

Overall, LED is pretty much 'there.' but you have to find the right people that know what they're doing. Once the tech gets good enough, any Joe Schmoe can pick up a white panel and grow whatever they wish better than an HID.

And Canna's correct, there is no 'color temperature' to speak of. If you wanted a relative value, 12,000K minimum minus green is a good approximation.

[daddaj]

do you think if a plant gets to much light it will turn leaves white and die.i had lites at 14 inches away is that to close

[khyberkitsune]

do you think if a plant gets to much light it will turn leaves white and die.i had lites at 14 inches away is that to close

Yes, that is called light bleaching, and typically that only happens with HID lamps. As to the distance, that depends on the light that you're using.

[khyberkitsune]

It only took just a few days for everything to go from cloudy to about 30% amber so it's chop time!

Oh yes, nice HEAVY buds.

The biggest one, from the beginning of the bud to the tip, is 14 inches long, average two inches across.

Best harvest yet and still improving! Everything so far has been mostly testing and experimentation, now the NFT setup is ready to roll and I should be producing spears like this non-stop, I just need to get clones going.

Also, I have a new mother plant, GDP. Looks like I'll be mixing up my batches, two rows of HS and two rows of GDP.

[canniwhatsis]

I certainly hope your GDP is better than mine was! My indoor girls have been hermi prone and low yielders. My outdoor plant is almost 6' tall and about 3 weeks into bud, No hermi's so far and it might be ok,... if it follows the indoor plants for yield, I'd say 1/2lb harvest late october. (cutting really close to the first freeze where I'm at! )

I've culled the strain due to hermi mom, but I've got lots of beans and am going to try it again from seed. It's not a high yield, but it packs a punch for what it gives you,... and my "crummy" harvests have garnered me 2 patients now!


I'm veging under the 120w LED I got from you, tho most of the plants had several months under HID before I switched. I"m watching my new Durban clone to see exactly what the LED does vs HID (I've veged plenty of clones under HID, and know how they act) So far I like it! :thumbsup:


I'll be watching for the GDP grow.

[khyberkitsune]

I certainly hope your GDP is better than mine was! My indoor girls have been hermi prone and low yielders. My outdoor plant is almost 6' tall and about 3 weeks into bud, No hermi's so far and it might be ok,... if it follows the indoor plants for yield, I'd say 1/2lb harvest late october. (cutting really close to the first freeze where I'm at! )

I've culled the strain due to hermi mom, but I've got lots of beans and am going to try it again from seed. It's not a high yield, but it packs a punch for what it gives you,... and my "crummy" harvests have garnered me 2 patients now!


I'm veging under the 120w LED I got from you, tho most of the plants had several months under HID before I switched. I"m watching my new Durban clone to see exactly what the LED does vs HID (I've veged plenty of clones under HID, and know how they act) So far I like it! :thumbsup:


I'll be watching for the GDP grow.

Oh yes, as soon as this clone becomes mom-ready it's on. That will be a couple of weeks, so I'm going to go ahead and get some fresh clones of the HS rooting out while I wait.

And I have these two clones that have rooted. Dunno what to do with them yet. Might drop in a small bucket. Might redo that Krusty Bucket right fast and just do two clones under 50w LED in that bucket.

[khyberkitsune]

Well, turns out the clones I got have spidermites. Time for a pyrethrum spray and then double-up with a dichlorvos strip.

[canniwhatsis]

That Sux man! Hope they didn't get on anything else you have going.

[khyberkitsune]

That Sux man! Hope they didn't get on anything else you have going.

Nope, just only on the clones I had procured. My Hindu moms in soil are fine, so far (I went over them with a magnifying glass last night.)

[TurboNugs]

Well this thread is making me a lil freaked....story.. Me and good friend that lives up the street are both growing...an we made a "friendly bet" for yields. I'm using a single cooltube with a 600w hps hort-blue and six plants...he has 4 25 watt all red led 1x1 panels, a 2 6 band "blue/red" 1x1 panels. He's also waiting on his 250w 6 band panel. He's got six going into flower also.

I thinking im gonna get my ass handed to me....LOL

Oh well it's all good fun:thumbsup: