Beef's Area-51 LED grow! ***WW, BC BB, C99, Purps, Neville's Haze, Moby Dick***

Ok, so the grow is midway through, I flipped them 12/12 On August 4th, so it's been 1 month and 6 days.

Medium
MG Organic
Black Topsoil
Pro-mix
Perlite
Pelletized Lime
Bone/Blood meal

Nutes
AN Sensi Grow AB
AN Sensi Bloom AB
AN Voodoo Juice
AN B-52
AN Sensizyn
AN Big Bud
AN Bud Candy
AN Bud Factor X
AN Overdrive

Strains
White Widow
C99
The Purps
Neville's Haze
Moby Dick
BC Blueberry


These 3 pics are the newest!

welcome back! have fun

is this light the same as my 336x3 from FERO?

Beefy!
The plants are looking great man. Keep it up.
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ILovePlants
P.S. Are those massive colas C99?

Endur0xX said:

is this light the same as my 336x3 from FERO?

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Hmmm... not sure? It's the AF-240.... it's 439W and the spectrum is as follows;

Helixeon Royal Blue 440nm and 445nm
Helixeon Red 630-640nm
Helixeon Deep Red 640-650nm, 650-660nm, 660-670nm,
Helixeon Far Red 730-740nm,
Helixeon 4260k white.

The ratio is per each 15 LEDs are:

440-445nm x1
445-450nm x1
4260k x2
630-640nm x2
640-650nm x2
650-660nm x3
660-670nm x3
720-730nm x1

IlovePlants said:

Beefy!
The plants are looking great man. Keep it up.
Subbed,
ILovePlants
P.S. Are those massive colas C99?

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The massive colas are from my Widow!

Cindy is actually still a seedling atm... I have 2 tents and a closet going now...15 plants in total!

In my small tent I have x2 Blackstar 180's and a Pro-Grow 180....

I don't use LED, but the plants look great. How far is that large light from the plants? I know the lights are expensive...how many do you have? LOL we posted at the same time..I see what lights you are using
Good luck!!

Looks good beef! Glad to see you back around after awhile. I'll be watching to see how the a51 performs for you.

Brother Numsi said:

I don't use LED, but the plants look great. How far is that large light from the plants? I know the lights are expensive...how many do you have? LOL we posted at the same time..I see what lights you are using
Good luck!!

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They've grown up towards the light quite a bit, the widow is only about 8 inches away now - the rest are about 14-16"...

puffenuff said:

Looks good beef! Glad to see you back around after awhile. I'll be watching to see how the a51 performs for you.

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Yeah I took a stint away, but it's great to be back! I tried a few other grow sites, but they tend to suck.... lol This is where I started, seems fitting I end up back in the mix!

Beefbisquit said:

They've grown up towards the light quite a bit, the widow is only about 8 inches away now - the rest are about 14-16"...

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Did you determine height by area covered? I don't know if heat is an issue. I understand the savings in electricity and even cooling, but the LED's I was originally looking at were very expensive and I wasn't sure about plant penetration. I also read that they are great for veg.

Brother Numsi said:

Did you determine height by area covered? I don't know if heat is an issue. I understand the savings in electricity and even cooling, but the LED's I was originally looking at were very expensive and I wasn't sure about plant penetration. I also read that they are great for veg.

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Actually the light is designed to cover a 39x39" area, or 48x48" max... so all I did was set the light up and away I went!

All LED's are quite expensive, Area-51 seems to have the best 'bang for buck' so far.... Higher quality components, and only marginally more expensive.


The actual LED's in the AF-240 are much brighter than my other panels, (probably the lenses partially) and the heatsinks/fans are FAR superior to the other units I own.

The fans appear to be 120mm, move a bunch of air, yet are whisper quiet. My Pro-Grow sounds like a frickin' turbine engine!

nice too see you back beef.........how do you like that Mg organic soil? do they use that shittyTRF's in that too? great grow btw...

OH, OK. Makes sense. I have T-5's in one tent and 2 600w MH and HPS systems in the big tent...need to run an A/C in the tent LOL.

I've seen some LED products not on most of the sites that sell them...big and very expensive. As the LED light industry matures I suppose the products will both improve and eventually the pricing will come down...maybe. Like I said I was looking at very expensive stuff.

PSUAGRO. said:

nice too see you back beef.........how do you like that Mg organic soil? do they use that shittyTRF's in that too? great grow btw...

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I will not be using MG organic again.... I've had the best luck in Pro-mix with extra Perlite added.

SO MANY BUGS in the Mg Organic... lol Good thing I have a metric fuck tonne of Cold pressed, 2500ppm, Neem seed oil!

Brother Numsi said:

OH, OK. Makes sense. I have T-5's in one tent and 2 600w MH and HPS systems in the big tent...need to run an A/C in the tent LOL.

I've seen some LED products not on most of the sites that sell them...big and very expensive. As the LED light industry matures I suppose the products will both improve and eventually the pricing will come down...maybe. Like I said I was looking at very expensive stuff.

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HydrogrowLED makes hella expensive panels; There's no way I could justify paying more than 2x the price for a similar panel to my AF-240. Fuck that. lol



Jeff from Area-51 also mentioned an all CREE/Philips board in the works as well, you can bet dollars to donuts it will be EXPENSIVE!

It'll be at least 6 harvests before I can reinvest in lighting...we'll see what's available then. I usually buy for the future, but the future is going to have to sit there until I catch up LOL.
Thanks for the conversation.
Later

ok its different light I think mine draws 540watts. But if its anything like my FERO max you will not be disappointed thats for sure. Was the Widow grown under the AREA or you just got the light?

Endur0xX said:

ok its different light I think mine draws 540watts. But if its anything like my FERO max you will not be disappointed thats for sure. Was the Widow grown under the AREA or you just got the light?

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They were all grown under the AF-240

Some new pics!