My 1st Hydro - 3 Critical + clones in DWC Styrofoam with clay pellets using Cidly ZA LED

AlcoholicO

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My 1st Hydro setup done entirely by myself - did do a few for friends, though just the building part.

Genetics.
The 3 Critical + clones were taken from plants in soil that were already flowering for a few weeks (no choice).
The setup is a small air pump with two outlets and a styrofoam box, probably 4 gallon or so. I'm using two 3 inch pots and one 4 inch pot.

Rooting.
The clones were rooted in gro dan 1.5 inch rooting cubes for not quite long enough (it turns out) and could've used 3-4 days more to get really long roots. However, as the move was into a similar setup it didn't seem to matter too much.

Nutrients.
Started out with a bit of Clonex and Super Thrive and too much A + B.
A locally bought no name hydro solution.
Now I only use the A + B and I've upped it to almost 600ppm, up from under 300ppm to 450ppm or so. There's also some anti root rot powder of sorts in there, though not much, as well as still some Super Thrive, though very little now.
They had a bit of burn from the first water I made for them with 500ppm+, which is why I'm going fairly low, though now upping it a bit by bit again.

Once it's time to flower I'm changing to GH MaxiBloom.

Problems.
So far not any real problems, except the inter nodal spacing on these girls is incredibly short in my opinion, making it hard to get clones of a decent size.
 

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Mandangleow

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I'm all eyes on your led grow. How are things coming?

A Cidla ZA LED? Can you be more specific? I couldn't find anything on that model.
 

AlcoholicO

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It's from Cidly.com a chinese manufacturer.
They offer 3 years warranty for more or less all their models.
I bought an Apollo 4 and an Apollo 6, as well as a ZA and I'm loving them.

HOWEVER, for this grow, I only used the ZA and only for the vegetative part. Now they're out on the balcony and I should put up some more pictures :)

Here are some more recent, though they're ib Day 80 now, recovering from a heavy spider mite infestation, due to a severe lack of trimming on my part, though also lack of preventative care, like adequate cleaning and weekly organic insecticide spray and foliar spray. The bending I tried with two of the plants was stupid and just made the plants need trimming much more and inviting the spider mites in...
 

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AlcoholicO

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I got these specs for the Apollo 6, though I have no tools to confirm how correct they are (see the pic).
The numbers would also vary somewhat with a different color spectrum and different lenses (90 and 120 degree giving less penetration and distance, but larger coverage. I got 90 degree lenses on my Apollo 6 and 120 degree on the ZA for example.
 

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