Marijuana Bloom with 504W LED

LEDGirl said:

I thought OLED's were more like a sheet, where they could project a broad array of colors of light (maybe I misunderstood it in my limited reading). So if they are only used as a backlight then, what makes the picture? And if they're only a back light, then what's the big deal lol? (aside from lifespan...)

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ledgirl-I truly beleve in new technology. Im starting an led closet grow and will be posting some results soon!

Here are a few updates pictures of my garden. I'll try and take some more tomorrow when the lights are off, to give you a better idea of what the plants really look like lol. Here is my sea of green under 1512W of LED.

LEDGirl said:

Here are a few updates pictures of my garden. I'll try and take some more tomorrow when the lights are off, to give you a better idea of what the plants really look like lol. Here is my sea of green under 1512W of LED.

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What distance are your leds from your plants? Are you going to use any supplemental white light down the sides to catch the lower buds(cfls)? The crop looks very nice and lush.

The LED's range between 6" and 12" away from the plants, depending on where the plants are positioned. I try to get them all as close as possible, but when plants vary in height, so do the lights.

Anyhow, I went and took some "dark" photos a few minutes ago that I thought you guys might enjoy more than those pink ones

The last 4 pictures: Strawberry Cough, ABC, Ice, and Strawberry Cough. There are still plenty more weeks to go before any of these girls are finished.

LEDGirl said:

The LED's range between 6" and 12" away from the plants, depending on where the plants are positioned. I try to get them all as close as possible, but when plants vary in height, so do the lights.

Anyhow, I went and took some "dark" photos a few minutes ago that I thought you guys might enjoy more than those pink ones

The last 4 pictures: Strawberry Cough, ABC, Ice, and Strawberry Cough. There are still plenty more weeks to go before any of these girls are finished.

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nice! good looking buds. what are u using to hang ur lights? one of those easy slides or whatever their called?









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irishboy said:

what are u using to hang ur lights?

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They are called Easy-Lift, Sun-lift, Grow Yoyo, or Easy-Roller light hangers (depending on where you get em lol). They cost between $15 and $25 at most hydro stores per pair. In the near future, I will be including a pair with each light to make it super easy for people to use them right out of the box.

LEDGirl said:

They are called Easy-Lift, Sun-lift, Grow Yoyo, or Easy-Roller light hangers (depending on where you get em lol). They cost between $15 and $25 at most hydro stores per pair. In the near future, I will be including a pair with each light to make it super easy for people to use them right out of the box.

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What about using white light,fluorescents or cfls to supplement the array?. I'm using lights from ledgrowlights.com, whats your opinion of their lights?

Good thread! Also wanted to add: I hope you testers and researchers are using the same genetical clones to do this test, otherwise it might be the strain and other genetics in result

LEDGirl said:

They are called Easy-Lift, Sun-lift, Grow Yoyo, or Easy-Roller light hangers (depending on where you get em lol). They cost between $15 and $25 at most hydro stores per pair. In the near future, I will be including a pair with each light to make it super easy for people to use them right out of the box.

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ya they hold 11lbs per yoyo? i like the easy glyder cables that hold 44lbs. maybe ill get some later on.

ocgasm said:

What about using white light,fluorescents or cfls to supplement the array?. I'm using lights from ledgrowlights.com, whats your opinion of their lights?

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I don't use any supplemental lighting at all. The only lighting in my garden is LED

As far as my opinion of their lights, I can't really make one. When companies fail to provide nm output, how many colors they use, ratio, etc... it makes it really hard to compare. I think that you would need a lot of their little lights though, in order to power a decent sized garden.

Charlie Green said:

Good thread! Also wanted to add: I hope you testers and researchers are using the same genetical clones to do this test, otherwise it might be the strain and other genetics in result

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I'm not currently doing any test Just a grow to show results. As far as I know, when Ed gets started with his tests, it will be done using genetic clones.

Why is this test from Ed not published anywhere? Will it be? If so, where? You realize, not to knock you or your progress, but people will not be convinced unless they can hear it from the horses mouth....

