Can You Tell The Difference?

lol i dont know about anyone else but i want more then a Q head bud from 4-5 months of work
i will stick to HID

the bud on the left looked a bit more crystally to me, so i would assume it was the hid one. but like most everyone on this thread i am in no way convinced that this is an accurate or fair comparison. i will NEVER believe 200w of led compares to 1000w of hid unless i did the grow myself.

I thought the bud on the left looked better too, but my intuitive mind told me that LED guy wants me to choose the best looking but for HID. So I chose the opposite. And almost everybody else did the same. We're smarter than you think!

This reminds me of the Princess Bride.

What you need to do to have a non biased experiment is to have two identical clones from the same plant, place one under a 150w hps and the other under a 150 led, keep them the same distance from the light, go 12/12 from the start, no training, let them grow naturally, feed and water the two the exact same amount at the same time, harvest at the exact same time, weigh the plants wet and dry, compare the results. If you're gonna compare bud size the only thing you should fairly be able to compare is the main cola and that's it.

They look too similar to possibly tell a difference and guess correctly. I think the point everyone should take from this is that a much lower w LED was able to produce buds that look exactly the same as a 1000w HID
Although there are things to note about that (top buds from each will look pretty similar but a much higher watt HID should grow more bud than a lower watt LED)

I agree this is not a fair or accurate way to guage the differences in the lights but I voted LED on left, HID on right based on the appearance of density. The one on the right looks tighter formed and denser so that's what makes me think it's HID.

HeshWantsCandy said:

I agree this is not a fair or accurate way to guage the differences in the lights but I voted LED on left, HID on right based on the appearance of density. The one on the right looks tighter formed and denser so that's what makes me think it's HID.

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i agree good eye!

Budmasterflash said:

i agree good eye!

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Do we know how the buds were grown? If it was LST or SCROG then it would be even tougher to tell the difference between HID and LED bud. Were the LED and HID bud grown using the same style/tricks? What style was even used?

Shill - A shill or plant is a person who helps another person or organization to sell goods or services without disclosing that he or she has a close relationship with the seller.

Need we say more?

Kind of reminds me of Galileo being on trial for daring to say the earth wasn't the center of the solar system/universe. Heretic!! Burn the witch!!!

Personally, I'm an HPS man. LED's are just too space age'y for me. Maybe one day. When they are more affordable.

Mike Young said:

This reminds me of the Princess Bride.

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“You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never to get involved in a land war in Asia.
And only slightly less well known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!”

I love that movie - classic & clean humor.

ledbudguy said:

Ok, so I did a grow https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/378470-confined-space-850w-led-master.html using 5 x 170w hybrid led panels growing master kush, my pal grew clones from the same mother under 1000w hortilux hps...

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Just curious, since I've seen links to your confined space 850w led master kush grow in several places.

There seems to be documentation of your grow on youtube posted by the user Ledgrowlightsdirect, with links to www.ledgrowlightsdirect.com advertised in the video.

Do you have any affiliation with the company that sells the lights you are using for your journal grows or is your grow's appearance in their youtube commercial just an odd coincidence?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HbG1IlPmNU

I love laughing at all of you HID homos...

ledbudguy said:

I love laughing at all of you HID homos...

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lmao Now you are about to turn this thread into a whole new subject.If you wanted a fair answer you should have gave same bud size i mean who come points of a gram instead of colas or harvests.
It sounds like you had a hidden agenda altering photos and all that funny shit..

ledbudguy said:

I love laughing at all of you HID homos...

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Wow! Great People Skills huh?
That'll get you far in life. Let me intoduce you to the "do not bother with" group.

They both look like bag seed.

homebrewer said:

They both look like bag seed.

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lol hahaha

so which ones which?....

I'm just wondering why there are 4 choices in the poll when there are only 2 buds.
If you choose left bud is LED then you must also choose right bud to be HID.

I watched your grow thread from start to finish and it definitely shows that LED has a great future for many growers. If you mention your total yield maybe LEDs will get a bit of respect.

i agree with that, in general i agree that leds do not compare to hids...i have a 600 hid myself...wouldnt have it nay other way...looking into either another 6 or maybe a k. any input on this grumpy? 2 6s or 1k and 1 6?