Fonzarelli
Active Member
Could you show us some updated photos from your all WW/red grow?
DIY LED grow lights experiences
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Fonzarelli
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I'm getting a lot more male flowers from using HPS + red. I think the excessive yellow light which is highly imbalanced causes a lot of stress for plants.
Some plants have a higher tendency towards producing male flowers, but using all that yellow puke colored light causes them to produce even more.
My lemon skunk always does better under a 400w CMH than even a 1000w HPS. Balanced light is key.
Some plants have a higher tendency towards producing male flowers, but using all that yellow puke colored light causes them to produce even more.
My lemon skunk always does better under a 400w CMH than even a 1000w HPS. Balanced light is key.
FranJan
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http://ledsmagazine.com/news/10/5/9
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" Clearly, Cree's 88% brighter claim was relative to LEDs from competitors and not its own prior-generation XP-E color LEDs. Based on a look at the data sheets, the new royal blue LEDs offer around a 30% improvement over Cree's prior LEDs in the same package. The improvement in the other colors varies by color but is generally below 15%. Still, that upgrade can be significant in many applications."
rememberingnever
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Wow... 27 pages later, great read... I'm thinking its time I build my own custom LED now and believe me this is not the first thread i've gone through, I think I found you guys in a few corners of the web while I caught up over the past year of progress. I've been tempted by a few panels (Grow Northern/Dutch Passions offerings, Eshines DS 11 bands etc.), but I really want to be able to build custom panels in order to suit my grow area best and try to maximize results. I have a little drobe around 75*55cm deep and run 250-400w hps usually each for 4 weeks during flower after vegging with a 125w cfl. I'm debating what kind of spectrum to go for, but the whites and reds are the priorities I feel mainly. I do want a few blue in there. I usually have my 250w hps around 6" away from my scrog screen and have managed 8-10oz over the past 3 crops pretty consistently. I'd like to be able to run 250-400w of led power in there as an alternative. Because of the density of my scrog a I wonder if a 150SSL would be better for the reds? or perhaps use 90's and then a secondary optic such as used by the grow northern panels in order to distribute light. I also have another possible project, a stainless steel box I have... Perhaps I could use it was the heatsink for a small wall mounted veg/mother room.
Have there been any developments over the past few months?
Thankyou to everyone thats contributed here and elsewhere, Guod, SupraSPL, green surfer and others
Have there been any developments over the past few months?
Thankyou to everyone thats contributed here and elsewhere, Guod, SupraSPL, green surfer and others