I can only veg 3 at a time / flower 3 at a time, With that being said, What would you suggest as the best route ? I am having a hard time finding a bulb / ballast / contactor / timer for a cheap enough comparable price, and I heard the LEDs use less power consumption for equal output
HPS will cost you about 150-200 for a cheap unit, bout 100 dollars a month to run 12/12 with a 1000W
you can get that very same 300 wat led thru marshydro for 68 dollars with free shipping, would I buy a mars light again, nope, but of all the "mistakes" I made along the way, the cheapy chineese blurple light was not the worst, it does function and you can grow bud, but if your not too late, I would do what testiclees recomends and DIY yourself a cob, a single cxa3070 cob can be build now for right at 70 dollars , and that single cob will rock star over that amazon light, and if you could build 2 of those cobs you would be at where my light is now, come take a look at my current grow and see what 2 cobs can do,, then look at testiclees or others and see what a bigger realy good led panel can do, my friend is building a new cxb 4 cobs light for less than 300 bucks, and its going to put out close to 40,000 lumens , thats pretty equal to a 400 watter HID
Go with Marshydro much better LED, they may have a larger start up cost but my light runs at 90 degrees and that means no heat problems. I have my marshydro 300w on a couple clones and one plant in early veg and it's great for that. I will be using 2 700w reflector series in my 4x4 tent for the majority of the grow, but initial cost yes LED will cost you more, but with the combination of the life span heat reduction and lesser power usage it will be cheaper in the end. Plus I can't say enough about the penitration of the LED light.
Says the guy with his first post
Gotta start somewhere right
Don't start with Chinese blurple lights that's for sure
I've seen their ability and I'm not disappointed, it's just a different method than HID lights a requires a slightly different aproach not for all though.
then sadly you have not seen what real cree cobs can do, its not a differant method, light required by the plant never changes, either you got what is needed or you dont, and those cheapy chinesse lights dont hold a candle to the new cobs, several manufactors of led ligiths like area 51 and optic are switching to the cobs,,, mars needs to get on board with it
