Clown Baby
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incandescent lighting will give you the fattest buds bro!!
"Humanoids"? WTF? I said LEDs cost more. Pay attention. If you think that we have more than a moderate understanding of how plants use light, you're not qualified to advise anyone. If you want to spend a lot of money to play with new technology, by all means, please do. Your money will help fund research to make LEDs both cheaper and more effective. When they get cheaper and better, I'll be very happy to buy them. The first color TVs were crappy and very expensive. "Early adopters" paid for the research that made them better and cheaper. LEDs are just not ready for mass consumption yet. When you can buy a true 1000 watt LED with a much better spectrum for 2-300 bucks in five years (or less), you'll regret that you spent $2000 to get 200 or less true watts in a poorer spectrum. I'm happy to see you get a bad deal so I can get a better one. I just don't think it's right to encourage newbies to waste their money.I'm a bit confused about the bit in bold. Your saying that humanoids have not figured out the correct spectrum for cannabis. Then you a human being to tell us that one needs less watts to do it with led and more with HID and hid costs more? You don't know what your talking about..... Glad you got your digs in on Foreverflyhi? Cause that's about all you contributed with that nonsense. Folks, led is one light of many. Both led and hid are great light sources. One costs way more and is less familiar. Some folks will balk at change, this is what happens when new tech hits the markets. Look at some growers who are in Europe and pay almost 50 cents kwh. Leds looks like gold to them. To say that either light is the best for any situation is OBTUSE. I use both led and hid. However I can see myself switching to all led in the future when prices come down a bit. With all that being said I own 5 led units.
No, a continuous nuclear explosion 93 million miles away will give you the fattest buds!incandescent lighting will give you the fattest buds bro!!
Or steal a bunch of the newer traffic lights. They're everywhere.Just jack.the mcdonalds sign on the strip in vegas and grow with that. It has a lot of red led's
"Humanoids"? WTF? I said LEDs cost more. Pay attention. If you think that we have more than a moderate understanding of how plants use light, you're not qualified to advise anyone. If you want to spend a lot of money to play with new technology, by all means, please do. Your money will help fund research to make LEDs both cheaper and more effective. When they get cheaper and better, I'll be very happy to buy them. The first color TVs were crappy and very expensive. "Early adopters" paid for the research that made them better and cheaper. LEDs are just not ready for mass consumption yet. When you can buy a true 1000 watt LED with a much better spectrum for 2-300 bucks in five years (or less), you'll regret that you spent $2000 to get 200 or less true watts in a poorer spectrum. I'm happy to see you get a bad deal so I can get a better one. I just don't think it's right to encourage newbies to waste their money.
That would be a nice test to be done.lol im not meaning to troll but hyroot you are absolutly right as far as spectrum goes but do you think LED has the light intensity to grow plants 4-5ft in height?
personally i dont think flouro or LED can hold up in a 10x10 grow room, but it we where using x3 4x4 lit with LED SOG more small plants yeild could be similar.
check out my grow Poly.... so far REALLY GOOD!"i saw a highbay induction light at the hardware store the other the day it was bright as fuck."
oh yeah i forgot will do! but for real that shit looked nice....check out my grow Poly.... so far REALLY GOOD!
so far the induction lamp is exceeding my expectations.... pistils after 3 or 4 days of 12/12.... and zero heat footprint..... with inline fan same as ambient temp....loving it~oh yeah i forgot will do! but for real that shit looked nice....
Typing on ur phone is a bitch huh.....
I don't really know about 4ft to 5ft. Mine are usually 2.5 to 3 ft. Some end up at 3.5. With t5 I did 3 sog batches in 1 gals. I got 6 to 7 oz off 1 8 bulb. I have had better results with larger plants. Which im back to doing now. Finishing around 3 ft. And taking up 1.5 x 1.5 each plant.
The ones I have in veg now im doing nugbuckets main line method. Thats much longer veg time. But those will be much wider at 2.5 to.3ft tall so will see.
Like I said I have better results with larger plants. In sog. Plants do not veg enough to create a good root ball in soil and cant even hold themselves up. I had to put a stake in each pot. Larger plants, I don't have too. If I did sog again I would do dwc. But I like organic soils more. Less work and better quality than hydro.
not in the case of LEDs and flouro since the light is distributed over a larger surface area.I honestly do not see too many 4' or 5' tall plants being grown with LEDs unless it has 600w or more of actual draw.
I think expecting a 150w or even a 300w LED to penetrate like a 600w or 1000w HPS is asking too much. A 150w LED will penetrate like, well, a 150w light.