logan9fingers
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Hello,
This is my first post to the forum. I have been absorbing a lot of information recently and was looking for your opinions as to whether this equipment plan is feasible for any sort of decent results.
I have inherited a mother and am in the process of rooting clones at the moment. OG Kush, nice smoke.
My Grow Area is 65 x 65 x 230 (cm) giving me a total floor space of about 2ft x 2ft to work with for this first mini grow.
My question is about basing my grow lighting around standard household LED bulbs, specifically, Phillips 13.5w Warm White LED light bulbs. Their colour temperature is 2700k and they emit 1520 lumens. Here is the amazon link:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Edison-Screw-Light-Bulb/dp/B010UQJM48
The reason I am choosing these over CFL's is that the beam angle is focused down which I am hoping will give me better penetration into the canopy.
I plan to use adaptors to make a five bulb light that covers a 30cm x 30cm area like this:
Where each of the diamonds is a bulb.
Then have them arranged in a 2 x 2 pattern over the canopy, with supplemental 23 watt CFL's hanging vertically in glass tubes, they are the green circles:
This gives me a total power draw of 390w and a total lumen output of 37,420 over my 2sqft x 2sqft area.
The cost of purchasing everything required for the whole of the set up including carbon filter, fan, dwc res, nutes, hangers, lamps and adapters is under £200.
I already have a veg and clone station.
I want to go straight in when rooted onto a 12/12 schedule with 9 single cola plants SOG style, using a DWC with net pots.
Plants to be arranged like:
Using the General Hydroponics Nutes, in the correct for canna doses, with a mother that is known to yield adequately, putting 8 inch tall clones straight in to 12/12. Barring any root rot or PH disasters.Would it work?
Possible to pull an oz per plant?
Is there anyone growing with these bulbs at the moment. They seem good output for the wattage.
I know lumens is not PAR but who's got a PAR meter anyway. I know lux is more important than lumens. But the lights can be manoeuvred to be at any angle and give the best coverage to every single leaf.
I saw a thread like 2 weeks ago, it was a dude with a lux meter, he bought a load of these and was doing tests with the meter. He then threw 6 household LED lamps on a board in wardrobe ceiling and filled the whole thing with one plant. He killed it. He then did it again and again for several grows.
I have searched and searched for this golden thread a million times because its what I am basing my plans on but I cant find it for shit. Maybe I dreamt the whole thing. If anyone knows any grow reports or threads discussing using household LED light bulbs so I can cross reference the results they get I would be extremely grateful.
Taking the lens and reflector off of the bulb to expose the led chip in these lights results in a dramatic increase in the lux at distance in the thread.
I am trying to work out whether to use this set up or purchase an LED panel. Maybe the mars hydro 600. But at an actual power draw of around 250w and the one fixed panel with no manoeuvrability so your comments on this vs that considering around the same price point and my plan to do a 9 plants sog in this space would be most welcome.
Sorry for war and peace.
I plan to do the shop this weekend and got giddy with paint.
This is my first post to the forum. I have been absorbing a lot of information recently and was looking for your opinions as to whether this equipment plan is feasible for any sort of decent results.
I have inherited a mother and am in the process of rooting clones at the moment. OG Kush, nice smoke.
My Grow Area is 65 x 65 x 230 (cm) giving me a total floor space of about 2ft x 2ft to work with for this first mini grow.
My question is about basing my grow lighting around standard household LED bulbs, specifically, Phillips 13.5w Warm White LED light bulbs. Their colour temperature is 2700k and they emit 1520 lumens. Here is the amazon link:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Edison-Screw-Light-Bulb/dp/B010UQJM48
The reason I am choosing these over CFL's is that the beam angle is focused down which I am hoping will give me better penetration into the canopy.
I plan to use adaptors to make a five bulb light that covers a 30cm x 30cm area like this:
Where each of the diamonds is a bulb.
Then have them arranged in a 2 x 2 pattern over the canopy, with supplemental 23 watt CFL's hanging vertically in glass tubes, they are the green circles:
This gives me a total power draw of 390w and a total lumen output of 37,420 over my 2sqft x 2sqft area.
The cost of purchasing everything required for the whole of the set up including carbon filter, fan, dwc res, nutes, hangers, lamps and adapters is under £200.
I already have a veg and clone station.
I want to go straight in when rooted onto a 12/12 schedule with 9 single cola plants SOG style, using a DWC with net pots.
Plants to be arranged like:
Using the General Hydroponics Nutes, in the correct for canna doses, with a mother that is known to yield adequately, putting 8 inch tall clones straight in to 12/12. Barring any root rot or PH disasters.Would it work?
Possible to pull an oz per plant?
Is there anyone growing with these bulbs at the moment. They seem good output for the wattage.
I know lumens is not PAR but who's got a PAR meter anyway. I know lux is more important than lumens. But the lights can be manoeuvred to be at any angle and give the best coverage to every single leaf.
I saw a thread like 2 weeks ago, it was a dude with a lux meter, he bought a load of these and was doing tests with the meter. He then threw 6 household LED lamps on a board in wardrobe ceiling and filled the whole thing with one plant. He killed it. He then did it again and again for several grows.
I have searched and searched for this golden thread a million times because its what I am basing my plans on but I cant find it for shit. Maybe I dreamt the whole thing. If anyone knows any grow reports or threads discussing using household LED light bulbs so I can cross reference the results they get I would be extremely grateful.
Taking the lens and reflector off of the bulb to expose the led chip in these lights results in a dramatic increase in the lux at distance in the thread.
I am trying to work out whether to use this set up or purchase an LED panel. Maybe the mars hydro 600. But at an actual power draw of around 250w and the one fixed panel with no manoeuvrability so your comments on this vs that considering around the same price point and my plan to do a 9 plants sog in this space would be most welcome.
Sorry for war and peace.
I plan to do the shop this weekend and got giddy with paint.
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