What goin on fam! So been growing for about a year and a half now and have always used CFLs lights. ( old grows in profile) I recently picked up a 600w full spectrum LED and plan on using this light the whole time and pick another one up in flower. My concern is I have weird growth... never grown like this under my CFLs and the seeds arethe same kind, big bud. The leaves look kind mangled.. any help would be appreciated!!!
Dang really, that far apart, I’m so used to being close with the CFLs. So I’ll move them up, when should I put full spectrum on, flower? Are 600w enough?
in my experience,
With that being said, am I better growing with my cfl since it’s only 180 Watts? I had about 22 bulbs, 18 100w using 23, and 4 150w pullin like 30,000 lumens altogether the led pulls 52,000 ... I have read a lot of hype with leds.... better yield cooler space less power...if I go led I’m giving up power for a cool less power taking space it seems? Why say 600w?
dang, now I don’t know if I made a good move hahaha.... my led book says it’s 600w... I looked online and it says draws 180+. I’m deff gona watch that video, should I run 24 hours through veg with the led and put both veg and bloom on?
what some LED manufacturers claim is that because they're using specialized spectrum of all red and blues, that their lights emit only usable light to the plant, coupled with being more efficient, they claim to be equivalent to much higher wattages of HID light. there is kind of some truth to this, but not nearly as much as they claim. they say 600w purely to get people to buy the light. and it works. don't feel bad it worked on a lot of us at some point.
Its tough to say, but I think going from 450 real watts of CFL to 180 real watts of LED would be a step down. But why not use both. Set up some of your cfls to supplement the LED until you can get a more powerful and more efficient full spectrum LED such as the QB288 boards that was mentioned above. You wouldn't need to use all of them, just try to get yourself to 35-40 real watts per square foot for flower
If you tell us the manufacturer or anything about the diodes in the LED you have, someone will answer that. but with LED you generally get what you pay for. so if it was cheap, it's probably cheap. but there are also expensive lights that use old tech so you gotta be kind of careful. also i would not run the light 24/0 in veg. i would do as the manufacturer suggests. which is probably 24" veg only switch 18/6 in veg, and 18" both switches 12/12 in flower. that is how i had my best successes when i was using a cheap purple LED.
The brand is AEJSLOK 600W LED Grow Light, was on amazon.. I know it’s got 2 chips. And I was thinkin puttin both in, the main reason I got the led is heat management and All the reason and stuff I have seen people like led for smaller grow, also heard yeild is better. Those CFLs stack heat and last row I had lots of heat and light stress... really didn’t Wana have to deal with more intake outtake. My space isn’t to big it’s like 4x3
this is what I’m used to with my CFLs, if I can get close I’m happy atm.. using both cfl and the led. Wish I woulda knew that that 600 w was bs.. guess I’ll just combine my 450 with the 180 to get around 600 true watts and see what happens....May not also be a 3X4 may be 3x3 smaller it’s more a closet I got just keep lights under it
true I was just trying to max the light to add yeild. Also Wana keep that power bill somewhat down.. I’m hope for a noticeable improvement, till I can move and get where I can get hps lights and a better vent system.
Only thing been givin it i seaweed water and a little bit of ff big bud which is all organic any way. Could be seed though, looks like it topped itself thou..... I’ll get a picture later