2 500 Watt Blackstar LED Grow- 6 Pre 98' Bubba Kush

sleezy1

sleezy1

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Hi everyone if you haven't been following my previous LED grow journals, I am Sleezy. This is my 4th grow now growing under LEDs. I was once a skeptic with the performance with LEDs, but decided to take the plunge and try to grow with these pretty pink lights. I just harvested my last grow, and I was amazed how I got such big, chunky, stanky, and sticky buds. All the rumors that LEDs can't grow big plants or flower big buds are full of BS. My grow journals are proof that LEDs can grow dank buds. Thank you for following my grows. Here is the setup for this grow:

2 500 Watt Blackstar (power draw approx. 608 watts)
House and Garden Nutes
Sunshine #4 mix Soil
Airpots
4 x 4 tent

I have been vegging these girls from clone for 18 days now. I had them in little square pots with FFOF for the first 16 days before they got rootbound and was in desperate need to be transplanted. I transplanted the girls 2 days ago into 3 gallon Airpots into a Sunshine Mix #4 with added perlite. I started feeding them House and Garden Nutes right away. These girls are about 11- 12 inches tall. I plan for them to acclimate under the new lights, (was vegging under 300 w LED) and vegg them for a couple more weeks until they hit around 21-22 inches tall before inducing flowering. So grab a chair and lets start this grow together!
 

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curly604

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sweet man ya ive been keepin my eye on it looked great before the chop man stoaked to see what the final numbers are.
 
Metasynth

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Nice, led's are getting there man, if only they weren't so expensive...what part of LA you from?
 
curly604

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those blackstars hes using arnt even that expensive meta like 5 or 600 a pop delivered not to shabby in my books
 
sleezy1

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Metasynth said:
Nice, led's are getting there man, if only they weren't so expensive...what part of LA you from?
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Sup meta? Ya these LEDs are in my opinion, "best bang for the buck"! $550 each from eBay directly from the manufacturer. Make sure to click the second link in my signature to view my other harvested grow.
 
Metasynth

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curly604 said:
those blackstars hes using arnt even that expensive meta like 5 or 600 a pop delivered not to shabby in my books
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Well, maybe one day. For now I'm sorta on a budget, piecing things together bit by bit...I don't know if I can take a 500 dollar hit all at once...You know, life being broke.......
 
sleezy1

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Metasynth said:
Well, maybe one day. For now I'm sorta on a budget, piecing things together bit by bit...I don't know if I can take a 500 dollar hit all at once...You know, life being broke.......
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Ya I feel ya! Just stack those chips. To answer your question, I'm from west la, but living in the valley right now.
 
Metasynth

Metasynth

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Thats insane, checked out your harvest...your drawing a little over 600w? You don't need to run AC?
 
sleezy1

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Metasynth said:
Thats insane, checked out your harvest...your drawing a little over 600w? You don't need to run AC?
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I set my AC during the summer to 75 degrees, and inside my tent is low 80s. Im telling you these LEDs use very little electricity compared to HID and run way cooler. YOu can literally touch the glass on the light after 18 hours and its is just warm. Its awesome I tell ya!
 
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Hey sleezy,

Followed your last grow, just a quick question about the shooting powder. Did you use them at full strength, cause i remember reading somewhere in your last thread that the rated dosage sent some leaves to yellow, Could you be kind enough to let me know how much grams of shooting powder you used to 1 litre of water.

Peace, and keep up the great grows. :)
 
sleezy1

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cannabuilding said:
Hey sleezy,

Followed your last grow, just a quick question about the shooting powder. Did you use them at full strength, cause i remember reading somewhere in your last thread that the rated dosage sent some leaves to yellow, Could you be kind enough to let me know how much grams of shooting powder you used to 1 litre of water.

Peace, and keep up the great grows. :)
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Hey canna, I had no issues when I initially used the shooting powder at 2.6g per 1 gallOn in the beginning. When the feeding schedule wanted me to increase to 5.2g I started to get yellow leaves. So I backed off when I saw that and gave them 4.1g per 1 gallon Instead of full strength @ 5.2g. Hope that helps!
 
sleezy1

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So the ladies had a good day adjusting to their new pots and new lights. Fed them yesterday full strength nutes week 3 House and Garden. Added some more soil into each Airpot, due to settling. The ladies are all about 12 inches tall now. Very healthy green. Im amazed how well they recovered compared to when I first got them 19 days ago. These LEDs really make the leaves dark vibrant green. I really do believe now that the spectrum from LEDs are much more absorbed vs HID light. THey say 90% of LED spectrum is absorbed vs 10% HID spectrum. Guess that is why HID needs higher volume of light. Loving my ninja LED grows, quiet, efficient and simple.
 

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Kaptain Kron

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Hell yea sleazy take a look at his thread https://www.rollitup.org/grow-room-design-setup/390631-stealth-cabinets.html and what LEDs he's using he's pulling insane numbers with a single panel that pulls almost 300watts half what urs are but they use he new insanely bright Cree LEDs the xp-es. I talked a lil about his numbers in ur other thread but at he same cost as two blackstar 500s it has me considering it as a possible alrernative. I was originally going to get this ligh instead of the blackstar when the only offered it in a 14" about two years ago kinda wish I had but the bs was cheaper and i didn't have the money.

Regardless ur last grow was bitchin lookin forward to this one
 
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