LED setup

[K-9]

ok i got some lil sprouts but i want to move them indoors...


how big or a cupboard or stealth box i guess, would i need for 5 plants? the strain is top 44 btw...

ive read a few threads and the set ups look cool but thats with hydro lights or what ever they are called...

but my understanding is i need the cupboard thing, led lights and fans? i dont want to spend a million dollars on leds either so it there a good decent priced set? what else would i need to do?

[KenWood]

Talk with Tim his e-mail tim@g2led.com also www.g2led.com/ht. I am testing one of his lights. He took me to this one set-up the guy was growing in a cupboard with on of Tim' can lights. Tell him I said hi.

KenWood

[mills69]

have you considered CFL's as their cheap & have low heat output & are more proven than LED's (no offence to the LED's fanatics)

[K-9]

Originally Posted by mills69

have you considered CFL's as their cheap & have low heat output & are more proven than LED's (no offence to the LED's fanatics)

whats cfl's? but im guessing its something fluorescent lights? and whatever will grow some nice weed without costing so much would be perfect... but i dont want a big hydro room wit exaust fans and everything, yet

[Alatar]

CFL stands for Compact FLorescent. They are marketed as energy efficient replacements for regular incandescent light bulbs. You can buy them pretty much anywhere light bulbs are sold. The packaging tends to have the actual watts in small letters and the "equivalent" wattage in large letters. Ignore the equivalent value. It's the real watts that you care about.

Most CFLs fit into plain, vanilla light sockets. The biggest CFLS (greater than 105 watts) usually require non-standared mogul fixtures.

The advantages of CFLs are:

• they are inexpensive
• they do not generate very much heat.

The disadvantages of CFLs are:

• They are less energy efficient than High Intensity Discharge (HID) lights such as High Pressure Sodium (HPS) and Metal Hallide lamps (MH). For the hobbyist grower, this is not a big deal.
• The light from CFLs does not penetrate through the plant canopy as well as HIDs do.

Growers employ various tactics to compensate for the lack of light penetration, including:

• Use many lower wattage CFLs positioned about the plant to provide even illumination rather than using a smaller number of more powerful lights.
• Train plants to grow short and wide rather tall and narrow. There is a sticky about Low Stress Training (LST) in the Absolute Beginners forum.
• Employ the Screen of Green (ScrOG) technique to create an even canopy of bud sites.

For vegetative growth, you want to use lights with a color temperature of 6500K (cool white). For flowering, you want to use lights with a color temperature of 2700K (warm white). But you can use a mixture and some people say that it is better to do so.

There is a sticky in this forum called Kamel's CFL Guide.

Good luck with your grow.

[KenWood]

K-9 so did ya getem inside? Myself I would use CFL's if money is tight. You can make a set-up and position the lights how you think they will hit the plants better. My brother bought a small HPS and a ballast to do his 2 plants worked pretty good.

[tKB-Man]

To be completely honest.. the prices some retailers seem to be charging for their LED's are completely uncalled for. Just because you charge the most for your systems doesn't make them work any more than others out there.

[KenWood]

Yeah I know what the price of LED I bought one and now it is a what game to see how it really is going to pan out. All of them are high but myself I want to make sure that they are not going to fry out in one cycle. On other sites you hear someone gripping about this LED and that LED. I would say go with what you think is right and stick with it. Myself I actually got to see this light (g2led) in a real grow situation although not the best set-up but from clone to flower he went with the light and that sold me to give it a shot.

Use what you can and dont let anyone jump your ass for it. If people dont like the one you pick so what, your the one using it not them.

[mcherbie]

MOD.. shouldn't this be in the beginners thread???