The First LED Grow Box

HollywoodRpi69

HollywoodRpi69

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Al B. Fuct said:
heh, yeah, me too. I want to see how little you can grow for $1100, too. :lol:
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Hey Go easy,

First of all I have about 1,000 people living within 500 ft of my location, No smell what so ever is required, Second I'm in a City where average cost of weed is $60 for 3 grams :weed: Thats alot so I cut my consumption in half for ten weeks to make it. Shit adds up 1/3 is mostly shipping

Wood Armouir $200.00 E bay
1 sheet 3/4" A/A Birch Plywood Delivered $65
1 50 watt Led {3 red 1 Blue}, 138 leds / Panel $125 Ebay
4 15 watt Led (3 red to 1 Blue) 220 leds / Panel $88.00 Ebay
2 15 watt all blue 220 leds/ panel $75.00 Ebay
(All from ledwholesalers.com)
5 Dayton 105 cfm fans $122.00 Grainger
1 Carbon air scrubber $50.00 Ebay
1 Co2 Regulator with digital time relaese and hose $135.00 Ebay
4 Hydro plant trays 4 gal ea; 10 spot for cloning, 2 8 spots for vegging and a 6 spot for Mothers, all with air stones etc $140 Ebay
3 digital timers multi function random capable etc etc. $22.00 Ebay
Harberfreighttools.com
6 6 outlet plug strips $16.00 Ebay
Seeds 18 total, Nirvana $90.00 Started them today White widow and Northern lights starting a journal for that
Hydro hut 16 gal Hydroponic tub with 16 pots, lava rocks and pump, along with Nut. Meter, timers and a bunch of stuff I won't use $300.00 on Ebay I cleaned a friends basement for it and a half once:bigjoint: too boot
Mylar Ebay $30.00 I got mine from Stoner friend
Various tools and Hardware $200.00 home depot
Champane yeast for back up Co2 $25.00 Ebay (homebrewer site)
AeroGardenPro $110.00 Ebay
Aero Garden nut.'s for nirvana seeds $45.00 Ebay
Other Nut.'s $80.00 Ebay
Horticulture meter $11.00 Ebay
Not Spending a third of my Pay Check on Pot

Fucking Priceless:finger:
 
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Phinxter

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so thats what a 10 cents a lumen ? thank god i didnt pay 10 cents a lumen for my 1000watt HPS or it woulda cost me 14,000 dolars .... shhhhew thats not very economical
 
Al B. Fuct

Al B. Fuct

once had a dog named
HollywoodRpi69 said:
Hey Go easy,

First of all I have about 1,000 people living within 500 ft of my location, No smell what so ever is required,
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Welp, far as I know, LEDs & HPS don't actually smell much different in normal operation. I could be wrong, call me crazy... :lol:

Turf out the LEDs, go get a 250 or 400HPS and you might be on to something. HTG has 400HPS kits with lamp tube, ballast & ref for $119.
 
Zhu

Zhu

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60$ for a 8th of nugs.... is cheap, around where I live 8th of nugs is 80-90 here mids are 60-70 and shwag is 100 a zip
 
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Phinxter

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wow LED and an aerogarden ... man oh man you are in for a great grow ... make sure you use lots of molasses in that aerogarden . i hear it will make all kinds of stuff grow and thats what you want right ?? stuff to grow!! and besides that the bacteria farm might be all you harvest ... and double up on that yeast
 
HollywoodRpi69

HollywoodRpi69

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I sell lights for a living Your right led is new, but they only use 1/3 the electricity, no heat 1/2 less water consumption, and only take up 1" of room. And 100% of the energy used is aburbed by the plant. 10% is about what is used by the plant with your hp5 So you are using 400 watts to get 40 watts worth of effect and a tracable amount of heat I will use for the enitre day the energy your 1000w wastes in heat and non-useable light in 1 hour, An Hp5 which must be cooled aswell. your CFL's are loaded with Mercury:dunce: better hope one doesn't break, hope you recycle. Leds last 100,000 hours what are you getting 600 hours tops. I sell photo lights for a living believe me when I tell you Led is the next generation of lights. Besides this is the experiment to see just how good they are:idea: The Cabenit is already changing anyway there is a new shelf more pics soon
 
Zhu

Zhu

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HollywoodRpi69 said:
I sell lights for a living Your right led is new, but they only use 1/3 the electricity, no heat 1/2 less water consumption, and only take up 1" of room. And 100% of the energy used is aburbed by the plant 10% is about what is used by the plant So you are using 400 watts to get 40 watts worth of effect and a tracable amount of heat which must be cooled aswell. I sell photo lights for a living believe me when I tell you Led is the next generation of lights. Besides this is the experiment to see just how good they are:idea: The Cabenit is already changing anyway there is a new shelf more pics soon
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since you know about lights I think you should know that your cooking with less lumens than 5 15w cfls. Your better off standing over the plants with a family dollar spotlight. The only way you would get anywhere is if you put 50 thousand leds in there and a bible to pray it will grow.
 
