Icemud's Grow 8.0 - New Intelligent-Gro LED - 2 x IGRO-228 LED - Testing & Review

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Does the brand of yeast matter?

What ratio of yeast to sugar to water do you use?

I have yeast for making bread, would that work?


Thanks
Labexperiment

Honestly I don't really know the details of whats better or not, but per 2 gallon milk jug i put 2 yeast packets, one active dry and one was highly active yeast. I filled the jug up 1/2 full with water, and added a good 4 cups or so of white sugar. I poked a hole in the cap about the size of a pencil in diameter and shake it 1x per day, when I am in my tent.

I've acually used the larger 2 1/2 gallon water jugs too...

With my 2-liter bottle setup, I can get upwards of 1500-2000 PPM in a relatively sealed 4'x2'x5' grow box. 0.5 Tbsp yeast/1 cup sugar maxes out at around 1500 PPM, averages around 1000 PPM and lasts around a week. 1.0 Tbsp yeast and 2 cups sugar maxes out at around 2000 PPM, averages between 1000-1500 PPM and lasts longer, typically between one and two weeks.
good info guys my 2 cents here, i have used bread and champagne yeast the wine types will last longer and produce a bit more co2 1 trick you can do to save money and have a steady supply is to build a yeast farm with a gallon jug you add yeast and yeast nutrient sugar i like to add some malt extract and various different sugars brown,white,honey,corn syrup, i have lots of leftover supplies from my brewing days i use that knowledge to make killer co2 farms when i feel like going to the extra effort, with a yeast farm you can keep the yeast breeding and growing and not have to buy more for years if you are so inclined, you can take a few tablespoons of the goop in the farm and spread it out on waxed paper , let it dry out and bag it up write the date on it and freeze it for up to a year to save your yeast culture so if something goes wrong and it all dies you can restart anytime, theres a really good yeast called super yeast x-press thats crazy aggressive and will withstand alcohol up to like 33% i think 25% for sure.
it will do 5 gallons water and 20lbs sugar in 3 days!! rather than a week or 2 for this purpose i would just add 5lbs every few days you can keep it going strong by dumping it out and adding fresh water and sugar before it gets to 25% booze and the yeast dies off,
some times you can resurrect the yeast buy saving the sludge in the bottom and adding it to fresh water yeast and shaking it vigorously to get oxygen in there, btw that also helps the yeast (adding o2 by agitation or an air-stone) look up yeast farms on u-tube for different versions, i use a hygrometer(7-20$) to keep an eye on the specific gravity aka alcohol level of the wort/slop lol
if you want mass co2 2 5 gallon carboys(water jugs) loaded with 10lbs sugars ,half a pouch super yeast x-press (or 1 cup of yeast from yeast farm) slap an airlock on top and a tsp yeast nutrient and i bet you'll hit 2500-3500ppm in a 4x4 in a day and last a week then refresh,
well i guess thats a bit more than 2cents lol but for alot less than a co2 tank and gear you can diy a decent option for good co2 supplementation
:rocker:
 
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With my 2-liter bottle setup, I can get upwards of 1500-2000 PPM in a relatively sealed 4'x2'x5' grow box. 0.5 Tbsp yeast/1 cup sugar maxes out at around 1500 PPM, averages around 1000 PPM and lasts around a week. 1.0 Tbsp yeast and 2 cups sugar maxes out at around 2000 PPM, averages between 1000-1500 PPM and lasts longer, typically between one and two weeks.

Wow!!! that is much higher than I would expected!!! awesome to know!!! much cheaper than a tank system :) Thanks for sharing that Colorado!
 
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I have a 4'x4'x7' veg room. I have been using a 5 gallon bucket and a fish tank heater to keep the mixture at ~93°F. In the bucket I use 4 gallons of water and 25 cups of sugar, 2 teaspoons of distillers yeast(dies at ~21%). I use hot water mix in the sugar as it dissolves better. Then I let it cool to around 93° then I add the 2 teaspoons of distillers yeast and a bit of nutrients to get the yeast going faster. It seems to last~a week. If you change out half of the liquid weekly and readd sugar water it will last ~a month. I bought a ppm meeter, and I stay at 900ppm or so after 4-5 days. But for the first few days it runs 1600ppm before settling in around the 800-900 ppm. Hope that helps

Great info Timothy Paul!!! Thank you!
 
