*Disclaimer - I've searched for forum at length to avoid duplicate posting on this topic, not guaranteeing that I've achieved this...
I'm preparing for my 2nd grow already, really excited! Had mixed success with my 1st one, grew decent smokable weed but fucked up a lot and I'm looking forward to making improvements. ONE of these improvements is on my lighting... I have a King Plus 1000w LED blurple right now and a 2x4x5 vivo tent. I plan on setting up a 2nd tent (2x2x5, I don't have a lot of space in my home to work with) and transitioning the blurple to the smaller tent which will allow me to continue to get use out of it and better coverage. This new light will go in the 2x4. The 2x4 will have 2 5-gal planters in it going forward (I tried to cramp 3 plants in, terrible idea in hindsight) and the 2x2 will obviously have 1 plant.
Upgrade Options I'm Considering:
I'm preparing for my 2nd grow already, really excited! Had mixed success with my 1st one, grew decent smokable weed but fucked up a lot and I'm looking forward to making improvements. ONE of these improvements is on my lighting... I have a King Plus 1000w LED blurple right now and a 2x4x5 vivo tent. I plan on setting up a 2nd tent (2x2x5, I don't have a lot of space in my home to work with) and transitioning the blurple to the smaller tent which will allow me to continue to get use out of it and better coverage. This new light will go in the 2x4. The 2x4 will have 2 5-gal planters in it going forward (I tried to cramp 3 plants in, terrible idea in hindsight) and the 2x2 will obviously have 1 plant.
Upgrade Options I'm Considering:
- Spider Farm SF-2000. $300 Everything I read on this forum is "best budget quantum board" etc etc
- Green Sunshine Co ES180v2 - $420 I've only seen about 10,000 posts on RIU about this light but have not concluded whether its worth jumping from the Spider Farm to this light...
- Timber Grow 3VL - $420 - Same thing here, I don't fully understand the benefits of this design/tech over the GSC but i've seen nothing but rave reviews on this site and others...
- Quality of light / Yield
- Canopy coverage - I anticipate that my options above will provide better coverage for two SCROGed plants in the 2x4 than my current blurple
- Profile - the blurple is clunky and vertical space is scarce... a thinner profile light will help get back an inch or two of much needed vertical space.
- Gives me an excuse to build a 2nd tent lol