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theman420

Registered: 05/29/08
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90w LED grow

#317546 - 11/17/09 06:14 PM (14 years, 5 months ago)

Okay this grow will be to see for myself and the others on the message board here how well these grow lights work. To my knowledge theirs a few of you out their that have tried and proven this!
**since I'm on a budget there will be not a lot being put into this**
So i picked up a cheap 90watt grow light for around 150-200USD some where in that range, it came and only half of it work so i bought some slow blow fuses for like 1.50. Than I went and bought some hanging bracket material at a hardware store that cost around 15.00. The seeds and organic soil I had as well as pots. the nutes are MG pro i cant find any fox farm around I'm sure there's some organic stuff I could get but I'm out of money now so no nutes for flowering!.
the total cost is around 216.50 if the light did cost 200.

SO LETS SEE IF THESE GROW EM, I KNOW THEY LOOK COOL LIT UP :tongue:

11/28/09
started germination of seeds in wet paper towel inside of a can of chewing tobacco. temps where in the 60-70F.

12/02/09
seeds popped and put them in 2x2 pots with seed starter and a plastic bag was used as a way to keep Rh up! i will be using a 45 watt CFL for starting the seedlings.

12/09/09
Pic update

12/13/09
vegging starts and the timer is set to a 18/6 lights on lights off period. the led light is only 45 watts after a fuse blew.

12/19/09
used a 1/4 strength of MG pro today, the soil is packed very tight. Fimmed the normal plant while the mutant was left to grow. also replaced the fuse in the led to make it a full 90 watts/ much brighter now!

12/22/09
the normal one seems to have a slight Mg problem so gave it another shot of a a 50% mix of MG pro. this was after i transplanted to gallon sized milk jugs. the soil that was used is an organic type but the name is unknown? which is strange? :confused:

1/02/10
Pre-flowers are seen today. the mutant was topped as well to help make it a bit more bushier. Its much smaller and thinner than the normal plant.

1/04/10
pre-flowers are forming more on the normal plant.

1/08/10
12/12 lighting was switched on today.

1/11/10
put crushed eggshells in the normal plants pot to help with a nute burn caused by the MG pro solution i used last time. Also looks like the pre-flowers have turned to hermie due to all the stress of the lights being knocked on and off with power outages! but still have hope because its not its true sex yet!

1/12/10
the bigger bushier plant is confirmed a female, while the mutant is still pre-flowering(probably due to its more sativa side) but looks like a male so far.

1/14/10
the mutant plant was confirmed a male today. also found a bigger pot to put the female plant in, its about 2-3x's as big as the milk jugs i was using.
Was thinking about making clones from this plant, but will wait because this is an experimental grow and need to see how well the light will penetrate the canopy.

1/15/08
this is week 7 and 9 days into flowering.

1/28/10
so this is week 9 and week 3 of flowering not much has changed just the hairs are getting bigger and its doing a bit of stretching out. i tied down one of the branches to even out the canopy and clipped away two of the fan leaves to let some light though to the inner nodes at the bottom.

2/5/10
week four of flowering and week ten altogether! its just showing pistils, no THC or crystals have dropped yet but it smells like a fruity Hawaiian coffee so far! how much longer do you guys think it will take it to bud up the rest of the way I'm aiming for the end of this month or beginning of next... then drying and curing will take another bit of time, but perfection takes time!!

sorry for the flip flopped pics it was kinda hard to take ones of the spots i wanted to show

2/19/10

once again i forgot to flip the pics! anyway it gives you an idea of what they are like on day 44, I'm thinking its going to be a few more weeks. what do you all think the, crystals are clear some cloudy.

3/10/10

okay so its getting down to the last bone for harvesting. this will be the hardest thing i have to decide in the whole grow is when to harvest because i don't have one of those microscopes to look at the trics, so I'm going on bud size( which are not going to be big due to lack of ferts) and hair colour(which they are mostly orange some even turning red and magenta!) some of the buds are purple not as many as i want but its nice to see that i did past some of that trait along.

so should i harvest or wait some more?

3/11/10
I ended up cutting off all four tops as all the hairs where orange, and left the bottom buds to rippen up before harvesting them, cut my finger in the processe which sucked cuz i fainted and the house smell of pot, plus i just got dont smoking a bowl of the tester and was coming up on that! i just cut the bigger fan leaves off and hang them out to dry in a dark place.

3/17/10 DRINKIN ME IRISH OUT!
okay so at mid day when the lights were on i did the final harvest! let them hang outside down until i could get back to the to cut them up a a bit, ended up taking about 2hours to do the 1st manicure. now their hanging upside down in a cool dark area until fully dried( then placed inside my candy jar i use for curing). its leafy bud because i didn't use big bloom or any other fertilizer besides a lil MG at teh beginning of veg.

final result:
1)I'm est. my yield to be about 7 grams dried total- I'm happy with a quarter that i would have paid 200-240 for. and it sure didn't cost that much to grow considering i had a 90 watt led light!
2) the buds aren't as beefy as i would like but i sacrificed being organic and used a bad choice in fertilizer during the first stages of vegging.(hopefully ill come around a t get some decent fertilizer! any ideas as to what to get?
3) i found out that it can be grown under this light they have a bit to go before they can match up with the Hps lights, but if your looking at cutting cost and getting something worth your time, basically if your a smoker and is tried of paying a cost to get your bud and having the insecurity of having it laced with something do it this way. but if your growing to sell some product to a consumer i would not advice this method simply cause the weight you get from uses HID lighting is far to greater!

plant hanging up before trimming

the plant after trimming, look at all that leave material its very sticky and stinky! have another pile I'm combining when it dries to make some brownies with!

here is one fo the tops fully dried and is setting in the jar getting a cure to mellow out the smoke.

Edited by theman420 (03/18/10 07:10 AM)

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