***compairing lights*** yeild/watts/flavour/taste/ quality

[LuckyAcres]

That's badass! Gotta look into that!

 

[dontknownuttin]

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[eCa]

Hello guys, long time haven't wrote anything and now is good chance to share my experience with all of you. More or less something about 10 years was growing under HPS/MH and results were nice, but after I got some interesting strains like Frisian duck on my hands and it didn't go well with these lights I had to change it to LED lights to get a full potential and colours of this strain. after a research for a price and quality with a golden middle I found one manufacturer who can offer what I need. Prices are middle ones, but product worth each cent! I'm not promoting anything, but these lights do the job perfectly for me. Will add photos soon. You will see the huge difference of 600w HPS and 630w (actual draw from wall) ZNET lights.
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UPDATE:
Strain blueberry cheese, flower week 2, veg. 40 days.
P.S. one under HPS is a mix of blueberry cheese and Frisian duck so it doesn't count and sorry for mess in grow room, was too much busy to clean up for a while..

​​​​​​Kind regards,
Natural Garden
eCa

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

Thank you for ur post that's helpful

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

Thank you for the link dontknownuttin

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

I'm going to try this expraiment mybe my next grow mh/hps v.s LED actual draw, wattage for wattage this summer probably. I bought cheap led lights under 200bucks with shipping should I also use a low end bulb or a high end bulb? I was thinking a low end bulb because I have low end leds, it seems to be more fair what do you think?

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

It's hard to tell in ur pictures but it seems the led light made more leaves and more flower sites is that right? When u harvest can u tell us the yeilds and qualitys like color taste smell and potency? If you dnt mind we would all appricate that it's nice to se someone doing this experiment

 

[eCa]

Low end and high end? You mean hps? You see there is also a difference when using HPS what spectrum it has. It can be full spectrum for flow and veg or just for flow with all red what needed. You won't see big difference if you use some kind a cheap LED lights. As I told before I'm not promoting any of lights, but if somebody need contacts I can share it will get a discount with my recommendation and etc.

Regards,
Natural Garden
eCa

 

[Flockshot]

I got the original heads up from Harley Smith. He is a YouTube hydroponics guru and spokesperson for RAW dry nutrients. Very interesting food for thought (as if I don't already overthink all of this).

 

[Flockshot]

So true. Five years ago this was science fiction and we are already getting closer to a cheaper, better solution.

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

We all apricate that. What u ment about low and high end in like sunmast/hortilux/ some low end bulbs like ipower/appol horticulture seeing that I'm useing low end led lights like bestva and [h=1]1200W LED Grow Light Lamp Full Spectrum Panel Veg Bloom Flower Indoor Plant[/h]

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

The lights are off ebay and are under 200bucks. That's why I'm wondering if I should use high or low end mh/hps in the battle against my leds lol

 

[eCa]

BTW, about the rest. I haven't saw big difference in taste or smell, but colours, yield, potency has a huge difference. Same strain can have 1-2% more THC if LED has UV and IR spectrum so it make the job quite well. It's third grow with both lights on, checking how does different strains respond to LED lights and can say 100% that blueberry cheese, northern lights, frisian duck, sweet tooth, white widow has better results! So seems after checking my last strains I will put HPS under the bed and use only LED lights even I was sceptic about these in the past.

Regards,
Natural Garden
eCa

 

[eCa]

Ok, now I get it. It depends on what reflector you will use, but I would suggest low end HPS. I was using Lumatek, but all the rest companies I think has the same so no big difference.. please note that there will be a lot of heat using both of lights

Regards,
Natural Garden
eCa

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

Thank u eca that really helps thank you

 

[dontknownuttin]

Just get a cool tube mine keeps my 2 foot by 4 foot space cool when running a 600 watt bulb 24/7 DAY 57! Christmas IN MARCH? WHY NOT?

 

[eCa]

Yes that's true, but you already noticed the difference good eye! Plants has more bud sites and stems with branches are thicker so it means they will ready to hold more flowers! Will post growing journal after harvest in any case.

 

[eCa]

Bestva lights tend to have problem with overheat, so they recommend to turn off lights after 8 hours of work for a short time. So keep in mind this light won't be best thing for autoflowers. But I keep thumbs up and wish success!

 

[eCa]

Cooltube + extract fan! without it won't get any results I think

 

[bobsakamoto]

very helpful, thanks LUCKY