kovert420
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Thought I would throw my 2cent in here as I have used all of the above.
CFL this is where I started growing and to be fair it did produce some decent smoke although it was fully and airy for the most part.
LED this is where things start to get tricky as you have lower end stuff like Mars Hydro all the way to the much higher end Budmaster (using these as examples as they are what I have personally ran). Now back in the day everyone used CFL's for mothers/veg now I think the CFL market is dying a cheap LED like a Mars Hydro doesn't cost much more and wont need replacing for years and you better believe your bitches will thank you for it. Personally unless you can afford the real expensive high end LED's I would stick to LED for mothers/veg. On the other hand the higher end LED's do indeed produce some real nice bud, one thing that I don't think gets spoke about much is that LED's (or at least the ones I have used) require a different growing style than HPS. If you are going to buy high end LED's and expect them to act the same as they would under HPS you will be disappointed. The main thing to note is LED's will not produce one giant cola, what they will do is produce rock solid nugs from top to bottom, I defoil pretty heavy to open up my canopy and my LED's never gave me any popcorn just tiny rock hard buds. Remember LED's don't throw out much direct heat but when you have 1k+ watts running they do indeed create a substantial amount of ambient heat which you will still have to remove, also in winter you may find you have to run a heater 24/7 to keep temps up depending on how many watts you have running.
HPS well im sure we are all aware of how well HPS works so I'm not going to get into it most people want to switch due to heat and running costs.
CDM On my second run with CDM so far very happy with the quality, not finished any known genetics yet so don't have too much to say although I will say 2x 315w CDM's still run slightly cooler than a single 600w HPS.
CFL this is where I started growing and to be fair it did produce some decent smoke although it was fully and airy for the most part.
LED this is where things start to get tricky as you have lower end stuff like Mars Hydro all the way to the much higher end Budmaster (using these as examples as they are what I have personally ran). Now back in the day everyone used CFL's for mothers/veg now I think the CFL market is dying a cheap LED like a Mars Hydro doesn't cost much more and wont need replacing for years and you better believe your bitches will thank you for it. Personally unless you can afford the real expensive high end LED's I would stick to LED for mothers/veg. On the other hand the higher end LED's do indeed produce some real nice bud, one thing that I don't think gets spoke about much is that LED's (or at least the ones I have used) require a different growing style than HPS. If you are going to buy high end LED's and expect them to act the same as they would under HPS you will be disappointed. The main thing to note is LED's will not produce one giant cola, what they will do is produce rock solid nugs from top to bottom, I defoil pretty heavy to open up my canopy and my LED's never gave me any popcorn just tiny rock hard buds. Remember LED's don't throw out much direct heat but when you have 1k+ watts running they do indeed create a substantial amount of ambient heat which you will still have to remove, also in winter you may find you have to run a heater 24/7 to keep temps up depending on how many watts you have running.
HPS well im sure we are all aware of how well HPS works so I'm not going to get into it most people want to switch due to heat and running costs.
CDM On my second run with CDM so far very happy with the quality, not finished any known genetics yet so don't have too much to say although I will say 2x 315w CDM's still run slightly cooler than a single 600w HPS.
