500 Watt Blackstar LED Grow- 6 OG Kush

Danjo, whatever light you get, I would get two. For your 4 plants in 5 gallon smart pots you will be all good with 2 240 watt blackstars. Since there are a lot of journals on the 240w Blackstar, Gotham wanted a journal for the 500w Blackstars, so that is why I got it.

r u on a 8 week flower cycle?

Yup Mongo, I am aiming for an 8 week cycle, because Ill be out of town after Day 60. Because of you I got another 500W blackstar! I was thinking about those 5 feet trees you were telling me about

sleezy1 said:

Yup Mongo, I am aiming for an 8 week cycle, because Ill be out of town after Day 60. Because of you I got another 500W blackstar! I was thinking about those 5 feet trees you were telling me about

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sorry, i hope your not mad at me. have u used H&G before?

a mongo frog said:

sorry, i hope your not mad at me. have u used H&G before?

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Mad? No I just wanted to be prepared for MONSTAS! No first time using HOUSE AND GARDEN, I love it! So easy to use and great results

I appreciate it sleezy can you post a picture of the way the lights are positioned once the other 500 comes in and also maybe give a little explanation of what it is that convinced you that you were not getting good penetration and maybe a little feedback on how the second light is treating you and possibly adding in a couple more plants next grow? i'm just a little worried about spending 1000$ on two lights and having to wait a few months to make the money back and also how well would you say these lights are assembled does the affordable price come with a lower quality build or is it just a 100% dream come true ?

dapio said:

I appreciate it sleezy can you post a picture of the way the lights are positioned once the other 500 comes in and also maybe give a little explanation of what it is that convinced you that you were not getting good penetration and maybe a little feedback on how the second light is treating you and possibly adding in a couple more plants next grow? i'm just a little worried about spending 1000$ on two lights and having to wait a few months to make the money back and also how well would you say these lights are assembled does the affordable price come with a lower quality build or is it just a 100% dream come true ?

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Danjo, nothing really convinced me that I was not getting good penetration. The 500w Blackstar would have done fine flowering all 6 plants. It is my nature just to be paranoid and a perfectionist, and I tend to do an overkill a lot of the time. Im the guy who goes hunting with 100 rounds (when I need 5) a .44 magnum desert eagle (when that is not necessary). I like to make sure things get done right! lol I talked to VIctor, and asked him if his company would be interested in sponsoring me, showed them my grow journals and they agreed to partially sponsor me with my next light. We discussed things in great length and since I am preparing for 5 feet tall monsters, I decided to add a second light just in case. Originally, I was getting a 240w blackstar, and that would have already been an overkill. But after talking to Victor, we agreed that there are many examples of 2 240w Blackstars grow journals, that a 2 x 500w Blackstar journal would be needed. So I volunteered and thats how that came to be. We are in the process of talking things over where maybe their tech guy will give me a link that you can all click on and get discounts, free shipping, etc. We are working out the details. I am a consumer like you and was skeptical of the LED technology, so i took the plunge and dished out the money to see if the lights work. I am not altering my journal with any supplemental lights and I am just posting my LED experience. I don't know what will happen in the future with flowering with these lights, if I am using too much lighting, etc. So this is a trial and error journal pioneering a grow with these new lights. I am happy with the lights. THey are well built, not cheaply made, high quality lights. I will document the position of the lights, etc. once I receive it. A lot of growers are now seeing that the misconceptions that LED lights can't grow nice buds are untrue, and the Light House Hydro lights are proving to be well affordable, well built, and can produce nice looking buds.

Oh I am planning to get a bigger grow tent and add more plants my next grow.

Flower Day 1:

The Big Day has come! I left the plants in 24 hours of darkness before I triggered my 12/12 light cycle. Lights on at 10:00am-lights off 10:00pm. During the dark period the plants grew. 1 plant is 21 inches, 4 plants are now 20 inches, and the smallest is now at 14 inches tall and making fast progress. They also seemed to bush out a little more during the dark period.

Its official...there flowering! hehe

That tent is gonna be bright with that second 500. It should really make a differnce. Cant wait to see some flowers.
Shouldent have to worry bout them stretching next time either with that much light. Its looking good sleezy1.

Thanks Tricks! I found out that this strain of OG is really stretchy by nature, so it might not have been the light. Just maybe more sativa in the strain. I need to goto Home Depot after my new tent gets here and start staking my plants for support.

I personally think there a pain (tomato cages), but i seen what they can do in the right hands!
Stakes is what i prefer to use, old skewl.

Ya I just got back from home depot.. All the tomato cages are way too big even for my 4x4 tent. I'm just going to stake em when my new tent comes next week. I'm going old school too!

a dyna gro silicate also works for that strain. its like 12 bucks.

sleezy1 said:

Ya I just got back from home depot.. All the tomato cages are way too big even for my 4x4 tent. I'm just going to stake em when my new tent comes next week. I'm going old school too!

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I stake em as they need it. I try to keep things simple. In metric your tent is 1.2m by 1.2m, wich is the standard size here. Some useless info. hehe

Flower Day 2: Most of the plants are in the 22 to 20 inch range now. The one runt is catching up at 15 inches now. Bushing up and looking green and healthy.

Looking good!

metalmulisha said:

Sleezy1,

I'm testing out leds for the first time since their furnished from my buddy. Based on penatration I feel scrogs are the way to go but I'm doing two seperate grows, scrog and regular. Just like with growing with an HPS I generally cut everything not getting good light penatration. So I'll just apply that to growing with LEDS. The regular grow is with a 400 watt fixture and scrog is 120. I'll be following this grow. What was the yield from your 300 watt grow? I'll be pretty straight up only counting solid nuggs which shows what these fixtures produce. Anyways, here's my grow with both the 120 and 400.

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/427067-new-led-fixture-grow-journal.html#post5631950

Hopefully we can compare notes and get better yields. Take care

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I like your attitude, I'm doing a 550W grow with 20x autos now........https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/434813-550w-led-vs-20x-green.html

Any comments are welcome.

how big is the 500 watter? ...whats the brightest area of coverage at 15"?

Kilbot said:

how big is the 500 watter? ...whats the brightest area of coverage at 15"?

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Hey Kilbot, it is 18 inches x 11 inches. Recommend distance to canopy is 10" to 14" and it covers 12 sqft.