My first chili growing and some LED testing.

Rondavouz

Rondavouz

Here are some pictures of my chili plants. Started growing them using some regular bulbs ( here in Sweden it´s dark far too many hours per day now ). Just added 2 x 50 LED panels, but still kept the light in the middle. My apartment feels a little to "porno", so it can be good to be able to use the middle one if friends come over.
Couldn´t find cheap 50 w LED that was only blue for 220v for a good price ( I paid about $70 per panel on Ebay).
One of the plants has set some flowers although it is still pretty small, it´s a pirri pirri.
50 w LED is nothing you should look straight into I can add, it made at least me see everything in a nice yellow flavor for some seconds...
Some pictures:
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And some old pictures here:
http://www.bsbilservice.se/Chillies/
And No, I do not smoke :lol: , clarification : some of the plants are standing on top of marabou cigarette packs, the best building material I found at home =)
 
Rondavouz said:
And No, I do not smoke :lol:
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Shh, don't let IGG hear that or he won't share his pie with you.


Nice setup though man, welcome to THP :) Keep us posted with pictures
 
Gary18 said:
they look good i would put the led closer to the plants mind you
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IME, it is tricky finding the optimum distance. Too close and you can burn the plants up or, because the light is more focused than that from other bulbs, the leaves do not get the full benefit. Too far away, and the plants get leggy.

Mike
 
Gary,

Not burn from heat, burn from the intense light. I had some seedlings that had been under some weak LEDs and moved them under a 45-watt panel, about three inches away. The leaves started curling and getting real sick looking.

Mike
 
wordwiz: You said you had your seedlings under some not so power full LED and it turned out like burnt. I think I have the same experience now, although my LED´s are 2 x 45W panels, and the distance is quite far away as in the pictures above, it still looks like seedlings are getting "burned". Just lost 2 7 pot seedlings, RIP.

Are 45 W LED that powerful? Feels like I shouldn't´t put anything under them until they have at least a couple of real leaves then.. Will post some pictures later, my Bigger plants seems to love the light =)
 
Rondavouz,

I don't know if they are that powerful or if it was the plants were not use to the light. But I know two different times when I moved seedlings under them and got too close, the plants nearly died.

Mike
 
wordwiz said:
Rondavouz,

I don't know if they are that powerful or if it was the plants were not use to the light. But I know two different times when I moved seedlings under them and got too close, the plants nearly died.

Mike
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i have heard that from another person about shop bought leds they plants/ seedling just die i think theres some shops selling bad products probaly in the wrong wavelenth because the are not cheap either
 
I found growing seedlings to be a tricky thing. Get the plants too close under a 14 watt panel, especially when they are little, and they will curve to a specific color of bulb. Too far away and they get leggy. Too close under a 45 watt panel and the leaves shrivel. But if you figure out the optimal distance, you can get very good results.

Mike
 
Could be but since the bigger plants are growing like they are in love, I´m not sure. 2 Orchids next to the chilies has gone crazy and started flowering, which they haven't done for almost a year. And here it is the completely wrong season for them to flower.
The panels weren´t that expensive, and there should be difference to the expensive LED UFO riggs for sure.

The leaves turn yellowish and curls back on the seedlings, but only on the 7 pot and 2 other seedling that had just came up out of he ground. The other seedlings that was a little bigger with "real" leafs are growing on just fine...

For me it seems that the seedling either need other wavelengths, or that the first pair of leafs couldn't take that intensive light. Will try to test with some new 7 pots when they have their second pair of leafs.

It could be some completely different reason too, like someone pored a drink in them at the New Years Eve Party, that I have to investigate :lol:
 
wordwiz said:
I found growing seedlings to be a tricky thing. Get the plants too close under a 14 watt panel, especially when they are little, and they will curve to a specific color of bulb. Too far away and they get leggy. Too close under a 45 watt panel and the leaves shrivel. But if you figure out the optimal distance, you can get very good results.

Mike
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my small led board is quite a way away from the seedlings and they are not going leggy also if my leds are right on the leaves they do no damage well that i have seen so far
 
Gary18 said:
my small led board is quite a way away from the seedlings and they are not going leggy also if my leds are right on the leaves they do no damage well that i have seen so far
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Gary,

Above you said the plants are about six inches away. I would not consider that quite a way away. Like you, I could let the lights from the 14 watt touch the plants and no problems. Not sure with the 45 watt panel - I never got the plants that close. But at four inches, the leaves started to fry, not from the heat but the intensity of the light.

Mike
 
you got any pics of these boards wordwiz and how many lumens it is pumping out

i caluclated that my big ones giveing out 52002 lumens
 
Gary,

I'm going to hook it back up tonight - I have some basil and lettuce in a hydro chamber I want to use the panel to grow.

How are you figuring lumens - number per bulb times the numbers of bulbs? This summer, I measured the lux from my 14 watt panels and there was a huge difference (maybe 3-1) between the all blue and all red panel. But a lux meter is going to measure light intensity of a single spectrum differently than it would measure the full spectrum.

Mike
 
wordwiz said:
Gary,

I'm going to hook it back up tonight - I have some basil and lettuce in a hydro chamber I want to use the panel to grow.

How are you figuring lumens - number per bulb times the numbers of bulbs? This summer, I measured the lux from my 14 watt panels and there was a huge difference (maybe 3-1) between the all blue and all red panel. But a lux meter is going to measure light intensity of a single spectrum differently than it would measure the full spectrum.

Mike
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are these shop bought pannels or are they ones you have made up yourself ? i worked out the lumen calculator http://led.linear1.org/lumen.wiz
 
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