Led lamp test! 1 week!

[Fatalii]

OK!



Finally I can publish some results after growing some bonchi plants under LED lamp for one week!
The 90 Watt led lamp shown here is equivalent to 400 Watt HPS.
At this point I can really tell that this isn't bullshit, it really WORKS very well!
Check for yourself.

Before 90 Watt LED:


After one week of 90 Watt LED:


In addition, I got an open flower from C. lanceolatum Bonchi in just 2(!!) days of LED light!

So it obviously encourages plants to flower too!
This was the first open C. lanceolatum flower since last summer!

I also added one Aji Cristal bonchi without any leaves few days ago and now it has plenty of new sprouts all over it!

Dutch-Habanero F1 and Bird's Eye Baby started ripening their pods after few days under LED lamp and the taste after week is very good!

So after week it looks promising for growing, blooming and maturing!!

Next test will be to harvest Bird's Eye Baby soon and see how it starts to flower again under LED.

More updates at fatalii.net! Stay tuned!

[Fatalii]

Here one maturing it's pods under the LED lamp!

[JungleRain]

First of all I'd like to introduce myself, My name is Grant, I'm from Victoria in Australia and I've been growing chillies now indoors under 2x 400w hps for the last year now, first season I was using rockwool slabs on a flood and drain system but for this season I have changed to using a recirculating  drip system with coco coir as a growing medium. I would like to ask about the comparison of the LED lighting compared to HPS, It seems that this type of lighting would save me plenty on my electricity bill. Please keep me updated on your experiment, if more plants can be grown bigger, faster, better using LED. What size garden can you grow under this 90w LED? and what size chilli plants, is it only useful for onamentals, bonsai or seddlings, cuttings etc...
Also I grow 25 diff types af chilli plants in 300mm pots, outdoors in soil but for next season I will be changing this to Coco coir with a drip system also, it seems I get alot less problems growing in this media. The chillis also grow much faster using hydro as compared to soil. I'll send a few pics soon
regards Grant

[Fatalii]

Hi Grant! and Welcome!

Very nice to meet people from all around the world here, as far as from Australia, the opposite of Finland!
It would be very interesting to see stuff you grow there!

Of course, you can grow any chiles or other plants under LED lamp, I'm just using bonchi plants because I can fit many chiles at different growign stages (growth, flowering, maturing and rooting) to see how they do!
I will definitely do many tests more under different plants, also with salad etc!!
And I will definitely publish results here and on my site.

The info sheet tells LED lamps can be used in commercial gardens very far away when using several lamps... it's hard to tell before trying... my main goal is to try this in commercial greenhouse when ever possible.

I don't personally have that good experiences with coco, I prefer using expanded clay (leca) for chiles, or just rockwool and pots with aeroponic systems.
It seems that coco is too moist for most varieties.

But then again... might work much better there in Australia!

[lee]

Damn,

The leaves that the bonsai developed in just 1 week. Great!

[tadytomas]

mmm.. do you have some specifications about the led diods used in this lamp? numbers, spreading angles, wave length.. thanks

[Mads]

http://www.viherpeukku.fi/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=79_172&products_id=791

I think this is the product in the test. Goodness it's expensive as a one time investment! Hopefully the reduced power consumption and better yield will pay out...
I once tried soldering 400 LEDs together and see how that would work out but I scrapped it, simply not enough effect. I guess the LEDs here are the next generation ones (which also explains the price...) and maybe with some electronics to boost the effect.
Exciting but still a bit too pricey in my opinion...

[esa]

I searched the internet with the words: 90W plant lamp etc. and run to several places where they sell similar lamps. The prices vary around 300-350$. So there is a nice margin of profit Of course there might be some small differences like the type of plug or input voltage etc. None the less interesting test.

- Esa

[tadytomas]

well that is VERY! expensive   I am thinking about building one myself. Because the diods are actually very cheap. It will be a hard and boring work and i will need help from my friend, which is very good in stuff like this, but still better than pay almost 600 eur.

just need to know parametres of LEDs..

[hyeena]

http://www.cornerworks.net/
390e alv22%
http://www.cornerworks.net/kuvat/kasvilamput.pdf
Edit: hmm, after sending this message i looked contact information and amazed, its my old neighbour 

And somewhere in tampere is Ecomotive Oy, maybe somebody should ask this from there.

[Herpiili]

I searched the internet with the words: 90W plant lamp etc. and run to several places where they sell similar lamps. The prices vary around 300-350$. So there is a nice margin of profit Of course there might be some small differences like the type of plug or input voltage etc. None the less interesting test.

- Esa

And after you search a bit more, you will find out that most manufacturers sell them directly to consumers for 150-250 usd + shipping costs. Input voltage seems to be 110V/230V on my unit.

[Fatalii]

It's  also good to remember that there are different kinds of led lamps with the same body (ufo) out there which are definitely cheaper and not nearly as good quality. So the same looks off the body won't tell if it's the same lamp or not.

I also heard some sad stories of some cheaper versions with the same body. Just something good to keep in mind.

And now... after many requests, some progress with Dutch-Habanero Bonchi under LED lamp!



More pics and updates to come later!

[jewe]

More pictures sounds good , hardly wait

[JungleRain]

Hi Fatalii
Do you have any other plants to compare with, ie that have been under other lights for the same lengh of time??? what height is the light and how high can you have it?
thanks Grant 

[Fatalii]

With limited space under LED lamp and with a few dozen bonchis I have to switch plants to save many of the plants, so there are only few that have been under the lamp all time, and they look very good!

I've seen what the led lamp is capable of when it comes to growing, flowering, maturing and producing pods, This is definitely the way to go with artificial lightning.

[Fatalii]

Latest pic of the Dutch Habanero F1 Bonchi under the LED lamp!

[jewe]

Looks very good now and I think my next grow lamp is LED lamp.

[lee]

Looks good!.

[tadytomas]

Got a question: How big area is this lamp capable to light up?

and the plants look great 

[Fatalii]

They promise it can lit up a large space (several square meters) but then again, it's impossible to confirm is it enough for flowering pllants. I'm sure it's enough for growing the leaves etc but flowering definitely needs much more light.

Oh and, Dutch-Habanero F1 Bonchi is looking even better now... for some reason, it started to flower a lot even when  it's full of fruit! Never seen that to happen with DH F1 before!

Pictures to come later.

This LED lamp is much better than I ever could have expected!