Quote Originally Posted by Weezard
Welcome Brynpav;

"any grower having compared yields between the most advanced LED and the simple HPS will attest to the compromise in yields"

I disagree!
You sound well educated but appear to be mis-informed;

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The middle "clone" is sun-grown.
Granted, all three are crappy, but that's my failing.
I'm not a good grower, but can't fault the leds.

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Led buds in forground, sun buds in back

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2 more weeks or so to go.


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Out for a "tan" just before the chop.

Perhaps more research is in order?

"there really is a much simpler way to go about it. "

Intrigued, please expand on that.

Aloha,
Weezard (A non-professional garage grower):rastasmoke:
I'm a private grower having completed 2 grows now where I'd converted from HID to induction and the yields have been on par @ 300 g/m for the HID with a 60% savings in connected load. These are significantly less expensive to purchase and get up and running compared to the LED arrays as shown in these attachments.

Have you seen how healthy plants will veg under a 100 watt induction? it's remarkable. I currently have 8 of the 400 watt inda-gro lamps for flower and bud and really don't have a complaint I can site.

I have heard some horror stories about induction as well and initially only went in with an order of 1 400 and 1 100. I've heard the problems that people have had is that when they try and use these as an IP65 rated fixture which as growers we don't need that rating and the temperature within the fixture and our environments can create thermal overloads. But even so I had only heard of this occurring on the mland brand direct out of China.

I'm not here to dismiss the potential of LED for grow. I hope it does deliver but I've not seen the success from these lamps that the manufacturers I dealt with; UFO & HTG had claimed. I really had hoped they would lower the loads and still maintain yields but both of these fixtures had led failures within 2 months of having installed them. So far the inductions have been hassle free. :rastasmoke: