First led grow ever.....

Hello riu,

I'm back at it again..... I'm going to be running a new setup I just bought...
Apollo 3x3x6ft tent
1 Viparspectra 900w led
1 Portable actually
1 Dehumidifier
1 phresh intake filter 4 inch
1 phresh carbon filter 4 inch
1 Power grower eco hydro system
Upgraded to a bigger airpump with dual outlets
2, 4in vivosun duct Booster fans for exhaust 100 cfm
1 6 in vivosun in line fan 440 cfm
Fox farm nutes with all bush doctor and solubles
Super thrive
For this grow I will be using the scrog method (as I have yet to master it)

Once my new seeds get here from herbies, we have a great selection to decide on top. Fastbuds west coast og and girl scout cookies, g13 labs midnight kush (my personal favorite) g13 labs pineapple express, g13 labs pineapple express #2 I have 2 purple pine berry for later on, one seed of the church and some fire og, y griega seeds also plus a Nichole kush x Moroccan.decisions decisioms6 i was going to get some frisian duck but that can wait im going for yeilds and thc content not the looks of the growing plant so much. As i have grown the midnight kush before i dont think ill start off with it, or the p.e. i grew them bith at the same time is the past it was an out dpor op and it was insane. this will be my first grow indoors in well over 5 years. I spent about 3 or 4 months shopping amazon for all the stuff I needed, I wanted to go full advanced nutrients but doing that and keeping my budget price for a full setup of 1k was difficult to say the least... originally I was going to get the new viparspectra par600 led with the 3 switches, but then I saw this 900w from vipar forn10 bucks more, needless to say Insolent the extra 10... so the issue I face now is 4 have setup and have done a dry run to make sure the temp are ok and everything works well. So I'm the midst of my dry run I found my tempson are around 78°for. Which isn't bad but when I added the plant I think the air exchange isn't going to be enough, so I ordered one vivosun 6 in inline fan and I a, hoping it changes it up.. do you think the one 6 inch inline will be enough at 440 cfm with 2 100 cfm 4 in Booster fans for exhaust or should I just suck it up and buy the second 6in vivosun inline..... I will be setting up one more time to dry run once more now that my ac has been tuned up and refreshed... the issue I see is the 2 4 in Booster fans are 100 cfm and the 6 inch is 440. So with 200 cfm at exhaust and 440 at intake I don't think the boosters will exhaust fast enough for a proper air exchange..... thoughts, concerns and comments please.
Note the seeds were purchased yesterday, well the order form and payment shipped out yesterday heading for herbies

Sounds like your going for monsters......

I am using 2 new nutrient products from Fox farm.... one is wholly mackerel and the other is kelp me kelp you..... any use them before and how early can I use them.. ff claims they are good to use for seedlings but I don't want to press my luck here..... I know how hot ff nutes are

Called foxfarm today and I was told not to use wholly mackerel in a recirculating hydro system, so that's put......but I will alternate floral feeding between kelp me kelp you and flower kiss..... I have the itch to germinate

I the pic of the side of the light you will see the duct Booster fan is backwards I am clearly aware lol... I need to buy a rubber flange because they don't mate in the other direction and I jeep the tent setup one more time for dry running with the new fan..... so far so good... with a flowering plant in theregards in hypothetical terms how much would the tempos raises up..... don't want to stress the plants too much with the heat nice thing is the light isn't that hot really..... going to move my thermometer around a bit to see the change in temp...

Soooo..... my temps are at 86°for and 36% rh.... need that temp down just a bit.....if I can get it down around do 82 I'll be happy....

ReAlNy27 said:

Soooo..... my temps are at 86°for and 36% rh.... need that temp down just a bit.....if I can get it down around do 82 I'll be happy....

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Nice clean setup, I would try to keep those temps down in the 77-78 range. Remember once the tent has been running for a few hours things will heat up more as the ambient air temp is still warm. Just a suggestion from an avid LED grower.

Looking good! If you're looking to increase airflow, I'm curious if opening up the vent flaps near the bottom would help?

i bought two of these led panels, but after reading on here everyone was bashing them, because they only draw 200w from the wall so the 2000w of led power i had was really only 400 or a little less.i have them set to be returned. i bought them on amazon, the same ones but two 1000w. i wanted to grow 10 plants, but by reading everyones opinion on them everyone said they were crap and a waste of money, china made garbage. now i am confused. are they crap? or not?

jtrizzy said:

i bought two of these led panels, but after reading on here everyone was bashing them, because they only draw 200w from the wall so the 2000w of led power i had was really only 400 or a little less.i have them set to be returned. i bought them on amazon, the same ones but two 1000w. i wanted to grow 10 plants, but by reading everyones opinion on them everyone said they were crap and a waste of money, china made garbage. now i am confused. are they crap? or not?

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I was able to pull about 6 oz's from my first run using just one of them.

well the brand i bought were bestvia which are apparently equivalent to MARs garbage. i really wanted to keep heat down as this is in a shed outdoors in FL, not exactly a cool environment. i figure it was too good to be true when i saw the price for $150 per light. the reviews were good, but obviously fake.

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Your light's too high. 12-16". Eventually, look into COBs, QBs, or CMH. I started out with 2 450w ViparSpectras. 1 89w COB puts out more than double th PPFD of both of them.

I'm going to eventually get a kind led......but 2k is a bit steep right now.... but in the next few years.. after I get my automated leaf system.....the light is as high as it is only because it was a test run not hung to grow........I will adjust it accordingly once I start a seedling......... it will be a few weeks until I get me beans.....

BMWEATER said:

Nice clean setup, I would try to keep those temps down in the 77-78 range. Remember once the tent has been running for a few hours things will heat up more as the ambient air temp is still warm. Just a suggestion from an avid LED grower.

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I have a portable ac I plant to use as well 10k btu..... I'll have my intake filter right on the air outlet.... the reason I did the dry run was for temp and humidity testing I'm looking at a low 76 and a high of 88 with an average of rh of 35%..... adding the ac in there brings me down to around 68 with the account set to 66

jtrizzy said:

well the brand i bought were bestvia which are apparently equivalent to MARs garbage. i really wanted to keep heat down as this is in a shed outdoors in FL, not exactly a cool environment. i figure it was too good to be true when i saw the price for $150 per light. the reviews were good, but obviously fake.

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You have to try them out for your self every light is different yes but the one I have didn't get to bad of reviews and it is a decent coverage area.... look into vipar.....I have seen varied results and my conclusion is yes the lights might not be the best but what else do you have as contributing factors.....

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You have to try them out for your self every light is different yes but the one I have didn't get to bad of reviews and it is a decent coverage area.... look into vipar.....I have seen varied results and my conclusion is yes the lights might not be the best but what else do you have as contributing factors.....

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Well for starters to grow 5 or 6 plants I need 3 of these lights.

I'm doing one light and one plant in my space

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I'm doing one light and one plant in my space

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Well ya that's easy enough. I have no intention of growing 1 plant. Waste of time. I can grow 5 or 6 in the same space with same amount of time. Just not that light