Re: GrowLEDHydro's 600W LED vs. 600W HPS by Be Irie
Thanks to the all of you for the words and watching... I hope everyone is having a great Holiday... Peace,love,happiness, and good health to all..
Me personally, for looks alone..... 3rd D- HPS Chernobyl- HPS SnoCap-LED and the Satori-LED....
Had two friends over the other night and we did a little blind test with the snocap ( meant to grab the two third D's). They checked the two jars over smell and looks, then we proceeded to to try them out....
All three of us picked the LED bag for all around goodness... it took all the categories from the HPS... it was still a bit green though.. Has a bit more time to cure an get even better..
I don't tell my peeps which is which either.. One friend told me if he knew which one was HPS he might have been biased??? Tard!!! not sure why, but is good to know.. All tests will be done blind... I will get better detailed smoke reports too.
The LED tent did have more purples. It was much easier to keep the plants cooler in the LED tent. It was also tougher to get the temps up when it was cold... I think the main reason for the low yields was the temps that I kept. After the great mite rebellion in the summer of '10 i was trying to keep temps way low to control the little fuckers. Not only did the mites not like it, but the ladies were not to happy either. The HPS were so tall and close to the light that it was a bitch to keep the canopy a decent temp, so they didn't get the coloring that the LED tent did.. Both Chernobyl's and the snocaps have always had the late purpling in flower..
I did notice on the snocap that it was like trimming a felty plant.. The trichs are pretty thick, almost like a furry coat. That was the LED one. The HPS was normal.. It is covered, just not the same consistency of the LED plant.. The Snocap,Chernobyl, and the satori LED plants took a day longer to dry then the HPS counterparts... Little things I am trying to figure out why?
I had to pull a cheese haze out of the LED tent because it was not happy... