the above cited report - Experiments with Hydroponics, Aeroponics, and LED Grow Lighting - ends in part with this statement "im waiting for justin at HIDHUT to swap me out for a 70/20. i still believe this is a better mix...." apprerantly this is refering to a period earlier in the grow whereby he had some problems do to the lack of BLUE in the LED matrix. i did call Justin and asked him if his co. had obliged the greenpinelane.com researcher by producing the more balanced light requested. he responded by informing me that due to the input provided in this paper that the WHOLE line was tweaked to 70/20 with some changes made in the const of the UFO.

after throughly looking into this new product and looking at the DOZENS of pics, specs and charts provided by greenpinelane.com id have to reccomend the HID UFO tp all those intrested as just 2 of these in a 6x3 ft area would be more than enough to veg 6 plants. right now thier only looking at an "all around fixture" but in the future you can bet there will be - just as in HID lights - a spectrum for vegging and one for flowering.

i know the $$ is hard to swallow - especially when all you grow for is yourself but to those like me who grow for really sick people try to look at the upside:

1). MONEY - if you started growing more than a year ago you paid almost $200 for a HID ballast and if in your 2nd year youve already replaced your 1st bulb and if u bought a good one that was like $80 bucks - for a total of $160 now add an inexpensive reflector like an ECONOCOOL that was $150 - TOTAL is already $510 (and you still have to buy more bulbs every year)

2). ELECTRICITY - if your spending $300 a month in juice costs - that will go down to $50 bucks - over a year thats a $2500 savings (the cost of 4 UFOs and a few keggers of imported beer) AND remember thats just for lighting the lamps! dont forget the cost of

3). COOLING - the room during the summer and DEHUMIDIFYING (its these last 2 aspects that KEEP most cultivators out of the cycle during the summer months) ...not to mention electricity the added $$$ ...another EZ $100 a month

and i did also look at his end results and there were excellent