brutalbuds
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You have a phat setup my man. I'm so interested in seeing what happens in here. Im hooked man.
You got a journal???Nice grow. Hey, my tri band UFO just got here. I have placed it over some rooting clones. I thought about putting it over the veg tent later for one of my trees to use along with the 400.
IDK, but, lol, that thing is bright. I plugged it in pointed right at my face. I nearly dropped it. I am still seeing spots. I had no idea. Nice surprise. The UFO is a few feet over my rooting clones, I dont want to burn them.
Thanks for the grow to follow along in. I gro organic soil, UFO/400 watt HID.
LEDs wont put out any heat themselves because its all given off in light basically.The 55w panel puts out no detectable heat and does not even have a fan. The 120w panel puts out a very small amount of heat, but less than even one of my 26w CFLs by comparison. Even the individual LED's themselves get only slightly warm to the touch during operation and I am comfortable letting the plants grow right against them.
Besides not having to buy ducting and blowers and everything else, the biggest benefit I've realized out of this is incredibly low transpiration rates. Since there is no excess heat my plants consume less nutrient solution and less of it evaporates, so less is needed overall.
I'm planning on using CO2 in my next grow but not this one. Being my first hydro and LED grow I want to get a good baseline for yield and then experiment with increasing yield in future grows. One thing I've heard about CO2 is that lights must be on and you need temps of almost 90 to fully utilise it, which would be a problem in my current setup where ambient temp stays around 70 with lights on.Oh and also what are you doing for CO2 now that you're into flowering?
Thanks bro. I've heard its bad mojo to predict yield before harvest but honestly I am hoping for 3 zips like you said. Anything more and I'll do backflips and anything less will be disappointing. Only time will tell but I predict a great summer in 2009man thats big. wasnt expecting that much growth so far. they look healthy to. lush green and nice budding sites. With this led light i will be very impressed if 3 ounces is produced. that would be amazing for a first grow with 120 watts. looks great man i'll keep checking in. my lowryders under t5ho are flowering nicely and will be finished anytime. 3 days maybe. good luck man. with all the lights out there now to look at i really havnt even been able to think about what i would get. whether built o homemade.