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good info guys my 2 cents here, i have used bread and champagne yeast the wine types will last longer and produce a bit more co2 1 trick you can do to save money and have a steady supply is to build a yeast farm with a gallon jug you add yeast and yeast nutrient sugar i like to add some malt extract and various different sugars brown,white,honey,corn syrup, i have lots of leftover supplies from my brewing days i use that knowledge to make killer co2 farms when i feel like going to the extra effort, with a yeast farm you can keep the yeast breeding and growing and not have to buy more for years if you are so inclined, you can take a few tablespoons of the goop in the farm and spread it out on waxed paper , let it dry out and bag it up write the date on it and freeze it for up to a year to save your yeast culture so if something goes wrong and it all dies you can restart anytime, theres a really good yeast called super yeast x-press thats crazy aggressive and will withstand alcohol up to like 33% i think 25% for sure.
it will do 5 gallons water and 20lbs sugar in 3 days!! rather than a week or 2 for this purpose i would just add 5lbs every few days you can keep it going strong by dumping it out and adding fresh water and sugar before it gets to 25% booze and the yeast dies off,
some times you can resurrect the yeast buy saving the sludge in the bottom and adding it to fresh water yeast and shaking it vigorously to get oxygen in there, btw that also helps the yeast (adding o2 by agitation or an air-stone) look up yeast farms on u-tube for different versions, i use a hygrometer(7-20$) to keep an eye on the specific gravity aka alcohol level of the wort/slop lol
if you want mass co2 2 5 gallon carboys(water jugs) loaded with 10lbs sugars ,half a pouch super yeast x-press (or 1 cup of yeast from yeast farm) slap an airlock on top and a tsp yeast nutrient and i bet you'll hit 2500-3500ppm in a 4x4 in a day and last a week then refresh,
well i guess thats a bit more than 2cents lol but for alot less than a co2 tank and gear you can diy a decent option for good co2 supplementation
:rocker:

Excellent writeup BID!!! You da man!!! Thats good to know that as long as the water keeps getting filtered out, the yeast will survive and keep producing CO2. I found that once the mix got too strong, it didn't produce anymore and I would just dump it and start over, so now I will be able to expand the longevity of the CO2 production!!! Thanks for sharing that BID!!
 
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well i did not mean to barf that giant response all over the floor but i guess i had more to say than i thought, lol

BID!!! Always appreciate your input and knowledge my friend!! Barf away!! LOL :) Very informational post!
 
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Excellent writeup BID!!! You da man!!! Thats good to know that as long as the water keeps getting filtered out, the yeast will survive and keep producing CO2. I found that once the mix got too strong, it didn't produce anymore and I would just dump it and start over, so now I will be able to expand the longevity of the CO2 production!!! Thanks for sharing that BID!!
that is exactly why i posted that ,i figured thats what you and others were doing and not ever seen anyone mention you can keep it going, i had a strain of sourdough from San Francisco i got from a bread maker close to the wharf i kept around for 11 yrs and my wife at the time tossed it cuz she thought it was sour gone bad pancake batter? um riiiiight!! anyway that's how they have bread taste the same 80yrs later preserving the strain!!!

BID!!! Always appreciate your input and knowledge my friend!! Barf away!! LOL :) Very informational post!
im so long winded at times lol :rofl: verbal diarrhea / oral disentary :loopy:
 
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that is exactly why i posted that ,i figured thats what you and others were doing and not ever seen anyone mention you can keep it going, i had a strain of sourdough from San Francisco i got from a bread maker close to the wharf i kept around for 11 yrs and my wife at the time tossed it cuz she thought it was sour gone bad pancake batter? um riiiiight!! anyway that's how they have bread taste the same 80yrs later preserving the strain!!!


im so long winded at times lol :rofl: verbal diarrhea / oral disentary :loopy:

Damn Encyclopedia BIDtanica!! LOL droppin some knowledge for us!! Awesome man! I never knew that about keeping yeast for decades to keep the same strain... thats pretty freakin awesome! Thats such a bummer to lose a strain after keeping it that long...but I guess thats the way the bread roll crumbles :)

Always love having ya join my jounal BID! always something interesting, funny, or entertaining, definitely appreciate ya my friend!
 
