Welcome to Icemud's LED overkill grow!!! haha 
I decided to name it overkill because I added 1 more Advanced LED XTE 300 to my 2.5x5'x7' which is way more than would be needed for most grows, as 2 of these lights rocked my last grow just fine. I won't be using the panels at 100% full power for the whole grow but wanted to have the option of pumping around 750W of LED into the girls if I desire to Lets take it big
For more information on these lights you can either visit Advanced LED at
XTE Series LED Grow Light - USA Made 5w LEDs - Advanced LED Grow Lights
Or you can visit my last grow journal which features a detailed testing/unboxing/review of these XTE 300's by Advanced LED.... click the link here ==---> Icemud's LED Grow With Advanced LED XTE 300 Series With EX-Veg 200
Or watch the Unboxing here -----> [video=youtube_share;qrCBIHX8rh8]
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Lets start with the details.....
What strain is it?
Flowering Tent:
Mystery OG, University Hills OG, Black Cherry Cola, Blue Dream, GSC (The purple urkle from last grow), GDP???? I believe its GSC or some cross of GSC with a purple... not exactly sure (clone supplier was wrong).
Veg Tent: Harlequin, GSC (thin mint pheno), churchberry (may get culled), Ogiesel, and will also be taking clones of all 6 plants in flowering tent before the flip.
Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages?
These strains are all hybrids....
Is it in Veg or Flower stage?
Both tents currently in Veg, but XTE 300 series tent will soon be flipped to flowering.
If in Veg... For how long?
I don't keep track of veg times...
If in Flower stage... For how long?
Not in flowering yet, but very soon.
Indoor or outdoor?
Indoors.
Grow Area Description and equipment
Each grow tent is a Hydrohut silver edition 2x4' tent. Actual measurements are larger and each tent measures approx 2.5'x5'x7'. Each tent is equipped with a large carbon filter, 6" fan on a manual variable speed controller. Intake air is sucked into the tent by the negative pressure and let in the lower portion of the tent on each side. Also the flowering tent is equipped with 2 circulation fans...one on an intake hose at ground level, and the other on the roof of the tent blowing downwards. Lights are daisy chained together and power is run through a digital timer.
Soil or Hydro?
Soil.... recycled and reused soil.
If soil... what is in your mix?
This soil has been reused and recycled each grow so the amounts of each soil supplement are not useful as it has been a few grows since originally mixed.
The Base Soil Mix:
ProMix HP
Worm Castings
Volcanic Pumice
Alaskan Forest Humus
The Amendments:
Make up 15% of my total soil mix
Azomite (trace minerals and micronutrients)
Calcium Carbonate Powder 97%
Soft Rock Phosphate (Collidal Clay with high phosphorus and CEC value)
Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate)
Crab Meal 2-3-0 23% calcium(also a P source and source of chitin a hormone/growth regulator)
Fish Bone meal. (3-18-0) 24% Calcium
Lava Sand (adds trace minerals and supposedly adds paramagnetic value to the soil)
Crab Shell Meal 2-3-0 23% Calcium
Kelp Meal (also has growth hormones and PGR's, plus trace minerals)
Alfalfa Meal. (2-0-3) (contains Trichontinol which aids in plant growth and health)
Powdered Humic Acid (Adds Carbons to the soil as well as trace minerals and aids in chelation of minerals)
Humboldt Myco's Maximum (Beneficial Bacteria and Mycorrizae Fungus)
Epsom Salts (Magnesium Sulfate)
Greensand (0-0-3) (Trace Minerals)
Dry Molasses (1-0-3) (Energy for the Microbes)
If soil... What size pot?
My flowering Pots are 5 gallon plastic square pots...
Size of light?
Flowering tent I will be using 3x Advanced LED XTE 300 series LED grow lights.
Veg Tent
I will be using 2x Advanced LED Diamond Series EX-VEG lights.
Is it aircooled?
The lights are cooled by individual fans to keep case temps down...
The tent is cooled by a 6" hydrofarm fan hooked to a large carbon scrubber mounted at the top of my grow tent.
Temp of Room/cab?
usually my ambient temps stay between 75F-85F
RH of Room/cab?
my RH typically stays right around 50% but sometimes (rarely) the winds come off the desert and dry the RH down to 10% or less.
PH of media or res?
I don't check PH..
Any Pests ?
Nope...none
I do use a few preventative measures to make sure it stays this way..
I grow high brix, so typically pests don't go for high brix plants.
I spray in veg with spinosad which pretty much prevents any pests from wanting to breed
I use yucca extract in soil and foliar sprays which also seems to be a great pest deterrent.
How often are you watering?
I water every day to every other day, only 1 cup of water for small vegging plants and 2 to 2 1/2 cups of water for larger vegging and flowering plants.
Type and strength of ferts used?
Using foliar products including Bloomit, Amaze and PGR.
I also will be using Tand J enterprises tea and bio-minerals
about 1x per month I will be giving a soil drench of earthjuice
Other nutrients on hand include and may be used:
occasional additive include advanced nutrients: carboload, organic b, fulvic acid
occasional additives include general organics: bioweed, cal/mag, hydrolyzed squid, florablend tea, bioroot
bonide liquid fish 2-4-0...love this stuff!
