Whatup playas? Time to diary up my new little hobby tent and find out just what virtually heat-free plasma & LED can do together
Now as any good sloth would be, I'm kinda lazy about the picture taking and grow sharing thing, but, erryone wants to see this combo in action and I want to show what is possible too, as I've seen the LEP used to supplement HPS or used alone, but I've not seen a grow log with LED to supplement the red spectrum that plasma lacks relative to HPS.
My hope is that this combination can compete with HPS lighting watt for watt, with no heat to deal with, and potentially deliver superior bud thanks to the full spectrum of the plasma light that includes the good types of UV and all that goodness plants expect from the sun. We'll see!
Details... We're rocking a 300w Gavita LEP plasma light, with 2 85w Kessil H350 Magenta LEDs. In a 4x4 Secret Jardin Dark Room II, cooled with an adjustable 6'' Canfan Max Fan (virtualy silent on low with muffler and filter attached) and a 6'' CanLite filter, Can's alternative to granular carbon based filters like Phresh.
Medium is Botanicare coco + perlite, and nutrients are Dynagrow with a PK booster in the 2nd half of flower, either Pure Flowers I need to finish off or Dry Koolbloom which I prefer. 5 gallon buckets.
The plants in this first run are a mixed bunch... A ChemD x C99 from head seeds, Guava, the breeder cut of Stardawg (Chem Dawg4 X Tres Dawg (Double Dawg X Chem Dawg)), and 2 random plants that came from seeds found in Casey Jones, likely self'd but maybe Casey x Geisha.
None of these plants are crazy on the yield tip, but all should hold their own, with the ChemD x c99 and R2 on the lower end of things. If I had a run of just these strains under a 1K, I would definitely expect 1-1.5 lbs or more, so yeah, a little math tells me to maintain a similar GPW, I need to see 315 grams (.67 x 470w.) Not pushing for it, really interested in the quality over quantity with this setup, but it's good to have a quantified goal in mind.
Anyways, yesterday was day 1 of 12/12 for these ladies, here's some pics.
Canopy -
Canopy left -
Now as any good sloth would be, I'm kinda lazy about the picture taking and grow sharing thing, but, erryone wants to see this combo in action and I want to show what is possible too, as I've seen the LEP used to supplement HPS or used alone, but I've not seen a grow log with LED to supplement the red spectrum that plasma lacks relative to HPS.
My hope is that this combination can compete with HPS lighting watt for watt, with no heat to deal with, and potentially deliver superior bud thanks to the full spectrum of the plasma light that includes the good types of UV and all that goodness plants expect from the sun. We'll see!
Details... We're rocking a 300w Gavita LEP plasma light, with 2 85w Kessil H350 Magenta LEDs. In a 4x4 Secret Jardin Dark Room II, cooled with an adjustable 6'' Canfan Max Fan (virtualy silent on low with muffler and filter attached) and a 6'' CanLite filter, Can's alternative to granular carbon based filters like Phresh.
Medium is Botanicare coco + perlite, and nutrients are Dynagrow with a PK booster in the 2nd half of flower, either Pure Flowers I need to finish off or Dry Koolbloom which I prefer. 5 gallon buckets.
The plants in this first run are a mixed bunch... A ChemD x C99 from head seeds, Guava, the breeder cut of Stardawg (Chem Dawg4 X Tres Dawg (Double Dawg X Chem Dawg)), and 2 random plants that came from seeds found in Casey Jones, likely self'd but maybe Casey x Geisha.
None of these plants are crazy on the yield tip, but all should hold their own, with the ChemD x c99 and R2 on the lower end of things. If I had a run of just these strains under a 1K, I would definitely expect 1-1.5 lbs or more, so yeah, a little math tells me to maintain a similar GPW, I need to see 315 grams (.67 x 470w.) Not pushing for it, really interested in the quality over quantity with this setup, but it's good to have a quantified goal in mind.
Anyways, yesterday was day 1 of 12/12 for these ladies, here's some pics.
Canopy -
Canopy left -