Thank you lol. It may cost what $10 more than an LED to run per month? But you get way bigger yields off an HPS than an LED hands down. Bulbs may be ancient technology... but it works time and time again. Not gonna lie, I’ll probably try out LED lights eventually.
The plant looks nice bro! Everyone has their preferences. I've seen some.of the dankest densest buds of my lifetime grown under LED though. 5 years ago it wasn't possible, but now with full spectrum diodes, and COB technology you just have to recognize that LED can perform just as well as anything else. I live in Humboldt. Been growing for 10 years. Seen it all. A lot of growers are still hanging on to their Gavita's and they work great! I'm just all about net profit and keeping my overhead down. Any extra cost you spend on an LED up front will pay for itself within 1 or 2 harvests. Easy.
Yeah me too, this is my first time growing, but I know that I smoke way more than I'd yield under an equally priced led. Payed $120 for my light and figure if I can yield a half lb that should hold me over till the next harvest
Ok yes that is very true as far as quality of light.
Especially since they need to be replaced so often to be really effective and they contain a lot of gases you don't want in land fills and such. Where as a quality cob should not degrade for 20ish years I think it is.
Keep in mind the led tech will pay for itself in electrical costs bulb replacements and cooling costs in a year or two.
I’m not knocking LED, again, they work. I’m not saying they don’t produce quality buds. But price wise, if you can run an HPS, your monthly PGE bill (for west coast) will be a bit higher. My last grow I did with a 150w HPS and burned the plant up in the first 3 weeks of flower.. still yielded me 94g dry weight and 28g of trim. Now if I did things differently I could have yielded probably 50+ more grams. The plant was given to me and I did what I could lol. This plant is grown 100% organic. The light is a 600w mh right now and will be changed for my HPS in a week when I flip the lights. If I were to get LED, I wouldn’t be getting a cheap brand off amazon. It would be either mars hydro or electric sky
Yeah, in savings. My grows purely for personal. And I'm on disability so my budget is very limited.
My harvest I stated below covered the cost of my whole setup. 4x4 tent, fans, humidifier and a light upgrade. As far as electric cost, I saw practically no difference in my monthly electric bill cost with that light running.
Agreed. My grow is purely for personal too. The 94g I yielded I smoked lol some friends would come pick up a 20 or sometimes an 8th, but I was very stingy with it. I’m almost out already and I harvested 2 months ago. Hopefully if I get a pound I’ll be able to carry some over until my next harvest
You can get Mars on Amazon. Mars is actually one of the shittier LED's. They use Epistar diodes which are about as bottom of the barrel as you can get. Spider Farmer (also on Amazon) is the same company/factory as Mars Hydro, but they use better components ie Samsung diodes. A lot of "cheap" LED brands use the same exact components as "top shelf" brands like HLG. Samsung Diodes and Meanwell/Sosen drivers. The quantum boards are pretty simple. Diodes, a driver and an aluminum slab. When you pay for premium brands, you're generally paying for the customer service, better warrantee's, and the premium overhead costs of USA based factories. All the parts come from China regardless.
Very nice!!
A Samsung diode is a Samsung diode, regardless of who stamps their name on the board. Same exact light quality.
How many lumens does the average $100 amazon light push?
You definitely dont get "way bigger yields" off of an HPS. As long as you're giving your plants their target PAR needs, it generally doesn't matter what type of light it is. Facts.
1000 watt LED on Amazon pushes about 1700-2000ish EDIT: Don't quote me on this :/
