Full LED grow room/aeroponic system. first attemp

thunderchunkie

thunderchunkie

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Here are some pics of what I'm starting out with, lol.
900 LED lights (225/panel)
10 site Aeroponic system.
Some little wee girls, lol.
Seeds, B.C. Seeds Kahuna and Juicy Fruit, 5 of each.
Kahuna's all germed in 24 hours @28 degrees celcius in total darknes (in paper towels, moist, lol)
Juicy Fruit all sprouted in 48 hours under the same conditions.
Litltle bit of root stuff and into the rockwool they went.
Just waiting for them to say Hi now, haha
 

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The panels are 16 watts apiece ( I'm using just a tiny bit more juice than one 60W light bulb, hahaa) not sure about the Lumen's. Apparently, from what I've read on these, they dont emit any unnecessary light that any chlorophyll plant needs. Take the green pary of the light spectrum. green plants dont absorb any of the green light spectrum because they are green. It just bounces back off of them. I do have a bit of the scientific information on these lights, but now a clue what it means, lol.
Blue LED light range - 430nm radiation peak athwart a 466nm emission range,
Red LED light range - 662nm radiation peak athwart a 680nm emission range,
 
Lol, one more thing. I have heard here and there that the budding stage using LED's doesn't go so well. I also have two 1.5W Outdoor Light LED grow lights and I'll probably put them up too, who knows? hahaa
Check out this month's High Times mag, theres an article in there on LED's and growing, and a couple of trails too. They made out pretty good from the sounds of it
 
Juicy Fruit sprouts are starting to rise above the rockwool 1 day after planting. Is this the norm? And yes, i planted them root down
 
Sweetness abNORML. I'm just a little hyped about this project, lol. I'm using the LED's exclusively so thats definitly a good sigh
 
I've been looking for someone doing this! Where is a good spot to order LED's from?

Have you found much in the way of reading about successful harvests using only LED's?
 
theres an article in High Times this month on LED growing. they go over yield, potency a bit, and 3 comparison tests against a 400W CFL, 400W HPS and a 600 HPS, looks pretty damn hopefully. heres a good site for systems. i paid about 180$ for mine if i remember right, it was last summer.
High quality and affordable Led Grow Lights

theres also some REAL good pics in this months High Times mag

check out ebay for lights too, thats where i got mine
 
heres the li'l ladies at one day. the juicy fruits are rising nicely, no sign of the kahuna's yet. oh yeah, i do have a couple Texada Timewarp seeds sprouting in case a couple of the sprouts dont make it (some of the Kahuna's look a little dubious, but then again its only been one day, marijuana is pretty resilient) Humidity needs to come up about 10%, gonna get a humidifier next week. Oh, yeah. they're also getting liberal doses of SRV, Iron Maiden and other assorted 80's and early 90's heavy metal and even some country music, hahahaaaaaa
 

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Well, I've moved two of the seedlings into the system. I wasn't sure what the proper height for moving them, but I did see a few pics of some other guys grows on here and mine looked to be about the same size as theirs when they moved them. These two are the Juicy Fruits, a couple more will be ready to be moved in a couple days I think. So far I haven't seen any signs of life from the Kahuna's. This could be due to the fact that i put them into the rockwool when their sprouts were 1" long or so. they sprouted so much faster than the JF's by the time I put them into the rockwool I had to force some of the roots and seeds down. Probably not a good idea, then again the seeds were free, but they sprouted so well, I can't see that being the case. Porbably just my bubie 'ness, hahaa. So, I've got 2 more Kahuna's rooting now, and 3 Texada Timewarps, We'll see what happens I suppose. Need a heater for the tank, its a little cool. Something to drop the pH would be good too. It's staying at 7.2 and I need to bring it down a bit, any ideas?
 

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Ya, I got them off Ebay last year. If I remember right, i paid about 150$. I might pick up 2 of the all blue panels just for budding. I read that they can increase the yield and potency if you use them during the flowering stage. We'll see. And, as far as the pH goes, I just read that adding white vinegar will lower the pH. They said you should not use Wine vinegar or cider vinegar as they may contain undesired organisms in them. Vinegar did the trick. pH has gone from 7.4 to 6.1, mighty sweet
 
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