600 watt LED grow

MagicSeth

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I have been curious bout LEDS and Flower . I have been using them for veg for about 4 years even the cheap ones work fine. So I am thinking about switching to led in my main tent and decide to purchase a Viparspectra 600 watt led light and flower one plant in a 3 gallon pot scrog in a 2x4x5 tent. I picked the light because it draws 278 watts from the wall which is the same as some of the higher priced LED Lights . I want to see what it will do.
 

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I have noticed that when I veg with leds I only feed them every other week and let the pots become light enough for me to move easily or with small pots pick them up and they feel light. The plants actually seem to need less nutes and water. I am also running a 6 inch fan to exhaust the tent. I read somewhere that temps do matter with leds as it increases their efficiency. Thats debatable but this light does give off some heat and you do need led grow glasses. I buy Apollo horticulture and they are almost as good as my friends method sevens.
 
horribleherk

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MagicSeth said:
I have noticed that when I veg with leds I only feed them every other week and let the pots become light enough for me to move easily or with small pots pick them up and they feel light. The plants actually seem to need less nutes and water. I am also running a 6 inch fan to exhaust the tent. I read somewhere that temps do matter with leds as it increases their efficiency. Thats debatable but this light does give off some heat and you do need led grow glasses. I buy Apollo horticulture and they are almost as good as my friends method sevens.
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I have a friend about to fire up 2 of the big vipar spectras although they're called 1200s I think they pull 540w. at the plug
 
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horribleherk said:
I have a friend about to fire up 2 of the big vipar spectras although they're called 1200s I think they pull 540w. at the plug
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If this one one works out and I get at least 114 grams of bud off this light them I will buy the 1200. I have seen some nice vids on Led lights other than the Black dog and the ones that have the best yields are with scrogs. The penetration of the light is only about 2 feet using my old fashion hand technique. This light does give off some heat but little tent is only 78 degrees and it got up to 87 degrees with a 150 watt HPS I used just for the heck of it. I pulled 185 grams with a 5 gallon scrog dwc. I would have done a dwc but I am lazy.hahaha
 
MagicSeth

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MagicSeth said:
If this one one works out and I get at least 114 grams of bud off this light them I will buy the 1200. I have seen some nice vids on Led lights other than the Black dog and the ones that have the best yields are with scrogs. The penetration of the light is only about 2 feet using my old fashion hand technique. This light does give off some heat but little tent is only 78 degrees and it got up to 87 degrees with a 150 watt HPS I used just for the heck of it. I pulled 185 grams with a 5 gallon scrog dwc. I would have done a dwc but I am lazy.hahaha
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Use an old meter that measures foot candles. They are really cheap.
 
horribleherk

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I'm running 340w. of cob led 2 plants in waterfarms side by side with a 42x30 scrog should harvest mid April I'm growing purple city genetics doubledream I don't think it's gonna disappoint
 
horribleherk

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MagicSeth said:
WOW... That looks awesome.. I am trying to find the like button . WTF I dont have one?
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thanks Seth I should clear a few things up I don't have a timber light yet the timber light I want is both cheaper & has higher ppfd numbers this is a Johnson cx-6 & this is my first grow that I used only led last grow I started with a single plant under a hps & then bought the led which performs flawless it wasn't cheap@$749.00 timber has a 400w. cob.light about $200.00 cheaper here is a pic from the first grow with it IMG_0313.JPG
 
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For under 200 dollars this led seems to be doing the job. I am glad I am using the 3 gallon pot its a plus. If I had used a 5 gal. I would have run into problems. I normally use 5 gallon pots and would use one if the tent was say 6 feet 3 inches. I have learned that you can flower in 3 gallon pots no problem. This strain supper lemon haze is super stretchy but I will say that the led is keeping the stretch to a minimum. For the closet grower 2 of these in a 3x3 tent would do the job in a scrog. I defoliated the plant by removing all of the leaves that were light green and some of the bigger fan leaves that are BELOW THE BUDS dont mess with the ones that are attached to buds and if you do make sure its only to give light to another bud that shows promise.
 

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To heck with those vids I am gonna main line this QUEEN. My PPM is 1100 I am gonna bump her up to about1300 ppm.Hahahahaha I cannot resist.
 
horribleherk

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nice job Seth I'm gonna do a superlemonhaze grow again as it comes out very good I'm rebuilding one of my homebuilt dwc/waterfarms I grew tomatoes in last year
 
Dieseltech

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MagicSeth said:
For under 200 dollars this led seems to be doing the job. I am glad I am using the 3 gallon pot its a plus. If I had used a 5 gal. I would have run into problems. I normally use 5 gallon pots and would use one if the tent was say 6 feet 3 inches. I have learned that you can flower in 3 gallon pots no problem. This strain supper lemon haze is super stretchy but I will say that the led is keeping the stretch to a minimum. For the closet grower 2 of these in a 3x3 tent would do the job in a scrog. I defoliated the plant by removing all of the leaves that were light green and some of the bigger fan leaves that are BELOW THE BUDS dont mess with the ones that are attached to buds and if you do make sure its only to give light to another bud that shows promise.
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nice have you tried both led and hps in same tent? i am thinking of droping the a sumilar led on a angle but keeping hps
 
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