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First Grow - CFL's and High Power Led's (began end of Jan)

So a quick update....So as of yesterday we have seen an amazing turn around, and I'm almost positive the yellowing was due to overwatering. The slightly older seedlings were the main ones turning yellow, and all of them now have new green healthly leaves coming in. They leaves are also now standing at attention for the light, instead of drooping. To top it off, the younger seedlings are growing crazy fast now. The soil is now at the ideal wetness, now 3 days after not watering, but is taking forever to dry out. I think when we transplant we will definitely look more into the soil. I'll post some new pictures here sometime tonight.

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First Grow - CFL's and High Power Led's (began end of Jan)

I promised some more pictures of the turn around in the last two days. So far giving them LESS attention is making them look better. You can see in these pictures that they look much more green, and our largest one looked like this two days ago.....

And here the same one is tonight. You can see, it only made one set of 3 leaves, and jumped straight to the sets of 5 leaves.

And some more pictures including the outlet we got so we don't have an extension cord running into the closet. Also, please take no harm with the dry erase board, it's purely making fun of the views it's expressing. We are using it to keep track of moisture levels and ph on an individual basis. And to make sure they get rotated properly.



You can see these are bag seeds, and some of them look like different strains...will be interesting to see the differences.

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First Grow - CFL's and High Power Led's (began end of Jan)

note to self: don't just use miracle grow soil right out of the bag.

so what is it with LED's i hear they supply all the right red and blue wavelengths for the plant to use but i have never seen anyone grow with them and get fat buds at harvest time. i think the next step would be to go with LED + Hydro instead of soil to get even better yields. and if that works good then LEDs could be like the future of growing herb. anyway good luck i hope u get lots of fatty fuckin nuggs!!!

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COL TEMPO LA FOGLIA DI GELSO DIVENTA SETA - "time and patience change the mulberry leaf to satin"

is growing under an led better then a grow light? lol cause i used a black light once n it kept the plants a nice dark green till they budded

Our LED's are just there for support right now. They are mainly red light, so will help out with flowering mainly. I'm thinking right now LEDs in general are a great supplemental light. Counting just the red led's there should be around 2500 lumens of pure red light coming from them.

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First Grow - CFL's and High Power Led's (began end of Jan)

hm whats your opinion on using black lights?

anyways if you wanna check my grow out Smoke Like A GOD | click page "the dope show"

Well, we got a thermometer and found out our temps were way to high with the closet shut for longish periods of time(3 hours or so), so we devised up a cheap ventilation system, including a discrete setup. So what we did was hook up our $11 wal-mart fan to some 8" ducting($12) and a collector($7), and ran it straight out of the closet, after cutting a rectangle hole in the wall. Then we covered the hole with a regular heating/cooling vent cover. This was installed at the top of the room. We made everything air tight by using duct tape.

Next, we took the left over hose, and attatched it to a hole we cut at the bottom of the closet. We covered this part also with a cover. These heating/ac covers were $5 each. Because the fan up top is blowing air out of the closet, than automatically draws air in from the bottom of the closet, thus giving us a cheap incognito ventilation system. Throw a couple dryer sheets on the back of the exit fan, and instant smell cover up also. We made sure each hose had a good bend in it so that no light was excaping from the vents, also. Around the door, we have added weather stripping, so no extra light gets out of the cracks of the door. This makes the closet look completely normal from the ouside.

Check out the pictures of the setup, and the progress of the plants. Two days ago I ordered 10 lowryder2 seeds, so we will be keeping our best current plants, and start focusing more on the lowryders, since they fit our grow well. We can have one closet that is both vegging our first plants, and vegging and flowering lowryders.

We have recently fimmed all the larger plants, and will show detailed pictures of the results as soon and they are easily visible.

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First Grow - CFL's and High Power Led's (began end of Jan)