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Best bang for your Buck$ for new growers wanting to find the best cheap lights lol

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freddyyola

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is there such thing as an best cheap light? i want quality honestly but it dont want the over priced bs trickery.. im looking for basically the best bang for your buck light that if need be ill get one now and uprade to more as i go or future grows..
 
Depends on the size of your space but I use leds in one tent and hps in another and I’d say the hps is the best bang for the buck. You can get a decent quality hps setup for $140-$200 depending on the size of your space. I like my cheap Amazon leds and still use them, but I’m glad I upgraded to hps in my other tent!!
 
Ebay.
Got me a Hydro planet hood, 400w ballast, 1 Mh, 1 hps, used one time, ship to the door for 80 bucks (good enough to get it done). Later Added a Phantom 600w used for 40$ and a second used hood from the local grow shop for 25$, 1 NEW Horticulture 600 watt hps bulb 65$
(bulbs is were you space no expense) and have myself a veg tent and a flower tent lights setup for around 2 bills.
good luck.
 
/www.amazon.com/Lightimetunnel-Reflector-Heatproof-Greenhouse-Hydroponic/dp/B01MPY7YC2/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1528538155&sr=8-8&keywords=300w+led+grow+light

$53 for a 300w led I have 6 of them and have had no problems in 8 months
 
315cmh, dimmable, that does come in handy on young plants.
Just perfect for a 3x3 tent. The one I got ,doesn't even get, hot. If the room it's in is 70degrees, inside my tent it's like 75-77degrees, And that's when it's turned up to 345watts.
They are good lights for small grows. 3-4 plants in a 3x3 tent,
 
I am usinh mars hydro light. They are really Good and i have Only found positive reviews.
they are making lights in different price range, I am using their Mars Hydro Pro II cree 256.
 
thanks alot guys ima check ebay and used stuff and if i had tio choose pay now or later id pay later of course pretty much a trade off for some my harvest could always start out hps and change it up later i was worried bout the heat really cause add the cost of cooling the hps then its not really cheaper at all
 
i dont want anything cheap really ill save up for a good 1000 watt set up whats the max plants you think i can squeeze under that and still have hefty size
 
thanks for the tips and links guys ima check em out, what i mean by best bang for your buck is since the price gets better as the higher wattage goes or the more you are trying to buy is there a certain light i should be aiming towards getting and then just upgrade to more later and yeah 53 bucks for 300w led is cheap but does it really get 300w led yields? and do you know how much they yield? and same thing i was thinking about the viparspectra they have good prices but i was wondering if they were not worth it or too far on the cheap side to be any quality.
 
i guess i have a 4x4ish grow area i plan trying to get some going out side and a few inside that way i can get free light from the sun but its risky for me i do wanna have a light or lights that can handle at least 4 good sized plants does a hps really get 1 watt per gram? also if i had lights i can grow year round.. do you guys got a youtube or a grow journal?
 
With really high quality LEDs I find you don’t save THAT much energy. They still draw high watts which is what you’re billed on. You may be able to cut 400w off your usage but that’s only an average of around 28$ a month in energy costs. Unless you’re planning on being a pro running perpetual harvests and always running those lights just stick to HPS To get started cheap. They won’t pay for themselves any time soon
 
The best value light technology is gas discharge, commercial horticulture companies know this and is the main reason why most commercial indoor facilities are still gas discharge. LED technology is still some time away from being able to regenerate investments over rational timeframes. LED products such as california lightworks, spectrum king, fluence, nextlight, and black dog that provide comparable performance to sodium discharge, require a substantial investment that take years to recover the initial costs.

Evetually LED will superseed all lighting solutions but that time is still a few years or more away. I will myself, knowing lighting technology and plant science. Will continue using gas discharge, until LED has reached a stage of practical and economical value.
 
i just went through all your pics and stuff ojh alotta nice stuff going on over there! man in total i got 48 seeds from somewhere and man they were trash pretty much all of em were duds and stunted crap only a few came out good as in i got 4 good plants going and few seedlings and few stunted crap my dumb ass dropped a light dead on to my best plant and snapped it and the one day i didnt check on them till 8 hours apart while im not asleep.. one is looking really dry and crispy on the fan leaves like its been drying up but idk how anyways hopefully i dont lose anymore plants cause barely enough got going i cant believe so many seeds were crap but then again i guess i can since they were all the freebies now that the season is to late for outside i have to wait to get lights and i cant afford more seeds and lights and all the stuff that comes along with a basic grow.. better start saving and getting piee by pieec though! why do you have so many beans ojh is that over the years or do you get free beans from like a sponsor
 
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