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Best lighting options for a single plant

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I sold my old 300w light for $30 and im looking for something stronger for my next organic soil grow for 1 plant. Maybe COB or LED at a price of $70.00 or under. Any suggestions appreciated. My tent is 2x3x5 with a 6 in. can fan.
 
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You're not going to get anything great for 70$ unless you make it yourself. And even then it's not going to be that great in a 2x3.

At 35w per square foot, you need 210w of led, minimum. In a 2x3 I would run a 240w quantum board. I'm sure you can find something for 70$, but it's not going to perform very well.

You can build something for 70$ that will do, but I'm sure you wouldn't like it.
 
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BigCube said:
You're not going to get anything great for 70$ unless you make it yourself. And even then it's not going to be that great in a 2x3.



You can build something for 70$ that will do, but I'm sure you wouldn't like it.
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If there asking for a light in that price range there not building anything at all.......

should of just added some cheap lights form the dollar store with the one that got sold for 30$$
 
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Lighting is not the place you want to cut corners. If on a budget, save what you have and wait to save a little more up.
 
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Snakeskins said:
I sold my old 300w light for $30 and im looking for something stronger for my next organic soil grow for 1 plant. Maybe COB or LED at a price of $70.00 or under. Any suggestions appreciated. My tent is 2x3x5 with a 6 in. can fan.
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70 bucks American or Canadian? Those are different lights.
 
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if it Canadian I think it's more like a Flashlight LOL
 
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if it Canadian I think it's more like a Flashlight LOL
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Next year it'll be that for a gallon of milk.

70 bucks Canadian will get ya some halfway decent e27 base led cob bulbs on dhgate and a plug with a 10 bulb socket and that's about it.
 
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In my town you can pay a crackhead to " do things to get you a nice light " for $70.
 
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Other option....Follow Mars-Hydro along. They have giveaways ALL the time for owners and non owners
 
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If there asking for a light in that price range there not building anything at all.......

should of just added some cheap lights form the dollar store with the one that got sold for 30$$
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2 x 7 bulb splitter $20
14 x 15w (100w eq) led bulbs $56

This would give you 210w of led light
For $76. Easy build and not bad results, I've gotten 1.5g/watt from led bulbs. Might just be the best thing you could get new for 70ish dollars.
 
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Craigslist?
 
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Other option....Follow Mars-Hydro along. They have giveaways ALL the time for owners and non owners
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MarsHydro lights, even with giveaways, are not really a "value" option when compared with other companies using newer diodes.
 
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MarsHydro lights, even with giveaways, are not really a "value" option when compared with other companies using newer diodes.
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Agreed. You can get kingbrite quantum boards using lm301 LEDs for less than a Mars that wont perform as well.
 
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MarsHydro lights, even with giveaways, are not really a "value" option when compared with other companies using newer diodes.
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trying to give ideas to help with the budget...free light better then light bulbs.
 
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don't go to star$$$$ for Coffee$, no eating out for a week or 2, stay at home ................................and Buy a Real Light 1 time and be done with it...........
 
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In my town you can pay a crackhead to " do things to get you a nice light " for $70.
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Not Worth the Karama on the Back end

Karama =10x
 
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Next year it'll be that for a gallon of milk.

70 bucks Canadian will get ya some halfway decent e27 base led cob bulbs on dhgate and a plug with a 10 bulb socket and that's about it.

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Maybe buy 4 of these and sell 2 or three..add a driver and some fishing leaders to hang ..NO heatsink needed!
These a two of the similar QB132's just being fired up as a test!


https://www.amazon.com/Horticulture-Lighting-Group-Quantum-Boards/dp/B07TMNVM9V?ref_=ast_sto_dp

 
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2 x 7 bulb splitter $20
14 x 15w (100w eq) led bulbs $56

This would give you 210w of led light
For $76. Easy build and not bad results, I've gotten 1.5g/watt from led bulbs. Might just be the best thing you could get new for 70ish dollars.
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I've used 4×bulb sockets with reflectors, 4×4-way splitters, 4× extenders and 16 cfls just to veg my plants with. I used my 300w panel to flower them with. I lost everything except for the cfls and I sold the 300w because it wasn't effective for vegging. I was thinking about buying a cheap full spectrum 1200w cob panel. It would use more actual watts than what I had and I wouldn't need to use cfls, let alone buy all the shit I would need again.
 
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A decent cob fixture I've used is the x5 COB. It runs at 265w but they call it a 1200w or something like that.

Search x5 cob on amazon, it's about 100 bucks. I've used it it works. They quality is crap and it died after the first grow, but they sent me another one for free.
 
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