Indoor First grow, first post - - Auto White Widow, LED 672 Watts

[auto-p]

Hi All!

I started my grow on Jan 15th, sprouted 4 out of 5.

Had two short, bushy phenos with fat leaves and two lanky tall phenos with skinny leaves.

Planted directly in MG moisture control.

Lit using a 336 watt, 4 foot aquarium LED (using 3.5 watt blue and 3.5 watt white Cree LEDs.)

At 27 days, I was adjusting the LED (this thing weighs about 35 lbs...) and accidently dropped the damn fixture right on top of the plants. Ended up topping the two tall phenos at about the third node -- they were crushed and the stem broke completely through.) I thought they were just going to curl up and die... But I decided to see what would happen. They came back REALLY STRONG, and now at 50 days you can't even tell they were topped (unless you look for the stumps... )

After about 30 days, added a second 336 watt, 4 foot aquarium LED.

Now, I know the aquarium lights really aren't very efficient for growing (the spectrum is wayyy blue...) but the plants seem to really like it. I measure about 1500 umol / m2/ s at about 2" from the lights, but an acceptable 300+ umol/m2/s over a 4' x 4' area under the lights. So I think I have plenty of lighting for my 4' x 2' shelf.


Going to update with photos as soon as I can figure out how to put 'em here.

 

[Griever]

sweet as bro sounds nuts lets see

 

[The Squid]

Welcome to the AFN man! This place rules. Haven't heard anything about those lights. I do know that you should steer away from MG soil as it is usually too hot with nutrients for seedlings. Apparently your WW did ok though.
What kind of nutrients are you using?
What size/type container?
And what space are you growing in?

If you can get pics to your email or something then right click and copy the url and use it to post pics here using the Insert Image button above your type box.

There is plenty of help here man.

Squid out. Peace

 

[auto-p]

Here's all my grow:

Left four plants are the Automatics, right four are Christal x 2 and NY Diesel x 2.

Note -- the whole thing is on 12/12 lighting now -- so the Autos probably aren't as big as they could be.

 

[The Squid]

That's a ton of blue. They look ok though. So they're what three weeks old?

Squid out

 

[auto-p]

Thanx Squid! I appreciate the welcome!

They seemed to do fine on the MG -- no issues.

I have only used nutes two times now, both times 1/4 strength MG indoor plant food...

Containers are 2 gallon regular plastic pots. Started in 2 liter pots, and transplanted at about three weeks or so.

 

[auto-p]

Six weeks now. They are finally back about as tall as they were before I accidentally topped them. :*(

 

[auto-p]

That's a ton of blue. They look ok though. So they're what three weeks old?

Squid out

I don't think the blue seems to be an issue -- they sure are growing fast now that I added the second light.

I think the blue will be a lot less efficient than a heavy red LED setup would be. I'm probably using 200-300 watts more LED because of the heavy blue.

 

[The Squid]

Well that's good and right, right forgot they got screwed up a little. Still look good. Good shot on starting 1/4 strength. How are the buds forming? And if we could get a good pic in regular light that would be sweet. Good luck.

Squid out. Peace

 

[auto-p]

Here's a pic of one single plant, pulled off the shelf. (BTW-- this is one of the ones that got crushed!)

Looks like it's pretty healthy. I was a little concerned when I started that this would be really difficult. But this has been so easy compared to, for example, growing corals...