Vipar V300 IR LED Herijuana & Purple Kush grow

Key take-away here is that you let them finish and pulled them when they were ready I don't care what the marketing pamphlet says, they're get pulled when the trichs are fully cloudy, maybe some amber if I want some sleep meds, otherwise they stay in there!!

aphrodisia said:

By the way, does anyone know how to use one of these things :

Carson MM-200 Carson Micromax LED 60X-100X LED Lighted Pocket Microscope.

I bought one for £15 thinking they will be better than the magnifying glass ive currently got but I can see fuck all through them, am I not using them correctly or are they just crap ? Thinking of sending them back.

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Looking good man, the easiest way for me to focus mine in which is the same magnification is to put it on a piece of paper and focus it in from there. Doing such has made it useable finally

hillbilly86 said:

Looking good man, the easiest way for me to focus mine in which is the same magnification is to put it on a piece of paper and focus it in from there. Doing such has made it useable finally

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Thanks hillbilly. I sent the damn thing back and got an LED loupe 40x magnification instead. The bloody thing was just too fiddly for me to use and quite small too.

I tried using a mates computer to upload some updated photos this morning but the picture uploader on rollitup doesn't appear to be working this morning. LOL:

Good looking grow! I am currently running the v600 in a 3x3 tent just got the LEDs today. I have 2 white widows, 2 blueberry skunks, 1 critical+ auto, and 2 bag seeds from some sannies sugar punch. Can't comment on my light yet (other then It works) but your outcome makes for some promising results. Here's to you bro, and my your buds grow huge and dense!!! Subbed in on this one

Jah77 said:

Good looking grow! I am currently running the v600 in a 3x3 tent just got the LEDs today. I have 2 white widows, 2 blueberry skunks, 1 critical+ auto, and 2 bag seeds from some sannies sugar punch. Can't comment on my light yet (other then It works) but your outcome makes for some promising results. Here's to you bro, and my your buds grow huge and dense!!! Subbed in on this one

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Thanks bro, hope so too. Heard some good things about sannies sugar punch and ordered me some as they are now back in stock !

Does anyone else have trouble uploading pics onto rollitup or is it just me ? I had a helluva job uploading these 2 photos. Actually wanted to upload 4 but it wouldn't let me. Its either my friends PC acting up or its the uploader on this website. I wont be able to post as many pictures as I did previously as I still haven't got a functioning PC, but I will keep you guys updated as to progress. To all you seasoned LED growers out there how do these look for 6 weeks flowering ? Am I on course ? would appreciate any input you have.

P.S. By the way ive been noticing some funny symbols next to the start of this thread and other threads on rollitup. A small white envelope with an orange spot, or a paper clip, etc. Does anyone know what these symbols mean ?

aphrodisia said:

Thanks bro, hope so too. Heard some good things about sannies sugar punch and ordered me some as they are now back in stock !

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Yeah the sugar punch is divine! I hope the seeds I got out of the bag have good phenos. Their just popped to days ago! Excited this is my first grow too!!

Day 47 of flower, the buds are really frosty with resin now but I don't know, they still don't look like proper buds to me at the moment for the amount of time they have been flowering as I still don't see any individual calyxes, what do you guys think ? :





Are they likely to start fattening up soon do you think ?

aphrodisia said:

Day 47 of flower, the buds are really frosty with resin now but I don't know, they still don't look like proper buds to me at the moment for the amount of time they have been flowering as I still don't see any individual calyxes, what do you guys think ? :


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Are they likely to start fattening up soon do you think ?

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Could be the strain, some seem to go slow and finish strong. They do seem small/under developed for this stage.

Do you have the one 300W over these still or any additional lighting? Assuming if it's a 300W, it's drawing more like 200W. IMO it would be on the low end for this many plants, ** for flowering **. If they're on their own, do you have the option to add some lighting?

This is something I'm trying to determine in my current chinese LED grow. I don't think it matters what light it is, I believe you need about 100 (actual) Watts per plant to flower well under these LED's. Just my gut feel from a couple of runs with these LED's, they're incredible for vegging but die out if you don't have enough light during flowering.

