My big black c... Box grow. Glowpanel 45's

A few of you have seen my thread detailing the purchase of a 8 glow panels for 300 bucks. I received some mixed responses but will be going ahead with the grow anyway.

So, I built a box using very cheap materials. A blackout sheet used for killing weeds was stapled to a frame I built from 8x1x1/2 I think at least, anyway I built a frame, strung my lights using a light nylon rope and move my plants in. So far it looks beautiful, as the plants grow upward the other panels will be added both top and to the sides.

Photos of course!

I will be interested to see how it goes...subbed!

right on , looking forward to see how those old panel will do for you, light is light, 280W is 280W, I think people are underestimating what you can get with them. Hope you can prove them wrong! good luck

Like an amazing piece of nostalgia for me! Subbed till the end my friend.
Sincerely,
ILovePlants

Thanks for the support guys, so far they are all the same strain. Buddha's sister, I'm growing it in under CFL's at the moment and am a month into flower. I'm impressed by the bushiness of it and I have been able to keep the height down with LST.

Only one of the plants will end up going through the whole cycle in the LED box the rest will be transferred to my chamber to flower.

Updates on the growth, the clone and seedling have both grown roughly an inch in twelve hours. Their leaves are darkening and they are bouncy as hell.

Really looking promising, photos later!

Its very difficult to see the actual plants.

I veg with a glowpanel 45, 1 plant. Works nice. I have a BS 240 for flowering.

thatsmessedup said:

Its very difficult to see the actual plants.

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Yeah, it was more to show the box. I will be getting my camera over to the location they are in tomorrow and uploading pics accordingly.

Here is a plant that I vegged under one glp45. As others said in your last post, they dont draw a lot of watts. So what?
Currently I am using it to raise 4 seedlings into healthy girls. All my plants love this light.

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THIS is what I want!

Thank you for posting that my friend, I think that with a total of six panels on one plant flowering will not be an issue for me.

The non seedlings are a plant I topped about a week ago and a clone I took that has just rocketed up in growth, I'm currently utilizing ZST and it's working like a charm. Makes me want to see about growing it circularly.

Anyway, Photos!

Holy shit LED growth!

Compared to my fluorescent's the growth is so tight and thick, the leaves are huge and overlapping I've got nodes forming below the cotelydons on the seedling I topped!

Currently five panels are being used which I updated yesterday. I've got two sets of photos, two days apart showing the panels.

Nice I knew you would be happy they are great panels. I would reccomended some cal-mag ASAP. Keep us updated

Thanks, I'm actually red green color blind so deficiencies are hard to spot.

Hi.

I was just looking at the pictures and with out knowing anything about the panels, the plants, the room or the caretaker,
I will suggest this:

1. Use more light coming from the top - some seedlings looks dizzy from not knowing witch way to turn

2. Arrange the panels like this: - slanted enough to be in the tent/room but hopefully not more than the light footprint from the 'slanted-panels' overlap around the center,

- seen from above

The panels are used as reflectors also (If there are shiny)


3. use as much reflective surface as possible to direct the light to the plants.

4. Veg as close as physically possible to the LED's


5. Enjoy the silence - my ears are ringing from the fan noise.

Psychonaughtical said:

Thanks, I'm actually red green color blind so deficiencies are hard to spot.

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No problem, keep up the good work. Ive found that all my led plants need cal mag I mix one teaspoon per gal every feeding.

I do agree with rasser that you will get a better footprint with his proposed set up. If you have the room, go for it.

Psychonaughtical,

If you are going to add any additional lighting in the future, buy one of those cheap 20 watt warm white LED flood lights. After witnessing the full power of these little beasts, I will be replacing all of my fluorescent lighting slowly but surely with LED! In my opinion it's nice to have warm white in flowering at least, so that you can more easily spot deficiencies and stop them from happening in the first place. Any way keep up the good work, they love a full spectrum light above them, you know from that sun thing that we should be using to grow the plant, but we can't because we've been driven inside by an amoral society bent on destroying our habitation of this planet.
Peace,
ILovePlants

These photos are two days old, just showing the placement, since lowered the LED's on top to provide more coverage up top.

Hi

It's me again, with more suggestions for you to consider, I don't know if you are interested but here it is

Looking at the first picture I would lift the panels up on some boxes or something and not use rows of LED's blasting the sides of a black container.
Maybe cover the corners between the panels with tinfoil of better, if not placing the panels close together and make a box out of the panels if possible vs. the number of plants.

Use even hight and size container if possible and try to make a even hight canopy.

Cover the sides of the container with something reflective or if you can get white ones use that.
I look at my black containers and wonder how much light they are sucking up, where they could be reflecting some of that back.

Take a few pictures in normal light or with a flash, it's to hard to distinguish what is what.
I not familiar with the sort of plants used(or that many at all) so I can't tell if they are hurting or flourishing.
But the plant in number 3 image looks great to me.

How are things looking?