Hydroponics Secrets 47 - LED Grow Lights & Growth Chambers
http://www.advancednutrients.com/connoisseur presents Hydroponics Secrets with Erik Biksa discussing how to set up and successfully use LED growth chambers and grow rooms to produce fast finishing crops while consuming very little electricity.
H. Gilmore said
am February 24 2009 @ 12:41 pm
Beautiful grow cab, can’t wait to see how it turns out!
Jimbo said
am February 27 2009 @ 10:22 pm
Hey, Erik, great intro video for setting up a compact grow!
I like the beer part. You can share it all around when
you’re celebrating your harvest!
Happy tomato growing!
kgb said
am June 24 2009 @ 12:26 pm
LEDs are a joke! they are NOT ready to produce good, heavy harvests. Let’s see the FINAL product! I’d bet my Sour Diesel that it’s teeny tiny….
Lee Carson said
am June 24 2009 @ 1:23 pm
Great video - but how may I take advantage of this system approach in a much larger area? I have set aside a 10′ X 12′ grow room and a 12′ X 16′ bloom room. Can you suggest a maxed outlayout? I am looking at the pff-800 Haight units - Also where can some of the components be purchased you mention? i.e; the reflective materials for floor, walls and ceiling. Also, what you you recommend for the Hydro system to use for a larger grow and bloom area? Appreciate all the help I can get - 1st timer.
Thanks, Lee
D. said
am June 27 2009 @ 10:19 am
Just bought the Procyion 100. I grow 9 plants in a 4×4 tent. According to my math, this led better be enough light!!! Got another tent with a 600hps. Time will tell. Sounds like im gonna have to drop my ppm drasticly. hope I dont burn these plant up.
Ron said
am July 6 2009 @ 6:33 pm
Erik,
I have several questions regarding foliar feeding. I have used Advanced nutrients VHO, Jumpstart and colossal bud blast with good results. I use these products with a product from one of your competetors called penetrator which claims to have a university study to back it’s claims that other so called “wetting agents” cannot compete with. I have used several of your other competetors wetting agents and seen firsthand that they are nowhere near as effective. I may be mistaken, but I believe that penetrator is a ionic surfactant. I notice that the Advanced nutrients products,(Wet betty, and wb organic), are non ionic. I have not tried your products, basically because I have seen that penetrator is far superior to other wetting agents, (Dutch masters website calls it a delivery agent, I suppose to indicate that it works differently and infer that it is superior). Another difference is that their product is intended for use with the lights on, and I have not had any issues using this method, in fact, I do not want to leave my plants wet when the lights go off, (which is what is recommended by your products). I use your products almost exclusively, and I would be willing to try Wet Betty if I can be convinced it can do at least as good a job.
My questions are as follows:
1. What is the difference between an ionic surfactant and a non ionic surfactant.
2. Honestly, can your product equal or better DM’s penetrator/penetrator golds ability to deliver nutrients to the plant through foliar feeding? Are there any studies to show your product is effective?
3. I have also noticed that DM has a foliar spray for flowering which contains P/K, while your Bud blaster contains only nitrogen, which seems confusing as a flowering enhancer. Perhaps you could explain, I’d really like to understand how adding nitrogen through foliar feeding will increase flower size/potency/aroma. There are many other companys which have foliar formulas for flowering, and they are all different. I hate to say this but I like GH’s floralicious plus as it has kelp, humic acid as well as many other nutes.
4. Not to get off topic, but DM has another product called liquid light. I have not used this product, but I could see this as a product which might work well with the LED light setup. I know this isn’t your product, and you have nothing whichs claims to do the things which this product does, but what are your thoughts about such a product?
Ron said
am July 6 2009 @ 6:50 pm
Erik,
I just watched Big Mikes post on phosphorus, so that seems to answer Q3 of my recent post.
Thanks for bringing the truth to the common grower.
Ron
Carlos Gacia~Garcia said
am January 28 2010 @ 3:26 pm
Hey love your info and speeches, way cool and wise! may I ask what the outcome was on the plant? I am currently growing with the same light features and am trying to compare harvest.
Thanks, please keep up the great work!
Carlos
Mylar said
am February 16 2010 @ 10:06 am
I’m still unconviced by LED’s for good harvests….Nice Video though.
oldhippy said
am February 23 2010 @ 2:07 pm
I understand the reluctance of people to accept Led Grow lights, the early ones did not work well, the new products have the right frequencies and ratios to produce nearly as well as HID at one third the energy, this is with two 159W units per 4X8 table, if y9u want to outperform use three per table.
Graphs are available to show absorption and production of the newest lighting at http://www.led4growth.com
Thanks for being open-minded!
OldHippy
Randy said
am February 26 2010 @ 12:51 pm
Does anybody have any info on how to start clones off in Oasis or Agrifoam? New product called Steady gro out now - would like to know if anyone has tried their growing system…Foam has always worked well, just wanted to know if the Yellow steady Gro foam is better than the brown???
John Sinclair said
am March 12 2010 @ 2:02 pm
Great to see the leds in the tent. I purchased the GrowPanelPro from Sunshine Systems over 9 months ago and all I can say to the haters is…keep hatin…..The Pro is an amazing light. Started all my clones (12 Sour Diesel) and finished them under the Pro. Beautiful yields and excellent growth thru veg and flower. I have noticed this one revelation. Flowering times have been determined using HPS as the light factor. Flowering time with the Pro is a few weeks longer and well worth the wait.
Fuard said
am June 10 2010 @ 12:12 pm
Yo!
Hey John….same here on the Pro from Sunshine Systems. I currently run 5 Pro’s in a 14×6 and I have amazing results as well. I love when people bash leds and have never used them….lol.
My last grow of Lemon Haze turned out amazing. Growth and flowering was steady throughout and ended up with close to 70 grams per plant (finishing at 3.5 feet) The grow before that was LA Confidential and Blue Moonshine…..again…..stellar results. Like John said…..there may be additional time to reach the “Holy HPS Results” but the end results are tighter flowers with incredible potency. I have had super fast flowering times when running any ‘purps” or “blueberry” strains.
Currently Im growing 60 Lowryder x Bubblegum and cant wait to see the end results. Last Lowryder grow I did I was able to get 34 grams per plant….not bad for a finish height of 18 to 22 inches….:)
Sunshine Systems staff is very down to earth and extremely helpful with any calls I send their way and they KNOW lighting.
If you want a trouble free, heat free, police free grow with beautiful results…..