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Hey Everyone!!! Quick photo update!

I took some more photos of the girls with the LED's off so you can see the leaves color and all the trichome development.

So far the girls are on day 32 of flowering!!! So far they are looking amazing and the Intelligent Gro lights are delivering results!

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Looking great! :)

Thanks Toker!!! Your journal is amazing as well my friend! Thanks for sharing the luv!
 
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Icemud, everything is awesome!

Hey Dr. Ziggy! Hope your having a great day man!!! Thanks for the good vibes :)
 
Re: Icemud's Grow 8.0 - New Intelligent-Gro LED - 2 x IGRO-228 LED - Testing And Revi

Hey everyone!!! Some exciting news. Intelligent Gro 2 is being released very soon, and I wanted to give all of you the 1st notice of new improved Intelligent Gro led lights.

I want to let everyone know that Intelligent Gro is not a reseller and is working very hard to make the best panels available to the growing market. With the release of the Intelligent Gro 2 panels which should be arriving and available for purchase sometime in the next week, there has been a lot of upgrades that Intelligent Gro has done to give growers the best LED panels they can get.

Some of the changes include:
-more modular internal design for quick swapping of parts if needed.
-Improved intensity and PAR values...(more photons available in the PAR region than Generation 1)
-Addition of UV-A wavelengths around 380nm plus an enhanced blue spectrum to address more of the carotenoids and xanthrophyll absorbtion peaks.
-some of the larger models feature slightly more spread out LED chip arrays giving greater light footprint and coverage.
-Improved spectral output covering all photosynthetic peaks and key absorbtion spectrum elements for better photosynthesis and plant health.
-Intelligent Gro doesn't just throw in a bunch of white chips to get better PAR values, but uses wavelength specific LEDs to target absorbtion peaks as well as adds just enough white chips to cover the inbetweens and give full spectrum lighting, but not to Inflate PAR readings like a lot of other companies report.

Here are the PAR readings for the Generation 2, Intelligent Gro LED grow lights!! Very impressive numbers, in fact they even beat out Kind LED and many other LED panels and HPS lights that were tested by growers house... I think these lights are going to rock..

Anyways I wanted to share this info with everyone here at 420 Magazine first!!

Here are the PAR readings and spectrum outputs to follow.
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What if you own an older model like we do, and wanted to expand our system.

Are the new units compatible with the old?

Will they work as one under the same controler?

I'm just wondering because I'm loving my Intelligent Gro.

But one day I may like to expand my current system.
 
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Gen 2 is looking great...hopefully the prices stay right in line with the Gen1 lights. These lights are looking more and more like the one's I will purchase after my move in a few months.

And...a little birdy told me that external venting solutions for the LED's are seriously being looked at right now. With these bigger and bigger LED's coming out, venting will be a priority...looks like they may try and stay ahead of the curve. Impressive company so far...
 
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I did another quick video update of the grow as well. Hope you guys enjoy.

I like the videos because they give a different visual perspective of the grow size and such.. I just wish I had a normal light to film with so the videos weren't bright pink :)

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Unfortunately I had to pass on the i-Gro 2.0, but seeing the results everyone is getting, I'm not the least bit less happy about getting a 1.0 :)

Icemud, how long are you thinking these strains are going to go? Is this more or less the halfway point in flowering? Two thirds? Because man, if this is what halfway looks like, harvest time is going to be jaw-dropping! These pics are totally inspiring me to finish building my cab...
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cool :smoke2:

Your garden looks nice man, but I'm with you on the "alternate light source for filming" thing. Sometimes my LED pics look so bad I feel they do my humble garden a disservice, but under regular light, they can look so sexy. Yours just look washed out, but it's obvious it's the potent amount of light. Missing out on seeing the sweet bud structure and trichome production is like watching soft-core porn...but I still watched.
 
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