i know EXACTLY what you mean about unmarketable buds. i used to get 20-30% unmarketable buds from my grows until i started to prune away bud sites and learn to maintain a proper canopy, now its 100% marketable buds. im not selling with any growers collective but im in BC, canada, and in a competative market like this you get a better price for quality, so its very much worth it to go the "extra mile" to get dense, marketable buds.
there ARE pictures as well. it seems good so far.
I've seen a couple 400 watt induction lights in person. They were doing pretty good. They are heavy, and pretty big. The ones I saw were about 36" long x around 15" wide. The guy was lighting a 2' x 4' area with each light, combined to make a 4' x 4' area. I saw the buds at around 6 weeks into bloom. They were not as big as proper HID lighting, but bigger and denser than any LED I had ever seen. The canopy was proper for the lights, being short and relatively dense. The lights run very cool. I don't know what the end yield was, as I was just just there to add a sub-panel for the rest of the grow. These were in a large commercial op. The grower was testing the induction lights for consideration in using them in his expansion. I do know that he ended up using HID's. So, we can deduce that the outcome wasn't overly impressive. I know this grower wouldn't even flinch at high initial purchase price.
Dude, get over yourself. You earned the dumbest post of the day by far. Denile is more than a river in Egypt.
That's right. In fact not much UV gets past the glass envelope of the bulb itself.
I did not call anyone names. The only post I ever read by footclan was the one I quoted on UV. I have some professional experience in that area so I thought I would offer what I know.
Oh my fault I got you confused with the other guy. Idk how, I think I might smoke too much.........NAAAAAAHH
np
I usually am the other guy but today I thought I would take a break and just be myself.
does post count mean somthing?? is post count a thing we want?? why do i care how many posts i have??Wow, this thread is booming... And so is FootClans post count!
I didn't read a lot of the arguing either, so I may have missed a bit as well.
That is an interesting point. I see that when you purchase individual LEDs, they do give a Lumen output. Here is a 90W Cool White LED with a 3800lm rating. So it is possible to get LEDs with lumen ratings, there is even an 21200lm LED that is a hell of a lot cheaper than that cool white one! I bring that up, because it is obviously possible to measure LEDs by lumen output. It makes me wonder why that is not given by the grow light manufacturers. IMO it may be a sign of inferior product.
Now, one thing that I have always wondered when it comes to lights, is the relationship between wattage, lumens, and wavelengths. People seem to be very obsessed with wattage, which makes a bit of sense, after all it would make sense that more wattage = more light/more powerful light. But aren't lumens the actual measure of light output? Considering that an average spotting light (for deer) is about 19mil lumens, and runs off of a 12v car outlet, I'm not convinced that is true. It would seem that using lumens to compare would be more accurate, and could help with the LED issue.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: Candlepower to Lumen Conversion
I think he means you have posted a lot in this thread. Maybe if you didn't make a couple of defensive posts on every single page of this thread people would notice you a little less.
Lumens are essentially Watts adjusted for human vision. The eye does not see all colors equally. It is most sensitive to green, much less so with blue and red. It takes many more red or blue watts to appear as bright as green watts.
unless those Lumens are presented in 450 NM and 650 NM like they are when you are using a HPS light. the majority of the radiation is in the blue (400 NM) and red spectrum (600 NM) of light which is why HPS dominate the market.
almost everyone here has allready seen this video. its NOT ACCURATE.
Yes. That was going to be my next post. You scooped me. I'll say it anyway
and its what we NEED.