LED Grow Journal

[zolar]

looks real good what did you do with the LEDs you could put them vertical around your flower sector like light emiting walls
or even do a little clone/ small veg chamber 16" x 30" x 2ft high

that would fit a standard greenhouse flat heck you could do that in some kitchen cabinets or even a prototype cardboard box
stapled to 1x 2 wood inner frame easy to rig with 12 v computer fans

CFLs don't penetrate as deeply into your canopy as HPS or MH
or CMH lights do so that lumen boost from panels on the side

might make a big diffeerence in your lower and middle buds

just a thought beats just having them sit and if you put LEDs on 3 sides only on the right or left you would be able to compare
the sides against each other

you are almostalways better off mixing fert and nutes weaker than
suggested to prevent overfeed/poisoning of your plants
easiest way to consistantaly do this is add 2 cups water to every gallon of mix

[notreallyhere]

thanks for the advice zolar- we've discussed adding the LED's as light emitting walls (LEWS) but kinda got apathetic. thanks though!
currently, my lights are as follows: 2x42w CFL for clones in the humidity dome, 4 2 foot HO T5 tubes (2blue, 2red) for vegging plants, and flowering elsewhere under 400W of HPS light. 5400lumes to 10000lumens to 50000 lumens. seems to be working well.

OK so update time.
My champion clone has been cloned and moved to the flowering room. after a week under the HPS was moved from the 2.6L square pot to a 3gal round pot.
cut 3 branches off of the bottom, made 5 clones, none have rooted yet. all still healthy however. as a sidenote, clone is still hard to water, and still branches less than 1" from soil line. crazy bugger. (really want at least 1 clone to root- I like this genetic!)

as far as the 2 big plants that were flowering: lanky sucked and was taking up space, so we euthanized her after 4 or 5 weeks of flower. still cut the buds, but they suck and stuff. still completely fine though- bushy is LOVING her fox farms diet (incl. solubles), and is tipping over under her own weight. also, she seems excited to see her clone daughter again before she passes, which we estimate as 2 weeks from now. (=8weeks total flower)
though we finally obtained a 5gal pot, the decision was made to not transplant her 2 weeks before harvest. clone will likely move to the 5 from it's current 3 in a few weeks.

veg closet is great, not many pics this update but I have 6 healthy clones and this WIERD seedling. showed sex a few weeks ago, and is now budding and starting to get slightly frosty under 18 hours of light, and remains less than 12" tall. did I end up with a ruderalis cross? is moving this seed to 12/12 going to be beneficial or detrimental? should I switch to a low N fert?

ok, enough text. MANY many pictures, from over the last 2 weeks or so.
enjoy, thanks, and

[notreallyhere]

OK sick plant and the ensuing "harvest"

[notreallyhere]

I'm doing these as mini-series, can you tell?
here is a set of the clone.
sorry for HPS shots.
can't be messin with my photocycle...

[notreallyhere]

and now, that ones mother! my flowering goddess, 6 weeks into flower, 7 months old (bad childhood) but now beautiful, and hopefully soon a grandmother, as well as an excellent producer (still in the hopeful part- but yeah!)
still sorry about the hps shots...










note my thumb in bottom left corner of below picture for size (and professionalism) reference




unsure about the next two pics...

[notreallyhere]

ok almost done.
a flower room overview shot
a veg closet shot
a clone shot
a flowering vegging seedling (?) shot
and stuff.
thanks for tuning in.

[Pastorj]

LOOKS GREAT i like the set-up to bad bout hte led's but hey live and learn how was ur frist harvest?

peace, enjoy

[notreallyhere]

so yeah, I took some more pictures.

what should I do with the flowering vegging clone? is 12 hours of light good or bad? should I start leaning toward PK instead of N? it is some bagseed.... know nothing about it.

current veg overview shot
current weird flowerinbg vegging plant pics
current clone pics

overview!

weird seedling- flowering under 18 hours of light and a grow big diet,


weird plant has a weird stem

clones one week old

[Bee23]

wow! Those lights made me feel like dancing :) I love the set-up and the plants are beauties.

[notreallyhere]

thanks man- the led's were fun, but not cut out for this sort of thing.

has anyone ever seen a plant flower like the short vegging one? makes me think of lowryder, but I've never grown strain, and this is just another bagseed.
it is getting big bloom and grow big with 18 hours of light, and making buds. leaves are getting frosty. would moving this to a 12/12 cycle be beneficial or detrimental? a flowering nutrient schedule is likely in order, yes? never seen anything like this.

thanks, take it easy,

[bobbiedont]

That is a little weird when was the last time you changed your bulbs? clf loses it fast and should be replaced every 6 months and did you take the cutting in flower?


Bobbie

[flyfishinrock]

dang thats trippy lol
never had that happen before, for once I'm at a loss for words. lmao
I got one question for you, are you storing those dead leaves in the pot for a reason? mulch maybe? I'd toss em. Looking good though, I'd put the weird one into flower officially; who knows might have a mutant high also

good luck

[notreallyhere]

so, earlier tonight we cut down bush mother.
she was a pretty beast, as you will see.
no idea of wet weight, but the main cola weighs 44.4g.
this ones daughter, the bush clone, is 3 weeks into flower and loving life (and the full fox farm diet).
the veg closet has 6 healthy ~12" clones, and those weird autoflowerers are still autoflowering. whatever. gotta get them some bloom nutes, but whatevr, keep them under 18 hours of light. might as well?
yeah, buds are drying on an elevated screen in a large cedar box. Hell yeah.

pictures now. woohoo,

clone of bush mother



BUSH MOTHER HERSELF about to come down
(leaning heavily to one side)


UPSIDE DOWN


MAIN COLA TIME





SCREEN

[flyfishinrock]

Nice nugs, gonna have some ready for thanksgiving?

[Be IRIE]

I am glad to see your bud choices are much better then your beer choice... Damn, seeing that PBR gave me the willies..... Nice looking harvest.... Enjoy your fruits of labor...