Indoor Barney's Farm- Sweet Tooth with custom LEDs.

[exdwcgrow]

Hello everyone,

I'm late to post a thread since my grow has been going on for about a month now but I wasn't expecting to do anything special with this grow, then i had some free time and wanted to test once and for all if LEDs were worth it after about 3 years of testing different "off-the-shelf" brands that didn't give me the results I was expecting.

I had a Sweet Tooth and a Pineapple Express (growing under Apollo Purple Sun C.O.B LEDs) when I ordered the CREE LEDs model number CXA3590, they are full spectrum and draw around 150w each. I also ordered nice drivers for each LED running at 1.4 amps with variable voltage.
Once everything arrived, I used the chassis of two old blackstar 240s I had to assemble my grow light and used gaming pc heatsinks over each led (2 LEDs per chassis).

This is turning into a wall of text so I'll just summarize what I'm using for this grow and if there is interest I'll go into more detail.

I'm using General Hydroponics floranova series nutrients as well as most GH additives.
I try to keep the P.H. around 6 and my last bucket was around 900ppm.

Here are a few pictures of the Sweet Tooth which overgrew the Pineapple. The first and second set of picture are 7 days apart.
1st set


2nd set (turned off one of the LEDs because I felt it was overkill)




Thank you for your time if you have any question feel free to ask.

 

[exdwcgrow]

Hello again,

Just a quick update, had some heat issues but kind of solved it for now. I'm limited by my grow space but I can't really grow anywhere else so i'll have to manage.

So the last pictures i posted were taken on the 19th, these were taken seven days later on the 26 (Merry Christmas everyone):

Thank you for stopping by, I will try to update weekly and answer any questions.

 

[BRICH999]

Looking amazing! Very well done! :tiphat:

 

[wild1]

Looking very nice!!! Nice setup also

Peace

 

[exdwcgrow]

Hey everyone,

Its been around 20 days since my last post and this plant has really progressed. My last couple of buckets were really loaded since the plant is quite huge and the par readings on the canopy are around 1000.
So after 2 feedings at 1500 ppm I flushed the roots with the General Hydroponic solution for 36h and fed one last time at 1300 ppm. The smell coming off of this plant is absolutely amazing, hands down my best smelling grow.

I'm really happy with the results until now, the Cree LEDs are beasts although they lack a bit of blue and require decent amount of cooling.

Here are a few picture taken a couple of hours ago.

Thank you for stopping by, I might update one more time before harvesting in case there is any major change.

 

[Spanglish]

Beautiful looking plants there bro,

Have got a sweet tooth in myself at the moment in the first week, i would be more than happy with half of what you have managed here. Will be following this thread from now on to see how they turn out, but looks like you are going to be in for a very nice harvest from those girls.

Happy Growing

Matt

 

[exdwcgrow]

Hey Matt,

Thank you for your kind comment and your interest with this grow. I checked out your grow and you're a lot more patient and caring then me so I'm guessing you're gonna get something pretty good. As for the quantity, i don't think this strain is supposed to get so big but i always get monsters in this closet, your experience may vary.

I'm hoping to get around 200 grams from this plant but i'm starting to get impatient and i really don't want to cut it early so hopefully i'll control myself and keep it as long as it needs.

I'll try to post picture of the whole plant in my next update, i'll be flushing the plant so i have to get it out of the closet anyway.

Thanks again for following.

 

[exdwcgrow]

Started the flushing process kind of...

The reservoir now contains water and General hydroponics' Ripen, ph is around 6.

Took some better shots today so i thought I would post them.