Full LED grow room/aeroponic system. first attemp

I don't need a humidifier. My humidity in the room stays at around 35% when the weathers steady outside. When the snow melts it goes up between 45-55% which is where you want it for budding. that level of humidity will keep the mold from forming on your buds. Any higher than 55% and you're risking mold on your buds. Any lower than 45 will put your plants at risk of powder mildew. Since this is my first Aero grow, I don't want to take any chances screwing it up so I'm sticking to recommended levels so my chances are better.

As far as growing goes, They seem to be vegging very nicely. A little slow perhaps, its been 6 weeks and one day since I put the first 2 in. Mind you I put them in a week premature, I didn't wait for the roots to come out of the rockwool. So 42 days minus a week, if you want to be nice about it, but hey, I'll take account for my mistakes, hehe.

As far as budding goes, we'll have to wait and see. A lot of guys on here say you can't bud for shit with these lights. My point is, no one on here has done a COMPLETE grow using LED's. Every grow I've seen on here using LED's they switch to a MH or a HPS when they start to flower. I don't care if they dont bud at all, thats why I'm experimenting, I can afford to loose a few plants. On the other hand, If the growth rate of the vegging cycle thus far is an indication of how long the blooming stage will take, it may take 3 months to complete the grow. If thats so, I'm wondering what the quality of the bud will be? If it takes that long to finish, I'm thinking it will be of superior quality. An outdoor crop takes between 6-7 months to finish and its usually more potent than alot of the hydro I've had. then again, I've had some freakishly good hydro too. Then again, it might turn out to be kife.

We'll have to wait and see, hehe.


And now for todays results, lol.

Room temp-20.2*C/68.4*F
Rez temp-20*C/68*F
pH-5.75
Lights-24/7
Water cycle-every 2 weeks

thunderchunkie said:

As far as budding goes, we'll have to wait and see. A lot of guys on here say you can't bud for shit with these lights. My point is, no one on here has done a COMPLETE grow using LED's. Every grow I've seen on here using LED's they switch to a MH or a HPS when they start to flower. I don't care if they dont bud at all, thats why I'm experimenting

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im glad you are.. this is something ive been wanting to see for myself! +rep

They are looking MUUUCH happier. I bet growth is a little faster now as well.

Good luck and keep the pictures coming.

I just saw a completed LED vs HPS grow on another website. THE HPS won with a 70 watter but both we close

Slow cookin' usually makes a better BarBQ.

I hope you get some great tasting budz, as reward for your patience.

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life is too short for slow cookin all the time playa, but I get what you mean

Hey! thanks for the rep points dertmagert! everyone else feel free, hahaa! They seem to be REALLY enjoying themselves the last week or so. Probably cause the roots are now getting freaky and laying all along the bottom of the trough, next time I wont put them in so early. Pure white too, I'll put some pics up of them in a couple more days.

I am sure they will bud great, and if not, I will consider this the DEFINATIVE LED grow study. Thanks in advance, I check this thread more then any other.

Oh yeah. the ladies are starting to stink! I can smell them from upstairs already and I haven't even started budding them yet, lol. And, they smell fuckin ggggooooooodddddd!!!!!!!!

How much longer before you toss them into flowering? Do you have height limitations with your set up?

I could probably start flowering them at around 3', I've got about 6 feet of room to grow. I will be changing them over to flower next Friday, they should be about 1' tall by then. Last couple days they've bee growing like crazy, I've been spraying the tops 2x a day with pH 5.5 water with about 2ml of Floro Grow Micro Nutes mixed in a 1l bottle. I may give them 3 more weeks depending on what they look like next Friday though. If they're taking off vertically like they have been, I'll probably get a heavier yield, assuming I get some, hehe. I'm thinking I will.

I will pay you for all the directions once you perfectly figure all out ( pay you as in Kudos . Now you know already with the set up you know when to put them in, and light distance, spraying, and so on and so on..

It's not to difficult once you have the equipment. They seem to be extremely healthy and very green, even though they're a little slow. I'll take that trade off for now if this grow is a success. I may try vegging with only LED's next time and do all the other stuff properly, hehe to see how they do when conditions are ideal. They seem to be vegging up really good the last week or so and they stink real purdy. I'm also writing down everything I've been doing in a log book that I'm keeping so I will be able to offer some advice when this grow is done, lol.

Alright, here's todays winning numbers, lol. I threw in a couple pics of my light setup, they're raised slightly so you can see what I've done)

Rez temp-20*C/68*F
Room temp 22*C/71.6*F
R.H. 40%
pH-5.7
Light cycle-24/7
Watering cycle-top watering 2 or 3x per day w I ml Floro grow Micro Nutes per liter, Flush every 13 or 14 days, next one on Friday.
Nutes-DNF A&B series-full strength

Out of curiosity, what are rep points for anyway? lol

hey man your plants are looking nice, keep up the good work

Duece.

Looking good so far,hopefully they will work well for flowering to

Alright, here we go again, lol.

Room temp-21.6*C
Rez temp-20*C
R.H.-43%
pH-6.1
Nutes-Full strength DNF
Light Cycle-24/7
Watering Cycle-flushed rez on Tuesday, will do next Tuesday.

Still lookin very healthy and green. No problems with nutes, or bugs or anything. I'm gonna wait another 2 weeks to switch them over to flower so they can put on some more height.

you are gonna have to mail me some of that when its harvested

hahahaaa! sorry, I do have a judging panel selected though, lol.

if you were only in the SW, I love trying other ppls stuff