Added a Tri-meter to the setup to help with nutrient maintenance. I highly recommend these things as they save a lot of effort when watching your nutrient concentration and pH I also decided to crawl under the rails and take some pictures. This is pretty much what I have to do every day to …
Well, The harvest are continuing to get larger and more frequent and the fruit size is increasing. Looks like the adjustments we have been making have paid off.
Continue reading about LED Hydroponic Strawberry Harvest Continues
Starting to fine tune the parameters. Added an air-stone into the reservoir as well as some flora-nectar. Harvested the first really full size fruit today. Looks like this grow is continuing to increase in quantity and quality.
Since Charles is about to move and in between grows. I get to hog some wattage. Check out these pics of a 4×4 grow lab with (4) 90W UFO LEDs. That’s right my friends, 360W of LED glory. If I don’t get some boostamente out of this setup, I might just have to give up [...]
I’ll be posing alot of video updates soon. Until then, enjoy. Tigerlily, ragnar, or red any advice on nutrient mixture? I am currently using 3-part flora series in a 1-1-1 ratio at 500ppm.
These pictures where taken on May the sixth, at this point in the grow the plants where just starting to yield their first fruit. Most all the plants had between 5 and 8 mature leaves, so I felt that it was time to begin the transition to an LED only grow. I added a third [...]
Great news, and many new posts coming your way in the next week! We finished planting at Josh’s house, and transplanted the three pepper plants from my second tent in the soil. More on this later, but with this post I wanted to showcase the first truss of baby tomatoes forming under the …
Have you ever noticed that when you get up early on a Saturday morning to cook some flapjacks, the first one never seems to come out quite right? The same always seems to be true for plants. The first fruit from a given plant always seems to be a little undersized and take a little [...]
On Friday (day 34) I began harvesting and enjoying my bibb lettuce. I planted the replacements directly in the rail system. I decided that a constant light cycle was a little too much stress so I have adjusted down to a 20/4 light cycle. On the cucumber front…unfortunately 3 plants where [...]
Well, here they are all trellised up and ready to grow! I am very excited that I am already starting to see a good number of female flowers. Hopefully this means that this grow will be spectacularly productive. For those who are curious the plants are being flooded 4 times daily for 15 minutes. I [...]
These cucumbers are being grown with (2) 90W LED UFOs. They are the R:B:W and where purchased off ebay for a total under $300. LED technology means ANYONE can afford to join UHGU and produce their own bountiful harvests!