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LED light vs HPS light yield / watt

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LED makes you really look at all the other variables more closely, i found anyway.lo Its like driving a stick shift sports car when you're used to a Ford Taurus compared to HID. It can go wrong a lot easier, but can also outperform in the hands of an experienced driver.
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Lol you and me both


It's like playing with an instrument or tools that have more possibly
 
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Lol you and me both


It's like playing with an instrument or tools that have more possibly
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Oh we're going there!

Some of the best songwriting in history here.. imho

 
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Good chance mine are too. The buds labeled "LED" in my stash are actually half 50/50 LED/HPS grown, and half pure LED. More research needs to be done. I do think the plants that got both did the best.
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Probably better penetration or infrared or both


Hid stressed plants different ways than LEDs and some of that is therapeutic
 
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the debate about weight really isn't the issue any long, if you look around at the micro grows and commercial guys, there really pulling about the same, 70g a sq ft on the lower side and 100+ g on the higher sq ft for a 4x4 area thats 2.5 to 3.5 + lbs per 4x4, thats HPS or LED, the issue is do you spend 40k for HPS or 130K for LED, and its really no different for the small guy, 1500- 2 k for a light for a few hundred, once or if the price lowers on LED's I think its a no drainer,
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Who gets 3.5lbs in a 4 X 4? Is that per year? How long does it take you to grow 3.5lb in a 4 x 4? What light do you use?
 
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Oh we're going there!

Some of the best songwriting in history here.. imho

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Who gets 3.5lbs in a 4 X 4? Is that per year? How long does it take you to grow 3.5lb in a 4 x 4? What light do you use?
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Actually around 3lb a light is not as uncommon anymore in commercial grows
 
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Actually around 3lb a light is not as uncommon anymore in commercial grows
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In a 4 x 4? I'm talking about g/sqft/year.
 
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In a 4 x 4? I'm talking about g/sqft/year.
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Yeah the commercial SOG most in RW with Co2 and big yielders.

Many have strains they know well and dialed right in with nutrients, PGRs and environment using some crop steering.

Talking some serious fine tuning but many are there
 
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Yeah the commercial SOG most in RW with Co2 and big yielders.

Many have strains they know well and dialed right in with nutrients, PGRs and environment using some crop steering.

Talking some serious fine tuning but many are there
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For a crop they can't make a profit on? Sounds about right.
 
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For a crop they can't make a profit on? Sounds about right.
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A lot of them grow garbage weed. The odd one does ok, and then they irradiate it to make it pass testing. But the legal market as saturated as it is, is doing OK. Only because most consumers are happy with garbage weed. It's weird.
 
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A lot of them grow garbage weed. The odd one does ok, and then they irradiate it to make it pass testing. But the legal market as saturated as it is, is doing OK. Only because most people are happy with garbage weed. It's weird.
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Just wondering. The store weed here is shit too. I'd love to be able to profit doing what I love to do. But I just don't see it working in this environment.
 
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Just wondering. The store weed here is shit too. I'd love to be able to profit doing what I love to do. But I just don't see it working in this environment.
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Edibles and extracts seem to be holding well up here. Where i moved from was still a bill an oz. But out here its dirt cheap for flower. Govt wised up giving deals on oz. now but when they first launched you paid by the gram no matter how much and prices were ridiculous.

Quality sucks for the most part and i only feel its going to get worse with the margins on these prices. Right now its a outlive the other guys kinda deal. If you have really good genetics and smaller more quality oriented you can still make a buck but hoping these huge corporations tank and becomes more of a craft market
 
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hoping these huge corporations tank and becomes more of a craft market
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Haha yes
 
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Hey @Dirtbag welcome back. Everything good?
 
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Oh we're going there!

Some of the best songwriting in history here.. imho

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Some music just sticks in your brains


 
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Salts is all about managing irrigation thats all. But i do drink unicorn piss, eat unicorn farts and shit rainbows lol. Not that it helps anything

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Aces & Eights.. All in with that hand everytime I got the chance
Makes me feel lucky even if I'm not
 
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Hey @Dirtbag welcome back. Everything good?
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Thanks man, I've been lurking a bit, just working a ton and not growing atm..
 
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Thanks man, I've been lurking a bit, just working a ton and not growing atm..
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Yeah I know how that feels. I'm not growing anything today, but will be by the end of the weekend. I blame Aqua Man. He flipped my desk over with his hair brained schemes. Of course I was only too willing to play the part :)
 
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Just wondering. The store weed here is shit too. I'd love to be able to profit doing what I love to do. But I just don't see it working in this environment.
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People smoke shit weed cause they're used to it... It's all they know.. think it's a better bargain

People who know better demand better...
 
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People smoke shit weed cause they're used to it... It's all they know.. think it's a better bargain

People who know better demand better...
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I used to think this and had hope in people. Until I saw my friends that have been smoking with me since I was 18 flock to the dispensary garbage and happily eat it up. A few of them are getting wise when they see what love & care can produce but for the most part they are content with going to a store to purchase absolute garbage in a bag.

It's only going to get worse for dispensary quality flower - concentrates are 90% of the market they don't give 2 shits about flower.
 
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