Karma's Little LED Tent

Jennylasting said:

haha it keeps looking like it's two lights then! my cupboards 32 by 20" by 69" high so a little bit smaller, but i want some decent bud out of the space more than lots i think, with your seedlings im surprised they might have some heat stress, LED's run a lot cooler than hps cfl's right?

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2 of the 180W LED's will really light that cupboard up!
As for the stress on the plants, I still think it's the light's intensity and their young age at the time, and not heat stress.
If it was heat stress, the new growth would have been affected as well.
My temps never get up past 86-88 during the day, and that's before I turn my AC on and cool things down into the low 80's.
Yes, LED's run incredibly cooler than HPS and CFL, they also look incredibly cooler, too.

Bad Karma said:

2 of the 180W LED's will really light that cupboard up!
As for the stress on the plants, I still think it's the light's intensity and their young age at the time, and not heat stress.
If it was heat stress, the new growth would have been affected as well.
My temps never get up past 86-88 during the day, and that's before I turn my AC on and cool things down into the low 80's.
Yes, LED's run incredibly cooler than HPS and CFL, they also look incredibly cooler, too.

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you're probably right if the new growth doesn't show it.......It just reminded me of signs under HIDs which could have also been from intensity not heat, either way it's an easy fix...........keep it up/enjoy your grow

Bad Karma said:

2 of the 180W LED's will really light that cupboard up!
As for the stress on the plants, I still think it's the light's intensity and their young age at the time, and not heat stress.
If it was heat stress, the new growth would have been affected as well.
My temps never get up past 86-88 during the day, and that's before I turn my AC on and cool things down into the low 80's.
Yes, LED's run incredibly cooler than HPS and CFL, they also look incredibly cooler, too.

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lit up is how i want it haha w'ell see, yours and dawg's grows are a good advert for leds i gotta say
indeed the color is half the appeal, the purple look gives errything that sense of class you know?
looking forward to seeing more and more of this journal as it goes on big up!

There are now 6 plants filling the tent, 5 Godberry, and 1 Cheeseberry.
GB 1 thru 4 were all topped and are responding well.





CB1


GB1


GB2


GB3


GB4


GB5


Here's a close up of the new growth, post topping (GB4)

A quick and sad update.
Remember the 8 Kalichakra's that were moved from the tent to outside?
7 of them were males

fucking genetics eh..... do what i did and seed the last female out hard! get your monies worth from those bastards! these are some early wonder skunk seeds i just finished harvesting after the same thing happened to me

Subbed along for the ride I'm going led in my grow room I'm building wanna see this project out!

curly604 said:

fucking genetics eh..... do what i did and seed the last female out hard! get your monies worth from those bastards! these are some early wonder skunk seeds i just finished harvesting after the same thing happened to me View attachment 2333112View attachment 2333114

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I was going to do that, but I have better genetics that I'm going to be seeding soon anyways.
To take a tally of my entire grow room right now, I have 19 Ripped Bubba's, 5 Godberry's, and 3 Cheeseberry's.
Out of these I will pick the most promising looking female and mate her with the most promising looking males from all 3 strains by isolating different branches.
So off of one female I'm hoping to get something like RBxRB, RBxGB, and RBxCB, for example.
Hoping to get a homemade cross going that is particularly high in CBD's if I can, and all of those theoretical crosses posses that possibility, without having to purchase more genetics.
Self sufficiency is king in my garden.

Things continue to grow well.
I've topped the 2 younger plants (CB1 and GB5), while the other Godberry's continue to get bushy.

looking good karma those godberry's sure do grow evenly and alike .... i love it! nothing like a nice even canopy

curly604 said:

looking good karma those godberry's sure do grow evenly and alike .... i love it! nothing like a nice even canopy

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I agree about the canopy, sir.
There are many different methods that people use to achieve it, but for me, topping at the 3rd node and trimming off the 1st node, at the same time, works like a charm.

to each their own thats why our world is such a bueatiful place (at times) everyone has a different way of doing things ......hey how are those girls doing outside???

curly604 said:

......hey how are those girls doing outside???

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My outside grow is going, okay, but there have been problems.
My remaining Kalichakra decided to split itself in four during a wind storm earlier this week.
So, thanks to the help of a shit ton of electrical tape, it's back in one piece, and still blooming
Everybody else is shuffling along into flowering, some quicker than others.
After having so many plants turn out male, I threw 3 new seeds in some dirt, to try and balance out my loses.
Now I've got 2 KC 36's and a Pot Of Gold going outside as well, even if they only are 12/12 from seed.

It's been quite awhile since I did an update to this grow journal.
Why, you ask?
Only 1 of the 6 plants I grew (5 Godberry & 1 Cheeseberry) turned out female, which was a tall Godberry, thankfully.
I usually have a much better male/female rate, but this summer was incredibly hot.
Which is exactly why I only grow outdoors during the summer time, because indoor growing in that kind of heat, is usually a waste of time.
So I saw no reason to keep this tent going with 1 plant in it, when I could easily add the female Godberry to my much larger flowering tent, and save on my electrical bill.
This is the conclusion of this journal, as I'm just too busy now to keep a journal going, as I finish my last few classes before graduating in December.
I hope everybody had fun and maybe learned something.
Thank you all for your support along the way, it was appreciated

was a good run man sorry to hear ya got screwed on not enough females i know that feeling ...... hey how did your outdoor girls end up? would love to see how they are doing

curly604 said:

was a good run man sorry to hear ya got screwed on not enough females i know that feeling ...... hey how did your outdoor girls end up? would love to see how they are doing

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Only 1 of those were female as well, the Lemoneese, which I'm harvesting next week.
My next couple of grows are going to be strictly to find some worth while females to keep as mothers.
That way I don't have to go through this shit again next summer, I'll have some sweet homemade clones to work with.
I've got Chesseberry, Chucky's Bride, and NYCD x Killing Fields in the vault.
With Extrema, Anesthesia, and Extrema x Heribei on the way.
That being said, I'm still tempted to grab a pack of Blue Rocket or Chocolate Rain, so I can get the Katzu Kush x Killing Fields freebies.

Hey Karma.....sorry about your bad f/m ratio..........I've been thinking about my led panel and it's past flowering issues, have you ever thought if a specific led spectra has some effect on this??? IDK ..but I'm gonna do a side by side with a full spec "white" light vers my triband monochromatic led panel using reg seeds and see if my hunch holds...........good luck on your grow friend........

PSUAGRO. said:

I've been thinking about my led panel and it's past flowering issues, have you ever thought if a specific led spectra has some effect on this??? IDK

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Yes, the panel's spectrum can come into play here for sure.
I think it's a mix of high summer heat and lots of red light from my LED panel giving me so many males.
I had the same problem underneath my ProSource LED's as well this summer, and they've always given me a good m/f ratio in the past.
I'm considering picking up a mostly blue LED panel for a new veg tent, and making this one my small, secondary, flowering tent.
Hopefully then I can start getting more females out of my seeds, and get back to pheno hunting, like I should be.

Update on the harvest ?