LED choice for flowering stage, 4'x8' tent (120 x 240 cm)

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VeryMuchForGanja

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Hi,

I am setting up a flower room. It will be a grow tent, 120x240 cm (4'x8'). I am going to mimic Al B Fuct's 4 trays, every 2-weeks harvest. Each tray of four is 60x120 cm big (2'x4').
I figured I would need 2 lamps. I was thinking about two 600 W LED lamps, each above 2 trays, so each covering a square 4'x4' (120x120 cm) (2 trays).

Budget in 2 options:
1) 500-1000 USD per lamp
2) what if the budget were unlimited

I am looking for a solution dedicated for the flowering phase. Could you please let me know your opinion? many thanks in advance for your help.
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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Look at the following

In no order.

Grow light Australia , highlights.
chilled growcraft
horticultural lighting group diablo's
mammothlighting
Timber grow lights.

Lumatek zeus pro if your not in US

I think gavita pro would be over your budget but have a look.

Rapid LED do some great kits.

Cobkits , kits obviously

Im sure there's loads more , someone else would mention.
 
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VeryMuchForGanja

Member
coreywebster said:
Look at the following

In no order.

Grow light Australia , highlights.
chilled growcraft
horticultural lighting group diablo's
mammothlighting
Timber grow lights.

Lumatek zeus pro if your not in US

I think gavita pro would be over your budget but have a look.

Rapid LED do some great kits.

Cobkits , kits obviously

Im sure there's loads more , someone else would mention.
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thank you so much for the info, appreciate that. I will check them carefully out.

Yes, I am from Europe.
Lumatek Zeus Pro is beautiful... I am also considering: Spectrolight Blast 400 Plus, it is made in Europe, do not know if available in the US. It is 400 USD cheaper than Zeus Pro. Do you have experience with Zeus Pro?

One more thing: do you think I should be looking for something specially dedicated for the flowering stage, or just decent LED lamp which is full spectrum, OK for veg and flower + optionally as a bonus maybe has some red lamp boost or sth like that for flo time?
 
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VeryMuchForGanja

Member
In Lumatek's description there is info:

"
Far Red Light Bars for Flowering stage can be purchased separately
"

Would it be a good idea to replace all 6 panels with "red" panels?
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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VeryMuchForGanja said:
thank you so much for the info, appreciate that. I will check them carefully out.

Yes, I am from Europe.
Lumatek Zeus Pro is beautiful... I am also considering: Spectrolight Blast 400 Plus, it is made in Europe, do not know if available in the US. It is 400 USD cheaper than Zeus Pro. Do you have experience with Zeus Pro?

One more thing: do you think I should be looking for something specially dedicated for the flowering stage, or just decent LED lamp which is full spectrum, OK for veg and flower + optionally as a bonus maybe has some red lamp boost or sth like that for flo time?
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Not familiar with the spectrolight, I will have a look at them though.

I do not own a lumatek, but migro did a test on them when they came out and they tested as one of if not the best light he has tested to date.
You can view that on youtube.

My lights are either HLG or from growlights Australia , plus I have some cob LEDs I built myself.

As far as having a dedicated flowering light, I don't believe its needed, though with white light a 3500k is a good all rounder, a 3000k is a great flowering light, little difference between them though.
The lumatek does have a good portion of red. Looks like some far red too. I didn't realise they had an option for adding more far red.

Personally I don't think its needed at all. But I haven't done any side by sides. I defo wouldn't be replacing with all red though.
 
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1212ham

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VeryMuchForGanja said:
Thank you very much again, coreywebster, for your help and information. I will check the mentioned LED sub forum but I have a feeling I would go for Zeus Pro x2 :)
Take good care!
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Keesje

Keesje

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Boards are not as good as fixtures with strips.
There are plenty of topics about what are good lights.
It all depends on how much light you want to shine on your canopy.
Watts mean nothing.

95% of the lights come from China.
 
Keesje

Keesje

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VeryMuchForGanja said:
I am setting up a flower room. It will be a grow tent, 120x240 cm (4'x8'). I am going to mimic Al B Fuct's 4 trays, every 2-weeks harvest. Each tray of four is 60x120 cm big (2'x4').
I figured I would need 2 lamps. I was thinking about two 600 W LED lamps, each above 2 trays, so each covering a square 4'x4' (120x120 cm) (2 trays).
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His system is different.
You use the same tent, so the same climate (temp and RH) and height of lamp.
You are asking for things to go wrong.

First learn how to grow, then go to the next step.
 
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