Ya, the stalks do look a little spindly right now, but keep in mind, none of those plants are over 3" yet. I've just started putting the fan on them 2 days ago and I think they'll thicken up in due time. As for other ppl attempting an LED grow on here, I haven't seen anyone run a full grow from start to finish. A few ppl have started vegging with them, but immediately switched over to MH, HPS or Flouro's. To me that doesn't constitute a full experiment as far as results go. Who knows why they switched over to other lighting systems? I'm sure none of us have been right there monitoring their grow with them, so who really knows where the mistakes were? Could be nutes, heating problems in their rez's, Ph levels, room temperature or yes, could be the lights. Do any of us really know? Like I said, none of us have been right along side the person attempting to grow with LED's and there are so many variables that who can really say what the problem was? Do any of us have a laboratory to constantly monitor every variable 24/7 ? I think not. Growing is an adventure of experience. Why quit after one failed attempt for fear of the results the second or third time? Thats not the way society, industry and mankind has matured and evolved throughout time. I am recording Ph levels, temp's, humidity, height and every other variable that i can on an every day basis to truly see what will come of this. I'm not here to be crapped on by ppl with poor attitudes. I'm here to have fun, meet some ppl, enjoy myself and share something new with everyone. Even if it fails a few times, only then will we know the answer and I will try my hardest to get the best results I can, good or bad. Thanks to all who have positive attitudes and are truly interested in the outcome whatever the results and are even hopeful of the outcome. I would rather not have ppl shitting on my 3 weeks into this project, annoys the bejesus out of me.
And, just for shits and giggles, here are a list of mistakes I've made so far,
1) Didn't wait for the roots to show through the rockwool. I've never used it before so I put the little girls in the tank well before I should have, they were less than an inch tall. If I had to estimate, I would say that put me back about 2 weeks as far as the initial vegging went due to the shock and poor root growth.
2) Started with the lights 7' above the plants for almost a week cause i couldn't afford to make a mounting board for them, buy the chain for raising and lowering them, perhaps I should have waited. Then, not knowing any better as far as these lights are concerned, I put them 13" above the plants for another week when they should have been about 2". Hopefully they'll thicken up a bit, I've got the fan on them now.
3) Over fed them with nutes the first 10 days. I've never used hydro nutes before and was retarded in doing the math.
Mistakes do happen. Of course the condition the plants are in right now could be due to the lights, I wouldn't know though. Apparently from what I've read on here. Any of the mistakes I've made could be the contributing factors also.
