Test Grow with MH, Sunshine 90W Led and 240 Watt BlackStar Led

What do you think of LED light ?


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fssalaska

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One thing to always remember when growing with led lighting, is to adjust the light during the grow cycle, always keeping the light just inches from the tip of the plant. Scrog grows do exceptionally well with leds in small, confined spaces. Too many people downplay leds, due to poor results during the R&D phase of led grow lights. They certainly have come a long way the past few years. The biggest advantage of the lights are the super low energy cost, and minute amount of heat produced, so colling is not an issue. Also, leds promote shorter, bushy plants, so they are ideal for grow chambers, grow boxes, and closet grows. As the prices continue to fall, more and more people will experiment with led lighting, and make their own decision from there. Happy growing! :blsmoke:
Yah sounds about right small grows, they would work but the websites selling them are full of shit when they say " 90 watt UFO is = to a 400 Watt MH/HPS " < there way WAY WAYYYYY OFF from what I've seen it would take 6, 90 Watt UFO to = a 400 Watt MH/HPS and even then I dont think it would do as good.. LEDs in my home for house lights, they work Awesome ! LEDs GROW LIGHTS? Yah In about 10 years when they improve and the price drops, right now there just to much money and to little results for anyone growing 20 or more plants.
 

p3ps1c0la

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from a lot of the LED grows i've seen LEDs tend to keep the plants shorter and bushier than mh/hps so i think you stopped too soon. also if you disregard price the blackstar was using less than half the wattage your 400 watter was so the results so far weren't bad to me. you also didn't put up walls to block the lights from bleeding over to the mh and vice versa. not a very good comparison grow. you said you didn't want to end up with a bad grow or w/e. isn't that was a test grow about? discovering end results to properly judge the lights? i'm not very impressed with the way you conducted this experiment.

compartmentalize the different lights and just use soil and water. focus on the lights. let the experiment finish and give the technology a REAL chance. but im just a noob.
 

fssalaska

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from a lot of the LED grows i've seen LEDs tend to keep the plants shorter and bushier than mh/hps so i think you stopped too soon. also if you disregard price the blackstar was using less than half the wattage your 400 watter was so the results so far weren't bad to me. you also didn't put up walls to block the lights from bleeding over to the mh and vice versa. not a very good comparison grow. you said you didn't want to end up with a bad grow or w/e. isn't that was a test grow about? discovering end results to properly judge the lights? i'm not very impressed with the way you conducted this experiment.

compartmentalize the different lights and just use soil and water. focus on the lights. let the experiment finish and give the technology a REAL chance. but im just a noob.
BS on the keep the plants shorter and bushier than mh/hps ... I know what I saw with my own eye's
 

foreverflyhi

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horrible experiement! sorry but this is just simply bad, u didnt even finish ur third week and u gave up. HA, blackstar 240 are great LEDS if u use them right, it looked like you could of had it down, but u gave up, HORRIBLE
 

fssalaska

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horrible experiement! sorry but this is just simply bad, u didnt even finish ur third week and u gave up. HA, blackstar 240 are great LEDS if u use them right, it looked like you could of had it down, but u gave up, HORRIBLE
Did not finish because I saw enough to reallies LEDs sucked and I was not going to waste my plants with shit lights I would have ended up with small buds and small string beans. So go back to your Led store on ebay and stfu. :)
 

fssalaska

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UPDATE: I still think the Sunshine UFOs are shit. But I just finished a full crop with blackstars and HPS and I have to say that in my test before I stopped to soon.. I still prefer the MH/HPS over LEDs but the blackstars I have work pretty damn good in flowering, The buds came out almost as big as the HPS but I had the blackstars right on top of the plants like 3 inchs so the covrage sucked. but they do work.
 
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