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Athos · 03-12-2018, 03:24 PM

I know currently we agree that 30 watts per square feet is a good mark for a LED micro grow.

Regarding LED lights, be it bubs or DIY, has anyone gone over this to let's say 50 watts per square ft? What were your results with it?

cannanaut · 03-14-2018, 12:10 PM

Last micro grow I had is with 78w 4000k Philips LED bulbs and 8w 660nm supplementary light. 15 plants in party cups grown 11/13 from seed in 1.6 sqf. ended up with 1g/w.

HuffnPufferfish · 03-15-2018, 09:42 PM

yes, it got stressed

bsgospel · 03-16-2018, 11:35 AM

I think it was Reiko (?) in his workshop thread recently mentioned pushing around 40 watts with his new kit. If you follow along there, results should show over the next run.

Athos · 03-16-2018, 03:44 PM

Actually I was surfing through some threads looking for the sqft and light watts others are using, to see if someone is close to what I was asking.

What do you know? Blynx himself was been close to 50 watt/sqft all along on one of his cabs. In his "Led micro cab" the one with 8 bulbs, he uses 8 x 10 watts = 80 watts over a 1.74 sq ft area, resulting in 46 watts per square feet.

So yeah, once I have more experience with the cab as it is and I'm better at controlling the canopy height, I might get more light in there.

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Athos Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 167	LED watts per sq ft I know currently we agree that 30 watts per square feet is a good mark for a LED micro grow. Regarding LED lights, be it bubs or DIY, has anyone gone over this to let's say 50 watts per square ft? What were your results with it?
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cannanaut Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 311	Last micro grow I had is with 78w 4000k Philips LED bulbs and 8w 660nm supplementary light. 15 plants in party cups grown 11/13 from seed in 1.6 sqf. ended up with 1g/w. __________________ Up in the Space!
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HuffnPufferfish Member Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: under the sea Posts: 756	yes, it got stressed __________________ watching grass grow
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bsgospel Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 398	I think it was Reiko (?) in his workshop thread recently mentioned pushing around 40 watts with his new kit. If you follow along there, results should show over the next run. __________________ It's time for a revolution, but probably not in the terms that people imagine it. The word conjures up images of— a modern day version of peasants going into the street with their pitch forks to go after the bad guy who lives in a big house and we're gonna get that son-of-a-bitch and we'll take all the stuff from him and we'll give it to the workers. That's not the kind of revolution I had in mind. I thought that it might be nice if it was handled a little bit more modern and efficient way, without people getting slaughtered. It's a matter of infiltration…The people who are in control of the media, the government that run the lives of the average person in the street. They aren't doing a good job 'cause they don't really care. The potential is there in the younger generation. Right now they’re not really interested. Their political involvement is on a very superficial basis. They go out for the social aspects of a march or a rally rather than for what it could possibly accomplish. -FZ
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Athos Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 167	Actually I was surfing through some threads looking for the sqft and light watts others are using, to see if someone is close to what I was asking. What do you know? Blynx himself was been close to 50 watt/sqft all along on one of his cabs. In his "Led micro cab" the one with 8 bulbs, he uses 8 x 10 watts = 80 watts over a 1.74 sq ft area, resulting in 46 watts per square feet. So yeah, once I have more experience with the cab as it is and I'm better at controlling the canopy height, I might get more light in there. Last edited by Athos; 03-17-2018 at 12:32 AM..
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