New Grow - 6 plants in a 5x8. Led recommendations?

Splash Gordon said:

Hey guys,

I’m currently running one plant in dwc as a test. She’s looking beautiful and now I plan on scaling up to 6 plants in a new grow. I’m thinking a 5x8 space or something close to that.
Given all the light options, I’m looking for some recommendations on a full spectrum led or set of led’s to adequately cover the grow.

Thanks!

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bk78 said:

Budget?

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Splash Gordon said:

I’d like to be cost friendly. Not looking for absolute best products but I’m not looking to cheap out. From my understanding quality of light has a great impact on product. With that being said I’d like to be in the middle of road on price leaning toward the higher end vs lower end of the spectrum.

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Splash Gordon said:

I’d like to be cost friendly. Not looking for absolute best products but I’m not looking to cheap out. From my understanding quality of light has a great impact on product. With that being said I’d like to be in the middle of road on price leaning toward the higher end vs lower end of the spectrum.

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Splash Gordon said:

I don’t have a hard budget in mind, totally flexible. Initial thought was around $300-$500 a light but given space might need two lights which is ok. I would ideally like to do it with one light, but haven’t found anything that would cover that space alone (I also didn’t look at $1k priced lights).

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Rocket Soul said:

If you have high ceilings and want Murican made I'd go for the hlg qb96 and diy some lights. The board + heatsink can run up to 160w for about 65$, just need the power supply. I'd spec my build for 35-40w per foot rather than 50.

Or any of the china baba lights would work as well.

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Rocket Soul said:

If you have high ceilings and want Murican made I'd go for the hlg qb96 and diy some lights. The board + heatsink can run up to 160w for about 65$, just need the power supply. I'd spec my build for 35-40w per foot rather than 50.

Or any of the china baba lights would work as well.

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Southernontariogrower said:

I like North American lights too BC Blondes has some 440w kick ass lights worth looking at

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Southernontariogrower said:

I like North American lights too BC Blondes has some 440w kick ass lights worth looking at

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Southernontariogrower said:

Im running 37.5w per ft2 and they do the job, very well. 50 too much need co2 for sure

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Splash Gordon said:

I don’t have a hard budget in mind, totally flexible. Initial thought was around $300-$500 a light but given space might need two lights which is ok. I would ideally like to do it with one light, but haven’t found anything that would cover that space alone (I also didn’t look at $1k priced lights).

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Rocket Soul said:

Bc blondes is an excellent choice especially if you're in Canada, no import charges.
The qb96 is not super efficient on high wattage, +2.6ppf/w I'd go with 30-35w per foot but here more watts might be better. Right now we are running a bit under 4000w over 12m2 /130ish square foot. I think it comes out as around 25w per foot and we get around 45g per foot on average cycles, a bit more on those flukey dream runs.

I like the qb96 for it's modularity: you can do 4 per 4x4 or if you start low on cash and then up later to 6 or even more. And it's a cheapo from HLG so very well backed up.

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