Dave's First LED Grow Using Area 51

Good work!

daveroller said:

Final pics before she meets the chopping block

She's the crazy aunt we keep in the attic so nobody has to see her. Leaves are not pretty. But somehow no matter what I do to a plant, the bud always turns out dank. The yield just won't be too great. And that's only due to the nute lockout problem that happened a while back, not anything to do with the light panel I used. The Area 51 light is awesome. I like it so much that I'm planning to buy a second one for my next grow. (I'll grow 2 plants if I can do that.)

Yesterday I started the final flush, which will go on until Wednesday. Light schedule is about 10 hours on/14 hours off. Aroma is nice and strong when I have the cabinet door open now. Roots were kinda brown again, so added 75 ml of 35% H2O2 to the res and it whitened them up in about 10 minutes. Also, to help flush out as much mineral salt as possible I added AN's Final Phase, which contains chelates.

Here are some bud closeups:

⬆ Pistils are getting red.


Here are some trichome shots:

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Congrats on a nice grow, Dave.

Good job chief!

PetFlora said:

Typically, I prune all below the second node

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Thats one set of leaves no?

Made it to the end!!
Good job, thanks for the ride, don't forget to post when you start the next one!

Dont forget to post a final dry weight.

PetFlora said:

Well done

I would still have pruned a lot of the primary leafs

Look how few I have, and this grow I left more than usual. Typically, I prune all below the second node

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Beauty. I don't understand what you meant by "below the second node" though and can't tell from that picture. You mean you prune off all primary leaves below the TOP 2 nodes?

Postponed trimming until tomorrow, since we're supposed to have a snowstorm then. Had to go grocery shopping today to make it through the bad weather. It'll be the perfect day to stay home and trim and toke.

daveroller said:

Postponed trimming until tomorrow, since we're supposed to have a snowstorm then. Had to go grocery shopping today to make it through the bad weather. It'll be the perfect day to stay home and trim and toke.

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I prefer the forced hibernation days as well...makes me feel like I am not missing anything!!
Although I always have a nagging feeling about the quality of the bite out on the water....

She came out looking good Dave, nice job, sir!
Maybe her leafs could have looked better, but that's a cosmetic thing.
What's really important is the medicinal thing, and easing your pain, which I'm sure she'll do.
Because battered leafs or not, those buds are winners.

I'm glad to hear that you liked the Area 51 LED so much and that your planning on purchasing a second one.
I like to help others, and I'm happy to have helped you on your way to a bonanza of LED buds, my friend

Bad Karma said:

She came out looking good Dave, nice job, sir!
Maybe her leafs could have looked better, but that's a cosmetic thing.
What's really important is the medicinal thing, and easing your pain, which I'm sure she'll do.
Because battered leafs or not, those buds are winners.

I'm glad to hear that you liked the Area 51 LED so much and that your planning on purchasing a second one.
I like to help others, and I'm happy to have helped you on your way to a bonanza of LED buds, my friend

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Thanks man. You did help me a lot. Next time I'm going to be careful about adding anything with calcium during flowering. The plant seemed to need a little extra CalMag during veg (Mg in particular), but during flower for some reason the Ca in it was too much. Maybe because my other nutes changed drastically as soon as flowering began. The flowering nutes might have already contained a lot of Ca I think.

Next time you decide to do a journal, let me know! You grow some awesome plants, Karma.

I havent been on here in a while, looks like I came back right at the end. Looking good!

DCobeen said:

my freind wants me to use her mobile trailer it's 20' long a few solar panels and batteries humm setup would be easy and its portable. wonder how much solar panels would be needed to run 2000 watts of power? 8 of them and batteries so about $4500 hundred dollars maybe down the road find a 36' one and hit the road in winter.

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Your going to need a hell of a lot more panels than 8 for a 2k grow unless you are hooking up to grid power also. Since your solar panels are fixed, there are only going to be producing close to their max wattage about 4-5 hours out of the day assuming that the trailer is orientated correctly to the sun. When graphing the power produced in a day it would look like a parabola _/-\_. To store the power to run a 12 hour light cycle, you'd be looking at 16-24 panels with enough batteries to store the power for a 24 hour period.

Man great grow cant wait to get my 190

I'm back!

Was on vacation in Costa Rica the first week of March, then took a break from riu for a few more weeks. My last grow was finished, dried and I jarred it up when I came back from my trip. It wasn't as much as I usually get, but I DON'T blame the light panel for that. My grow suffered from several problems of my own doing:
• I cut the veg time short in order to finish before my trip.
• I unwittingly caused a nute lockout from adding too much Cal/Mag. The plant needed more magnesium, but Cal/Mag apparently contains a lot more Cal than Mag.
• I should have defoliated this plant a lot more, since the vegetation was so thick. I never needed to defoliate in the past, so this is a new concept for me.

When I started chopping down the plant I saw that most of the buds underneath the leaves were still immature. They must not have gotten enough light. I think this is due to the vegetation being so thick. Light just couldn't get through it all. So I trimmed most of the buds that were worth smoking and set the rest aside for making canna butter. (It's cooking in a crock right now.)

Output:
• 42 grams of buds for smoking
• ~70 grams of sticky leaves and immature buds for baking

So this grow wasn't a very good test of the Area 51 light panel. I know that other growers have had good results with it, though, so I'm still a believer. At least I learned a lot about nute lockout, defoliation and the need for added magnesium, among other things.

Now I'm starting to get ready to tear up my cabinet and expand my growing area to be double the floorspace and a couple feet higher. Then I'll grow 2 plants at once and use 2 light panels. Haven't decided which panel yet or whether to buy an Inda-gro induction fluorescent light. Waiting to hear back from Jeff at Area 51 about a possible repeat customer discount.

I'll post a link here to my next grow after it's started.
It'll be at least a month of construction before I can start using it, I would guess. (But I'm real bad at estimating things like that.)

Welcome back, Dave. I just harvested my grow yesterday, take a look. I also moved the 16 clones into the flower tent so i expected to harvest again in 2 months.

Welcome back from the dead, RIU!

Got a new thread for my next project <here>.

New toy: an Inda-gro Pro-420-PAR induction fluorescent light. Going to put it right next to my Area 51. Let's see how they work together.

Hi daveroller . What is your Area 51 LED rato you use for your first grow .

Hgrow said:

Hi daveroller . What is your Area 51 LED rato you use for your first grow .

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Hgrow, I didn't understand your question. (Looks like you tried to type it on your cell phone. )