LED Growing?
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Downfoemythang
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Im not gonna bash or praise LED's but eveyone who talks about them, has nothing but negative things to say about them. I would be really cautious using them based on what I've read about them.
digitalliquid
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Christmas lights arent the right nm of the colors needed , so in effect they will have little to no effect on the plant , unless you get some that happen to have some colors near the right nm
Downfoemythang
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Again, from what I read, they are the lowest on the totum pole. Maybe CFL's or fluoro tubes will give u a better yield. Or a small wattage HPS, 250 or 400 watter. You could veg with fluoro's and flower with the hps. I dont know what your budget it like but that's an idea.
Downfoemythang
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Dude u have alot of posts, which tells me you know your way around the forum. Why not look for a small hps set up veg and flower under the same light and you should be happy with the yields. Again, just a thought.
brainkandi
New Member
led's blow ass. my buddy bought 4,000 in ufo's and supernova's. got nothin but stretchin and low yields. they rock in the veg, but blow in the flower.
don't get them unless you don't want good yields. just get a 65 dollar hid from home depot if you gotta do the easiest method. you'll get better yields from a 70 watt hid than a a 90w ufo.
peace, the brain
don't get them unless you don't want good yields. just get a 65 dollar hid from home depot if you gotta do the easiest method. you'll get better yields from a 70 watt hid than a a 90w ufo.
peace, the brain
anhedonia
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Save you $100, do a little hustling, buy a 4 tube t5 with everything you need, maby a PH pen $350-$400 on the high side. Flower as many 10 inch plants in 6" containers as you can get under the thing and 8 weeks later you'll have your own homegrown that you can be proud of. Then upgrade.
brainkandi
New Member
with all respect anhedonia i agree but strongly disagree.
brother if you want to start out small, i don't know your space but you should go down to home depot or lowes. they have mh and hps street lamps for dirt cheap. even ones that lay the bulb sideways and have a hood. drill two holes to air cool it, wire up a plug and your ready to rock.
here i can buy a 70watt hps street lamp for 34 dollars. here is a link to make that same light into a remote ballast light. https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/8499-convert-common-home-security-light.html
and further more for a hood u can use a 8" piece of ducting cut in half and here is a link for a cool tube with ducting hood. https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/279224-diy-cool-tube.html
total price $50 for a air cooled diy 70w hps with diy hood, can't get much more gangsta than that. with the right bulb you could have about 10,000 lumens which is way more than enough for what your doin, and i bet you have light bulbs in your house runnin more electricity than that
just look in the general forum. one of th sub forums is diy.
look through all if it if you can.
peace
brother if you want to start out small, i don't know your space but you should go down to home depot or lowes. they have mh and hps street lamps for dirt cheap. even ones that lay the bulb sideways and have a hood. drill two holes to air cool it, wire up a plug and your ready to rock.
here i can buy a 70watt hps street lamp for 34 dollars. here is a link to make that same light into a remote ballast light. https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/8499-convert-common-home-security-light.html
and further more for a hood u can use a 8" piece of ducting cut in half and here is a link for a cool tube with ducting hood. https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/279224-diy-cool-tube.html
total price $50 for a air cooled diy 70w hps with diy hood, can't get much more gangsta than that. with the right bulb you could have about 10,000 lumens which is way more than enough for what your doin, and i bet you have light bulbs in your house runnin more electricity than that
just look in the general forum. one of th sub forums is diy.
look through all if it if you can.
peace
I have nothing but positive things to say about them... LED UFO's... Get with it.
Ronjohn7779
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Make sure these LED's you're buying put out the right wavelengths of light. LED's aren't like light bulbs that pump out tons of wavelengths of light. LED's only produce specific wavelengths of light (usually only one or two). This could led you to have a bunk grow.
I'd suggest just going the CFL route... It's easier to use 3 24watt CFL's than it is to use 1 70watt HPS. Sure, you're getting slightly less lumens, but you can get the lights closer to different parts of the plant and produce more. HPS doesn't really excel over fluorescents until you start hitting 150+ watts.
Brain Fog
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are leds used only for clone and veg? or can they be used for bloom? do i need a different wavelength for bloom? what about intensity? ive read that a 600w led is equivilent to 2000 hps, but is that based on growth rate or will it still produce good bud density? anyone have experience with leds? most answers i get are quoted from manufacturers webpages (which ive read tons of) or people trying to sell em. any actual experience will be much appreciated.
brainkandi
New Member
tellin you brother. bag the led idea. for like 50-60 bucks you could rock out an hps and get upt to 1.5 grams a watt even heard of a guy gettin two. then as you go you can save the money for an led. and try it in a seperate grow. if you like it then use it, but while your waitin you could already be smokin your own high grade.
in the best deals thread there is a ballast kit for a 400w hps that is like 60 bucks, get a mogul socket, bake a round tube, some ducting and some pvc pipe and you can be harvesting a pound with the right plant every 2 months, or if you wanna go another route you can easily double that. with one light. cfls are cool and all but for about the same price as some florex lights, you could have a 70 w. hps. and a diy cool tube you could put close to the plants. cfls don't put out half as much as an hps.
really i don't even see why anyone argues otherwise. cfls kinda suck in the big picture. it's like why smoke dirt weed (buy cfls) when for the same price you could be smokin danks (buyin hps)
peace the brain
in the best deals thread there is a ballast kit for a 400w hps that is like 60 bucks, get a mogul socket, bake a round tube, some ducting and some pvc pipe and you can be harvesting a pound with the right plant every 2 months, or if you wanna go another route you can easily double that. with one light. cfls are cool and all but for about the same price as some florex lights, you could have a 70 w. hps. and a diy cool tube you could put close to the plants. cfls don't put out half as much as an hps.
really i don't even see why anyone argues otherwise. cfls kinda suck in the big picture. it's like why smoke dirt weed (buy cfls) when for the same price you could be smokin danks (buyin hps)
peace the brain
Jeffdogg
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Well then L.E.D.'s would be a problem for you, so far studies show L.E.D.'s are great for veg, but even in the right nm they produce small buds still. L.E.D.s are still new tech being worked on. They are still a year or 2 at the least from coming close to the HID or CFL's even.
If your looking for a cheap way then go the cheapest route you can take and grow outside. If your on a budget especially the small your on (not trying to make fun) either try outside or put off growing and save up more to get a decent start at growing (you'll thank yourself later) Till then just do a crap load of research and change your RIU name to something else (you ganked Seemorebuds' name thats not too cool)
Theres only 1 Seemorebuds round here
