Hows it going everyone! I am so excited to be back in the growing society and back on the forum as its been way to long. This is my first grow in nearly two years and my first time with a hydroponics setup and LED so I decided to go all out and make sure I have the best of the best for my babies while also saving on the monthly costs.... I have done about 5 succesful soil grows with my last setup which was a custom built 4 x 4 box 1000w mh/hps lumitek in foxfarm soil with about 9 plants in that small box..
I am fully legalized to culivate in az now! so I am giong to have a blast and hopefully make some killer meds. I decided to go with 8 plants for starting and cycles and to keep 4 as mothers for variety and to stay legal for my 12 plant limit.
I chose 3 fem. greenhouse Super Lemon Haze, 3 Sweet Seed Fem Jack 47.
My last 2 seeds didn't pop so I am going to pick up 2 clones next week to fill my last 2 pots.
For my setup I have two Secret jardin tents
Tent 1: This is my pride and joy!
I went with a Secret Jardin dr 240w 4 x 8 Tent
6 90w Evo LED's
8 Site Monster Cap Ebb & Gro setup hooked up to a Growonix GX150HR ro system(Coming tomorrow!)
filled with cleaned hydroton.
Res outside of tent inside closet for darkness(no light for algea =)
Hanna Continuous pH/TDS/Tmp - HI981504/7 inside the Res mounted on the wall.
Currently have one mini fan inside for vent but will be adding two next week when babies go in.
Up top have the canfan 6" lite attached to the canfan 6 HO fan for exhaust.
I built a 4 x 8, 2 inch Mesh Grid for SCROG that I will move in when the plants are ready to be fimmed and scrogged.
My budget was about 3k... unfortunately had to go a bit over for the good stuff...
Im really excited to use these LEDS, I spent months researching all the different brands etc and I found a really nice setup I liked that i havnt seen except for one grow in IC forums.
I want to give a special thanks to my friend Gud for all his help and information and helping me import these LEDS from Spain safely and quickly.
These are LEDS are 90 w each and are specifically designed for Marijuana growth and from what I have seen work amazing utilizing a warm white summer type light.
They are 3 feet long x 4 in wide and 1 inch thick. SUPER LIGHT and Super cool.
They require no fans as they are like 80% aluminum heatsink and they utilize 5 groups of 9 LEDS in each group on each bar.
6 Cree XP-E Red chips and 3 (seller would like me to not say the brand as I have the newest set using them not listed for sale by them yet) 10k White chip LEDS.
Looks like summer afternoon in my tent lol. The rec height in flowering is 6-8 in away from buds so I have plenty of room to play around with. I placed my hand about 3 inch from the light and experienced no heat but my hand was basically illuminated and glowing lol. Anyway here are some pics with everything setup inside the tent. Please forgive me as I am horrible with photography but I will get better along with this journal.
These things are Very High quality I was very happy when I received them. They make the Jumbo 180 look like a cheap piece of plastic lol.
ProSource Illuminator Jumbo 180 LED(killer deal $250 NIB) for mothers and clones
Tent 2 :
1 Mother/Cloning Tent:
4x4 secret jardin,
4 - 5 gallon buckets for the mothers to be placed into soil for future clippings.
8 site daisy cloner for clones
carbon filter uptop for smell etc normal stuff.
For Intake i have a 6" vortax fan built into a box I made with a y pipe evenly splitting the intake air into both tents for good reverse pressure for the exhaust.The box helps with the sound. The intake for the intake box has an 8" Dust Shroom over it for clean fresh air to both boxes.
For nutes I want to give a big shout out to Corey at BPN for the awesome nutes I will be using in this grow.
3 Part Grow-Micro-Bloom and Blue Bloom! I am very excited to try these on my first hydro grow. I also picked up a few side nutes Rhizatonic, Snow Storm Ultra (used purple maxx in past and worked wonders) basic ph up/down and some other small things you can see pictured.
I've ran the res for about a week with 40gallons of water for testing and to get used to the system and work out all the kinks. I think I will end up grabbing an air stone for the rez as I don't plan on feeding with lights off and will have that run lights off.
For the first week of test runs for my indoor veg/flower tent remained at 68-72 degrees F lights on, and 65 degrees with lights off with 50-60% humidty for on/off.
I love these lights because they only increase temps by maybe 5 degrees MAX at about 10 hours on...No sound is also Amazing =)
I did a test with all my equipment turned on (will never always be all on) 7 leds,3 fans,control bucket,hanna meter, and I am only pushing 1100 Watts! Thats for 2 full tents all turned on max power. So normally I will be running about 650 or so which is a HUGE improvement over my last grow where that Ballast alone was 1000w.......
Res water temps 64-65 Degree F, TDS about 550 at weeks end without ro system hooked up. ( Get Growonix Monday or so ).
I started germinating my babies in papertowels and placed them into rockwool cubes 2 days later when taproots sprouted from the jack 47's. Pre-Soaked rockwool cubes in 5.7 ph balanced for 24 hours. Placed these babies labeld in a little humidadome and placed them on a heating pad. Started these on 02/21/2012
Sadly my seeds didnt make it and the 6 fem seeds I purchased the Jack47 and SLH popped perfectly. Here they are a day after sowing into the Rockwool on the 02/24/12 coming out to say hello.
Here we are yesterday at 3 days old with the first leaves popping out and showing to get some light.Been under the lights for about half a day and LEDS are about 3.5 feet up right now as I am not sure how intense these will be on them so I am going to gradually lower them. I gave them their first feeding with 1 drop superthrive, 2.5ml micro,2.5 grow and 2.5 bloom ph balanced to 5.7 510ppm spring water.. Cant wait for my growonix.
