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Im mixing 150w hps and 100w leds as needed for temp control. Works good. Once it gets warmer, all led will work better. I also just got a programmable ac infinity which helps a lot.OK so I've made the switch from 600w hps to led and I've instantly noticed the massive drop in temps in my room. I did have it pretty much dialed in using 2 x 600w hps keeping the room a snug 27c/80f. So now I'm looking at heaters and am thinking of getting an oil filled one with Thermostat. While looking I realised that the heaters are between 1000w and 2000w...so in my mind it makes no sense to run a heater when I could just run a 1000w hps and let my plants benefit from the extra light?... I'm really starting to think I've made a big mistake changing over to led. I can see them being great in the summer or a place where its warm but it's never warm where I am! Be interested to hear from others who grow in cooler rooms?... Do you avoid led completely? Or run heaters?... Or would a mixture of the two work?. Been looking at some ceramic hps that only run at 315watts which could possibly heat the space but it's beginning to get expensive!... Even if I run both I'm still going to need to run an electricity eating heater in lights out!... I'm so confused
Very very simple brother depending on your grow space. I definitely would recommend throwing that hps in the middle overlapping the lighting of the LED lights. It will supplement the deep red that your LED is missing. LED benefits the genetics that stretch providing a full spectrum and blue woth res that will stack the nodes. Led will give you more buds but the buds wont be as big as using a HPS. I really suggest using a cmh with LED. And you will get super big super frosty buds. These guys here that post they will harvest and get from a half ounce to 2 ounces a plant depends on how they train. Im getting 4 ounces a plant id say without lying to you i get 3 ounces and some change. The spectrum is very important. I run my temps from 68 to 74.
If its to cold throw that hps 1 of them in that grow space with leds and those nodes will stack and become larger.
I'm gonna do the same and try to get the best of both cheers budIm mixing 150w hps and 100w leds as needed for temp control. Works good. Once it gets warmer, all led will work better. I also just got a programmable ac infinity which helps a lot.
Its an adjustment.OK so I've made the switch from 600w hps to led and I've instantly noticed the massive drop in temps in my room. I did have it pretty much dialed in using 2 x 600w hps keeping the room a snug 27c/80f. So now I'm looking at heaters and am thinking of getting an oil filled one with Thermostat. While looking I realised that the heaters are between 1000w and 2000w...so in my mind it makes no sense to run a heater when I could just run a 1000w hps and let my plants benefit from the extra light?... I'm really starting to think I've made a big mistake changing over to led. I can see them being great in the summer or a place where its warm but it's never warm where I am! Be interested to hear from others who grow in cooler rooms?... Do you avoid led completely? Or run heaters?... Or would a mixture of the two work?. Been looking at some ceramic hps that only run at 315watts which could possibly heat the space but it's beginning to get expensive!... Even if I run both I'm still going to need to run an electricity eating heater in lights out!... I'm so confused
+1 Just got mineIm mixing 150w hps and 100w leds as needed for temp control. Works good. Once it gets warmer, all led will work better. I also just got a programmable ac infinity which helps a lot.
Its an adjustment.
I live in Canada, not one of the warmer parts...
I grow under a 1000 watt led framed with 3000k T5's in my flower tent, LED is all I've ever done. I use a 1500W oil filled radiator with a digital thermostat, placed near my air intakes, outside of the tents for the cold hours in my basement. But it will not kick on if the flower tent is awake. No need.
The nursery tent, also led, runs 24 hours a day, The veg tent, again led, is 18/6. Those two tents help to keep the night temps up... I have trouble getting my flower temp down below 22 at night actually, In the day I never exceed 27, rarely 26... That room positively hums when its all awake and busy... My power bill monthly? About $110.00 Canadian.
Very very simple brother depending on your grow space. I definitely would recommend throwing that hps in the middle overlapping the lighting of the LED lights. It will supplement the deep red that your LED is missing. LED benefits the genetics that stretch providing a full spectrum and blue woth res that will stack the nodes. Led will give you more buds but the buds wont be as big as using a HPS. I really suggest using a cmh with LED. And you will get super big super frosty buds. These guys here that post they will harvest and get from a half ounce to 2 ounces a plant depends on how they train. Im getting 4 ounces a plant id say without lying to you i get 3 ounces and some change. The spectrum is very important. I run my temps from 68 to 74.
If its to cold throw that hps 1 of them in that grow space with leds and those nodes will stack and become larger.
Going from conventional to LED requires a different approach.OK so I've made the switch from 600w hps to led and I've instantly noticed the massive drop in temps in my room. I did have it pretty much dialed in using 2 x 600w hps keeping the room a snug 27c/80f. So now I'm looking at heaters and am thinking of getting an oil filled one with Thermostat. While looking I realised that the heaters are between 1000w and 2000w...so in my mind it makes no sense to run a heater when I could just run a 1000w hps and let my plants benefit from the extra light?... I'm really starting to think I've made a big mistake changing over to led. I can see them being great in the summer or a place where its warm but it's never warm where I am! Be interested to hear from others who grow in cooler rooms?... Do you avoid led completely? Or run heaters?... Or would a mixture of the two work?. Been looking at some ceramic hps that only run at 315watts which could possibly heat the space but it's beginning to get expensive!... Even if I run both I'm still going to need to run an electricity eating heater in lights out!... I'm so confused
Hey bud. I use an LED and during the day it'll kick up to 74-75 degrees and drop to 68-70 at night. I have my heat on 69°-70° as I live up north in NYS. The ambient temperature is nice. But I'm growing a northern hybrid that enjoys a cooler temp.OK so I've made the switch from 600w hps to led and I've instantly noticed the massive drop in temps in my room. I did have it pretty much dialed in using 2 x 600w hps keeping the room a snug 27c/80f. So now I'm looking at heaters and am thinking of getting an oil filled one with Thermostat. While looking I realised that the heaters are between 1000w and 2000w...so in my mind it makes no sense to run a heater when I could just run a 1000w hps and let my plants benefit from the extra light?... I'm really starting to think I've made a big mistake changing over to led. I can see them being great in the summer or a place where its warm but it's never warm where I am! Be interested to hear from others who grow in cooler rooms?... Do you avoid led completely? Or run heaters?... Or would a mixture of the two work?. Been looking at some ceramic hps that only run at 315watts which could possibly heat the space but it's beginning to get expensive!... Even if I run both I'm still going to need to run an electricity eating heater in lights out!... I'm so confused
OK so I've made the switch from 600w hps to led and I've instantly noticed the massive drop in temps in my room. I did have it pretty much dialed in using 2 x 600w hps keeping the room a snug 27c/80f. So now I'm looking at heaters and am thinking of getting an oil filled one with Thermostat. While looking I realised that the heaters are between 1000w and 2000w...so in my mind it makes no sense to run a heater when I could just run a 1000w hps and let my plants benefit from the extra light?... I'm really starting to think I've made a big mistake changing over to led. I can see them being great in the summer or a place where its warm but it's never warm where I am! Be interested to hear from others who grow in cooler rooms?... Do you avoid led completely? Or run heaters?... Or would a mixture of the two work?. Been looking at some ceramic hps that only run at 315watts which could possibly heat the space but it's beginning to get expensive!... Even if I run both I'm still going to need to run an electricity eating heater in lights out!... I'm so confused
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