SNS pest products for prevention
Spinosad by bonide
I decided to name it overkill because I added 1 more Advanced LED XTE 300 to my 2.5x5'x7' which is way more than would be needed for most grows, as 2 of these lights rocked my last grow just fine. I won't be using the panels at 100% full power for the whole grow but wanted to have the option of pumping around 750W of LED into the girls if I desire to
Lets take it big For more information on these lights you can either visit Advanced LED at
XTE Series LED Grow Light - USA Made 5w LEDs - Advanced LED Grow Lights
Or you can visit my last grow journal which features a detailed testing/unboxing/review of these XTE 300's by Advanced LED.... click the link here ==---> Icemud's LED Grow With Advanced LED XTE 300 Series With EX-Veg 200
Or watch the Unboxing here -----> [video=youtube_share;qrCBIHX8rh8]
Lets start with the details.....
What strain is it?
Flowering Tent:
Mystery OG, University Hills OG, Black Cherry Cola, Blue Dream, GSC (The purple urkle from last grow), GDP???? I believe its GSC or some cross of GSC with a purple... not exactly sure (clone supplier was wrong).
Veg Tent: Harlequin, GSC (thin mint pheno), churchberry (may get culled), Ogiesel, and will also be taking clones of all 6 plants in flowering tent before the flip.
Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages?
These strains are all hybrids....
Is it in Veg or Flower stage?
Both tents currently in Veg, but XTE 300 series tent will soon be flipped to flowering.
If in Veg... For how long?
I don't keep track of veg times...
If in Flower stage... For how long?
Not in flowering yet, but very soon.
Indoor or outdoor?
Indoors.
Grow Area Description and equipment
Each grow tent is a Hydrohut silver edition 2x4' tent. Actual measurements are larger and each tent measures approx 2.5'x5'x7'. Each tent is equipped with a large carbon filter, 6" fan on a manual variable speed controller. Intake air is sucked into the tent by the negative pressure and let in the lower portion of the tent on each side. Also the flowering tent is equipped with 2 circulation fans...one on an intake hose at ground level, and the other on the roof of the tent blowing downwards. Lights are daisy chained together and power is run through a digital timer.
Soil or Hydro?
Soil.... recycled and reused soil.
If soil... what is in your mix?
This soil has been reused and recycled each grow so the amounts of each soil supplement are not useful as it has been a few grows since originally mixed.
The Base Soil Mix:
ProMix HP
Worm Castings
Volcanic Pumice
Alaskan Forest Humus
The Amendments:
Make up 15% of my total soil mix
Azomite (trace minerals and micronutrients)
Calcium Carbonate Powder 97%
Soft Rock Phosphate (Collidal Clay with high phosphorus and CEC value)
Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate)
Crab Meal 2-3-0 23% calcium(also a P source and source of chitin a hormone/growth regulator)
Fish Bone meal. (3-18-0) 24% Calcium
Lava Sand (adds trace minerals and supposedly adds paramagnetic value to the soil)
Crab Shell Meal 2-3-0 23% Calcium
Kelp Meal (also has growth hormones and PGR's, plus trace minerals)
Alfalfa Meal. (2-0-3) (contains Trichontinol which aids in plant growth and health)
Powdered Humic Acid (Adds Carbons to the soil as well as trace minerals and aids in chelation of minerals)
Humboldt Myco's Maximum (Beneficial Bacteria and Mycorrizae Fungus)
Epsom Salts (Magnesium Sulfate)
Greensand (0-0-3) (Trace Minerals)
Dry Molasses (1-0-3) (Energy for the Microbes)
If soil... What size pot?
My flowering Pots are 5 gallon plastic square pots...
Size of light?
Flowering tent I will be using 3x Advanced LED XTE 300 series LED grow lights.
Veg Tent
I will be using 2x Advanced LED Diamond Series EX-VEG lights.
Is it aircooled?
The lights are cooled by individual fans to keep case temps down...
The tent is cooled by a 6" hydrofarm fan hooked to a large carbon scrubber mounted at the top of my grow tent.
Temp of Room/cab?
usually my ambient temps stay between 75F-85F
RH of Room/cab?
my RH typically stays right around 50% but sometimes (rarely) the winds come off the desert and dry the RH down to 10% or less.
PH of media or res?
I don't check PH..
Any Pests ?
Nope...none
I do use a few preventative measures to make sure it stays this way..
I grow high brix, so typically pests don't go for high brix plants.
I spray in veg with spinosad which pretty much prevents any pests from wanting to breed
I use yucca extract in soil and foliar sprays which also seems to be a great pest deterrent.
How often are you watering?
I water every day to every other day, only 1 cup of water for small vegging plants and 2 to 2 1/2 cups of water for larger vegging and flowering plants.
Type and strength of ferts used?
Using foliar products including Bloomit, Amaze and PGR.
I also will be using Tand J enterprises tea and bio-minerals
about 1x per month I will be giving a soil drench of earthjuice
Other nutrients on hand include and may be used:
occasional additive include advanced nutrients: carboload, organic b, fulvic acid
occasional additives include general organics: bioweed, cal/mag, hydrolyzed squid, florablend tea, bioroot
bonide liquid fish 2-4-0...love this stuff!
SNS pest products for prevention
Spinosad by bonide
especially with these panels where you can dial in the exact watts and spectrum you wish. even if you ran all three panels at the same watts as last grow you would increase your core coverage area alot.
