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I bought ...
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Stinkbud inspired Aero/NFT with LEDGirl Hydro-grow LED's MEDICAL PROP 215
I'm a California Prop 215 Cannabis patient and caregiver. I do not support the recreational use of cannabis.
I bought four 126W LED lights from LEDGirl a couple months ago when her thread was heating up here. She gave me a considerable discount if I agreed to post a journal after week four of flowering. So I'm getting it started now a little late, but I've been really busy lately, so here it is finally.
I'm running three aero/nft units with four plant sites each. These were inspired by the Stinkbud "Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks" thread, with some modifications to make it fit nicely in my spare bathtub. I'm running the Botanicare line as recommended by stink in his system, keeping ph at 5.8 and ppm between 1600-2000 depending on strain.
I built a cab that rests on the tub rails, sealed it, mylar, exhaust, and a hydrogen miniGen co2 generator. Temps are between 65-85, 90 at the top of the canopy. Humidity stayed between 40 and 50% until a couple weeks ago, and it was getting into the 60% range, so I have exhaust running all the time to keep it under 50%. I just added the third rack five days ago, and the older two racks just finished week six. They are strawberry couch and soma sour diesel. There's also one cheese plant in there but it sucks and I'll never grow it again.
The older plants vegged for 4 weeks under a 2ft 4 bulb HO T5 and the younger plants vegged 18 days under that same light. I'd love to be vegging under the LED also to do a full LED experiment, but I don't have the money right now to buy one and the T5's work great.
I had two incidents where I forget to turn my pumps back on and the girls went without water for 12 hours, they bounced back quick but I'm sure it was stressful. Also, last week when I got home from a road trip my exhaust fan had not been keeping up with humidity and I had a pretty nasty powdery mildew problem in my lower branches. I dealt with that with a milk spray and cut a bunch out. I still need to add a dehumidifier, but in the mean time my co2 hasn't been running the last couple weeks because exhaust is on constantly. Since I just added co2 in the middle of the grow, and now it's not working, I'd say these first two racks can't really be considered to have been grown with supplemental co2. I had a small calcium deficiency early on, but dealt with it when I put them on full bloom nutes in week three.
These are all the problems I've had to give you a good idea of how the grow is going. I'm in no way a pro, so these results should be what you can expect from someone with a couple soil grows under his belt doing his first aero and LED experiment
Pictures attached are from veg to the end of week 6. All plants were started from clones.
Okay, apparently I can't upload photos right now due to system maintenance, so I'll try to add them later.
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Last edited by eyeswideopen; 10-29-2009 at 01:17 PM.
Reason: Changed mind
Prop 215 - Yeah Baby!
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Ganja Smoker
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great job.. how much was each light????

hi till I die
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Originally Posted by
supdro
great job.. how much was each light????
The lights were $400 a piece, but I only paid for three of the four. Kind of pricey to light such a small space, but they will pay for themselves in energy savings and no bulb replacement.
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Originally Posted by
eyeswideopen
The lights were $400 a piece, but I only paid for three of the four. Kind of pricey to light such a small space, but they will pay for themselves in energy savings and no bulb replacement.
That's bad ass mannn
They look great!!!!!!!!!
I am 2 weeks behind you
Sorry to thread jack
Growing in the Whirlpool Fridge
I am glad to see more people using these things, they work, oh yes they work
No need for all sorts of fans for your lights, they are built in
And the energy saving, that speaks for itself
Wait a year or 2 and see what we have, it's going to be great
I love technology
Keep up the great work
T
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Yeah man, they really do work well. Are you using the Hydro Grow or another brand LED? Sorry, I skimmed your journal but saw a couple different lights. Growing in a whirlpool is awesome, there are free refrigerators everywhere.
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Originally Posted by
eyeswideopen
Yeah man, they really do work well. Are you using the Hydro Grow or another brand LED? Sorry, I skimmed your journal but saw a couple different lights. Growing in a whirlpool is awesome, there are free refrigerators everywhere.
I am using a light from pro source, I was following another thread and it looked like it was a good product and a 90 day return policy
which was the deal maker for me
It looks like your lights are working very well, and yes on craigslist there are a bunch of free grow cabinets out there, you just need to pick and clean it up
Have a great weekend
T
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I have three plants in one rack and four in the other. There are three lights covering both larger racks. I have the fourth light dropped low over the newest rack. They are about 3.5-4 ft. I'm using the bontanicare pro bloom, sweet berry, cal-mag, and liquid karma. I'm only taking the straw cough out 8 weeks, the diesel will go nine. The SC has a habit of spitting out male branches if you let it go too long.
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