3x3 LED SoG, a perpetual thread.

[DZLHIT]

I made my last thread right as I was about to harvest, been meaning to get over here on the IC to learn from people's input. So thanks in advance.

Sorry if people saw my other thread, I figured I should give these details....

135x 3watt....actual draw of around 305 watts

3x3x7, liner it out because I was cleaning it. LED is set a 4' in the pic <- important for later. This will be the max height for the run.

Ventilation!

What does it look like on? The light was just under 6' high

I can fit 25 one gallon pots in this beast

This is going to be a test situation, see how well the space performs with the light around 4' in height.

 

[DZLHIT]

O silly 5 pic maximum...

1 new mom, 3 reveg I just harvested. 8 recent clones into solo's and 6 clones in one gallon pots. I should be able to get 14 rolling fairly quick.

Just got her first feeding.

Flip her when she gets this big....

Then she turns into this.... (1k hps)

I forgot I even ran this plant single cola style before, guymandude reminded me with some of his kick ass photos.


I am also planning on starting 3 white widow auto flowering seeds.

Barney's Farm Liberty Haze, DinaFem OG Kush, and some other brand NL x Skunk are also going to be germinated.

 

[Fluxcap]

Awesome thread! I'll be watching for sure. I'm working on a very similar grow right now.
You keep your light at 4 feet? I have mine set about 18" above my plants but I'm not sure if that is to close. I have it around a foot and the new growth was twisted. Maybe I'll raise it up some more.
I dig your veg space as well, it's amazing what you can do with such a low amount of watts in veg.

 

[shagdawg420]

nice

 

[DZLHIT]

I dig your veg space as well, it's amazing what you can do with such a low amount of watts in veg.

Thanks, it's 220watts of PLL. Two 50/50 actinic/10k bulbs and 2 3000K bulbs, one of each per level.

I am working on adjusting the light height, it is very intense and 4' will be the faux 'maximum' for this. If it goes well, I am going to build a shelf at 4' and get another panel fixed to the top of the tent...

Last run it was at 5.5' and it was obviously much too high, the plants were really rough in veg and recovered slowly so I just never touched the light... did not want to tempt fate.

 

[Kindest]

I'm in for the long haul, bud. Looks like we have similar strategies. Anxious to see what you produce.

But I haven't had the height issues you mentioned...I'm running as little as 18" above my canopy. What sort of noticeable problems did you have?

 

[DZLHIT]

The plants were in poor health, the excess transpiration was killing them. So I moved it up and there it stayed.

 

[DZLHIT]

Got a new toy today, this is taken from the new mom just transplanted from 1 gallon into 3 gallon.

I will be tracking the brix reading of my plants for a while. Going to test a few different mediums and some teas.

 

[Kindest]

Sorry, but what is it?

 

[DZLHIT]

It is a brix meter, here is a good quick explanation: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=16159

 

[DZLHIT]

More par testing, there are on center

More par testing, there are on center

 

[DZLHIT]

Still on center

Still on center

 

[DZLHIT]

Trending from the edge of the light, away from the center.

Trending from the edge of the light, away from the center.

Checking the spread....

Seems like spreading the clusters out 9 inches on center would provide a much more even light spread, and prevent useless hot spotting directly under the panel.

 

[exploziv]

Heya man! like your work so far, and you got a lot of gadgets! I'll watch this thread from now on!

good luck!

 

[hush]

Nice grow! I'll 'scribe to this.

 

[DZLHIT]

Thanks for joining in on my adventure!

Most everyone in the veg space received a 30 hr ACT tonight, hopefully get them moving into flowering in 7-10 days. She can be slow to veg.

I did not realize the recommended light cycle is 18/6 (if not 20/4) for auto flowering plants, I am hesitating to germinate all 3 auto seeds as people say under 12/12 the yield will be low. Didn't really think a head on that one.

Other beans are going in wet paper towels now

 

[DZLHIT]

Couldn't wait.... here we go

Couldn't wait.... here we go

I didn't feel like waiting, so I sacrificed two lambs.

They are small but should tell me about my light foot print as I move the light down every day, to the point of stressing/bleaching.

Middle one is probably around 600 PAR and the little one around 250

Here they are in normal light, I hurried them into their 1 gallon containers.

All 4 beans sprouted

 

[DZLHIT]

New toy...

New toy...

Things pretty much moving a long as expected, some reveg going on. Seedlings are developing their second set. Mom looks nice and healthy, almost time to take more clones. I will post pictures when there is something worth looking at. I bubbled BioCanna Vega for 24 hours with mycogrow (like 1/2 a teaspoon)...and hit mostly everything with it and they all seemed to enjoy it.

Any who I got a new toy and thought people would like to see how I spent my evening. I bought this to verify my microbe populations as I delve into amended ols and aact.

Last one is an onion! haha.

I hope to take some interesting shots of my AACTs in the future.

 

[FunkBomb]

Cool thread so far and thanks for all the pictures. It looks like you've got things down quite well. What is the name of the manufacturer of your LED light?

-Funk

 

[sallyforthDeleted member 75382]

Nice, LED's are really coming on. Plants are liking it. Good idea to use a couple of plants to find the right height for the light, before they really take off.

Like the sound of 3watt LED power being used. So I have the same question. Who makes these fixtures ?