will my 150w 120v philips h5 light work?

[idgafwhoyour]

anyone have answers??

[Boss]

I will prove you wrong joe :-) Either these led's or the next generation, we will see :-)

[cinzanoooo]

I saw a side by side grow UFO lights vs. HID, it took 3 extra weeks to finish with the UFOs. The yield was 100 grams w/ HID & only 66 grams w/ UFOs. The side by side pics showed that the UFO plant really lacked the vigor that the HID plant had. The UFO grown weed was slightly less potent according to the growers info, of course that I had to leave to trusting his word but the pictures showed the rest of the above to be true otherwise.

The grow was done from clones so that they were exactly the same. It was a soil grow and a large cabinet was split in two so that the environments were also exactly the same.

LEDs have a ways to go imo but do have those two BIG advantages of course, near zero heat and low power consumption. That grower used only two UFO units, perhaps if he had used six (or more) of them he'd have gotten better results but then the cost of each unit as I recall was quite steep.

[Boss]

Actually, the UFo's are really a first gen product, and IMO way overpriced and under performing. I would prefer to use both red and some ble LEDS, so I got these panels. I have 4 that are 12x12 with 200+ bulbs per panel mostly red. Problem with these is light focus. They dont seem to mix the spectrum well until they are 4+ feet away (using 4 panels) the panels are 14 watts each, but even with these cheap LEDS, they put out a good amount of light.

All I really want is to tighten up the cfls buds to give them that weight that the sativa missed in the last grow.



This is what these four look like (not aligned or anything) at about 8 feet from the four panels.

[Zenmaster]

this is why with thoes leds you HAVE to get 1 or the other color. the ufo lights are crap there way to high power and they focus on the plant tomuch and stretch it out. the ufo lisghts are 90 leds that put out a super high beem of light that focuses like a laser directly straight down the softer ones on the panels are more wide spread so they cover much more of the plant rather then 90 tightly packed ones pointing straight down at the center of the plant (so if your growing 1 plant and dont pinch it so the stem stays straight up and no new branches get out of the direct light of the ufo it'll work better then you ever dreamed. but if you got lots of plants you have to spread out thoes lights and get thoes tiny beams of straight forward light that they put out to cover the whole thing or all of your plants)(leds are tiny lasers that focus photons straight forward rather then mh or hps that burn metals or salt or both and project photons in all directions). you gotta get either full red or full blue panels and atleast 500 of each and keep them a foot or 2 away so they blend nicely. there a bit more expensive then mh or hps but in the long run you'll save more on the power and grow much better plants if you switch between the 2 colors when the time is right and the more lights u can pack in your room the better its gonna grow. on ebay for about 500 dollars u can get 2400 of them in a 4 foot strip and it'll grow all the plants u can pack under it just as good as mh or hps ifnot better. the mix leds dont blend together unless u have them a very long ways away from the plant so its better to hit them with 1 solid color then a mix or so my thinking goes

[Boss]

^ I agree. These won't work as main hps lights, but I think they will compliment the 3k cfl's very well. I think the minimum distance for the ones I have is 2 feet and about 4 inches. So unless you have a good size room, these won't work very well. I will end up angeling them from 4 corners most likely.

[Zenmaster]

they will work if you can get enough of them spread out over your whole grow area and not tightly packed into a little ufo plastic piece of crap but dudemans 150w 120v philips h5 is not going to as the main one unless you got like 10 of them packed in there but then u got heat isues arrising

[Boss]

Me too, but I only have one on over the sunflowers i am growing :-) It's under one panel and 5 cfls. 3 Red, 2 blue and the single 12x12 panel of red/blue leds. I packed the other 3 for the move. No cannabis growing for me for a few months.