Hey Lemon, Welcome to RIU and thanks for the kind words about my plant. I'm just gonna answer your questions quickly here and if you need to, just PM me for any others;
I was only joking about the Kessil actually. Just having a little fun gaming Sgt. J. I've never heard or seen of a bootleg Kessil and with Kessil's level of design and build quality, I would think it would be quite difficult to bootleg them.
A SMD is a surface mounted device/matrix type LED that they use for floodlights and washlamps and that I like to use in the veg cabinet. The 12000K are just blue LEDs exciting a mostly blue with yellow phosphor mix that produce very cold light. The lights cold, but they run hot as hell. These lights can be found all over Ebay. Look for LED spotlights.
And the fact that plant is surviving after all the abuse I've put it through is a testament to Shanti's genetics than my growing skills
. That poor plant has been shuffled, (and dropped and ignored), all around my flowering tent and has been under multiple panels, one of which, the Vipar A300 is far and away the best panel I've used. I can't give you a figure about wattage for the area your talking about, I'm still trying to get my head around stuff like that myself, but I got an email from Lumigrow yesterday that had an article explaining how to pick LED lights and the one thing they said is to go for half the PAR output of an HPS setup when trying to compute what you need for an area. I kinda like that as a way to quantify an LED panel's ability. My philosophy right now is to get those Led's light on those bud sites, so I like multi panel setups, though since I don't own a PAR meter I can't help you with any uMol data.
And I prefer the colors that grow the most weed
, but think there needs to be a lot more studying of "white" LEDs done before I'm completely sold on their growing ability. I'm not adverse to whites in my panel as long as they're not acting as a replacement for HPS. I prefer specific wavelengths in the flowering room and whites are too all over the place, both in build quality and output. But that's just my little opinion there. (Shhhhh, beware of Warm Whites! Shhhh or he'll hear us!!!!
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And good point about the seeds. Thanks.