LED or TCL for seedlings and A mother plant

Kisskorv

Kisskorv

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Hello. I'm staring my second grow soon. My question is What is the bets alternative for seedlings and A mother plant in A grow tent (90X90cm) In my first grow I used Mammoth TNeon 2x 75W 9500k. I have tried to look at youtube but I'm just getting more confused. Anyone how has experience in LED?

A little fotnot, the Mammoth TNeon 2x 75W 9500k go for about 90€ in Sweden

Grateful for all response
 
Kisskorv

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Kingrow1 said:
A hps or cmh will cover a 90x90 mother tent. Leds are confusing just buy one of the top models or painfully diy one for less.

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Ok Tanks for your replay. Can you recomen any DIY in Europe. Are there benefits except the electric bill, when it comes tO LED, HPS, CMH?

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coreywebster

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I don't know of any Swedish companies but if you google ledgardener strip build you can find some good info on DIY and source parts from digikey.

There are some good EU companies like diyleduk or led-tech.de that you can get kits from, possibly look at invisible sun.

If your only ever going to veg mothers and start seedlings then less than 15w per square foot would do well and a strip build with simple L shaped aluminium angle as heat sink/frame will be cheap and simple to put together.

Possible go with bridgelux EB gen2 2ft strips which are very cheap at the moment.
 
Kingrow1

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coreywebster said:
I don't know of any Swedish companies but if you google ledgardener strip build you can find some good info on DIY and source parts from digikey.

There are some good EU companies like diyleduk or led-tech.de that you can get kits from, possibly look at invisible sun.

If your only ever going to veg mothers and start seedlings then less than 15w per square foot would do well and a strip build with simple L shaped aluminium angle as heat sink/frame will be cheap and simple to put together.

Possible go with bridgelux EB gen2 2ft strips which are very cheap at the moment.
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Are they more dedicated led shops? Rare i see leds in any hydro shop in the UK :-)
 
coreywebster

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Kingrow1 said:
Are they more dedicated led shops? Rare i see leds in any hydro shop in the UK :-)
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Yeah just LED, the German one is not specific to grow lights either, everything LED related.

But yeah I don't think you will see many LEDs in our hydro stores , some of the huge warehouse ones have them and are just catching on to White LEDs.
End of the day they will stick to what's in demand and I'm sure outside of forums in the UK grow market there must be 25 HPS growers to every LED grower and half those LED growers are still ill informed and probably using shite.
 
Kingrow1

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coreywebster said:
Yeah just LED, the German one is not specific to grow lights either, everything LED related.

But yeah I don't think you will see many LEDs in our hydro stores , some of the huge warehouse ones have them and are just catching on to White LEDs.
End of the day they will stick to what's in demand and I'm sure outside of forums in the UK grow market there must be 25 HPS growers to every LED grower and half those LED growers are still ill informed and probably using shite.
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Actually i seen that diyleduk is a member here too which is great for those in the Uk :-)
 
Kisskorv

Kisskorv

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coreywebster said:
I don't know of any Swedish companies but if you google ledgardener strip build you can find some good info on DIY and source parts from digikey.

There are some good EU companies like diyleduk or led-tech.de that you can get kits from, possibly look at invisible sun.

If your only ever going to veg mothers and start seedlings then less than 15w per square foot would do well and a strip build with simple L shaped aluminium angle as heat sink/frame will be cheap and simple to put together.

Possible go with bridgelux EB gen2 2ft strips which are very cheap at the moment.
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Thanks for your reply. I will definitely check your suggestions.. :leaf:
 
coreywebster

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coreywebster

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Kisskorv said:
Tanks for the reply. Is it the red spectra that's A bit low?
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I haven't seen the data sheet. I imagine it been samsungs new horti range it will be like higher blue on average with added reds or something to boost those peaks.
Probably lacking UV. Not that im saying you need it. Just nit picking at the term "full spec".
I would rather have those or any white LED than a red/green/blue with token IR and UV diodes which are only there for show.

See what price you can get, might be pricing themselves out, im seeing £50 per strip which would mean possibly too expensive in comparison to many other strips or boards available.
 
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Kisskorv

Kisskorv

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coreywebster said:
I haven't seen the data sheet. I imagine it been samsungs new horti range it will be like higher blue on average with added reds or something to boost those peaks.
Probably lacking UV. Not that im saying you need it. Just nit picking at the term "full spec".
I would rather have those or any white LED than a red/green/blue with token IR and UV diodes which are only there for show.

See what price you can get, might be pricing themselves out, im seeing £50 per strip which would mean possibly too expensive in comparison to many other strips or boards available.
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Ok. Thank again for your input, I really appreciate it. Happy growing
 
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