I just finished a 6 week grow test with Omegagarden’s Volksgarden and Hydro Grow’s 504w Vertical light. I am thrilled with the results and I am looking forward to running many more tests with the unit. The vertical light did an amazing job of growing the lettuce and flowering a variety of heirloom tomatoes in 21 days. I had an almost completely ripe tomato by day 35 and many green tomatoes. This variety is supposed to take 90 days according to the seed package. I hope you enjoy the video and be sure to view on youtube and watch it in...
LED Strawberries: Se...
posted by ProZachJ
After last years moderate success with strawberries under LED I’ve decided to stick with the principles that I’ve been stressing to all UHGU members, “Pick a crop and grow it over and over until you are an expert”. I’ve received 25 Albion strawberry runners. I...
Glow Panel Grow Off ends…
posted by ProZachJ
Between growing, trying to promote Super Croppers, and spending a large amount of time wakeboarding I neglected to post my Glow Panel Grow Off update videos. So I am going post the last two update that I did. I decided that I wanted a bit more production from these plants than small panels could provide so I upped the wattage by bringing in 4 UFOs. In the last video I discuss the issues that I have been having with getting the habeneros to fruit. I’ve decided to follow Mr. Iccus’ advice from his post “Inducing fruiting in problem peppers in the urban garden” Today I did a complete nutrient change and reset the...
LED Volksgarden
posted by w8mk
In this video I show how I built a custom bracket for the vertical light for the volksgarden. There is also some great footage of what my classroom looks like with all of our plant projects going on. In September, I plan on installing a supercropper where the cucumbers currently are...
The Volksgarden
posted by w8mk
The Volksgarden is a hydroponic system that grows 80 plants in a circulating wheel. It uses less water and nutrients than a lot of other hydroponic systems out there. I am told that it can grow romaine lettuce in 16 days as when the plants fight to maintain gravity they release a hormone...
Glow Panel Grow off ...
posted by ProZachJ
Check out day 14 pictures and video of my glow panel grow off. Its 50W Penetrator (no you can’t buy this panel its a prototype) VS Glow Panel 45. I was very surprised to see these little buds so early. On day 10 I changed the nutrient, flushed the system and set the new solution to a...
Panel Grow Off Day 7...
posted by ProZachJ
So I took this video on day 7 and the pics on day 8. It also turns out, now that the plants are large enough for me to identify that the ones I was calling jalapeno are actually habenero and vice versa …oh well. Penetrator...
50W Penetrator vs Gl...
posted by ProZachJ
Here we go! Our LED Panel grow off has begun. Two Hydro Grow LED 50W Penetrators VS Two Sunshine Systems Glow Panel 45s. Each panel is going to be growing one pepper plant. Each side of the tent has one Jalapeno (Jalapeno Gigante) and one Habenero (Caribbean Red). I have divided the tent with...
Mini Cropper Constan...
posted by ProZachJ
An introduction to the continuing pursuit of easy constant indoor lettuce production. We retro fitted the AeroRail system into what I am now calling the Mini Cropper....
Greenhouse Video Upd...
posted by ProZachJ
Charles recorded this great video update on the greenhouse while we were refilling the nutrient reservoirs. Everything is growing amazingly well. The Roma tomatoes and jpeps are already producing...
Strawberry planting ...
posted by ProZachJ
A new system and strawberries planted. Any of you guys got experience or advice for growing strawberries? What about pH and nutrient strength? Since Tiger Lilly gave us such nice props on the GH growblog. I thought I would post a link to the UHGU mission statement for any new visitors. Check...
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