Quote Originally Posted by emilya
LOL. So, you want to know everything there is to know about every kind of light, every kind of growing situation and experience level, every budget... or of course anything else we might care to mention? Let me sharpen my pencil and get right back with you!

No, Let's get back to reality here. You expect someone to give you all that? Have you read anything on this subject? Best for you may not be best for me. The "best" that we all end up with has more to do with our local conditions, temperature, power requirements, production expectations and a hundred other criteria, rather than one gardener's opinion on weather MH is better than LED or whatever.
I'm not asking people to personally teach me everything there is to know about lighting. I know a fair amount myself already. I assume most growers have a done a fair amount of reading and searching for knowledge on the subject. But if my debate with my buddy drove any point home its that if he believes differently than I do as strongly as he does, there's got to be more information and even more different opinions out there. At least some of them are bound to be worth consideration, wouldn't you agree?

I'm just trying to initiate a conversation about lighting that, to someone willing to consider everyone else's viewpoints, might just help those who already know a bit to learn a bit more. If you don't want to participate that's fine. Maybe you know everything already, or at least as much as you care to know, and that's fine too.

There's a lot of different ways to look at grow lights. What's the cheapest, what's the most powerful in terms of final yield. What is the most efficient considering heat production and/or watts per useful light output. And there's more than a single opinion out there for every possible measuring stick. I think most people (probably) would agree that strictly speaking from a how much you yield point of view you can't really beat HPS, watt for watt. LED's are getting better all the time, some people say they're better. Some people swear by plasma or induction lights.

I'm just hoping to get people discussing things constructively, what their experience is or what they've heard. Maybe I get to learn something new and change my perspective. Maybe everyone does. Maybe no one does.

But it's not going to hurt you or anyone else to talk about lights, is it? I'm not twisting any arms. If you like, do. If you don't, don't. No biggie.
knowboddy Reviewed by knowboddy on . Grow Light Options Discussion The other day I was having a conversation with another grower I know about, what else, growing! In particular we were discussing grow lights and we had a bit of a disagreement over what was the best in terms of actual performance, overall cost, cost compared to performance, and so on. Obviously I think Iâ??m right and he thinks heâ??s right and it doesnâ??t honestly matter whoâ??s right as long as weâ??re both happy with what we have, right? But the whole thing got me thinking, as any good Rating: 5