Advice on my grow! All comments welcomed!
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booms111
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https://horticulturelightinggroup.com/collections/all is who you want to deal with. best thing to do is buy the boards from HLG and buy a meanwell driver that matches boards from a company like Aarow and build your own rig but they do sell complete light packages but there way more pricey then building one if your handy
booms111
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I'd let them get alot taller before flipping to 12/12. 4inches is way short especially if there a strain that doesn't stretch. I'd probably wait until there at least double the height they are now.
Rhodes55
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Not to familiar with HLG and boards and I wouldn’t know where to start. Did a lot of research through the night and found this link. Only LED I see that doesn’t have “actual wattage” or “only consumes x wattage” in description, looks like it might give out 510W and I would taken care of the spectrums for both veg and flower. Thoughts?
510W Full-Spectrum LED Grow Light - 12-Band Multi Spectrum - Selectable Vegetation and Bloom Switches - GLR-510W12F-VBD
Grow better yields and higher quality plants with GLR series 510W Grow Light. 12-band Full Spectrum LEDs and selectable VEG and BLOOM can support a variety of plants through all stages of growth. Constructed with steel housing and integrated cooling fans, horticulture light with stands moisture...
booms111
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No, avoid anything that's putting off purple light. You want white led diodes. For that kind of money you can buy a nice setup from HLG. With newer white diode leds can run down to even 25w sqft and get really good results, I've done it. Here's what I'd reccomend you do, buy one of these for bloom.Not to familiar with HLG and boards and I wouldn’t know where to start. Did a lot of research through the night and found this link. Only LED I see that doesn’t have “actual wattage” or “only consumes x wattage” in description, looks like it might give out 510W and I would taken care of the spectrums for both veg and flower. Thoughts?
510W Full-Spectrum LED Grow Light - 12-Band Multi Spectrum - Selectable Vegetation and Bloom Switches - GLR-510W12F-VBD
Grow better yields and higher quality plants with GLR series 510W Grow Light. 12-band Full Spectrum LEDs and selectable VEG and BLOOM can support a variety of plants through all stages of growth. Constructed with steel housing and integrated cooling fans, horticulture light with stands moisture...www.superbrightleds.com
260W XL QB V2 Rspec LED Kit
Ultra High Efficiency LED Boards for DIY. QB288 has 288pcs Samsung LM301H LED
horticulturelightinggroup.com
Use your two blurples for veg cycle as you have done already with succes and then switch out to the Quantums for bloom. First time you light up the quantums you will see what's up! The QB setup at 260w will smash that blurple you linked putting out 510w with half the wattage. Dont get hung up on wattage so much. Quality of photons the light puts out that the plants absorb is important also. Shit a 65w quantum board probably hold it's own against a blurple running 2x more wattage because of the quality of light it produces.
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christopher jordan
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The BC Blonds new 340w light is all you need for that space.
HolyAngel
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HLG, horticulturelightinggroup. Totally worth it. The qb288's are fantastic as well as the qb96's. You could save some money going with meijiu or kingbright on alibaba but good luck on warranty for those. All of these show accurate wattage and are good for the ~30w/sq.ft
Rhodes55
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Wow great insight bro! I’m going to order that setup right now!No, avoid anything that's putting off purple light. You want white led diodes. For that kind of money you can buy a nice setup from HLG. With newer white diode leds can run down to even 25w sqft and get really good results, I've done it. Here's what I'd reccomend you do, buy one of these for bloom.
260W XL QB V2 Rspec LED Kit
Ultra High Efficiency LED Boards for DIY. QB288 has 288pcs Samsung LM301H LED
Use your two blurples for veg cycle as you have done already with succes and then switch out to the Quantums for bloom. First time you light up the quantums you will see what's up! The QB setup at 260w will smash that blurple you linked putting out 510w with half the wattage. Dont get hung up on wattage so much. Quality of photons the light puts out that the plants absorb is important also. Shit a 65w quantum board probably hold it's own against a blurple running 2x more wattage because of the quality of light it produces.
booms111
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SWEET! Keep your temps up alittle in bloom and start the light up really high in tent to not stress them with to much intensity. Your going to do great in 2x4 with that light!!!
Also on the led driver there will be a small rubber cap. under it you can adjust the wattage. I'd bet that driver will turn up to at least 280w. I'd recommend buying a Kil-a-watt meter that plugs into outlet then you plug light in to it to see the actual wattage being used. Here's one i have.
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Teag
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We use watts because it is easy. But, watts don't take efficiency into account. The 2x4 figure puts out 40 w/sq.ft.(just using your numbers above). And 50 w/sq.ft. is kind of a max, so I would be happy with that light but really its up to you to figure out how much you want to spend. HLG is better. But it is more expensive. LED's last a long time but their output decreases over time making them not such a long term investment.
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