Ok, I have to agree with just about everything you said. LED's just don't perform the way that they're advertised - I admit that. That's not my point! My interest in LED's, at this point, is to find out why they don't deliver the goods (as promised)!well for the last 4 years ive been using different forums (been growing longer than that ) everytime ive seen a led grow its ended up a disaster or really pathetic yeild , go look on the icmag forums theres a very respected grower on there doing a led grow now and it sucks .
nassa only used them in space because of technical reasons , not because they were the best thing to use for growing .its called clever advertising by the ufo boys , but very misleading ( as it seems to of mislead you )
anyone who has been about a bit will tell you leds are not very good for growing ,I WISH THEY WHERE ID BE FIRST TO BUY ONE , but take a look around and you will see why there isnt one in my grow tent right now .maybe in the future but definately not yet.
peace
I have done a fair amount of research on the theory of LED grow lights in the past, but the results were always so disappointing that I became disillusioned. However, LED's do show some promising charactoristics (at least on paper). LED's seem to work better on non-cannabis crops, especially in the flowering stage. I have followed LED grow journals that showed very decent vegging, followed by disasterous flowering, time and again. Why is that? That's what I'm trying to figure out! Believe me, I'm well aware of their shortcommings - I just want to know why! Like I've said before "In theory they should work better. In fact, they don't!".
The only one I have an ax to grind with is la9. He claims to be an expert at just about everything pertaining to growing but refuses to back up his cheap shots with anything but accusations and lies. I even laid down a challange to him on another thread - "explain what you're talking about or shut the fuck up". He just responded with a bunch of psycho-bable because he hasn't got a clue!
The curious nerd inside me wants to know - come on la9, show your superior wisdom and explain it to me. You claim to know why, so why don't you just come out and explain it?