Best veg lights?
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hybridway2
Amare Shill
5k strip replace 464w t-5 using 100-120w. Thats good for 1 month of veg as well as cloning.
canope
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I want to do 2 months of veg, is that good enough for that too?
hybridway2
Amare Shill
Not really for just above. After the first month you either want higher intensity or more surrounding strip lights..
canope
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Any brand that you would recommend?
hybridway2
Amare Shill
Not at the moment. The ones I use are no longer in business. Working on upgrading them in the near future with some broad-spectrum chips.
Can be easily diy tho.
PadawanWarrior
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How big is the grow area? What's your budget?
canope
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I need to fill a 600sf room for flowering. I want to keep the room smallest possible and referably on a tight budget
canope
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No time to build saddly
Barristan Whitebeard
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There are definitely some companies out there. HLG make the B Spec boards. ChilLED have a veg spectrum option for the Growcraft. Timber Grow Lights have a 4000K color temperature option for their COB lights and their new Cypress Bar light. I'm not sure if the OP is considering those, but there are other options.
Hey @canope . Have you asked Meijiu if they can fabricate some lights for you with a more preferable spectrum for veg, or did you definitely want to go another route?
kovidkough
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I use metal halide. and nice stealie
canope
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I’m still considering Meijiu, just looking for something that can be shipped fast. How much room would I need to veg 150 plants? 20 plants per light for strip leds?
hybridway2
Amare Shill
There are a few. Plenty of string together small bars or strip made for vertical teir growing/veging. Those low wattage (120w=4x2'area) bars/strips are not expensive, are efficient, most are IP rated to get wet & many offer a lil extra to their 4 or 5k. Allot of them look like you'd have to make a base for them or mounting bracket to aluminum bars. Some come fully configured. You've seen my Horizons right?
canope
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I have not, show me
canope
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Are those alright?
hybridway2
Amare Shill
I wouldn't but they'll work. You can get x3 that much strip action for the same price or better for the same.
Damn, can't post pics.
canope
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Alright let me know when you find it, thx dude
Rocket Soul
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Cannope, would you consider diy? Or if youre doing a large build out you could even have someone build a light to your spec. 150 plants: for 2 months? Thats is a large space.
I would recommend for veg something that works well with stretch control, both adding and removing stretch. Some plants under say 5000k led just end up like small balls of bushy leaf growth and no vertical growth. Others do fine. Also i would recommend something which can tweak the transpiration, it can become ver expensive to get environment to temps you require in a veg space: slightly lower light levels and less watts in the room means your often running a bit cold for led. CMH is an excellent allround light for this but might run warm in the summer.
Are you familiar with the bridgelux vesta strips and the bridgelux thrive range.
The vesta is a high cri 2 channel strip with cold and warm white, 5000k and 2700k. It gives you a good amount of diodes for cheap, about 200 diodes for 10$. Sadly not the most efficient, but decent at 25w per strip, about 2.5ppf/w.
It would allow you to dial in your stretch completely adding from both channels. Being 90cri also means some extra far red which ses.to have a warming effect on leaves which also helps transpiration.
The bridgelux thrive range is the next gen of blux high cri diodes, it incorporates a photon pump even lower than the standard 450nm. In horticulture this means your getting closer to around 430nm which seems to be the peak in stomata aperture action spectrum, the wavelength that pushes your plants to drink. I would consider these 2 platforms a good place to start, although vesta thrive might be a bit more before readily available from distributors.
If you want a meijiu light id go for a speced light with 4000k 80cri, if you get the option of adding channels add some far red, to add for stretch. You could even go 5000k with added far red. Best of luck.
I would recommend for veg something that works well with stretch control, both adding and removing stretch. Some plants under say 5000k led just end up like small balls of bushy leaf growth and no vertical growth. Others do fine. Also i would recommend something which can tweak the transpiration, it can become ver expensive to get environment to temps you require in a veg space: slightly lower light levels and less watts in the room means your often running a bit cold for led. CMH is an excellent allround light for this but might run warm in the summer.
Are you familiar with the bridgelux vesta strips and the bridgelux thrive range.
The vesta is a high cri 2 channel strip with cold and warm white, 5000k and 2700k. It gives you a good amount of diodes for cheap, about 200 diodes for 10$. Sadly not the most efficient, but decent at 25w per strip, about 2.5ppf/w.
It would allow you to dial in your stretch completely adding from both channels. Being 90cri also means some extra far red which ses.to have a warming effect on leaves which also helps transpiration.
The bridgelux thrive range is the next gen of blux high cri diodes, it incorporates a photon pump even lower than the standard 450nm. In horticulture this means your getting closer to around 430nm which seems to be the peak in stomata aperture action spectrum, the wavelength that pushes your plants to drink. I would consider these 2 platforms a good place to start, although vesta thrive might be a bit more before readily available from distributors.
If you want a meijiu light id go for a speced light with 4000k 80cri, if you get the option of adding channels add some far red, to add for stretch. You could even go 5000k with added far red. Best of luck.
