Green Knight
Well-Known Member
Hello. So this is my third journal and after the last grow where the yield was less than I wanted I've decided to upgrade from a 125w cfl to a 200w LED.
I'm growing DWC using Canna Hydro nutes. For anyone new to my journals, here's a picture of the grow cupboard - self built in an existing cupboard. I've got a room for flowering, extracted through a carbon filter, and a cutting / veg cab underneath that has a 30w cfl.
I will be growing BerryBomb again, and I'm going to flower the mother I've had chilling in my veg cab to cut the time down before my next harvest. She's now about 5-6m old and has quite a beating in her life. This was her a month or two from germ:
I'd cloned her and then I flowered one of the clones for the last grow. The mother took quite a severe trim and has been maintained under a 30w cfl for the last 4m or so:
I moved her up to the main flower room shortly after harvesting the last crop a couple of weeks ago and she was under the 125w cfl for about a week before the led arrived.
They're not keen on you mentioning led brands etc on here but here's a few photos of the light. It's a 200w draw:
The mother was a bit ragged initially. I didn't check her for a few days, got lazy, and she got some pH issues. I also put the big cfl too close when I moved her up to the main room and after months under really low light intensity she burnt. This was her when I turned the led on for the first time:
All I can say is holy shit. The led is amazing. It is a higher wattage than the cfl (200w vs 125w) but the difference is massive. The plant's gone mental in terms of growth, looks really healthy and is smashing the nutes. Under cfl I've kept the EC at 1.3 and it always rises slowly as she uses more water than nutes whilst the pH drops. Under the led the EC is dropping from 1.3 and the pH is rising. Sweet! I've increased the EC to 1.5 today so we'll see how she goes.
Her roots have gone insane - another difference is they're so much whiter, healthier and more vigorous than the roots have been under a cfl:
I've re-installed the screen for the scrog and I've done a bit of supercropping (her stems are so much stronger and harder to supercrop under the led!). I also stripped some leaves a few days ago.
I'm going to let her fill the screen and then take a couple of clones before flipping. At the rate she's growing that could be next weekend. This light is the nuts!
I'm growing DWC using Canna Hydro nutes. For anyone new to my journals, here's a picture of the grow cupboard - self built in an existing cupboard. I've got a room for flowering, extracted through a carbon filter, and a cutting / veg cab underneath that has a 30w cfl.
I will be growing BerryBomb again, and I'm going to flower the mother I've had chilling in my veg cab to cut the time down before my next harvest. She's now about 5-6m old and has quite a beating in her life. This was her a month or two from germ:
I'd cloned her and then I flowered one of the clones for the last grow. The mother took quite a severe trim and has been maintained under a 30w cfl for the last 4m or so:
I moved her up to the main flower room shortly after harvesting the last crop a couple of weeks ago and she was under the 125w cfl for about a week before the led arrived.
They're not keen on you mentioning led brands etc on here but here's a few photos of the light. It's a 200w draw:
The mother was a bit ragged initially. I didn't check her for a few days, got lazy, and she got some pH issues. I also put the big cfl too close when I moved her up to the main room and after months under really low light intensity she burnt. This was her when I turned the led on for the first time:
All I can say is holy shit. The led is amazing. It is a higher wattage than the cfl (200w vs 125w) but the difference is massive. The plant's gone mental in terms of growth, looks really healthy and is smashing the nutes. Under cfl I've kept the EC at 1.3 and it always rises slowly as she uses more water than nutes whilst the pH drops. Under the led the EC is dropping from 1.3 and the pH is rising. Sweet! I've increased the EC to 1.5 today so we'll see how she goes.
Her roots have gone insane - another difference is they're so much whiter, healthier and more vigorous than the roots have been under a cfl:
I've re-installed the screen for the scrog and I've done a bit of supercropping (her stems are so much stronger and harder to supercrop under the led!). I also stripped some leaves a few days ago.
I'm going to let her fill the screen and then take a couple of clones before flipping. At the rate she's growing that could be next weekend. This light is the nuts!
your gonna love the increased yield and density with the new light! You might want to get another plant going in the veg cab, once you get your timing right you can do what you did this time everytime.Move the plant upstairs veg for a week or 2 and flip.maybe put some of your bigger cfl's in the veg cab?
