LED - vegetation tent only

Hi,
I am building vegetation tent (2*4 ft). It will serve to hold few bonsai mothers and to grow rooted clones through most of vegetation phase before going to bigger tent for flowering. I am looking for LED lighting for it. I have been considering Vero 29, but how many would you recommend? Some other LEDs in addition to verification you would recommend for vegetation phase?

One or two for spread.
5-10 watts sq ft
5k Kelvin

I've got a couple citizen 1812s 5k @ 54 watts that do a fine job in a 2x4... cobkits has citizen 1212 on sale for $9...

For veg I use a GrowGreen 200w board in a 2x2. I also use a diy flexible strip rated at 160 watts for cloning diy 42s8p layout

And. You would keep it COB only? Does it contain all spectrums or there are some additional LEDs needed (additional blue or sth.) Thx

would you consider boards using the LM561C with 5k instead of COB?

pk2 said:

would you consider boards using the LM561C with 5k instead of COB?

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I recently replaced 500 watts of T5 with 300 watts of 5k Samsungs. Got mine from Photon Fantom.

https://www.photonfantomdesigns.com/shop/

Plants are happy. I'm only pushing each panel to 50 watts, so no heat sink required.

you could also look into these bridgelux eb-series modules (strips)... 6 - 8 of the 560mm (~22in) strips would probably veg well in a 2x4... they're $7.41 each on digi-key.. I'm looking into these as an option for a 2x4 veg tent myself..

3500K 156lm/w
4000K 159lm/w
5000K 159lm/w

and also these.. samsung h-series.. higher lm/w but also more expensive..

I'm looking into the photon fantom boards and the hlg qb120s as options too..

still need to do some math to decide which option makes the most sense...

Thanks for recommendations. I will check where I get the most value for my money.