Mars II 400 AK-48 & Northern Lights

[yum000]

Day 17 Vegetation

48""x48" Tent

1 - Mars 2 400 Watt 80x5 watt chips (hope to order another near beginning of bloom, goal to own 4 400 watt Mars 2's for the tent), 1 -2011 150 watt Spectra 3 watt chips

Fabric Pots

Ocean Forest soil, cut with 10% Vermiculite, 20% Pearlite, layer of groton on bottom of pot

Fox Farm Nutrients, Tiger Bloom. Big Bloom and Solubles- Open Sesame, Beastie Bloomz & Cha-Ching


I just received the Mars II today, very impressed with this light so far, solid build quality, good heat sink, very brilliant, and runs cooler than other LED's I've owned and the fans are some of the quietest I've come across. My 17 day old plants seemed to have started responding favorably to the light within the first few hours-maybe my imagination, but they seemed to have perked up to me. Anyway, I'm excited now to see what 5 watt led's can do.

 

[yum000]

Adding a few HQ photos, enjoy

 

[Krypticphil]

I'm just a newb on the forum. Nice looking ladies! Like to see how they would do with that setup. Subbed.

 

[LSDMTHC]

Im thinking about ordering some of there Mars II 900w's. Hopefully they're worth the buy. Certainly better than thousands of dollars for most other brand name panels

 

[yum000]

Day 21 Photo update.

Girls also got a feeding yesterday of Buffalo Loam Compost Tea with Fox Farm Big Bloom and molasses bubbled with air stone & fish tank bubbler for 24 hours (also added a touch of Open Sesame to begin preparing for bloom cycle in the next 2 weeks. I'm going to let them have 5 weeks in veg.

 

[RickityCrickt]

Your plants are looking great!

Just curious, who's NL are ya running and what number, ie 1-9?

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Stealthboat]

Looks very nice man, I'm curious. Subbed

 

[yum000]

It's a Nirvana Feminized NL, don't know about the # though.

 

[Krypticphil]

Looking great! What's the distance of the mars2 400 you keeping them from the ladies if u don't mind me asking?

 

[yum000]

Looking great! What's the distance of the mars2 400 you keeping them from the ladies if u don't mind me asking?

I lowered it to 18 inches this morning, was up about 28 inches before, based on reasoning they don't need that much power in the veg state.

 

[Krypticphil]

Awesome! Thanks for the input. Looking into getting a mars also, an your ladies seem to be looking really nice running those lights.

 

[yum000]

Day 25 Photo Update

Girls have picked up the pace since the feeding and light lowering. Going to give them several more days before I top them, then a week until I start the 12/12 cycle with a 24 hour period of darkness. I'll be installing a grid into the tent after topping.

Close up is the same AK48 as from Day 21, you can really see the progress. The Northern Lights is in the center between the 2 AK's

 

[Krypticphil]

Coming along really nice.

 

[yum000]

Veg Day 28 Update

I topped both of the AK's, giving the Northern lights (the middle plant) a couple more days till topping, still intend on giving them 5 weeks of veg.

It's been awhile since I've had a garden, I just remembered I need to keep my grow room temps in the mid 80's a few days back, they responded right away, ran temps about 85 degrees in the tent

 

[yum000]

P.S.

I have another Mars 2 Full Spectrum light on the way. I think the 2 full spectrum Mars 2 and the single Spectra 3 watt light should be sufficient to complete this grow.

 

[yum000]

Veg Day 31 Update

The second Mars II 400 came in today, I hung it right away.

Girls also got a feeding this morning.

2 tsp/gal Grow Big
1/2 tsp/gal Open Sesame
2 Tbsp/gal Big Bloom

bubbled mixture overnight with air stone and fish tank bubbler

 

[yum000]

Veg Day 32 Update

Installed the grid in the tent, grid height is 20 inches, have the lights hanging 16 inches above the grid, moving to flower here in the next couple of days I'll lower the lights to 12 inches then.

 

[Krypticphil]

Looking great

 

[yum000]

Bloom Day 3 Update...

Well, I changed my mind and ended veg after 32 days on Saturday, at midnight. I kept the girls in dark for 36 hours until noon Monday when I started the 12/12 shift for them.

Temps..

Soil just measured 69.2 degrees, ambient in the grow tent is 82.4 degrees, both just a touch too cold, bumping up the central heat a couple degrees so I"m sure they're in the optimum range for metabolism. FYI: Plants rate of metabolism;the speed of cell division/growth and processing of nutrients is influenced by the temps in their immediate environment. Soil temps should be maintained between 70-75F while you want to target 85-90F for your ambient temps, this is particularly important when growing under LED and you don't have the heat of a HPS lamp.

Lights...

12" above grid, pics were shot with a 24mm wide angle lens so there's a perception of more distance.

Watered yesterday with 74 degree RO water bubbled for a half hour or so.

 

[archie824]

I'm loving your grow, keep it up!. Subbed.
I'm also doing LED in 4'x4' space. I'll try soil next time though, I'm trying hydro and there's too much room for errors.