Hello Enonumus,
Not sure if I missed the post, but did you ever get your next batch of seeds from Attitude? Are you planning on using the same system? I just moved my 2 ER's into a larger tent from my cab. They're under 250W LED's. I just got tired of having to keep the portable AC pointed at my cabs intake, just to keep the girls cool. THe LED's keep the tent at a stable 80 degree's; about 4 degrees warmer than ambient temps.
Also, I was surfing thru some forums and found this one guy who's growing a single ER using bubbleponics, inside of a PC case while using Scrog. Simply amazing. His name is Aggreenvln, not sure how to link on here, but it's titled "First Ever Grow- Stealth PC Easy Ryder Bubbleponics". I'm sure you've already seen it. Just amazed by what some of these baby's can grow up to be.
Hope your girls are doing well,
Cheers.
Yeah, if you look back at one of the previous pages you'll see a post about my next batch of seeds. I received them a couple weeks ago, I'm just waiting until I harvest at least my two small phenotype ERs before I plant anything else, and I might wait until I harvest all 5 of my ERs. Takes a lot of will power though to sit on good seeds and not germinate them lol.
At the moment I'm still growing my girls in their original cardboard grow box underneath a large black desk using 10 23W CFLs. I added a second identical box at one point because I wound up with 6 plants and only had room for 4 in the original box. When two of my ERs got a little too tall and big for the first box I moved them over to the second box where there was more room and I could adjust the lights differently.
Temps were HUGE problem for me in the first month or more because it was the middle of summer here in So-Calif., and it gets up to around 115 here. I installed two 4" cabinet fans in my original grow box, and a single 4" cabinet fan in my second grow box, but the temps were still pretty rough (low to mid 90s sometimes). Once the weather started to cool down outside I was able to open the window directly behind my grow boxes, and with outside temps in the 60s or 70s at night that made a HUGE difference and cooled my box down to the high 70s to low 80s most of the time, sometimes down to the 60s at night.
What LED are you using and where did you get it, and what grow tent did you get? I've been shopping around for a good basic 2'x2' or 3'x2' grow tent that I can put in my walk-in closet, and I've found some really good quality deals between $75-$125, but I haven't decided on a light source yet. Sometimes I have people over that I don't really want to know that I'm growing, even though I'm completely legal, and with where they are currently the smell is hard to hide and there's a small chance someone might go in that room. I won't have to worry about any of that with a grow tent in my closet.
I've been really pulling my hair out though trying to decide between LED or a good old fashioned MH/HPS setup. I won't have the benefit of the cool outside air in my closet, so temps will once again be a problem if I don't use the proper setup. I'd prefer not to go the HPS route since it's inefficient and I'd have to add ducting and fans etc. etc.. Unless maybe I can add a low wattage HPS (like 250W) that wouldn't bump ambient temps up by more than 6 or 7 degrees inside the tent, keeping it under 85. No idea how much the various MH or HPs wattages bump up ambient temps.
This is just a hobby for me with no profit, and I don't consume much, so I really don't want to invest a lot of money in expensive equipment or I'd buy one of the top of the line LEDs like the Supernova (preferably the enhanced spectrum). If I can find something that would do the job of a 250w HPS for around the same cost I'd be happy, don't even need a 400W or 600W equivalent for my small setup. Obviously there are 90W-120W LEDs out there ranging from $99 to $599 that all claim to work as well as 400 or 600W HPS's, but you just won't REALLY know what you're getting until you try it out. I think almost all of the newer 90W UFOs and 120W LEDs will do a pretty good job in Veg., even the lower end ones, but only the quality ones will work for flowering. Problem is it's just not enough to know which spectrums an LED uses and exactly what peak points it hits, or even that they're 10mm diodes rather than 5mm, although those are good starting points.
I'd like to only spend around $200 for a decent LED and if I could spend less that would be great, but I'd spend a little more too if I
knew it would work well for at least 2'x2' setup. At the moment I'm thinking about going with a 90w Illuminator UFO for $299 since the company is extremely reputable and offers a full 90 day
performance guarantee. If you're not satisfied with it after 90 days (which is plenty of time for a complete Auto grow), just send it back for a full refund. I havent' seen any other company personally that offers that kind of guarantee, so I can't help but think their products must really work and I have nothing to lose except my time, effort, and seeds. If it wasn't doing the job I could always my CFLs to finish or supplement the grow, heaven knows I have plenty of them.
I welcome feedback and
personal experiences with LEDs that anybody has. Please no LED bashing based on second hand information or things you've read. I've already done plenty of reading and research, and I'm well aware that a lot of the LEDs out there don't perform nearly as well as they claim, and most people dismiss them. I'll post it here when I decide what tent and light setup I go with. I'm still 1-2 weeks away from harvest so I have a little time left to decide.
, and estimate the size of the cola and the other buds, without knowing how much they might shrivel when they dry. Hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised, but I can't imagine my estimates being much higher than the yield.
) , and it looks to me like Sarah is going to yield closer to 3/4 of an Oz. best guess, and all the others at least half an Oz. hopefully, except my stunted Onyx which should yield at least a 1/4 of really nice looking bud. 
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