Hudsonvalley82
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gotta love a mystery!
Hempstar 3 Stage LED Grow
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gotta love a mystery!
nice looking LED grow 
There looking pretty healthy too, good pics.
dunit
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More drama than Jersey Shore
Few more pics of the kids. Can't wait for the other two panels so I can drop the light
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PakChild
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Hey looks good man, since you sound to have a pretty decent setup you shoulda did a lil contest of HID vs LED, I've been reading up more in LED I, my last grow was a very small grow with a 90w UFO, it did do great for veg but was very disappointed in the flowering stage, them came out real airy;fluffy. But I've been reading about Stealth Grow SG LED series models and they sound badass, only thing is they're $1500-$3500. But compared to all the equipment needed for HID due to heat issues, it sounds worth it, and sounds worth it for some of the buds I've seen on the internet, but not too many out there. What brand LED you using?
growalater
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Looking sexy man. Love the way they look under led.
dunit
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Yeah I've seem SG's stuff and it's impressive but the price is just too out of reach for most growers. They use CREE LED's and those things are wicked expensive so thats prob why. The panels I'm using now come from www.ledgrowlightsdirect.com and they use Bridgelux LED's which are great quality IMO but no where near the cost. SG also use a lot of 2W chipsets. I'm in the process of sourcing some new panels that use all 3W Bridglux chipsets that are gonna be around 350W of actual draw so comparable to SG602 but about half the cost. Hopefully it works out. Would love to run a side by side and it's on my list of things to do. The comparison I want to do is run two 350W panels against a 1000 HPS AND run one 350W panel against a 600 HPS. I think first I'm just gonna run a straight LED pull and dial in the nutes and temp and stuff cause I've got lots of experience with HID and not sure it would be a fair comparison to run my first LED pull against HID
dunit
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don't be jealous till I'm rollin my own dank goodness
Thanks for the support
Hudsonvalley82
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More bud porn, okay well no buds yet but plant porn for sure
Couple more big feeds and then trigger time for round 1
Bud pedophilia? LOL
Hudsonvalley82
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Fucking hell that is taking some time. Im getting anxious for you getting them, I can't even imagine how frustrating it must be for you. Tis the season. Hopefully you will have a magenta-ish Christmas.
wake.n.bake
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Nice looking plants. Looking forward to seeing how your LEDs' work for you.
paulbooneyan
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hate when that happens!!! sweet grow man
dunit
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Well sorry for the big gap in updated. Laid out with the flu for a week 
Anyway fortunately the girls weren't waiting for me and they have been just flying. Way crowded rigtht now and certainly should have been spread out much earlier but I wasn't about to get out of bed.
Gonna repot into 3 gallon pots tonite, spread them out and let then trigger. Should put harvest end of January
Anyway fortunately the girls weren't waiting for me and they have been just flying. Way crowded rigtht now and certainly should have been spread out much earlier but I wasn't about to get out of bed.
Gonna repot into 3 gallon pots tonite, spread them out and let then trigger. Should put harvest end of January
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Killed By A Whore
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any updates? ;D
dunit
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Okay people sorry for the huge lags in the space time continuum. Part of that can be blamed on illness, part on the "season" to have a house full of relatives and no time for leisurely gardening photo shoots and part for shovelling snow
Anyway, we're back. The girls are absolutely taking off like freak shows and I'm loving it I suspect that the co2 is helping as I just added that. Gonna re-pot tomorrow or friday into 3 gallon pots and I think we'll see a new launch in size from that. Gotta check out the bud sites already forming. One thing I will say is that the new medium I'm using (50% coco) gets so much aeration that the plants are drinking like I remember from hydro set-ups and having to water TWICE a day. Didn't realize they were going dry and actually noticed a little yellowing which is what started the investigation and now that they are on twice a day feedings they are rapidly greening up again. Whew!
Anyway, we're back. The girls are absolutely taking off like freak shows and I'm loving it
I suspect that the co2 is helping as I just added that. Gonna re-pot tomorrow or friday into 3 gallon pots and I think we'll see a new launch in size from that. Gotta check out the bud sites already forming. One thing I will say is that the new medium I'm using (50% coco) gets so much aeration that the plants are drinking like I remember from hydro set-ups and having to water TWICE a day. Didn't realize they were going dry and actually noticed a little yellowing which is what started the investigation and now that they are on twice a day feedings they are rapidly greening up again. Whew! 
