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DIY LED Hydro System
- Thread starter Guillo1
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here is a video of what my grow room looks like
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So today is exactly 14 days since I placed my LEDs over my seedlings. I must say I am really surprised at how much my plants have grown. They also seem very healthy and strong. The stem has gotten really thick and the roots are growing like crazy. At the rate of growth I would expect it to start flowering like in a month.
I've come to the conclusion that my home made LED light not only works for reef tank but it will also work to grow plants. Not bad considering that it only cost me about $170 for all the materials.
Few pictures from this morning. look at the pictures posted on Jan 23 and look at the growth
I've come to the conclusion that my home made LED light not only works for reef tank but it will also work to grow plants. Not bad considering that it only cost me about $170 for all the materials.
Few pictures from this morning. look at the pictures posted on Jan 23 and look at the growth
I'm using some 3 watt LED's from china with 60 degree optics. I am running 32 reds and 16 royal blue.
not sure what type of lenses you would have with CF but the ones for LEDs are almost like a magnifying lense
careful, to much quantum flux and your plants could end up in the 1920's. NO JOKE.
LOL...... just finish and mounted my big DIY LED fixture for my reef tank. This one has 192 3 watt leds, 72 white and 120 royal blue
well plants seem to be growing A LOT everyday
so cool, methinks someone should invest in a sheet metal bending break... i bet you could sell those if they were in a snazzy metal enclosure. 
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whats going on with that ventilation system above?
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whats going on with that ventilation system above?
If I didn't have my own business all ready I would probably be looking mass production....lol the stuff above are 3 14" solatubes. I was growing my corals with natural light. I was getting some crazy growth and no electricity bill. The only reason I am going to LEDs is for the colors. Now that is another option that would work really good to grow plants indoors. The solatubes bring in a ton of light. As you can see I'm always on the cutting edge of technology..... lolso cool, methinks someone should invest in a sheet metal bending break... i bet you could sell those if they were in a snazzy metal enclosure.
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whats going on with that ventilation system above?
Sure I know Steve. I bought a ton of frags from him like 3 yrs ago. Yea the solatubes put out a ton of light it would be nice to see someone grow some plants with them.
