Just asking cause Ive got new lights coming in and currently have Blue/Red LED's and have a feeling they aren't all they crack up to be

Well lets just say this you get what you pay for not the same

Yeah, there all over the site. You just have to find them. There not the big fat buds from megawatt hps, but LED's produce some very nice buds. Keep looking.

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I have had terrific success with LED's. Mine were 45w, mixed red and blue. I have more on order, just blue ones for vegging. What I found to be the most effective was to use the LED's for vegging and HPS for flowering. You can flower with LED's and it would be about twice as good if you used only red rather than mixed, but probably still not as good as HPS. From my experience, nothing even comes close to LED's for vegging. You can put the lights right down on the plants without burning them. Considering that the effective lumens dissipates inversely to the square of the distance from the leaves, that's very important. My brother taught me an old (American) Indian saying years ago: "White man build big fire, stand far away. Indian build little fire, stand close".

LEDs just dont have the power needed yet to be stand alone growers and for the cost of them its still a better choice to use simple t8 lighting as it has no heat is cheap and does a great job. The leds will not be the future of growing lights that will be plasma lights which are mind blowing. That said leds are good to enhnavce your gardens light spectrums

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Fletch!! Good to see you man! I have not heard about the plasma lights; I'll have to check into those. peas

ok one second I will put a link to these lights video on you tube gotta love these. brb

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Ok here is a few links links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTGsM9pplUs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Vei...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXleN...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQycD...eature=related

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Here is a glimpse of what could be the successor to modern day light bulbs, the Plasma light bulb which puts out nearly 10 times as much light, uses half the power of a traditional light bulb and can reach temperatures that are equivalent of the surface of the sun.

LOL

I found this on the plasma bulbs: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008...lb-led-cfl.php

"At 140 lumens/watt, these pill-sized plasma light bulbs by Luxim are a pretty awesome contender for "light of the future". They are almost 10 times more efficient than traditional incandescent light bulbs, twice as efficient as current high-end LEDs, and they also beat CFLs, most of which are around 50-80 lumens/watt. Only the prototype 300 lumens/watt nanocrystal-coated LEDs can hold a candle to them."

Either way, we have some awesome lighting options coming down the pipe! I could get by with either one.