Interested in this test....please keep us informed.
Oh and the ladies look not too bad. Leaves kinda look funky curled and brown on some, everything ok?

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project fuoro said:

Why is this test from Ed not published anywhere? Will it be? If so, where? You realize, not to knock you or your progress, but people will not be convinced unless they can hear it from the horses mouth....

Interested in this test....please keep us informed.Oh and the ladies look not too bad. Leaves kinda look funky curled and brown on some, everything ok?

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Ed received his final light last week, and to my knowledge, was building a room for the grow test between our LED and the 1000W HPS. Anyhow, I sent an email to them asking when the test would begin, and should hear back by Monday. Ed will be posting the results himself, to more than one website. Once his results are up, I will be linking to them

As far as my plants go, my care-taker is not as good of a grower as me When I left to go to Mexico, everything was beautiful! Then I come back and it's time for damage control... Anyhow, they dealt with a little bit of stress, but not too much. Most have fully recovered now and I've taken out most of the bad leaves.

If one of your grow panels individual led fails, does that mean the whole panel will go out?

ocgasm said:

If one of your grow panels individual led fails, does that mean the whole panel will go out?

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No, a single LED burning out does not affect the power to the rest of the panel.

LEDGirl said:

No, a single LED burning out does not affect the power to the rest of the panel.

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I took a look at yours on the site. I think its impotant that you spread lower watts out and you also have white which I havent seen any panels yet to incorporate white.Knowing what I know now I would have purchased yours. Well my next will be!

LEDGirl, Things look pretty good on your end. Good to see.

Say one is inquiring about how one could properly light a smaller area, such as 2x2 or 3x3. A large op is always nice, but there are a lot of small dudes out there too. I would be interested in hearing how your light would work in such areas.

Thanks for sharing with us, this thread is massive..

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I have a similar size area and am planning on trying out the 126w model once results start coming back from Ed.

project fuoro said:

LEDGirl, Things look pretty good on your end. Good to see.

Say one is inquiring about how one could properly light a smaller area, such as 2x2 or 3x3. A large op is always nice, but there are a lot of small dudes out there too. I would be interested in hearing how your light would work in such areas.

Thanks for sharing with us, this thread is massive..

-pf-

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project fuoro said:

Say one is inquiring about how one could properly light a smaller area, such as 2x2 or 3x3. A large op is always nice, but there are a lot of small dudes out there too. I would be interested in hearing how your light would work in such areas.

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I know exactly what you mean. My first grow was split between a small closet and a cabinet I bought at home depot. It took me quite a while to build a garden to the level that it is now.

The question you really need to ask yourself, is how many watts do you want per square foot? if you're doing a 2' x 2' area, a 126W would work great (19" x 12.5"), although you could also fit 3, 63W into that same area. I personally like to make as close to a sheet of LED's over my garden as possible. It's not economical for some because of the initial costs, but I've been able to build a pretty nice setup. If I was after the top wattage per square foot in my garden, I would have used lots of 318W units, but I like the versatility of multiple smaller units that I can adjust at varying angles. Anyhow, how crazy of a plant(s) are you wanting to grow?

So is what you are saying is the larger wattage units are not as efficient? Or simply that you can get better coverage with more, multiple, small units?

I understand what you mean by sheet of LED's because that is seemingly the perfect route to take. Without gaps in coverage would be even more ideal, such as if one had a 24x24" square area, an LED array which was all LED's in a 20x20" area would rock.

It is almost as if one needs to find the perfect sized unit, or multiple units to cover their area fully. I think myself, as well as some of us would prefer one larger unit over multiple smaller, but to each their own.

I am only talking 1-2' tall plants max, meaning around 9 or so in such a sized area. So the area would have to be covered fully, unlike a singe hid bulb hanging over. Even though the HID gives areas that are not fully lit as well. A full LED array above that area should blow away those few plants at that short height. Do you agree?

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Thanks for the input.