How far away is the LED panel from the tops right now in flowering?

GroErr said:

Could be the strain, some seem to go slow and finish strong. They do seem small/under developed for this stage.

Do you have the one 300W over these still or any additional lighting? Assuming if it's a 300W, it's drawing more like 200W. IMO it would be on the low end for this many plants, ** for flowering **. If they're on their own, do you have the option to add some lighting?



This is something I'm trying to determine in my current chinese LED grow. I don't think it matters what light it is, I believe you need about 100 (actual) Watts per plant to flower well under these LED's. Just my gut feel from a couple of runs with these LED's, they're incredible for vegging but die out if you don't have enough light during flowering.

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Thanks for the input GroErr. I have to admit I am seriously beginning to get worried for my final yield the way things stand. Yes I only have the one light, my grow box is so small I don't have any option for adding additional lighting. The buds look terrific and I have no dozbt the quality will be terrific, its just that they are so damn small ! I think you may be right about that 100watt per plant theory. I have a feeling that using LEDs to get any decent yield you need lights that draw at least something like 280 actual watts while mine only draws 180 actual watts. What a bummer. Having said that they still have a way to go I suppose as the calyxes haven't actually started swelling yet so I will keep my fingers crossed. Will post the latest pics below.

goodjoint said:

How far away is the LED panel from the tops right now in flowering?

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Hi Goodjoint. I had them at around 18" before but I have just lowered them to around 14" and light stress be damned.

Here they are at day 50 :






My final yield is not looking so good at the moment. Maybe that will improve in the next couple of weeks I can only wait and see. This grow was always meant as an experiment so I have to see what the final outcome is, but it may be that perhaps a 300w LED is just not strong enough to maximise yields ?

Damn. I sure miss growing with my 400w HPS:

aphrodisia said:

Thanks for the input GroErr. I have to admit I am seriously beginning to get worried for my final yield the way things stand. Yes I only have the one light, my grow box is so small I don't have any option for adding additional lighting. The buds look terrific and I have no dozbt the quality will be terrific, its just that they are so damn small ! I think you may be right about that 100watt per plant theory. I have a feeling that using LEDs to get any decent yield you need lights that draw at least something like 280 actual watts while mine only draws 180 actual watts. What a bummer. Having said that they still have a way to go I suppose as the calyxes haven't actually started swelling yet so I will keep my fingers crossed. Will post the latest pics below.

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Hey, no worries, I did the same thing first indoor round with LED's, I bought into the whole "replaces xx Watt HPS" hype. Second round I bumped it up a bit and got a decent harvest but the buds still weren't up to my standards (of course I was comparing them to outdoor I'd grown for years, which of course now I know that no light can be compared to the sun!). So my current grow is the final shot I'm giving the LED's for flowering, based on 100W (actual draw) per plant. If they don't live up to what I'm looking for in size/quality buds, I'll still use them for vegging as they rock for vegging, then buy an induction light for flowering, they seem to be consistent producers and have a lot of the same benefits LED's provide like low heat and power consumption compared to HPS/HID. Price-wise the Inda-Grow induction is the same as a higher end LED like the A51, but I don't like the current all-white design by A51, doesn't seem to be as efficient or produce as well as the Inda-Grow from what I've seen here.

Here are some shots from day 53 :





The top buds are starting to look a lot tighter and denser now, even if still small. Its hard to know how the purple kushes are doing as all bud formation is hidden under the dense foliage and I can only hope they start swelling some till I cut them down. Going to be feeding them just water from now.

I have been reviewing this whole grow from the begining (one of the reasons I started this report was to use it as an online diary of my grow), and Im begining to think my problem has to do with my temps. I have been battling low temps throughout and I think that has been slowing their flowering somewhat so I have tweaked a couple of things in my grow box so lets see if that helps.

I would say this is the first time I actually see them looking like proper buds.