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Carlos Cancun Habanero

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smokemaster

Carlos Cancun because Carlos braught me back Habanero pods from Cancun when he went to visit family years ago.

Grown under LEDs.5mm ,red in 625nm-660nm,Blue 425nm-470nm. 9 different wavelengths in a ratio of 6 reds to 1 blue.

Grown in a 30yr. old hydroponic setup I baught at Target or Kmart on sale for $20.00.
Vermiculite media,runs on an air pump like the small aquarium filters.
Dyna-gro fert. 7-9-5 with a shot of wicthes brew for calcium and mag.
Witches brew is Dolomite lime disolved in 5% vinegar-Homemade Calcium acetate.
Dolomite lime has a small percentage of magnesium in it so I'm assuming it becomes part of the brew.

Plant is about 10 in high and 6 wide+/- and a couple months old at most.Sowed the seed on Jan.1st.Don't know how long it took to sprout...
The chopstick was holding it from leaning over-vermiculite isn't the best anchor...

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The plant is very dark green,the flash made it look lots different.
 
Only reason I messed with 5mm LEDs was they were cheep.
A lot were 1500-2500 LEDs for $.99 with free shipping or up to $12.00 shipping.

Each Pannel is between 100 and 120 LEDs,depending on string length etc.
They are 3in. X 4in +/- in size.
It takes about 1 hr to assemble 1 pannel.
I'm not crazy,I work 14 hr. days with nothing to do.Soldering LEDs killed time.

Don't bother with 5mm Leds unless you plan on spending a LOT of time soldering.

I only messed with the 5mm LEDs to play with them.They are very cheep and I have a lot of time to kill between 5pm and 8am ,7 days a week.

I use mostly star LEDs now.
I buy then for about $1.00 each.
Resistors are about 1cent or less each,depending on their value.

Once I get all my Star LEDs assembled I'll use stars above my plants with the 5mm Leds vertically around 3 sides instead of mylar or whatever.

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When plant first hooked,I added more pannels later as the plant grew.

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5mm LEDs are only bright enough from about 12 or so inches away,some up to 18in max.

In my opinion they are OK for a 4ft. x 18in. grow shelf as supplimental light on the sides like I use them.
They add extra wavelengths of light that I can't get in stars.
I do use some 280,000mcd 10 mm LEDs that are about 20-50Lm each.

All the pannels are individually assembled and twist tied to the banboo skewers.
Each pannel is set up with 2 positive and 2 negative wires so,depending on the power source I can hook them up in any number that the supply will support.
I use wire nuts to electrically hook them up.
Each Pannel uses 360-540ma. at 12volts.
The mcd(candlepower) of each batch of LEDs runs from 2000mcd to 50,000mcd.
Thats roughly between 1Lm. to 4lm each.Depending on angle etc.
As you can see you have to use a ton of the little buggers if you use 5mm LEDs. :eek:
That means each pannel only puts out between 100 and 400Lm.

This was/is just an experiment I did to see what LEDs actually can do compared to what I read on the internet which is a lot of half truths or outright bs.
You don't use LEDs like Fluoros or other light sources.
A whole different animal.
They are mini spotlights and must be treated as such...angle of the beam means a lot.
 
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