A few people have asked me recently why I don't post a lot of pictures from my own garden online, and the honest answer is simply that I didn't have much to show up until now. I went on a trip to Mexico in September, and during that time a lot of my plants stressed out, so I chopped a lot of them early, and left some of the scragglers that were in better condition, alone in 1 tray. It took us a couple of weeks to get some more plants ready to fill up the bloom room, and now I welcome you to see what I do personally with LED's.
First and foremost, I am a legal medical patient, within my legal guidelines for plant #, etc..., and this is my personal garden. I don't support breaking the law, or the illegal growing of marijuana.
Here's some information on my garden:
Each plant veges for about 4-5 weeks prior to entering the bloom room. During that time, they are usually topped about 3x, causing the plants to grow into super-thick little bushes with lots of tops. Once they reach 18" height, they transfer to bloom.
The bloom room operates at 85-90 degrees during the "day" cycle, and 65-70 degrees during the "night cycle. The humidity remains between 60-75%. There is a wall-mounted fan on each side of the room for good air movement, and of of course a carbon filter. My bloom room is a sealed environment, with CO2 levels at a constant 1500ppm via a fuzzy-logic controller. Since I use aeroponics, the nutrient solution is run through a water chiller, which maintains it at a constant 67-72 degrees. There is also a micro-pore air diffuser, and a commercial air pump constantly supplying oxygen to the solution.
In my bloom room are two 2' x 4' x 1' Aeroponics trays that our company manufactures. At full capacity, I run 8 plants per tray. Hanging over each tray, are six 126W LED Grow Lights that we also developed (as most of you know). So that's 756W over 8 plants x 2. The total room measures 9' x 8', with an 8' ceiling, and is lined in 97% reflective mylar (from the HID days). The canopy space measures approximately 5' x 6'.
I feed my girls Advanced Nutrients, Iguana Juice Bloom, and Dr. Hornby's Big Bud (not the current crap advanced makes since they split with Hornby). I run no other supplements currently in bloom. The nutrients are added per the manufacturer's recommendations for heavy feeding, and the reservoir is topped off with water mid-way through the week. Nutrients are changed out weekly when the system gets cleaned.
The current strains you'll see in these photographs are: Strawberry Cough X White Rhino, Ice, Grape Ape, Maui Wowie, AK47, Purple Arrow, Sensi Star, and Afghani X Brazilian Skunk. These plants will be replaced in a few months by Pineapple Express, Barney's LSD, Yumbolt 47, LA Confidential, Alaskan Ice, and A-Train.
Anyhow, these pictures were taken 10-14-09, Enjoy!:
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First and foremost, I am a legal medical patient, within my legal guidelines for plant #, etc..., and this is my personal garden. I don't support breaking the law, or the illegal growing of marijuana.
Here's some information on my garden:
Each plant veges for about 4-5 weeks prior to entering the bloom room. During that time, they are usually topped about 3x, causing the plants to grow into super-thick little bushes with lots of tops. Once they reach 18" height, they transfer to bloom.
The bloom room operates at 85-90 degrees during the "day" cycle, and 65-70 degrees during the "night cycle. The humidity remains between 60-75%. There is a wall-mounted fan on each side of the room for good air movement, and of of course a carbon filter. My bloom room is a sealed environment, with CO2 levels at a constant 1500ppm via a fuzzy-logic controller. Since I use aeroponics, the nutrient solution is run through a water chiller, which maintains it at a constant 67-72 degrees. There is also a micro-pore air diffuser, and a commercial air pump constantly supplying oxygen to the solution.
In my bloom room are two 2' x 4' x 1' Aeroponics trays that our company manufactures. At full capacity, I run 8 plants per tray. Hanging over each tray, are six 126W LED Grow Lights that we also developed (as most of you know). So that's 756W over 8 plants x 2. The total room measures 9' x 8', with an 8' ceiling, and is lined in 97% reflective mylar (from the HID days). The canopy space measures approximately 5' x 6'.
I feed my girls Advanced Nutrients, Iguana Juice Bloom, and Dr. Hornby's Big Bud (not the current crap advanced makes since they split with Hornby). I run no other supplements currently in bloom. The nutrients are added per the manufacturer's recommendations for heavy feeding, and the reservoir is topped off with water mid-way through the week. Nutrients are changed out weekly when the system gets cleaned.
The current strains you'll see in these photographs are: Strawberry Cough X White Rhino, Ice, Grape Ape, Maui Wowie, AK47, Purple Arrow, Sensi Star, and Afghani X Brazilian Skunk. These plants will be replaced in a few months by Pineapple Express, Barney's LSD, Yumbolt 47, LA Confidential, Alaskan Ice, and A-Train.
Anyhow, these pictures were taken 10-14-09, Enjoy!:
CLOSE UP SHOTS OF LAST 2 PHOTOS:
on why people don't use LEDs is that they haven't really worked. For most growers LEDs are a novelty because so many companies peddle so many pure BS products in the field. Now, having said that, I can't say that I have seen many grow journals here or elsewhere in the mj community that utilized LEDs and ended up producing up to par. I hope that the current round of test grows using LEDGirl's lights are more productive because it would be a great step forward for closet growers all over the US that continually struggle with temperatures. I can't say that I can really see these being a viable option for large scale growers but you never know. If they do work as well as she claims perhaps they can be viable but only time and the corresponding results from the test grows will tell.
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