So, ive grown with both of them, and also see in other people threads (the LED ones) that weight increased due to more diodes giving light at more places but the bud itself and quality for me was shit and to be honest also in most of the LED journals i look it looks shit too, when i say shit i mean when comparing to HPS or MH, each LED grow i smoke and see is shit quality, i mean what can you expect from a diode that only make 250 Lm ??
according to the book of old LED myths and legends chapter 2, an array of many leds (like the 600W+ panels) give you a total lets say 100,000 Lm right ? wrong ! you just added 300+ 250 Lm diodes together lol, its quite embarrassing that people forget simple math and logic when it comes to spending money on bogus claims, i saw on another thread here a LED panel that claims 5000 umol for 5000 $$ hahahaha i wonder if i put 10K i will get 10K umol
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people are so gullible these days and that goes for all led panels, ive pretty much tried them all from the lowest wattage ones to a "beast" 800w panels
And will never use them again, the only thing they do good is covering more space, but with what ? a low intensity small diode lol
i rather put 4 250W HPS on a 4 X 4 or even a 5 X 5 and get better results all day long, the only problem is heat, but i will take the 5-10% lose of light and power due to the glass in the airhood and some lower working temp for the bulb.
weight means nothing if most of it is leafy shit and not potent medicine, i dont care how long your trees are, its the med that counts, LED dont grow Meds like HPS, i dont know how people dont see it ?? look at LED flower and look at CMH or HPS flower, am i the only one who see the difference ?
They are all liars, in the bible it says that money will blind the just and the wise men, no exception in our times
First we started with 40-50 inch height recommendations, now the most expansive LEDs tell us to put them 5-6 inch from canopy ? so anyone with eyes in his head and some brain should know they are low intensity lights, next they will tell us to make the plants hug them for better penetration
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Next they told us that they make 3000umol and 5000umol and it wont end there oh no the show must go on,
a 600 HPS will give you 2000 umol at 10 inch from canopy give or take, and under the hood itself not in the sides, that why HPS lacks the better light spreading of LED, but it makes up for it in creating and growing crazy potent ass MEDS
All in all i will never try LED again, such a waste of time
when they will show me a 250 or 400w diode that push more Lm then HPS maybe we meet again
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but then they are back to the start as HPS does that today without waiting haha