Well here we go my first indoor grow. 1 90w triband (blue, red, orange) LED. and to 2 24" 24w t5 strips in my homemade grow closet 6'6"ft tall 3ft deep 5ft wide.
4" in duct fan exhaust running 24/7,passive intake 10in x 16in filtered opening, small fan for air circulation, lights on 18/6 over 12 bagseeds in soil. temps stay from 64-72F and humidity between 60- 70%Put all 12 seeds in soil on 4/20/09 Started using fox farm grow big every-other watering. have some pics

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I was hoping for some input on the set up or suggestions

im no pro, but it looks good. i'd use the LED's as a supplemental lighting though, and add a few CFLs in there...

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Not bad bean,

I agree with the above post, that the ufo isn't going to really be enough for flowering, and second the supplementary warm cfl's. Go pick out some powerful ones online, perhaps two or four. Or stick with the bars, switch out some warms. You probably don't have enough as is, but you can certainly try it and get something.

Get an IR bulb to "wash" your plants before bed. This is the most important thing to add to your garden.
http://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/186647-experiments-cutting-edge.html

Add a uvb for some delicious frost.


I would recommend either lolipoping them, for large main colas,

or trying a scrog, for many smaller buds.

I wonder how many plants you're gonna loose as males.

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Treeth thanks for the input. I couldn't pull up that link that you posted . not sure i know what about these ir or you uvbs you mention, I'm assuming some different style of fluoro bulb? I am interested though. I was planning on adding more cfls later as they grow. hoping to end up with at least 6 after I get rid of the males, nine would bee ideal i think. my plan was to scrog. I'm pretty impressed though with the UFO LED. By itself it looks more powerful with a pink tint but when I added the the strips(about a week ago) it made the light much more white(hoping thats a good thing). the plants all look nice and healthy and aren't stretching really.I'm not sure how it will do for flowering but hoping for the best

Treeth whats the ideal height for the LED light to be above the plants? I looked into that uvb light very interesting

By IR I mean those fat ass red bulbs that you've might have seen in a bathroom sometime, maybe in a hotel room.

It's a heat lamp, and it puts out energy in the in far red, feels good on your skin, and your girls will like it even more, for only a couple minutes at bedtime.

Search for su1rrely 's post entitled experiments at the cutting edge,

It's a couple of articles published by Ed Rosenthal, good stuff, a decent summation of the best info available regarding the application of dees.

For right now, I dunno, I would keep it high enough to hit as many plants as possible.

I know that the more blue, the more N, and the cooler it is the more females you will get.

So hit all of em', however, keep it low enough to avoid stretching, but i'll bet those flouros are helping.

For flower I don't think it will do much good being more than a couple inches atop the canopy, in scrog, after some LST , that would probably only be one plant,

which is really why I don't think the ufo really represents a value in practicing our hobby.

Or you could just spring for a 600 for flower, the lights you have now would be great for side lighting, and they are probably fine for veg.

~Remember to take some cuttings for mums!

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Treeth thanks again for the info. i know I was taking a chance on the UFO but for a little under $200 I thought I would give it a try. From what i read the different colored light needs some room to blend so i keep the UFO about 18" to 20" off the tops of the plants

Ok so its been a month since i put my germinated bag seeds in soil, minus 3-4 days to break the surface, we're talking 3 + weeks under 18/6. The tallest is about 6" the shortest 3-4". Does this seem right? My only real experience has been with an outdoor grow. Now I realize they wouldn't grow as fast as if they were outside, but i did think things would be moving faster than this. Can anyone tell me if this growth rate is normal? I realize it differs from plant to plant. Info from people with LED growing experience would be great! LED haters save your hate speech not gonna change my set up except maybe adding more strip fluoros or cfls. take a look at the newer pics tell me what you think. Also some of the first sets of fan leaves seem twisted / wrinkled what might cause this

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Hey Again bean...

They look pretty decent for a month in...

It's really not until they have a decent root mass established that do they really begin to take off.

Looks to me like the roots have yet to hit the bottom of the pot.

They also look like they are stretching a wee bit...

I would get a decent reciprocating fan in there to fatten up the stems a bit...

But I do agree that they do not look vigorous.

Whats your soil like? It doesn't appear to me to have the type of drainage most people here like to have...

I would even lift those bitches out to check on the roots. It looks like their growing roots pretty slow.

Maybe you should mix some other shit into the soil to help with aeration and drainage?

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