Quote Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
I have no doubt that LED has a life ahead of it, but I wouldn't exactly call this proof of that. The plants look very nice n healthy, but we haven't even seen them bud yet. I can do the same with incandescents and at a much lower price tag. How can it be proof just a few days into the grow? Once they are harvested, and they come somewhere close to the results of HID, then we will have seen some proof.

This is extremely typical of what I have seen the past few years of LED grow light exploration. On other forums as well (gasp) people see that the plants do fine during veg. The lights on the switchboard light up frantically through vegging, then a few weeks into budding, the posting slows down, and people kinda move on to other stuff. I am in no way saying that I expect that to happen here. I hope for the best, by all means. I want to see some big-ass, honey-drippn ears of corn hanging up to dry. Actually if I just see some regular old buds hanging up to dry, I'll be tempted to switch to all LED.

Summary: A couple weeks into a grow offered as proof? Not even. Close to normal size, normal resin buds as proof? Absolutely. The proof is in the pudding, but it hasn't even been put in the oven yet.
Hey opie, your points are very clear, I was actually basing it on other evidence around the net (aswell) and on this board I've seen. People are getting harvests, just - even from seedling the ones I've seen always seemed to stretch and yield a lot less. So far we can see it is doing a so far so good job in veg.. hopefully we will get the smoking gun with the help of those generous enough to share their experiences.

Remember opie, there are a few naysayers on here who are saying "never will work, if it did the industry would be using it" etc; I think we can say without a doubt it does work, without a doubt, it is just || how well || :-)

My 2 cents, and yeah I did expect someone to pull me up on that,

Peace,
Denial