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StoneyBud
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Ozzy! You're cracking me up man! Hahahahahhaa
Well, just an update to everyone on the research I've done on the LED panels I've purchased.
I've found a few other grows on other MJ groups where others have used the same LED's, but in not a way that is most productive with LED use. ALL of the people who have used these panels have praised them. Most had limited success. One person had wonderful results, but his harvest quantity was limited because of his application limitations.
The problem with all of these attempts was that they allowed the plants to get too tall. LED's don't have the "throw" (a term used in the lighting business for the *penetration*, or distance effective light will travel using a given application), that other more common lights such as HID's have.
LED's just won't support plant growth at a distance comparable to HID's. Therefore, a method has to be developed with which to keep the plants at their shortest possible height until harvest.
This is what I'm going to do. I've chosen a strain that is a short growing strain, (Pre/98 Bubba Kush), and has very large center cola growth. I'm going to trim off all other growth *except* the center cola, and pack those colas in as close as possible in my entire grow area. I also intend to use only sexually mature, rooted clones and to use nothing but 12/12 HO LED lighting from the moment of transplanting the fully rooted clones into the hydroponic tray.
This, hopefully, will maximize the cured weight per/area, and also avoid the pitfalls experienced by other growers using these lights in relation to plant height.
I'm hoping to keep these plants at 24" max height at harvest. If I'm successful at doing this, it should result in a grow-room full of massive, full grown colas that are literally touching each other and only 24" tall or so.
I'm hoping that this will result in an excellent harvest weight and be at least as much cured weight as I've grown in this same amount of area with much larger plants.
If so, then the combination of low growth and compact usage of the area should result in a method that will allow me a second level of plants on the grow following my initial experiment.
With two grow levels in the same area, each being of the same weight as previous full height grows, and using a month less time and only 1/10th of the wattage, it would be a step in making inside grows more monetarily available to more people.
I have all my fingers crossed and I'm hoping for everything I've forecast to come out well.
Well, just an update to everyone on the research I've done on the LED panels I've purchased.
I've found a few other grows on other MJ groups where others have used the same LED's, but in not a way that is most productive with LED use. ALL of the people who have used these panels have praised them. Most had limited success. One person had wonderful results, but his harvest quantity was limited because of his application limitations.
The problem with all of these attempts was that they allowed the plants to get too tall. LED's don't have the "throw" (a term used in the lighting business for the *penetration*, or distance effective light will travel using a given application), that other more common lights such as HID's have.
LED's just won't support plant growth at a distance comparable to HID's. Therefore, a method has to be developed with which to keep the plants at their shortest possible height until harvest.
This is what I'm going to do. I've chosen a strain that is a short growing strain, (Pre/98 Bubba Kush), and has very large center cola growth. I'm going to trim off all other growth *except* the center cola, and pack those colas in as close as possible in my entire grow area. I also intend to use only sexually mature, rooted clones and to use nothing but 12/12 HO LED lighting from the moment of transplanting the fully rooted clones into the hydroponic tray.
This, hopefully, will maximize the cured weight per/area, and also avoid the pitfalls experienced by other growers using these lights in relation to plant height.
I'm hoping to keep these plants at 24" max height at harvest. If I'm successful at doing this, it should result in a grow-room full of massive, full grown colas that are literally touching each other and only 24" tall or so.
I'm hoping that this will result in an excellent harvest weight and be at least as much cured weight as I've grown in this same amount of area with much larger plants.
If so, then the combination of low growth and compact usage of the area should result in a method that will allow me a second level of plants on the grow following my initial experiment.
With two grow levels in the same area, each being of the same weight as previous full height grows, and using a month less time and only 1/10th of the wattage, it would be a step in making inside grows more monetarily available to more people.
I have all my fingers crossed and I'm hoping for everything I've forecast to come out well.
and we know not to waste our time,(b/c it's safe to say that if you can't pull it off neither can %99 of other growers) and saving thousands for us in hours and $...
