My first LED grow with 2 x 240 watt Blackstars

Endur0xX

Endur0xX

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thats not good to hear, did you have the blackstar 240 2012? or the previous version? My plant is doing well under it at the moment...
 
Bad Karma

Bad Karma

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It looks like you had 2 240W Blackstars covering a 4x4 tent, is that right?
That would only be a total of 270W overall (each Blackstar only pulls about 135W) over a 16 square foot area.
That would probably be enough watts to veg with, but not enough to properly flower with.
2 500W Blackstars could properly flower that area, or buy 1 500W'er for one side and move both of your 240W'ers to the same side.
Good luck.
 
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Lucius Vorenus

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Bad Karma said:
It looks like you had 2 240W Blackstars covering a 4x4 tent, is that right?
That would only be a total of 270W overall (each Blackstar only pulls about 135W) over a 16 square foot area.
That would probably be enough watts to veg with, but not enough to properly flower with.
2 500W Blackstars could properly flower that area, or buy 1 500W'er for one side and move both of your 240W'ers to the same side.
Good luck.
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It was an experiement to find out how much $$ would need to be spent on LED lights currently to properly Flower 12 plants. The dollar amount was close to $4000 so we decided to move on and moved the LEDs into our Veg room. We will being doing our new experiement using Aquarium Bulbs in Badboy T5 fixtures and a custom PAR spectrum.
 
Psytranceorgy

Psytranceorgy

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Lucius Vorenus said:
It was an experiement to find out how much $$ would need to be spent on LED lights currently to properly Flower 12 plants. The dollar amount was close to $4000 so we decided to move on and moved the LEDs into our Veg room. We will being doing our new experiement using Aquarium Bulbs in Badboy T5 fixtures and a custom PAR spectrum.
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I'm just summarizing what I understand:

You had disappointing results (which you never shared with us in your thread... do you have any pics?) with 2 blackstar 240w LED panels placed too far a distance over 3 plants which suffered from spider mite infestation during the grow (not clear if you ended up flowering/yielding from all 3 plants?)...

How exactly did that experience lead you to compute that you would need $4000.00 of LED to grow 12 plants satisfactorily?

On another note:

I am very interested in your upcoming PAR T5 grow... Are you going to start a thread? I would like to follow it... Thanks!
 
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Lucius Vorenus

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Psytranceorgy said:
I'm just summarizing what I understand:

You had disappointing results (which you never shared with us in your thread... do you have any pics?) with 2 blackstar 240w LED panels placed too far a distance over 3 plants which suffered from spider mite infestation during the grow (not clear if you ended up flowering/yielding from all 3 plants?)...
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Yes. ok. and Thanks.
 
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