Black Dog LED True 960W Organic Super Lemon Haze 4'x4' Grow

ChrisStomata · Oct 31, 2013

Happy Halloween

ChrisStomata · Nov 1, 2013

ChrisStomata said:
I was cleaning underneath my canopy, cutting all the branches that are not
receiving much light to focus the plants energy on other bud sites, and decided
to give re-vegging clones from flower a try.

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Anyone with experience with this please reply.

Just wanted to follow up on this posting. I took these clones on week 3 flower. They had buds starting to form and a couple had trichomes on the flower. It has been 9 days from when I cut them and here are the results:

They even look healthier from when I took them which may be from the nutrients that are stored in the flower...just a thought. Anyways they are doing great. I will slowly introduce them to the ambient air over the next couple days then transplant them to 4" Grodan cubes.

low318 · Nov 2, 2013

LED need what color of light

BigEasy1 · Nov 2, 2013

What was your dissatisfaction with the BlackStar Chrome? I have been using a Chrome 270 for two grows now and it has worked great so far. I only grow 2 or 3 plants at a time staggered a few weeks each. I did have a problem initially with introducing a late flowering plant to the Chrome. It started getting brown spots all over the leaves so I backed the light off considerably. I've had absolutely no issues such as brown spotting with plants germinated and grown from day one under the Chrome though. I'm a personal stash guy so when I got 60 grams dried and cured off a DinaFem White Widow Auto I was happy. Nice big and tight frosty nuggets my buddy swore came from The Netherlands. Since I'm incognito semi stealth I couldn't bust him out but how I would've loved to school him! lol

FranJan · Nov 2, 2013

Hi CS. Have you posted a link to this Journal in https://www.rollitup.org/led-other-lighting/240615-led-users-unite.html? Lots of peeps in that section would like to see this, though not everyone there is a BlackDog fan, myself included. Still I always try to be somewhat open to different LEDs than just 1 or 2 brands. Plus my current SLH/LED grow is nothing to right home about so I could really stand to see what others are achieving with their LED setup. Good Luck!

ChrisStomata · Nov 2, 2013

BigEasy1 said:
What was your dissatisfaction with the BlackStar Chrome? I have been using a Chrome 270 for two grows now and it has worked great so far. I only grow 2 or 3 plants at a time staggered a few weeks each. I did have a problem initially with introducing a late flowering plant to the Chrome. It started getting brown spots all over the leaves so I backed the light off considerably. I've had absolutely no issues such as brown spotting with plants germinated and grown from day one under the Chrome though. I'm a personal stash guy so when I got 60 grams dried and cured off a DinaFem White Widow Auto I was happy. Nice big and tight frosty nuggets my buddy swore came from The Netherlands. Since I'm incognito semi stealth I couldn't bust him out but how I would've loved to school him! lol

I did not see the growth rates that I usually see with my other LED grows. The buds were not as tight as I have seen and the plants did not react well. I think it is something with their spectrum configuration. My experience is off of their small model. Don't know if the larger models are better but it was enough to move on. I had very similar results as you did with their normal series 240W and a Short Stuff Onyx Auto - 72g. I also use their HO Veg lights for my Veg tent and love them - I don't hate the manufacturer just did not like the Chrome model as much as other lights I have used.

ChrisStomata · Nov 2, 2013

Update Week 4 Flower:

I'll post some bud shots a little later...

ChrisStomata · Nov 2, 2013

Here are some week 4 bud shots:

WildBud420 · Nov 2, 2013

nice setup and plants man, i'm subbed

If your going to try a new brand of LED's after these i'd love to see how well these ones work, herd good things about them...http://www.grownorthern.co.uk/index.php/online-store/ms-0006 I currently use 1k HPS, but have been considering switching to LED's since they have come down in price and quality seems to be going up.

ChrisStomata · Nov 11, 2013

Week 5 Update:

These lights are truly surpassing my expectations. These girls are truly packing it on. I have never seen trichome production like this before:

budbro18 · Nov 11, 2013

Those look really nice! Whats the flower time on the slh you have?

i grabbed another panel so ill have about a 915w led 4x4 tent. Hope my shit goes as hard as yours.

You really dont know how big led panels like grow evolutions and black dogs are until you see them in real life.

They all look like the old 12"x12" panels they used to make but in reality are almost 2'x2' and sometimes bigger haha.

What is your distance from light to top cola?? Ive only used leds a few times and they werent very strong so they were fairly close.

But now with these hid panels im not sure how close is too close.

Keep up the good work!

ChrisStomata · Nov 18, 2013

Week 6 Update

On week 6 flower and everything is great! I had a little issue with humidity and it caused some of the leaf tips to dry up in the intense lighting but it's nothing to worry about this late in flower:

Trichomes look amazing and they are really starting to bulk up. It's looking like they will be ready to bring down right on day 63. Could not be more happy with these lights: