I just took this video everyone. People have been asking me to give my thoughts on these LED's so I bought six LED's from three different vendors.
Notes:
I'm testing three different LED companies grow lights for my customers.
I fly out and setup grow operations so I tend to test various products. Many customers have been wanting to do off-grid growing but LED is the only plausible possibility of running off a huge solar array that I'll be configuring. I am designing the lowest costs for the 24 hour rooms, and the 12/12 rooms. It appears going soiless (DWC \ Nutrient Film tank, or Aeroponics is going to be our application as well as some hybrid soils which are more so a hydro like soil. Although I see great results online with others experiences using LED I want more data for myself. I am gathering this for my own first hand witness so that my words have greater value when I share my experiences with people asking questions.
If you all like this post and want me to follow up with my results testing these LED's please leave your questions and feedback. I think I'll post in the grow journal section later once I get all my test subjects figured out, and I am also awaiting a 3D printer, and PAR Spectrometer. ("I will be designing some COB water cooled grow lights" since the issue with COB is they burn out from heat). I'm building a spectrometer to start testing
PAR curves of all of these lights, but I got to hash out the code I'll be writing, and computer drafting the design. I'm starting a new stock of my custom breed which I've been cultivating this particular strain for over three years now. My test subjects will be this known strain I have experience with in which I'm starting the plants from seedlings. I will be testing various clone-cheats to speed root clones under LED (Something I can do using an HPS).
The strain is FloRhino, A cross of Flo, Blue Rhino, and Green Crack.
High yield indoor strain. I like breeding, .. I just hate stressing out one of my females when pollinating for femanized seeds. Enjoy the video .. if you guys like it I'll be sure to take more. I purchased 6 LED grow lights at once starting this test all at the same time. I have been blooming a plant under a 1200W King Plus LED combo'd with a 600W Mars Hydro LED. The results are excellent. I was going to buy another mars yesterday, but their no longer 69$ on Amazon, their 84$.. the same price as Viparspectra. Mars raising their price to the 84$ would likely make me buy a King 300W seeing the brightness and quality of the king compared to the mars, and considering costs. All in all I am happy with the Mars, the King Plus and the Viparspectra. I have since dedicated some grow space to test them individually as well as paired. When I get the spectrometer I can provide better feedback.
And yes, that was SNOW outside on the ground, but my outdoor grow room is managed by that little computer I was pointing out combined with a baseboard heater for those nights which get -10 degrees or below. The CAB computer can do 8amps. SO I connected a 7amp baseboard heater which it controls, and stuffed a 13 amp compact heater with a built in temp control (30$ at walmart).. most of the time I never need the extra heater, and the CAB computer connected to the baseboard heater keeps it plenty warm without emitting any light to disrupt my blooming girls.
Notes:
I'm testing three different LED companies grow lights for my customers.
I fly out and setup grow operations so I tend to test various products. Many customers have been wanting to do off-grid growing but LED is the only plausible possibility of running off a huge solar array that I'll be configuring. I am designing the lowest costs for the 24 hour rooms, and the 12/12 rooms. It appears going soiless (DWC \ Nutrient Film tank, or Aeroponics is going to be our application as well as some hybrid soils which are more so a hydro like soil. Although I see great results online with others experiences using LED I want more data for myself. I am gathering this for my own first hand witness so that my words have greater value when I share my experiences with people asking questions.
If you all like this post and want me to follow up with my results testing these LED's please leave your questions and feedback. I think I'll post in the grow journal section later once I get all my test subjects figured out, and I am also awaiting a 3D printer, and PAR Spectrometer. ("I will be designing some COB water cooled grow lights" since the issue with COB is they burn out from heat). I'm building a spectrometer to start testing
PAR curves of all of these lights, but I got to hash out the code I'll be writing, and computer drafting the design. I'm starting a new stock of my custom breed which I've been cultivating this particular strain for over three years now. My test subjects will be this known strain I have experience with in which I'm starting the plants from seedlings. I will be testing various clone-cheats to speed root clones under LED (Something I can do using an HPS).
The strain is FloRhino, A cross of Flo, Blue Rhino, and Green Crack.
High yield indoor strain. I like breeding, .. I just hate stressing out one of my females when pollinating for femanized seeds. Enjoy the video .. if you guys like it I'll be sure to take more. I purchased 6 LED grow lights at once starting this test all at the same time. I have been blooming a plant under a 1200W King Plus LED combo'd with a 600W Mars Hydro LED. The results are excellent. I was going to buy another mars yesterday, but their no longer 69$ on Amazon, their 84$.. the same price as Viparspectra. Mars raising their price to the 84$ would likely make me buy a King 300W seeing the brightness and quality of the king compared to the mars, and considering costs. All in all I am happy with the Mars, the King Plus and the Viparspectra. I have since dedicated some grow space to test them individually as well as paired. When I get the spectrometer I can provide better feedback.
And yes, that was SNOW outside on the ground, but my outdoor grow room is managed by that little computer I was pointing out combined with a baseboard heater for those nights which get -10 degrees or below. The CAB computer can do 8amps. SO I connected a 7amp baseboard heater which it controls, and stuffed a 13 amp compact heater with a built in temp control (30$ at walmart).. most of the time I never need the extra heater, and the CAB computer connected to the baseboard heater keeps it plenty warm without emitting any light to disrupt my blooming girls.