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You can also get the 13W (100W equivalent) Philips bulbs. Or other 100W equivalents. https://www.rollitup.org/t/got-my-ge-brightstiks.896869/ LED bulbs have become pretty efficient, and a better option than cheap ebay panels.

Having two LED chips in a single package. Like a Cree XHP 50 (Which I think has 4) Or a COB which has many

Lenses (reflectors too) do add some inefficiencies. But on the other hand a tighter beam angle makes it much easier to direct all the light on a plant. It depends a bit how close you can get your lights to the plants. The Fluence Spydr fixture is made in such a way that you can place it very...

So will Amare ever go back to blurple? I wonder how much of blurple was a symptom of the LED technology back then. Phosphor based white light leds have really improved over the last few years. Fluence also went from blurple to white. Though blurple lights are still being developed and made by...

You could switch to a 17/7 or 18/6 light cycle if you're that concerned. A quality driver shouldn't have any problems with the heat.

Peppers can do very well in small pots.

I like to look at low cost options before the high cost ones. T5s are very cheap, you can still easily grow a year (maybe 2) with them and then look at the now discounted LED options. Though I think the time is very close to close the curtains of regular T5 forever. It will still have a place...

DE Gavita has a lumen maintenance of 95% after 5000 hours. And is 90% after 10000 hours, roughly the same as a T5. Osram T5s have a lumen maintenance of 95% after 4000 hours. Same goes for Philips ones. What T5s are you using? There aren't very many that get to 30%, besides a few high...

Anything will flower well as long as you pump out enough light. Electricity cost and ventilation will make some options better or worse though. Even incandescent could probably flower well. 1500W incandescent, 3-4 square foot growroom. 0.1g/w

Australia I assume. Only country that';s doing that iirc.

The real problem is that the plants can absorb lead, which you really don't want in your smokes.

That's lead isn't it? Quickly replace the lead weights with something less toxic like iron or copper.

Do you have some leftover led or cfl bulbs / equipment to easily mount them in a PC case? You could already start vegging then, PC case is I guess 1 square foot max, 30 (real, not equiv)) watt of LED bulbs should veg it very well. I'd wait for the drill press, not really a big fan of soldering...

Only real problem with blurple is that it can be hard to identify if your plant is having problems so you need some other light with a better cri. Or those stupid glasses.

That's why you use multiple bulbs. Good deals are less than or around half a dollar per watt. I've bought some Osram Parathoms 20W for my (still germinating) peppers, 2452 lumen if Osram isn't talking shit. Bright as fuck, eye damaging bright when I took the cover off. 122lm/w (including...

Yea, 4 1212@1.05A. I just meant, 50 watt at 1.7 sq feet would veg it very very well.

Fuck waiting for germination

Yea, and even 1 cob would be enough to flower it productively. (1212 or anything better) And regarding your first post wether or not you should go above 800-900 ppfd, only if you run CO2. You can go higher without CO2 but yield will not really increase all that much anymore.

Because most light eventually turns into heat, only a small part is used for photosynthesis. In a shoebox a 20w incandescent is going to heat it up as well as a 20W Osram LED bulb that puts out 2400 lumen.

With or without lenses? What kind of grow area. This reeks like shill. Especially because you claim the epistar is killing it, and not the cree one.