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doxiedaddy69

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hi everyone, I have a question about leds. I have a Beautiful gorilla glue #1 and it has been under a mars hydro 300 watt led with lst training, she is by far the most beautiful plant I have had! Today I will receive my 1000 watt led. This is my question, she has been under the 300 w since seed and vegetative growth, I want to put her under my 1000 watt light for flowering! She will be inside a 2x4x5 ft grow tent with carbon filter, fans etc. do you think it will help with yields or cause other issues? Any thoughts will help! Thanks
 
Hey guys, I am starting out seeds and they are stretching way too quick, I have the 300 w led on right now and I am about to add the 1000 watt led tonight. I CANNOT remember what the heights should be for seedlings? Thank you in advance
 
If I was you ,I'd use cfls the first week or two. It's alot safer, until you know the right height for your led.
Never used my leds on seedlings before, seedlings don't need much light to begin with.
That 300watt will be close to 20-24inches, if they still stretch, lower it a couple of inches an keep an eye on your plants.
And GoodLuck
 
Welcome, doxie.
Your Mars is approx. 150w of actual power consumption. If you're using a similar style '1000w' fixture, it may only use 250-350 watts. That being said, you will need to add a little height initially to allow your plants to acclimate to the added light levels. I have an old King '1200w' fixture that runs 300w that I hacked with some better light strips. It absolutely will crush a closet grow-did a nice auto over the winter that yielded almost 6oz.
 
Hi gbauto, I remember someone mentioning that to me before. My first grow was gorilla glue #2 with the 300watt led and I ended up with 4oz cured. For my second grow with 3?clones taken at day 28 of flowering I used the 300watt led until flower, then switched to the 1000 watt led for remainder. And ended up with 7.5oz cured! I figured for this time around I would use both together and shoot for the stars! I also wanna STRESS that none of this would have been possible, if not for the group here! Everyone is always helpful and Amazing!
 
Am in process of considering the KING LED 1200 w for my four by four by seven tent, possibly even use it in grow room when set up, do ya think four of em wou,d be good for a 12 feet long by 8 feet wide with a 8 foot ceiling ? It’s them or going higher with their 2k lamps.
 
NAKEDGARDENER have you looked into quantum boards? If you can find them, usually out of stock, the are really efficient and put out a ton of light. They are not hard to hook up and are well worth it in my opinion, if you are looking for leds. Unless you feel like building something?
 
NAKEDGARDENER if you can, find the newer v2 ones with the lm301b diodes. The older lm561c diodes are fine but they just came out with these v2's recently. Leds are going to be like computers were 10-20 years ago. Buy something that is the latest and greatest and its obsolete buy the time you unwrap it 😄
 
Hey everybody, I have a question about my seedlings, the height of my leds were talked about earlier and what ended up happening was 3 seedlings started to stretch towards light, but thanks to you guys they quickly were corrected and look amazing now! After moving light I had a seedling pop up, and it looks nothing like the others? It stayed extra close to soil and grew short and bushy? I believe that is a good thing?
 

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Glad this is improving for you. I used LED for my hydro seedlings and it was a mistake. They stretched....And when they were more suited to this 1000w LED despite being 46” away from the tops, they were still getting burned... seemed like the LED was not able to be used until they started to fill out properly. They still have greater spacing between nodes which from a side view, makes them look more spindley then my soil plants, about 3 weeks older
 

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Ya you want a 1000 watts or more. I use LED, I tried a 300 then went to a 600. Now I use a 1000 watts,,, so far better
 
I think you have a great start here. They look quite vigorous and squat. My bigger thought , as I have had happen to me, when they get wider and wider and wider .... mine got so bushy that had I used a tent, they’d be pressed up against each other so much along with all of the tent walls that I could visualize broken branches from trying to access them or leaves caught in zippers. Also, I try to rotate them 90 degrees every day or so and in my 10x10 area, this is not easily accomplished. Maybe just think about that possibility for a moment so you are ready to address that in the event....you do have a bunch of beauties there
 
I honestly did consider about them being squished together, my plan was for 6, but the 7th seed that popped turned into such a beauty, the little one front row left! I’m hoping I have room? But I am definitely considering everything you said! Thank you very much!
 
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