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CMH vs LED vs HPS
- Thread starter Gerardbutler79
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Would be curious to see a grow with one of these:
www.stedi.com.au
Although I’m not keen to try it.
- Let me know how it goes.
ST3303 PRO 39 INCH 60 LED Light Bar
Introducing the all-new ST3303 PRO 29 Inch 60 LED.
www.stedi.com.au
Although I’m not keen to try it.
- Let me know how it goes.
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Looks like a veg monster...
I would def try it for vegging but it looks pricey
My stupid panels that I've used before are damn good at veg but have such a poor layout and construction... Need to reconfigure them into stripes somehow to let airflow better from bottom to top.. now it's just blocked by this ss metal sheet...
It's a 110k lm beast, never saw plants grow this crazy under no light but LEDs
In vegging, long hours, high run time, LEDs can't be beat, if you know what ur doing u will use LEDs in your grow.
I would def try it for vegging but it looks pricey
My stupid panels that I've used before are damn good at veg but have such a poor layout and construction... Need to reconfigure them into stripes somehow to let airflow better from bottom to top.. now it's just blocked by this ss metal sheet...
It's a 110k lm beast, never saw plants grow this crazy under no light but LEDs
In vegging, long hours, high run time, LEDs can't be beat, if you know what ur doing u will use LEDs in your grow.
There's a few growers on here that have partially swapped to led. I'd love to see lap tests comparing their hid vs led...
Yes you do. I see amazing look bud for cheap because it's led bud that only lasts 30min an your rolling up again
that depends at potency of cut or strain then and maybe you have already higher tolerance
I have people lined up waiting for my hps grown bud because they all feel the same way about the local led bs bud. Before I harvest it's already gone. Which is why I'd love to see some of these well known growers have lab results of the same strain under led an hid. I highly doubt it's a coincidence. One person brought up led not fully maturing the THC, which does fit with the short lived high... Does led require a week longer flower to fully rippen the THC heads? Idk but from personal experience I've yet to not be let down by led grown bud. They work amazing in veg no doubt.
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We have touched this point at length in the BUD quality under LEDs thread..
Yes there is truth in what u say, I experienced the same.
Most of the times, but there's more then meets the eye in this subject.
I held that notion, and I still hold it till this day.
I had amazing results in veg with LEDs
And I will always say it, I'm not rooting for this light source or that, I'm saying what I've seen from my own grows and the data they give us
LEDs can't be beat in veg, it's just a no brainer
For flowering I will never use them until they bring the diodes above high intensity threshold
They have time.
Comparing pics.. I'm all set have a good day
Some genetics do alright under LEDs, I can't really explain why, I planted 10 blue cheese / 10 wedding cake from barney's and all of them were hairy trichs, almost no effect no smell and very low glue
From them 1 was out of the ordinary, it had smell, flavour, glue..
So I dunno, my only thought about this is genetics plays a huge role
Everything is not conclusive that's the hard part, I wish I would've grown the same seeds under HPS for even slight kind of reference, clones would be a better side by side experience, but my mind is not letting me sacrifice time on flowering plants under LEDs
But I do know to say the truth when it should be told, I'm dying to change my 1200w hps setup back to my LEDs in veg
20 hours of 1200w, blowers, ac, a lot of heat... Hps is not practical in hot regions
But in 12/12 you must handle the heat and place your HIDs back
From them 1 was out of the ordinary, it had smell, flavour, glue..
So I dunno, my only thought about this is genetics plays a huge role
Everything is not conclusive that's the hard part, I wish I would've grown the same seeds under HPS for even slight kind of reference, clones would be a better side by side experience, but my mind is not letting me sacrifice time on flowering plants under LEDs
But I do know to say the truth when it should be told, I'm dying to change my 1200w hps setup back to my LEDs in veg
20 hours of 1200w, blowers, ac, a lot of heat... Hps is not practical in hot regions
But in 12/12 you must handle the heat and place your HIDs back
linde
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LED vs HID is similar to the vacuum tube vs solid state transfer back in the 60s. Everybody liked solid state at first for the light weight and less heat, less parts and quickness. But later on people realized that vacuum tube technology was far superior quality than the new solid state technology. Heck all of my guitar amps still use vacuum tubes. An ancient technology that solid state just cannot touch to this day. For budding I will stick with my old HPS technology.
That LED I posted uses 60 x CREE XPL Hi-Intensity 10w diodes for a peak intensity of 919,681 candela. It’s not a ‘grow light’ though. Still measures 1 lux at 153 metres.
i am about to cut down my 1st grow under a mars fce8000 in a 5x5ft tent- i have been running the lite at about 70pct - the plants are in 3gallon fabric pots, and one thing is for certain... the buds are way smaller then the last grow under '2' 315 cmh's, and look like popcorn compared to when we were using '4' 1000watter mh/hps (in a larger room)... at the end for me, its quality, so in some weeks after a dry and cure we will see...
I have a Lumatek Zeus 465w/2,9, the most recent version of their line, it's my first cycle with it.
That's really high temps to get in winter, it's the first time someone mentions the need of so much heat with LED can you elaborate ?
ratatouille
New member
In my experience everything just grows better at this temperatueres under LED, if you go with like 24 C you also have to feed way less otherwise you get problems with overfeed. Im not saying its not possible to get good crop with lower temps, in last weeks I also reduce temperature. But in my opinion you get better results with higher temps, mainly because LED dont have that much waste heat. Also I use selfmade organic soil, the microbes etc. work way faster with higher temps, look up van-’t-Hoff’sche Rule.
