Hello all, I know that many are wanting to see a true seed-to-harvest grow done under one of LEDGirl's units. Well, I wanted to get the ball rolling by showing you a few pictures of the grow cabinet I have put together - I'll only post a couple, and you can see the rest in the album. For some reason, the gallery puts the pictures in a SNAFU'd order, sorry :(

Fueling up first!


Almost there!


Yes! Doors!


And today, with two DWC's and a 126w HGL:


Here's the link to the rest of the pics.

As soon as either I kill all these plants (I'm KIDDING!), or get them through harvest, I will be installing another 126w unit (ordered tonight), and doing some modifications to the cabinet; the end result being 252 total watts over an area of just over 3.8 square feet (29" x 19"), or about 66.3 watts/sq. ft. This will be used to grow two plants from seed, and since my goal is to not have to mess with sexing, I will use feminized (and possibly auto flowering) stock.

My intention will be to fim the two plants then fill the screen as much as possible, exposing maximum budsites and showing everyone that using LEDs to their potential, (not treating them like spherical or cylindrical point sources) in a scrog will produce a fine yield, even for a very new grower like me.

The ultimate goal will be 1 gm./W, or 252 grams (8.8 oz) of dried/cured meds, from two plants from this existing set up. One grow alone at this rate would provide me more than 4 months worth of medicine. Also, this is to demonstrate that even a novice grower like myself can use LEDs efficiently and not have to mess with the "complexities" of hvac/HID/ballasts and get great results.

Seed-to-Harvest. 252 Watts. Two DWC Buckets and an airpump. Stay tuned.

[yesum]

Cool brah, getting my own 63 watt 2x2' going here now. Will supplement with cfls and likely get another 63 watt to go with it later.

[HHHG]

You can fit a lot in a small place with scrog and leds

[MeanBean]

Hey, you were Hiding this thread from me! I don't miss LED cabinet grows!! Looks great man, looks like it did not take too much work to build but very functional, all ya need nothing ya don't


ABOUT FIM: Hey Z, I have been recently playing around with this myself. I am noticing "i think" that when I fim a plant about 2/3 down the cola it lets that cola come back but the trim makes it spawn a bunch of nodes in that spot! when it does that it makes a bunch of the upcoming colas but not 4 from a 2 cola spot ya know.

Buut it makes them all a bit smaller compared to the colas untouched on similar branches. The only draw back is that it creates longer thicker stems to deal with then topping, buuuut those stems are more developed and longer because the fimmed colas need more time to regrow the new heads, ends up leaving time for a great stem structure. That would get a lil outta control with a normal grow but with a scrog I would fimm my new fimmed colas to get double the effect.


Gonna try scrog someday, learning about LST now.


Looks like when you get your second 126 Penetrator We got enough space in there to even do a double decker grow!!

Okay folks, I've almost decided to chop down what I have growing now and build a second "kitty litter bucket" DWC unit and then start the grow with seeds germinating and starting out under the 63w in the AeroGarden. When the other 126w gets here, I will get the pair situated in the cab, and start documenting.

Any opinion on me doing this?

I chopped the three clones. I decided that I want to get on with this grow, finish it out and set up for my 252w experiment. I haven't found a suitable name for this plant, but wanted to show you how she's done from baby to today, all under LED.




I put this seed in the AG pod on 2/20/10, and today is 4/1/10, so these last shots (taken today), put her at 40 days old. After this grow is done, I'll prep for the next one, and start a new journal. Thanks for sticking along for the ride!

[eviltech]

wow thats f'kn clever bro. I was going to make a grow room out of my closet but i think ill go to HD and grab me one of these cabinets. Are you going to add some vents/air intake? tiny carbon scrubber?

Originally Posted by eviltech

wow thats f'kn clever bro. I was going to make a grow room out of my closet but i think ill go to HD and grab me one of these cabinets. Are you going to add some vents/air intake? tiny carbon scrubber?

Nope. The 126w keeps the cab at 80-85F, and I have a small fan in there for circulation. I'm a legal patient, also, my landlord thinks I'm the shit, and is a totally mind his own business kinda guy

After I get the second 126w, and do a little re-engineering, I will make provisions for cross ventilation, since summers her can be pretty warm sometimes.

Good luck to you!

[eviltech]

Originally Posted by Zombo

Nope. The 126w keeps the cab at 80-85F, and I have a small fan in there for circulation. I'm a legal patient, also, my landlord thinks I'm the shit, and is a totally mind his own business kinda guy

After I get the second 126w, and do a little re-engineering, I will make provisions for cross ventilation, since summers her can be pretty warm sometimes.

Good luck to you!

Nice, Thanks bro~ ... thinking about getting the 205 or the 345. I'm just waiting to see some results before I drop a crapload of cash. For the the light leak, I was thinking of just adding mylar to cover the leaks. Also, thought of adding a small hole on the left side of the top shelf and run a pvc pipe down for passive air. Then a computer fan and a miniscrubber on the right side.. mmm

Good ideas, since I'm probably going to end up growing mostly AF's, the light leak stuff doesn't bother me so much I will, though, when I finish the current crow and mount the 126'ers side-by-side, do some ventilation mods, just nothing batshit crazy like a commercial grower would need