Pro Grow LED Run #1, Super Cali Haze, Onyx, Blackbriar, and Blue Diesel

Yeah I'm sure you won't be in the lighting market for a while. Never used them but had some ebay bids in on a couple of haight lights when I was shopping around. They seem pretty legit.

Yup, from now on my goal is to spend less than $5 a plant from seed to harvest (not counting electric cost). I've got enough nutes to last for years, don't need any more pots, and I just use a peat moss/perlite mix so it's pretty cheap. How much is your elec bill for the grow each month?

about ten bucks, maybe twelve. I was running close to $30 a month with my old set up which makes sense as I dropped from over 1200w down to less than 600. I took a video of my grow room but can't upload it and don't want to put it on the you tube for god and everyone to see. I'll take some pics later, the caramel blowing up big time.

That caramel is probably in my all time top 5 of the biggest and healthiest autos I've grown, a little light bleaching but that's about it. I'm really happy with the trimming method I'm using on autos and would really rec it if you want to max out your yield with a super bushy plant.

Sometimes it does backfire - if you look at the smallest plant (bella afrodita) it top is being overgrown by the branches I think I trimmed too early. The other three are gonna be fat bottomed girls.

I'm also not missing my side lighting like I really thought I would.

That's awesome! What's your price per kwh? My 90w alone is $8 a month on 18/6. I really the structure of that caramel, even your smallest doesn't look bad by any means.

hoss you gotta label those pics or at least tell me whats what i'm a newb and sometimes i'm not sure what i'm looking at other than some beautiful plants and proof that i must grow the caramel sometime! sweet seeds cream caramel right? have you only grow the auto or have you done the photo period version too?

Yeah it would make it easier to read. I'll label next time. The Sweet Caramel is from Sweet Seeds and I think they make it in a photoperiod as well, not sure I don't really shop for photo strains.

On the price per kw I'm not entirely sure but I live in the smack dab middle of nowhere. I noticed our power bills decreased significantly once we moved away from city and out to the sticks. The figures I gave earlier were kinda eye balled by going back on my online bill history and checking the difference between months this year with led vs last year running hps/cfl.

5 gallon smart pots ? thats a heck of alot of medium for auto's ime

you reusing your medium ? if not you should ... i reuse coco 4 times , 3 indoors an last outside with veggies

use drain unclogger instead of cannazym to break down the roots same shit 1/10 the price

whatever you want ... leogets. Nice handle man. Thanks for the input. I've gotta say though, the 5 gallons have let the roots grow out larger and by comparison my autos are larger with this pot size compared the the 3 gallon. I'm probably going to stick with them.

I don't reuse my medium for my mj but it is recycled in my compost station along with whatever bananas, old lettuce, apple cores, ect that we toss in there. The compost is then reused to grow some bad ass big boy tomatoes & other fresh fruits and veggies in my outdoor garden straight from seed every summer.

I prefer to use new medium on every plant every time when it comes to my mj plants. Tomatoes are cheap compared to high dollar indoor mj. I'd rather re-use and recycle for my peppers, tomatoes, green beans and all the other great homegrown my wife and I plant outside every year.

Concerning the electricity consumption I should have mentioned there are plenty of times (first two and last two weeks of the grow, and when I go out of town so I don't have to water as much) that I'm only running half the diodes on my lights. I only run the veg set the first two flower only the last two weeks and like now when I'm about to go camping for two days I will leave just the flower on. So basically on the early 2011 model 180s I'm only running 65w of total power, on the PG 250 which as a lot more flowering diodes 100w of power, on the new model 180 about 77w total so that helps keep the bills down too.

hoss12781 said:

Concerning the electricity consumption I should have mentioned there are plenty of times (first two and last two weeks of the grow, and when I go out of town so I don't have to water as much) that I'm only running half the diodes on my lights. I only run the veg set the first two flower only the last two weeks and like now when I'm about to go camping for two days I will leave just the flower on. So basically on the early 2011 model 180s I'm only running 65w of total power, on the PG 250 which as a lot more flowering diodes 100w of power, on the new model 180 about 77w total so that helps keep the bills down too.

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Hmm, wonder if more companies will start adding that option in the future? Seems like it could be a nice way to save some extra money on electric in bigger grows. I got my tent setup today and I was not expecting it to be this big inside. The thing is freaking huge! Once the light gets here I'm gonna get a new grow started, between 4-6 autos.

what kind of tent did you get and how much did you pay. I'm shoppin right now.

I got the Secret Jardin DR120 II off greners.com. It's expensive compared to some of the others I was looking at but from what I've seen people are happy with it and it's made of a thicker material than most so it should last a while. I anticipate that I'll be using it for several years to grow one thing or another so the cost is worth it to me. Only thing I may change is putting foil tape over one of the side zippers that is against a wall. I'm not going to use it and there's no flap over them so a little light could potentially get through where the two zipper heads meet. I'm very impressed with it otherwise, even came with a nice heavy duty carry bag to make it easy to pack up and move. Price before shipping was $207.95.

was eyeballing this one but it seems tgtbt.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/330545611023?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

May just go ahead and spend more on a brand name instead of chancing being really pissed with a no name.

Yeah I don't particularly trust that, the company also sells cat supplies and battery chargers. The only other grow item they offer is a ripoff led light. A cheaper tent that seems really good is the line of them offered by gotham hydro. Only issue I had with them was the vertical space, I couldn't fit one 7' tall in the basement. Wejuana uses them for his comparison grow, they look pretty nice and are only $130.

gotcha, would rather pay an extra $50 and get something from Gotham even if it is a "cheaper" it still is a brand name that has a live person on the other end when you try to get in touch for cust serv.

I wasn't trying to say anything bad about gotham, a friend of mine uses a blackstar and loves it. I was just pointing out that it's under $150 for a nicer one haha.

more of my personal opinion, I'm not here to hate but just read some things about them not using finned heat sinks on 2009/2010 models. I'm sure they work great as well and have seen some kick ass blackstar journals on this site.

I jokingly called them the 'walmart' of leds and had a gang of blackstar users jump down my throat about 3 months back.

Did some research while I was "working" today and will most likely have a gotham tent under the xmas tree.

I heard good things about the lighthouse tents from Gotham, you guys know if they are quality or not? Other than that comparison grow which is more about the lights I havent heard much

I'll look for some more growers using them so you can get some first person responses about them. They look to be good quality to me though.