Got some LED's to play with for veg to try and keep power bill lower.
Read up on the martian method and rauber's PAD... very interesting stuff, so...
12 clones in 4" pots rooting/vegging under 64w flouro, transplanted to 10" 2.5gallon pots when I set up the LED.
LED are all blue 452nm 90w UFO and all red 660nm 90w UFO. Growth really took off under LED compared to flouro, all leaves are healthy and pointed upwards.
After 11 days on 20/4, I set up 4 75w black lights and started the rauber advanced PAD. blue 6 / red-far red 18, with red-far red switching every 30min, during blue hours, red starts 15 minutes prior to blue and 15 min before end, my timers only have 20 settings so I couldnt alternate red on/off every half hour during blue, so I have 30 beginning blue/30 end and 90min in middle...
Been on advanced PAD for 1 week, saw pistils/hairs forming after 2 days, it took about 2.5 weeks under HPS to see same pistils/hair growth...
Got another 90w all red UFO few days ago
Growth rate is rediculous. Wont have enough space in veg chamber pretty soon and will be moving set up into flower area. Will set up black lights and 2 red LED UFO with HPS running vertical set to 600w.
Props to dogsnova, salmayo, irish and all the other LED trailblazers.
Questions: Will 600w HPS be adequate? Its a dimmable ballast and I could run higher, 750w/1000w...
BTW picked the UFO's up from local ebay seller for about $160 each(no shipping), yeah yeah they're made in china, but they seem to work pretty good, cant imagine the $400-600 units are 2-4 times better... by vegging with them instead of big HPS they almost pay for themselves in 1 cycle.
So is anybody else messing mith life on mars?
Read up on the martian method and rauber's PAD... very interesting stuff, so...
12 clones in 4" pots rooting/vegging under 64w flouro, transplanted to 10" 2.5gallon pots when I set up the LED.
LED are all blue 452nm 90w UFO and all red 660nm 90w UFO. Growth really took off under LED compared to flouro, all leaves are healthy and pointed upwards.
After 11 days on 20/4, I set up 4 75w black lights and started the rauber advanced PAD. blue 6 / red-far red 18, with red-far red switching every 30min, during blue hours, red starts 15 minutes prior to blue and 15 min before end, my timers only have 20 settings so I couldnt alternate red on/off every half hour during blue, so I have 30 beginning blue/30 end and 90min in middle...
Been on advanced PAD for 1 week, saw pistils/hairs forming after 2 days, it took about 2.5 weeks under HPS to see same pistils/hair growth...
Got another 90w all red UFO few days ago
Growth rate is rediculous. Wont have enough space in veg chamber pretty soon and will be moving set up into flower area. Will set up black lights and 2 red LED UFO with HPS running vertical set to 600w.
Props to dogsnova, salmayo, irish and all the other LED trailblazers.
Questions: Will 600w HPS be adequate? Its a dimmable ballast and I could run higher, 750w/1000w...
BTW picked the UFO's up from local ebay seller for about $160 each(no shipping), yeah yeah they're made in china, but they seem to work pretty good, cant imagine the $400-600 units are 2-4 times better... by vegging with them instead of big HPS they almost pay for themselves in 1 cycle.
So is anybody else messing mith life on mars?