Are my led lights good enough???

Hi growers I just wanted people's advice or opinions on my led grow lights, I have a 450 watt viparspectra and a 600 watt viparspectra led light covering 12 plants in a 6×2 area any responses wud be appreciated thanks guys

How many ACTUAL watts are you pulling

Hi I am not sure how to find that out mate but can you tell me from this picture ?

@Olive Drab Green has experience with those lights.

Also , is the power draw the actual watts?

Im pretty sure the power draw is 276 @ the wall.

Thank you very much do you know how I can get advice from him /her ?

I tagged him, he should chime in when he sees it. I believe he had 2 of the 450's

Thank you very much mate brand new on here I am . Do you know how many he had under them 2 lights as I have 12 under the 600 and 450

I think they look healthy, but I am concerned you may not have enough PPFD for your area. I would also strongly suggest you not top ANY of those plants if you are going to run one plant per square foot.

I used to run 2x ViparSpectra v450s. I switched both out for one 89w COB and found the COB to put out more than both of those V450s combine. As soon as you can, you should switch to 300-400w of COB for that size area.

That said, ViparSpectra is the only panel LED I appreciate. It isn't overpriced like Kind or Platinum and it isn't a cheap piece of shit like Mars. It'll grow you a few ounces. Maybe 4-6 ounces for the space you are growing in. I got like, 3 or so ounces in a 4x2 with 2 plants using mine. I also only topped one and likely pulled the untopped one too early. You should look into COB, though. This is 241w in a 4x2.

These were my results using the two ViparSpectra V450s.


Strain 1 of 2: Big Buddha Blue Cheese


Strain 2 of 2: Heavyweight Fruit Punch



And then one which a ViparSpectra V450 on its own did this by 8 weeks on a 10 week strain.

Heavyweight Lemon Cake:

Thank you for that advice mate does this mean that the vipers are not powerfully enough for topping these ones and I was thinking should I add the cob in with these vipers I was thinking of getting this cob from your advice once again thank you very much

Nice pics mate heavy !

Dylanfurlong said:

Thank you for that advice mate does this mean that the vipers are not powerfully enough for topping these ones and I was thinking should I add the cob in with these vipers I was thinking of getting this cob from your advice once again thank you very much

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Can I add these cobs to the vipers

Dylanfurlong said:

Can I add these cobs to the vipers

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Yeah, just not the ones you showed me. They should be white, preferably 3500k and 80 CRI or 90 CRI, and made by either Cree, Brudgelux Vero, Citizen, or Luminus.

OK excellent advice mate , bless

Man, I'm telling ya. LEDs absolutely load these ladies with trichomes. Seriously though. I add in some molasses to add to the production cause of the sugars in the molasses, old trick but it does work. 2 cents.

Op your doing great brother

I've used leds in the past ended up gifting a 600 watt to a friend. Now I am using a MH/HPS combo 1,000 watt's total. I'm thinking about adding in a low watt led to see how it works out.

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Man, I'm telling ya. LEDs absolutely load these ladies with trichomes. Seriously though. I add in some molasses to add to the production cause of the sugars in the molasses, old trick but it does work. 2 cents.

Op your doing great brother

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Funny you mention it. I used molasses for that run, actually. I pushed the N too hard, though, clearly. I use Surge by Roots Organics now. It's a molasses and fish-based terp and resin enhancer.