Well I don't even remotely believe the sales hype about led lights, but I do think on a watt for watt comparison they perform ok. Summer time heat will be an issue for sure and my old lady isn't going to let me get a crazy setup going so for me the led wasn't a hard choice. Sure I'd like it if it outperforms the 150 hps but we shall see how that pans out. If it totally sucks balls I'll sell the led and put the 150 back in and figure out those temps.
You know I've seen some grows where the plants were vegged with LEDs and they seemed to work beautifully and they were able to cover a large area, they just fall short in flowering more times than not. I could definitely see people replacing Fluor t5 and cfl with led sooner than later. I thought the light would be brighter, I dunno just based on what other people said about them. I don't mean brighter per se, but maybe like a higher volume of red, does that make sense? It's making sense in my head
The platinum only yielded 7g ea plant. They went from clone straight into 12/12 and not pretty clones at that. So 7g each should be super easy to beat!
That's funny, I bought a phototron when I was 19... Which was 20 years ago! My cabinet stays on a 12/12 cycle, makes it so I can add or remove plants at will. They sex by around 18-21 days from seed. In my previous pic the biggest solo cup is a female that showed that day. so I need to pot her up to the 1 gal but I haven't yet. So you can see who's female early on while they're still small.
Time wise you aren't really saving much time over a normal type grow, maybe a week or 2 at most. Still looking at 10-12 weeks start to finish. Although they show sex at like 3 weeks they don't really start budding for awhile.
I got to buy my blackstar with tax money, the rest went to the household. And by household I mean her!
Yeah if you follow my first thread I had a single large plant I vegged normal etc and it hermied on me, complete waste of like 5 weeks. So to not put all my eggs in one basket I do several smaller plants now. This way I can just do whatever without having a separate veg area.
