Summary – I'm trying out the California Lightworks SolarStorm 400W to grow medicinal Marijuana. The equipment I'm using besides the 400W SolarStorm: Grow Tent – GrowLab GL120 4'x4'x6' Inline Fan – Vortex Powerfans 6" 452CFM Filter – Phat 6" 450CFM
Planting: Blue Dream, Opium, & Chocolope Kush
Germination – Germinated seeds using papertowel method in a plastic bag.
Nutrients – FoxFarm Nutrient Trio Formula (Grow Big, Tiger Bloom, Big Bloom), Advanced Nutrients VooDoo Juice Root Booster & Sensizym
Watering cycle - Fox Farm Soil Feed Schedule for FoxFarm products & every 3 weeks for VooDoo Juice Root Booster & Sensizym
Grow Log So Far: 10/20/13 Germinated 3 seeds 10/26/13 Opium seed sprouts, put under Solarstrorm light at 30" distance 10/28/13 Chocolope Kush & Blue Dream seeds have sprouted and placed under light 30" 10/28/13 Opium breaks surface of soil 10/30/13 Blue Dream breaks surface of soil 10/30/13 Lowered light to 25" 11/03/13 Removed Chocolope Kush from tent as it doesn't look like it's going to grow 11/03/13 Starting watering cycle now - Week 01 w/ VooDoo & Sensizym
The SS400w is too small to cover the whole tent but I assume that you're not going to the the whole tent for flowering.
How long/tall do you plan to veg before flipping to 12/12?
SME
Disclaimer: I still use HID and I'm NOT an LED expert. All of my LED knowledge is from other parties or research so I can't say from first hand experience one way or another. I also run a medical grow consulting business in SoCal.
1) You only have 6' headroom and cannabis will double, triple (or more) in height from start of 12/12 to harvest. 2) LED lights don't penetrate well so 2' maybe 3' (3 is pushing it) foot is where you want to finish not flip.
I'd flip them at 1 foot tall (or less), personally.
Disclaimer: I still use HID and I'm NOT an LED expert. All of my LED knowledge is from other parties or research so I can't say from first hand experience one way or another. I also run a medical grow consulting business in SoCal.
11/10/13 Beginning week 2 - add Fox Farm Grow Big 11/10/13 Opium 3.5", Blue Dream 3" tall
You're right, I should probably flip to Bloom just over 1 foot. FoxFarm's schedule is flip to Bloom starting week 5. So I'll probably see where they are around then.
11/26/13 Replanted both the Opium and Blue Dream into larger pots 12/01/13 Opium 13", Blue Dream 10" tall 12/01/13 FoxFarm watering schedule for week 5 12/01/13 Switching light from grow to bloom and changing ligt schedule to 12/12
Last edited by WestCoastGrower on Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:50 am, edited 1 time in total.
looks great, I've heard great things about blue dream, One thing I did to help with penetration, I tossed two 4' t5's along with 2 2' t5's for extra light. I use a mixture of 2700k, 3400k bulbs for flower, and 6400k 6200k in veg. seems to help, also great in case your light fails or that breaker pops. I have them on a different timer and breaker, they come on 15 min earlier to wake up the little ones, so it doesn't go from pitch black to 400 or how ever many watts of power you are using in an instance.
I've heard good things about BD too, let's see how this one goes.
Disclaimer: I still use HID and I'm NOT an LED expert. All of my LED knowledge is from other parties or research so I can't say from first hand experience one way or another. I also run a medical grow consulting business in SoCal.