Quote Originally Posted by demoreal
"you can have to much light spec and lockout ur plants"

do you have a link with more info on the subject?

you also think mixing HPS with LED is bad?

( I have only used HPS for flowering and t5 for vegin so have not done any testing yet, i will soon; to have more fun )

Yet I am thinking of throwing an LED into my flower room along with my 400 watt hps. I am using a few cfl's hung verticaly for supplementary lighting right now. The plants seem happy and at peace. my temps never get above 82. That sucks about your temp. You think an inline fan or two might help, or you already doin that.

photosinthesis gets pissed off when ur in the 90's

I notice different parts of the plant look and grow different depending on what kind of spectrum of light I have on them. (I kinda go by the kelvin on the bulb, might be a little lame.. but still interesting) I want to see what type of changes take place with an LED.
(I look at my plants with a natural light when examinin them) I am not just lookin at a blue light red light thing...

I wish I had a house and could send sunshine to my flower room using fiber optics. That sounds like more of a future to me...

how much you askin for the LED?
it can lock out chlorophyll A if to peer of light is taken in. or something like that? i dont think mixing led with hps is bad.. but mixing hps with a 5ban led is bad.. the tri-ban will do fine. i have some friends that study leds and the tested the new 5 ban with a hps and it locked out the plants. and the led did better by its self and the hps did better by its self. ya my high temps suck, but they still look good for the heat stress they went threw, just wish i could see what they would have looked like right now with normal temps. if ur going to buy leds do ur homwork because their are alot of shitty leds being sold out their. like ebay ect. i did tons of resurch on my leds befor i bought them. just make a offer on my light the higest bidder takes it. or if i like the offer from the geco i might take it.


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