Full LED grow room/aeroponic system. first attemp

i'd almost put them even closer, but yea looks a lot better

Those plants are not showign any preflowers yet and are therefore not possible to sex. They should show a couple weeks into to 12 12

I have been following your grow....Well done!...I am looking into doing this set up as well next time round...got some good leads on Super Bright 3rd Gen LED's.....

As far as from what I have seen, read and heard, regarding the spacing between the plant and the light.. the space should be anywhere from .5" to 1"... Even had a friend of mine go as far as to let the plants touch the lights...since no heat.. no issues... however.. he did say it sped up the flowering process and his did pretty well.....not as well as the 1/2lb per plant as I do believe I read above.. but damn good..=)*....

Good Luck mate and I am VERY VERY interested to see how your run turns out...=)* will give me the extra education I am looking for in LED growing.

yeah i am also really interested to see how much yield you get, i wish you the best of luck

Duece.

Ya, I read that post where he said something about 1/2 pound. I'm thinking I'll be lucky to get a couple ounces, lol. But, we'll just have to wait and see, heheee. Fuck I hate waiting! lmao

Interesting! Will keep posted on this!

Ya, I'm having alot of fun with this grow, its interesting t watch em grow under these, hehe. especially when you're looped, hahaa.

I wouldn't recommend anyone going out and buying a shit load of these just yet. Wait and see how it turns out first. A couple guys on here have posted that I've convinced them that LED's are awesome and they're gonna run right out and get some. These aren't even GOOD LED's. They're just cheap ass ones I got on ebay. I dont even know if they're worth bothering with yet, lol. Even though things are going really good now, we wont know until all is finished, hehee. I will be using them as supplemental lighting waith a 400W HPS next, for extra top, side lighting and directional, right into the colas themselves. to see how much the veg. time is increased and size/height. And to see how much the density of the colas are affected too. I've already got an idea in my head for a light array setup for the LED's surrounding the plants, with the HPS in the middle above. Ish gonna be f-in A!!!! I'm curious to see if I could maybe replace my 1000W with that kind of setup if its comparable. Would certainly save $ on hydro, hehe.

progressive growing i see. i am curious like the rest. look pretty good so far.

Man, I'm loving this experiment, lol. nothing like a little mad science, heheee. They seem to be doing really good. I've trimmed off some of the larger fan leaves on the bottoms of the plants, and a few off the tops because they were blocking out the smaller pants. And, a bit of trimming that way will allow more of the plants energy go into producing the main cola. Not TOO much trimming though, you dont want to impair photosynthesis.

Flowering Wk 1
Todays Lotto 4/20 results are......

Room temp-22.4*C
Rez temp_20*
R.H.-49%
pH- 6.1
Lights012/12
Watering-8 days tomorrow. (plumbers coming in the afternoon so i had to wait another day, no big deal.)
Nutes-DNF A&B Bloom, 60% strength

This is awsome I just got my LEDs but I might bring in a few T5 blooms and some CFLs to surround it closley for flowering. But hey depending on this awsome experiment maybe not!

Impressive setup. how much did that cost you?

I dont exactly remember the grand total, but the lights were around 250$ all together. and I paid about 150$ for the aero system. I'll still be using the aero system after this, but ill only be using the LEDS for supplemental lighting i think. depends on how it turns out.

Hi,
take a look at this interesting video: LED Marijuana Grow
,you probably wont get the biggest yield from plant but thanks to extremely low electricity consumption it will still be the cheapest weed around.

If you used equal watts ,LEDs would win over HPS for sure.

pterzw said:

If you used equal watts ,LEDs would win over HPS for sure.

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you think so??

we.., I'm using less than 13W of LED's here so i think there may some truth to pterzw's statement there. I definitely wont be the one to find out for sure though. I'm not about to go out and buy another 900W of LED's right now, hahaaa. They do seem to be doing real well though

keep us posted! I'd really like to see how they grow and bud under LED lights good growing!

youre using less then 13W?! wow this grow just got even more impressive lol

Sweet! I'll be following the remainder of the grow.

sorry, my bad. i actually have 147W of LED's on them. The large panels are 14W each and I'm using them for side lighting.

I'm just gonna give everyone a little warning about 2 of the LED's I bought. When they arrived, both of the bulbs were broken, I contacted the manufacturer about the problem and they said i could either pop open the bulb (the board is just hot glued to the glass bulb part, lol.)and solder the wire back onto the board that is known to break during shipping (and it wasnt a wire that broke, it was the post to the board) or i could return the bulbs and they would send me new ones (shipping all on me of course.)
I'm not saying the company was lousy to deal with, these just arent a very well assembled product. heres the link to the ones im talking about,
High Power 42 SMT RED LED PAR38 Grow Light Budding - (eBay.ca item 320224293769 end time 02-Apr-08 15:39:40 EDT)

I will give them one thing though, once i got them working, they are like 200% brighter than the other bulbs i have, heheee