LED Has Arrived

The awaited day has come.  The SuperNova enhanced LED light arrived last night and we are very excited to get it installed, some plants transferred to our Ebb and Gro system and start monitoring the progress with this new set-up.  We will update with some photos later.

New System Experiment

We will add an Ebb and Flow system (Ebb n Gro) to our grow room in the newly reclaimed space.  We are also going to do an experiment with both Hydroton and STG Deluge which is designed specifically for the Ebb n Gro buckets.   It will be interesting to see which medium does better with our plants. We have an eye on the red and yellow pepper plants currently in the AeroFlo36 as potential transplants to the new system.

As heat is becoming an issue for us (or certainly will in summer), we have also chose an LED lighting system.  We selected the Super Nova Enhanced Spectrum light.  It sports a nice function of custom selecting blue and red spectrum mixes to support the cycle of your plant's growth.  The manufacturer also provides a three year warranty, first year 100%, second and third prorated.  Look for that warranty on LED lights you are considering and be careful of the knock-offs on EBAY.

The Super Nova we selected provides light output for a 3x3 area that is supposedly greater than a 600 watt HID.  It will be interesting to see if that is true.  I am really excited about little to no heat output from the light and 1/8th of the amount of energy usage in the grow room.