100% LED GROW IN PLACE!

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JOLLYRODGER

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First and foremost I am not the most computer savvy person but I will keep trying.
I am also finding the features on the camera Nikon D 7000 photos will improve.
3 x 6 trays with (2) Lumi-Grow 650's per tray.
Cloning handled by "EZCLONER 128" with 1 325 Lumi-grow per each cloner.
Botanicare Kind Expert rockwool Feeding program.
Cuttings taken 8/10.
Clones where pulled 8/20 and set into 4 x 4 x3.1 Gro/Dan
Plants at approx. 4 weeks 9/21 set on 3 x6 x 36 Gro/Dan slabs.
Plants at approx. 8 weeks 10/16
 

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Hot Diggity Sog said:
The density of hairs is nuts. What strain are you running?
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Durban Poison, I have the same strain growing under street lights and they are not even anything like these. Defiantly the LEDS and always 2 weeks faster then street lights. Sorry I waited so long to cross over. I am changing out 102 streets lights for LEDS when I pull down. I tried several of the others but they are all blowing smoke because I have had big tobacco in 3 weeks ago and they tested all of the lights side by side and the Lumi- Grow blew them all away. The others even had supplemental lighting built in and they were not very close. Old school & old ways works but running 46 lights with a $758.00 electric bill speaks for their selves alone. Thanks for the great comments and I will keep posting.
 
puffenuff

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Killer setup. Glad to see some of the lumigrows in action. I'm subbed up for this. Keep up the good work.
 
thatsam

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JOLLYRODGER said:
The flowers are now starting their 6 th week. I will keep you posted. I have been seeing amazing results so far.
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Some times my math no good. I looked up those lights on Amazon and sweet Jesus man, those are up there but I guess results speak for themselves.
So is this your first led grow? Street light? Like hps?
 
Mandangleow

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I'm intrigued with your Lumigrow lights. The science behind the adjustable 3 spectrum makes sense but seems like it may be a bit complicated to perfect. Am I wrong?

Led is so controversial and not understood by most. It's hard to make heads or tales of the "new school" lights.

I'm subbed on this grow for sure.
 
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Hey and thank you for the positive comments. This is my first LED grow, I started 2 years ago with Hid/Hps and have learned a lot from there. I am still working with the lights and finding neat little things. There is no available input yet regarding the lights. I have had a lot of big companies and major growers seeing the results and every one has first been shocked to see the plant health, the color and now they are staggering over the flowers. I understand about the continued use of street lights. I feel that the LED lighting industry has really turned the page and most will start investigating after more folks post results. I am amazed by the major growers who have done a site visit and seen first hand what is truly fact over fiction. There have been customers who are now buying 4 lights to one who purchased 2500 lights so far. Every one who came and saw the documented grow have completed their sale. I am not a pro grower by any stretch of the imagination. I tried to ask for input here when I first started to wanting to grow but never received much if any replies. So I went and did it on my own and that's where I am right now. The electric bill speaks entirely for it self. I just received the bill of almost $ 900.00 which includes my residence which has always been $ 110 to 130 for my home the balance is the grow. I am not using any A/C at all and strictly using outside air intake to maintain the room temps. I have a total of 3 rooms with a total growing commitment of 36 lights. The veg room is using 8 lights & 2 -325 for the cloner lighting. The results are truly way better than my street light grow and each & every grower has been shocked by the 100% LED. More than a few have all felt that their negative position about LEDS was wrong. I have to understand that earlier LED's where not very good if good at all. I am still of the opinion that is where the negativity all came from. I will keep everybody posted and again thank you for all of the positive feed back..
 
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Mandangleow said:
So if I understand correctly, you sell these lights also?
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Hey Mandangleow, I do not sell these lights at all. I purchased them thru a rep who sells for Lumi-Grow. Lumi Grow like Botanicare will not hold conversation with any body in the cannabis industry. The rep from my understanding is the exclusive for sale directly to our industry. This is my first full crop using the Lumi's which all started on 8/20/2014. The flowers I posted are the first which is a total of 54 plants. Those cuttings were transported 1800 miles and started here under LED'S. The different light spectrums are not hard but to find the exact mix is key. I have had 3 different light formulas which have been working really good. I have not had any feed back from any other users at all. I tried 3 other brands before choosing Lumi's. I had a very interesting site visitor today who are not using clones or seeds but are using plant cells and are currently awaiting for legislation to pass legal medical in their state. They are ready to start a 40,000 sq ft. greenhouse with 250 Lumi 650's for supplemental lighting. The biggest viewers I have had are currently building a 70 million dollar facility in Pueblo< Co.The rep has been using my site due to all of the visitors to Denver and then they go to another site which is over 30,000 sq ft indoor using combination lighting. They pulled down 1.87 # per light and this is their first grow. So I have hit more than that 3 times on street lights with no more then 2 yrs experience. With that being said I have not even come close to others in our local region, nor am I anybody other than a retired heavy equipment operator. I will get more photos and post over the weekend. Thanks!!
 
thatsam

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You said you tried three other brands, was advanced led one of them? I was leaning towards the diamond series lights from them( they seemed the best for my price range).
I'm curious how your lights work, is it just a "select a spectrum" switch?
Those massive scale grows are a thing of beauty, I work in a warehouse that shares an industrial complex with a commercial grow for the rec industry that's at least 10k sq feet here in wa.
 
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Oh god, reading my post again made me sound like I was selling lights. I'm not. I've just been watching what has hit the market this past few years and never actually bought an led light( I run hps myself) but if I had the choice I'd have me a couple of what you got jolly!
 
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2 of the lights that I have tried were all decent lights per sa. One that I would not ever want to deal with again was 4 units from a manufacture in China that was on Ebay. The name I cant remember but a lot of the lights in the array did not even light and their deal was less than a deal. More like a big ordeal. Another was California Solar Storm 440 w that was really heavy in weight but did produce a fair amount of output, a little pricey at the time but all right. The third was a local manufacture Black Dog BD 700 which also was heavy and very close in output but i just really was not certain. The Lumi's crushed all of them with their output and their 5 year warranty. They do stand behind their product and they also do have your best interests in mind. They were the best to deal with also, no attitude just all pure facts which the others hid true facts Trust me I spent the money for the others and really the Lumi Grow 650's were only $ 1,099 each and the 325's were $ 599. The output, price and the warranty put them in much better position. I am going to do it again on the retro fit with 102 lights and I will be buying the Lumi's again.
 
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Sorry I left a standing question. The Lumi's both the 325 & the 650's have three individual knobs like a rheostat that you can run at 100% or trim back to nothing. What I have been finding is dialing the 3 into mixed colors really lets you get where you need tobe. I have been running over the cloners the 325's with only 2.5-3 on the reds, 6 on the blue & whites. After they are pulled and cubed I then let the clones root into the 4 x 4x 3.1 blocks about 3 days under the 650's with the same settings then ramp up to 100% blue & white and at 6 for the balance of the week with excellent root penetration out the bottom of the blocks. I set them on the 3 x 6 x 36 slabs and give them 100% all three colors and they flourish with the red. I make no further adjustments to this point which I am into their 6th week of flowering currently.
 
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