Anyone here actually experiment with LEDs yet?

Last time I checked, LEDs available for the public fell into either the industrial use category or the merely info-mational 'gee whiz, look what the future holds, big-brother-ipod-LED street lamps!' variety.

I can't make any translations to lumens from either type of data, but imagine how cool it would be to have a Vegas-style light show grow setup... all those LEDS are individualy programmable, so if you could get ones with the right spectrums, and really knew your shit like most of you people seem to, you could learn from the plants just how sweet they like their sugar, light-wise. Plus the added benefit of packing a gazillion LEDS directly (read - touching) onto those beautiful buds and plants I see you guys and gals getting from CFLs. My own CFL experiment was pretty sad compared to the stuff I've seen in just two days of casual surfing here, damn spidermites didn't help.

All your posts have reinvigorated me towards the Green Arts, that and a buddy that just got a 600 watter and his girlfriend also popped a bunch of what I hope is White Widow that she got from me years and years ago. Time will tell.

Anyhoo- anybody got any secret scoops on LEDS they'd like to share? Any info would be appreciated. If nothing else it could help me with my dream of a glass door with LEDs in it that I could program to display .. anything.

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they are great for veg...shitty for flower...my 2 cents are fuck mh also use cfl's for veg and hps for flower.

International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Led Vs. Hps - 70w Challenge

another site i check out(i cheat) kind of interesting grow

thanks Keeko, thats just what I was looking for. Still reading, actually.

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there is nothing better than hps...well nothing available to the public


go get a microwave bulb powered by geothermel power and grow your shit..haha

I've eagerly watched for the LED growlight situation to improve (I have a 12-volt project in the back of my pea-brain, just waiting for the 'technology/results/cost' situation to be feasible) ... I have watched a few growers spend a LOT of money on their LED setups, and, so far, the results were not too impressive ... I think, in the future, it will be the way to go, but not yet :smokin:

I wish you the best of luck , if someone like NASA uses florsent panels. Maybe you can figure away. With a few millioin in a budget, a degree in elec,physics and a few more subjects.
Note if they did work you would see it all over the internet. A funny thing happend on the way to the grow room. The 35 year old hps and Mh ballast are still the best so far.
Note the last led's of a high output awere only $10 bucks each. Plus the cost of a power supply. Also note the spectrum of leds
Do a search this only comes up every month or so.
My self I'm still looking for a automatic bud cleaner/deleafer that does not suck or shake the extra tricomes off the bud.
Wait there is a way place a 1000 watt hps and use a led display of at least one led on the side of the room. You should get 1000 grams every 2 months from this setup. :thumbsup: