lighting Growing under 120w Led growing lights

[Chilidude]

Here is my first led grown chili for this year, i am so gonna enjoy eating this one.

 

[Chilidude]

Here is my first plastic greenhouse and when the weather permits, i will move all my chilis inside the greenhouse. Few chilis have already survived three cold nights in there, protected by a small greenhouse.

 

[Chilidude]

Here is a update. My greenhouse is now full of chili plants:
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Jalapeno and Black hungarian cross from last years seeds.

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Habanero is starting to produce pods.

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Golden cayenne Changed color in a few days.


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Krakatoa F1 hybrid is starting to ripe its pods.


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Lemon drop is producing ripe pods now.
 

 

[millworkman]

Nice work!  The plants are looking a little yellow though, is that just my eyes against the green of the greenhouse?

 

[Chilidude]

Nice work!  The plants are looking a little yellow though, is that just my eyes against the green of the greenhouse?

 
Yes. Few of the plants are a little yellow. I think they got a little too much water and maybe also too much fertilizer, when they where under the led lights.

 

[SichuaneseFoodFan]

Chilidude - where did you get the Krakatoa seeds?  I've only seen seeds for sale of the narrow variety.  The conical variety seems to be for sale in the UK as a seedling/plant only, and I live in the U.S.
 
Nice log, thanks for posting it.  I also grow under LEDs.

 

[Chilidude]

Chilidude - where did you get the Krakatoa seeds?  I've only seen seeds for sale of the narrow variety.  The conical variety seems to be for sale in the UK as a seedling/plant only, and I live in the U.S.
 
Nice log, thanks for posting it.  I also grow under LEDs.

 
I ordered them from a Finnish website and i found this chili seed seller that will ship outside Europe, why dont you order from them: http://www.pepperseeds.eu/krakatoa-f1.html
 

 

 

[SichuaneseFoodFan]

Thanks, but those are the narrow variety - I'm looking for the conical ones you are growing.

 

[Chilidude]

Thanks, but those are the narrow variety - I'm looking for the conical ones you are growing.

 
Here is the package i got: http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetables/vegetable-seeds/pepper-sweet-and-chilli-seeds/chilli-pepper-krakatoa-f1-hybrid/gwk4816TM

 

[Chilidude]

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[SichuaneseFoodFan]

Here is the package i got: http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetables/vegetable-seeds/pepper-sweet-and-chilli-seeds/chilli-pepper-krakatoa-f1-hybrid/gwk4816TM

Interesting, those look like the narrow variety. I'll check them out, thanks.

 

[Chilidude]

The reason my plants looked a bit yellow and they we not growing as they should, was that they needed more fertilizing. Now they look much greener and started to grow more normally.
 
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Habanero is starting to ripe it's pods:

This is somekind of crossbreed and it is looking tasty:

Fatalii is making it's first pods:

 

[Chilidude]

Chilis are now growing just fine, when i started to add fertilizer in the water:
 

I had problems with my Fatalii, that flowered but didnt produce any pods. But all is well now, because the plant have 10 pods growing already, i am so gonna make some delicious Fatalii sauce.

 

[Chilidude]

Here is the latest pics of my lovely chilis:
 
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Both of my Orange habaneros are flowering and growing pods very nicely:


My Fatalii is doing just fine:

 

[Chilidude]

Here is my latest pics:

My first ripe Fatalii and it was very hot.

 

[newpeppergrower1105]

Hi Chillidude

The plants look great i am interested how the lights perform.What was the cost? i am considering led or cfl not sure yet.

leds are expensive cfls will work but led and hps systems would work way better you can get a small 150 watt hps system on ebay for 60 bucks

 

[CBaulin]

Great looking plants! I've been trying to keep up with LED research, there's so much of it! The one company that really caught my eye was Pro-Source Worldwide. found at www.prosourceworldwide.com
It looks like they focused their R&D mainly on cannabis, but their results are amazing. I have seen them in action on vegetables as well with similar results. Fantastic results.
 
One thing I keep seeing as a "battle" is the use of orage LED and ultra-violet LED. most companies are using an orange LED, also 2W or higher diodes, where Pro-Source uses only 1W diodes and scraps the orange, basically saying that spectrum isn't needed as much as say, ultra violet. Their lamps are 5 spectrum.
 
Do you know if chili peppers respond very differently to different spectrums of light? Also diode wattage, have you tried a good 1W system? Or 3W for that matter? I'd love to see a big comparison grow, 12 clones off an amazing Jalapeno plant or something, something easy to benchmark, and 12 different LED lights.
 
That'd be great

 

[Chilidude]

Here is 22 big pods, i collected from one of my Pimiento de padron plants.

 

[SichuaneseFoodFan]

update!

 

[Chilidude]

23.8.2013:

Aji crystal:




Small Naga morich plant:


Orange habanero:



Serrano:



Starfish:



Lemon drop:


Turbo pube:



Aji Finlandia: