Budies 101
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This is the answer, above.ive seen people grow great weed with LED
ive seen people grow awful weed with HPS
My personal led PCB lights grow *more* quality bud because I believe the spread of light hits more of the actual buds and as we have all seen if a bud does not get light it does not grow as good.
In the end high end HPS systems set the standard, LED meets that ability to grow in both yield and in quality but with nearing half the wattage. The goal with LED is not really to grow "better" weed, or more but to do it with less watts and better spread of light. On the back end also LED lights last longer than HPS, by a long ways. Plants don't need more light or you could just add in another 1k HPS DE over your plants and even grow more.... No, it's about quality of the light and efficiency of the light.
I just finished my first grow with PCB led lights I built and it's some of the best stuff I have ever grown, not by much, but it's my personal new standard.
It's simple, LED chips and cobs are your HPS bulb, if you use low end chips you grow like you would with a cheap HPS bulb. Not all 1k watt bulbs are created equal, neither are all diodes and cobs.