GreetingsWhat you listed, just seems like common sense. Its a light source, which is usually mutagenic in some shape or form to living tissue, no matter what the source usually. There is no light source I am aware of that is benign in the end run...
CFL may be as dead as the incandescent very soon. I don't even touch cfl anymore, been a year of sobriety
Yea im just now really learning about lights period..lol But yea ive just learned that it pretty muchd ont even matter all lights have their darks sides and their good sides. What do you recommend? Its been a three way tennis match for me.
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Ive been reading up on the LEDs and my Instincts are telling me that the led may be the best option for me. When comes time for flowering, i wasalready planning to switch lighting and maybe use cfl for lower productivity. As im reading up on the led its just seems to that quality of lighting and productivity has a more handsome reference. Ive pretty much made up my mind to go with led. Im just trying to figure out what i need for at least 3 plants in a 48x24x60 grow tent. I can pretty much go from there if i could just get that info. I see, LED doesnt speak much about lumens. And if my understanding is comprehensive i would try to start with 300w led grow light fixture. But how do i know the colore spectrum? Should i look up LED lighting in veg?Well I guess it just depends on the situation, but personally I have made the leap to mainly LED and definitely whites. But I grow in small spaces that need less heat accumulation.
But I also use Led bulbs in my home and other assorted areas and they do phenomenal, going 14 months strong. For a small space, some of the higher end led diodes can double the efficiency of CFL's. For me that is the kicker.
Even though I think cfl's have a great spectrum for plant growing and thousands of T5 growers can't be wrong. It is just progress I guess.
Led's are just getting started and are already functional, where will cfl's go?
....and as far as pollution, radiation, damaging effects, etc....Led light is not perfect, a lot of these red blue cheaper led's you see are a real strain on the eyes and undoubtedly the skin at close range, but some strains will love that.
The white led seems to be more benign in this respect, easier on the eyes [still don't look at them] and possibly easier on the skin.
The physical makeup of Led's is certainly more innocuous as well in the short term vs Cfl breakeage. Laws in the U.S., cite special disposal, but never if ever enforced with cfl's. Can't just dump them in the weekly pickup.
Where as the old led's being dumped into China and soon, the skeleton of the Bakken. They will eventually start to cause a long term problem when the materials start to degrade; which may be 100 years or more in Mediterranean type climate.
Pluss pluss minus minus