I am always up for any helpful information, idea's and thoughts about my grow because I have alot to learn for hydro and growing in general. This is a passion I love and the rewards are outstanding so please chime in with any thoughts,questions or concerns. This will be a long detailed journal.
Smoke Healthy and Legally!
I am fully legalized to culivate in az now! so I am giong to have a blast and hopefully make some killer meds. I decided to go with 8 plants for starting and cycles and to keep 4 as mothers for variety and to stay legal for my 12 plant limit.
I chose 3 fem. greenhouse Super Lemon Haze, 3 Sweet Seed Fem Jack 47.
My last 2 seeds didn't pop so I am going to pick up 2 clones next week to fill my last 2 pots.
For my setup I have two Secret jardin tents
Tent 1: This is my pride and joy!
I went with a Secret Jardin dr 240w 4 x 8 Tent
6 90w Evo LED's
8 Site Monster Cap Ebb & Gro setup hooked up to a Growonix GX150HR ro system(Coming tomorrow!)
filled with cleaned hydroton.
Res outside of tent inside closet for darkness(no light for algea =)
Hanna Continuous pH/TDS/Tmp - HI981504/7 inside the Res mounted on the wall.
Currently have one mini fan inside for vent but will be adding two next week when babies go in.
Up top have the canfan 6" lite attached to the canfan 6 HO fan for exhaust.
I built a 4 x 8, 2 inch Mesh Grid for SCROG that I will move in when the plants are ready to be fimmed and scrogged.
My budget was about 3k... unfortunately had to go a bit over for the good stuff...
Im really excited to use these LEDS, I spent months researching all the different brands etc and I found a really nice setup I liked that i havnt seen except for one grow in IC forums.
I want to give a special thanks to my friend Gud for all his help and information and helping me import these LEDS from Spain safely and quickly.
These are LEDS are 90 w each and are specifically designed for Marijuana growth and from what I have seen work amazing utilizing a warm white summer type light.
They are 3 feet long x 4 in wide and 1 inch thick. SUPER LIGHT and Super cool.
They require no fans as they are like 80% aluminum heatsink and they utilize 5 groups of 9 LEDS in each group on each bar.
6 Cree XP-E Red chips and 3 (seller would like me to not say the brand as I have the newest set using them not listed for sale by them yet) 10k White chip LEDS.
Looks like summer afternoon in my tent lol. The rec height in flowering is 6-8 in away from buds so I have plenty of room to play around with. I placed my hand about 3 inch from the light and experienced no heat but my hand was basically illuminated and glowing lol. Anyway here are some pics with everything setup inside the tent. Please forgive me as I am horrible with photography but I will get better along with this journal.
These things are Very High quality I was very happy when I received them. They make the Jumbo 180 look like a cheap piece of plastic lol.
ProSource Illuminator Jumbo 180 LED(killer deal $250 NIB) for mothers and clones
Tent 2 :
1 Mother/Cloning Tent:
4x4 secret jardin,
4 - 5 gallon buckets for the mothers to be placed into soil for future clippings.
8 site daisy cloner for clones
carbon filter uptop for smell etc normal stuff.
For Intake i have a 6" vortax fan built into a box I made with a y pipe evenly splitting the intake air into both tents for good reverse pressure for the exhaust.The box helps with the sound. The intake for the intake box has an 8" Dust Shroom over it for clean fresh air to both boxes.
For nutes I want to give a big shout out to Corey at BPN for the awesome nutes I will be using in this grow.
3 Part Grow-Micro-Bloom and Blue Bloom! I am very excited to try these on my first hydro grow. I also picked up a few side nutes Rhizatonic, Snow Storm Ultra (used purple maxx in past and worked wonders) basic ph up/down and some other small things you can see pictured.
I've ran the res for about a week with 40gallons of water for testing and to get used to the system and work out all the kinks. I think I will end up grabbing an air stone for the rez as I don't plan on feeding with lights off and will have that run lights off.
For the first week of test runs for my indoor veg/flower tent remained at 68-72 degrees F lights on, and 65 degrees with lights off with 50-60% humidty for on/off.
I love these lights because they only increase temps by maybe 5 degrees MAX at about 10 hours on...No sound is also Amazing =)
I did a test with all my equipment turned on (will never always be all on) 7 leds,3 fans,control bucket,hanna meter, and I am only pushing 1100 Watts! Thats for 2 full tents all turned on max power. So normally I will be running about 650 or so which is a HUGE improvement over my last grow where that Ballast alone was 1000w.......
Res water temps 64-65 Degree F, TDS about 550 at weeks end without ro system hooked up. ( Get Growonix Monday or so ).
I started germinating my babies in papertowels and placed them into rockwool cubes 2 days later when taproots sprouted from the jack 47's. Pre-Soaked rockwool cubes in 5.7 ph balanced for 24 hours. Placed these babies labeld in a little humidadome and placed them on a heating pad. Started these on 02/21/2012
Sadly my seeds didnt make it and the 6 fem seeds I purchased the Jack47 and SLH popped perfectly. Here they are a day after sowing into the Rockwool on the 02/24/12 coming out to say hello.
Here we are yesterday at 3 days old with the first leaves popping out and showing to get some light.Been under the lights for about half a day and LEDS are about 3.5 feet up right now as I am not sure how intense these will be on them so I am going to gradually lower them. I gave them their first feeding with 1 drop superthrive, 2.5ml micro,2.5 grow and 2.5 bloom ph balanced to 5.7 510ppm spring water.. Cant wait for my growonix.
I am always up for any helpful information, idea's and thoughts about my grow because I have alot to learn for hydro and growing in general. This is a passion I love and the rewards are outstanding so please chime in with any thoughts,questions or concerns. This will be a long detailed journal.
Smoke Healthy and Legally!
and +rep for a great start. Plants look really good so far, too. 