HollywoodRpi69

HollywoodRpi69

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Al B. Fuct said:
Welp, far as I know, LEDs & HPS don't actually smell much different in normal operation. I could be wrong, call me crazy... :lol:

Turf out the LEDs, go get a 250 or 400HPS and you might be on to something. HTG has 400HPS kits with lamp tube, ballast & ref for $119.
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Lights Don't Smell Asshole:-P Pot Does Thanks for playing
 
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Phinxter

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this actually will be great if you do actually put plants in under those LEDs it will be the very first time someone has had an LED grow op that stuck around long enough to post pictures from a harvest. and thats no lie i aint seen 1 single pic from an LED grow so please please please get some plants under that thing as soon as you can and get some weekly pics posted so we can finally put this horse to rest
 
HollywoodRpi69

HollywoodRpi69

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Zhu said:
since you know about lights I think you should know that your cooking with less lumens than 5 15w cfls. Your better off standing over the plants with a family dollar spotlight. The only way you would get anywhere is if you put 50 thousand leds in there and a bible to pray it will grow.
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These 225 panels have no ballasts to burn out like other plant lights. It does not run hot, just warm. You will not experience unsightly brown burned leaves when they accidentally touch the LEDs. This is common with most other lights that get very hot. This more controlled running temperature reduces the need to water so often and keeps rooms with plants from getting uncomfortably hot in the summer months requiring additional air conditioning. Extreme energy efficiency permits this new LED panel to pay for itself many times over each year in electricity savings. It saves 50% to 90% in energy consumptioncompared to incandescent bulbs or fluorescent tubes. Wide angle projection insures uniform leaf coverage. Scientifically calculated even blending of red and blue LEDs eliminates the time consuming task of repositioning separate colored lights back and forth trying to achieve uniform exposure. 14 to 16 hours per day is all that is necessary for maximum plant health with this wave blended lighting system. This allows distances 6" and less between the LEDs and the plants accelerating photosynthesis. Red and blue wavelengths are for growing and flowering of plants.The typical white plant lights that are very hot is unnecessary and just consume excessive electricity. The purity of the LED generated light lengthens flowering periods. These LEDs turn on instantly and can be turned on by hand each day or work well with all standard lamp timers.The design of this new all in one Full Spectrum plant lighting panel allows maximum level photosynthesis food production, growth and flowering all in one. It is the new Full Spectrum system providing maximum plant health, beauty and productivity.These LED light panels are perfect as an all year plant light for permanent plant benches and especially productive for spring vegetable and flower seedling development.<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">:fire:
 
fitzyno1

fitzyno1

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HollywoodRpi69 said:
I sell lights for a living Your right led is new, but they only use 1/3 the electricity, no heat 1/2 less water consumption, and only take up 1" of room. And 100% of the energy used is aburbed by the plant. 10% is about what is used by the plant with your hp5 So you are using 400 watts to get 40 watts worth of effect and a tracable amount of heat I will use for the enitre day the energy your 1000w wastes in heat and non-useable light in 1 hour, An Hp5 which must be cooled aswell. your CFL's are loaded with Mercury:dunce: better hope one doesn't break, hope you recycle. Leds last 100,000 hours what are you getting 600 hours tops. I sell photo lights for a living believe me when I tell you Led is the next generation of lights. Besides this is the experiment to see just how good they are:idea: The Cabenit is already changing anyway there is a new shelf more pics soon
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If you sell lights for a living, you're not making yourself out to be a good salesman.
 
Zhu

Zhu

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did not say they smell and I was not trying to be a asshole I am just saying you can do much more bang for your buck.I am sorry if I came off that way but you won't listen to anyone who tells you leds are garbage at this point. Maybe in 10 years they will be good but not now its just too soon. I have seen photos of many tests and I have seen alot of talk about them and out of all the ones who claimed success there has been no decent proof and the ones who actually took the time to document the truth have only had results on very very very small fan plants. I also have tried leds myself. I owned a ufo which I ended up selling on ebay to some sucker because a beaner I left in a 5 gallon bucket of aquarium rocks was out performing the plant I had under it.
I know your probally thinking that you will be successfull and prove us all wrong but the odds are stacked against you. Not due to yourself, you seem very ambitious and willing to try things out that seem impossible but due to technology itself. I hope you listen and try to see some sense in what you are trying to acompolish because it is just not going to happen.
 
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Phinxter

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pictures .... crack some beans and get some green plant material under them so we can get this show on the road
 
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Inebriation

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Honestly, I think the LED thing would work fine. I think one guy, when they had just came out, had a bad experience. Not only that, people don't like it when they don't see INSTANT results and scrap them. Now 90% of people are biased towards not using them because of said person. They cost a massive bit; yeah, but, how many of ya have actually tried a proper LED grow? (And if you find that it works, wouldn't you be happy with the much reduced utility bills, in which case the LED's would pay themselves off quickly?)

I haven't used them either, so I'm kinda going on about nothing. No one seems to be showing interest in the project itself... y'all just wanna flame LED's it looks like, lol.

My point though, is, if there isn't proof of them being junk, except for some less-than-crafty journals where they seemed to be set up all wrong(poor reflectivity, wrong mediums/substrate, off temp's, which would make any thing grow less than exceptionally), why hate?

My 2cents, or what ever that saying is. :peace:
 
HollywoodRpi69

HollywoodRpi69

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Zhu said:
did not say they smell and I was not trying to be a asshole I am just saying you can do much more bang for your buck.I am sorry if I came off that way but you won't listen to anyone who tells you leds are garbage at this point. Maybe in 10 years they will be good but not now its just too soon. I have seen photos of many tests and I have seen alot of talk about them and out of all the ones who claimed success there has been no decent proof and the ones who actually took the time to document the truth have only had results on very very very small fan plants. I also have tried leds myself. I owned a ufo which I ended up selling on ebay to some sucker because a beaner I left in a 5 gallon bucket of aquarium rocks was out performing the plant I had under it.
I know your probally thinking that you will be successfull and prove us all wrong but the odds are stacked against you. Not due to yourself, you seem very ambitious and willing to try things out that seem impossible but due to technology itself. I hope you listen and try to see some sense in what you are trying to acompolish because it is just not going to happen.
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Hey Bro That Coment Was for Al B Fucked No Worries I like cfls I sell them all day long just not what we use them for. This will be up dated almost daily, got to push the edge isn't that what brought about hydroponics in the first place This will be fun but no worries critisium is always welcome:bigjoint:
 
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