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No. CXB3590s aren't the best anymore. And they cost a stupid amount of money versus a quantum board setup or LED strips. $45 a cob + $20-30 per passive heatsink is $65-75 for 1 cob. And when you usually run cxb3590s at 50w or less... You can buy a Samsung LT564B 22" led strip for $26 and a 2"...

20 ran at 50 watts will provide significantly better penetration than 13 at 75 watts. Individual intensity of the light sources is not what makes for penetration. Penetration is based SOLEY off of how diffused the light is (more cobs + spread out = more diffused) and how low wattage each light...

First off, spend the extra few bucks and get this instead. $175. It laughs at both of those lights. https://horticulturelightinggroup.com/products/135w-led-board-kit Secondly, if you literally cannot go over $120, I would either buy a cheap HPS or between those two the roleadro is much better.

Nice work :) Looks nice.

Trash LEDs are a trashy investment. HPS is way more worth it.

Lol you dont understand that the inverse square law doesnt work in a reflective tent. The second light is reflecting off any surface, inverse square does not apply bro.

Yeah might just be a lil finnicky. Ill she how she goes. i just woke up and she is touching the net now. I am not sure why feeding it nectar would cause it to grow faster at this early stage but holy damn lol.... Oh haha I meant the growstones are leeching a lot of silica into the soil. That's...

Another update yall. Week 4 of veg now. She had nitrogen deficiency yesterday, so I fed her her first dose of nectar for the gods. For some reason she clawed a bit afterwards. Might need to hold off on the bloom khaos for a bit ;) She grew like 2 inches today though, no shit. Might drop...

Lol yea it takes less than like 2-3 minutes to install a strip onto heatsink and then poke 2 wires in it.

They must be. I do live in the mountains though. When I go down into town there's a lot less of them.

Yeah, i like that logic. I mean I dont have anything to prove to any HPS kiddies in terms of how well they work. I already know how well they work, and im not in denial about how they stack up against HPS. So I am happy to see someone do it, but i'd rather just get a second LED grow setup than...

All the areas around me still use LPS lamps. Dont see many, if any LEDs. The occasional HPS ill see too. The glare is a huge thing though. HPS actually causes a lot more glare than LPS, but a LPS honestly is not glaring at all to me (this is because the arc in an HPS burns way hotter and...

As long as the voltage is sufficient, you can pretty much have any current and it will work. The HLG-320H-c1050B will just run them softer than if they got 1620mah. Dont even think about CO2. Until you absolutely dial EVERYTHING in perfectly, are growing plants in and out like clockwork, and...

You'll be rocking it without the need for the blurple. You're already at 36 watts a sq foot with the COBs which is good. The blurples would be too much on top of that. The only way to really diffuse an LED (without adding more LEDs) is with some kind of optic/cover over the light. A lense will...

1000 sounds a bit high to me. Im a little over 700 PPFD at 12-18" with 320w f series strips in a 3x3 tent (1 square foot more than a 2x4). So I would expect around 780-800PPFD in a 2x4. Still a healthy number. You wont gain much going over that without CO2.

1m^2 (squared) or 1.2 meters? You want to aim for 30-40 watts per square foot. I think 35 is a great place to be at. In a 1x1m tent, that would be about 300-350 watts. In a 1.2x1.2m tent, that's about 420-475 watts. And why COBs instead of strips? A samsung LT564B strip costs like $26 US and...

Yeah actually thinking about that, fuck man that's kind of sad lol. I dont run CO2, nor do I ever plan to because I do fine without it. But if you are hitting the numbers GML did WITH co2 (and his experience level) that's definitely lackluster performance.

It's always in the back of my head when im thinking about LEDs. I am moving into a bigger house and will be able to have 3 tents and my plan is to do a lot of tests with difference spectrums, starting with doing an LED vs DECMH clone comparison. Because you're right about plant performance...

I just want to see a single fuckin properly executed, clone vs clone grow comparison between LED and HPS. Back a few years ago when LEDs were still shit, people did them ALL the fucki time. What gives?! And as much as we know grams per watt isn't the best metric to base anything off of, it is a...

Heh. I mean they work, so hey! I love LEDs so much because I started growing with those blurples after a few years hiatus, and I dont know why but I was pulling some fat yields with them. Like I knew most people were pulling like only 0.5 gram per watt, if that. Knowing they were around the...