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Well. I've jumped on this one.
Brought this light today and shelled out for
Dr. Kripplings The Incredible Bulk and Royal Seeds Critical Kush
got a bunch of UFO's
1 MegaBuds Seeds Giant Skittlez 1 Dinafem Seeds Blue Widow 1 G13 Labs Seeds White Strawberries 2 Royal Queen Seeds Critical
Plan on shelving everything and just running a 5 pack of incredible bulks. although I may use one or two of the UFO's (not Critical) and see what I can make Happen.
5/5 is probably optimistic.
Will keep the Critical Kush / Criticals for when I can expand my setup. Trying to figure out how I'm going to keep the Clones alive and not out of Control for 8-10 weeks....
That is thankfully a few months away so I can penny pinch until then and perhaps organise another tent and a small LED light for then.
Edit: I didnt see you already got one LOL..
I did this not too long ago. This is all so confusing. I have grown saltwater corals that use almost the same style lights and I still had trouble getting good information because everyone is biased to what they feel is right. So imo Quantum Boards with Reds added are your best bet. You can usually get a kit (240w driver and 2 boards) for about 200 bucks. I think its misleading to compare it to another style of light. These offer the best range of features for home grow imo.
Alibaba is the best place to get them because you can get the cree chips instead of epistars but here is the very first one I bought from Amazon to test it out...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N45BM25/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1
Found these kingbrite knockoffs. I realize they may not be 100% as good as the HLG's but im not paying 100% either. If they last 1-2 years they will have paid themselves off and then some
I would really like to get 1gpw for this next grow I do. I'm looking at DWC and gonna take my time, approx 6 weeks seed - veg, perhaps 7 if needed. then 8-10 weeks of flower. Will LST and use netting and see where that gets me. Incredible bulk is a pretty forgiving strain in my experience and also not too bad when it comes to flowering so I'll give it a go and perhaps germ a UFO or two just incase one of the seedlings fails. if they go fine then I guess ill just mother them but there kind of becomes a point where you have too many plants to know what to do with them and I won't be able to scale up for 4-8 months approximately..
Here is where I, and probably most got hung up at first. I have cultivated Salt Water Corals for yearssss. The lights are effectively the same, so I had a head start using MH,CFL, and LED same thing happens in that community too. I still struggled to get the right info. If it wasnt for a few guys here at the farm, I would be lost. Everyones lights are supposedly the best, and its difficult to get any reliable info anywhere. My first couple of weeks doing research I got caught up with all those numbers (ppfd, umols, par, etc) When in reality, no vendor can say you are going to get 2gpw for this or that. While I believe light is probably the single most important thing, so many other factors are going to influence that number. Not just light.
I cant say for certain but I would say that you do NOT have knockoffs, and HLG wasnt the first with quantum boards. The only thing thing that would make them knockoff is if the actual diodes themselves were fake. ALL of these vendors source samsung Leds, solder them to a board, add a meanwell driver, and bam they have the so and so 9000 LOL . This is one thing where your money wont automatically convert to quality IMO. You can follow along here while you get setup.
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