LED Ahoy!

[bkbbudz]

been reading a few posts and checking your pics. Seems like you really know what you are doing. Was wondering if you can offer a small piece of wisdom. I am a total newbie, never grew a single stem. But I am going to start very soon and i want to used LED. I was contemplating getting a 90 watt UFO from HTG on ebay. I read in your posts you design and build your own and wonder if you can tell me anything about their product or can steer me in the right direction. Of course they want to sell their product but they claim this thing is so great that if God needed an LED he would get theirs!

I would also use the UFO in conjunction with 4 CFL's. I am trying to do this thing right the first time. There are alot of things that can go wrong especially on my 1st grow so I want to get all the expert advice I can.

[khyberkitsune]

been reading a few posts and checking your pics. Seems like you really know what you are doing. Was wondering if you can offer a small piece of wisdom. I am a total newbie, never grew a single stem. But I am going to start very soon and i want to used LED. I was contemplating getting a 90 watt UFO from HTG on ebay. I read in your posts you design and build your own and wonder if you can tell me anything about their product or can steer me in the right direction. Of course they want to sell their product but they claim this thing is so great that if God needed an LED he would get theirs!

I would also use the UFO in conjunction with 4 CFL's. I am trying to do this thing right the first time. There are alot of things that can go wrong especially on my 1st grow so I want to get all the expert advice I can.

Pardon me for the late reply, I'm in the UK right now performing new tests on stuff with my boss.

I have used HTG. For a vegetative panel, it's good, but it needs more blue during the flowering stage IMHO. If you were to go with HTG, I would supplement with 6500K CFL or other efficient fluorescent type lamps.

Do not use the fluorescents for underlighting. Chlorophyll has a one-way reaction path, this has been proven in centrifugal-separated samples of chlorophyll. If you took a test tube of chlorophyll, put it in front of red and blue light (between you and the light source,) it would pass through and you'd see purple. If you were to place a light source at nearly your same position (say right at your side, you holding onto the lamp pole,) and hold the tube of chlorophyll in front of you and the light, you would get a majority of the light reflected back to you depending upon how little you disturb the test tube of centrifuged chlorophyll, and it would appear green. With this in mind, use the fluorescents for inner-canopy lighting if you have a deep canopy - just a simple tiny thin glass or plastic case to keep the plant from being burned will be sufficient without causing detrimental losses.

If you want to talk more about this personally, feel free to use the contact buttons that you see at the top right of each of my posts (AIM, Yahoo, Skype icons.) I might be slow to respond, depends on what I'm doing at that moment, but I will help you out. And if I can't, I'll direct you to Stra8outtaweed or Weezard, who will have a fair share of their own to say and can likely help you further on stuff I haven't done test-wise yet (They pretty much cover what I haven't done test-wise so they can give you the straight dope, no pun intended!)

[khyberkitsune]

I'm back from the UK!

Have a look at my real stuff, ladies and gents.

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[rattlingdags]

Hey welcome home
I was reading that companies website a while ago and was pretty impressed with the potential for that form of growing to provide suppliment livestock feed. Would have been something I would have wanted to try myself if it had been around a few years ago.
Looks like you had a good trip then :thumbsup:

[canniwhatsis]

Looks good bro! :thumbsup:

[khyberkitsune]

Hey welcome home
I was reading that companies website a while ago and was pretty impressed with the potential for that form of growing to provide suppliment livestock feed. Would have been something I would have wanted to try myself if it had been around a few years ago.
Looks like you had a good trip then :thumbsup:

Quite a good trip, very productive, got TONS done in the space of three days.

Looks good bro! :thumbsup:

Oh man, just wait! Soon we're going to be building one of these testing facilities here and I'm going to have to hire a few gardeners/maintainers.

[LetsSeeYa]

Cool man, glad to hear your trip went well:thumbsup:and im pumped to know ya got some green going on bro:jointsmile:


As always il be watching man:thumbsup:



:rasta:

[khyberkitsune]

Cool man, glad to hear your trip went well:thumbsup:and im pumped to know ya got some green going on bro:jointsmile:


As always il be watching man:thumbsup:



:rasta:

Secret harvest finished!

This was done under 140w total of LED. Hindu skunk up close (9 clones force-flowered,) GDP the rest of the way down (one single plant vegged three weeks and flowered same time as clones.)

90w UFO for the GDP, 9 clones under a 50w micro-UFO. Both units using 1w diodes.

Can't wait to see the dry weight. The clones were done in soil, the GDP done in a 2 gallon DWC.

[bkbbudz]

Greetings,

Been reading your posts and I wanted to get your opinion since you seem to be quite knowledgable. I m a newbie grower about too embark on my first adventure. I purchased a g3 90w UFO from HTG, what do you think of their product? I am using it in conjunction with 4 high wattage CFLs. My tent is 100% mylar interior and is 36"w x 20"d x 64"h. Thanks!

[khyberkitsune]

Greetings,

Been reading your posts and I wanted to get your opinion since you seem to be quite knowledgable. I m a newbie grower about too embark on my first adventure. I purchased a g3 90w UFO from HTG, what do you think of their product? I am using it in conjunction with 4 high wattage CFLs. My tent is 100% mylar interior and is 36"w x 20"d x 64"h. Thanks!

Price is too low to be any good, IMHO. Under $2/w? You're looking at cheap low-bin diodes and poor construction.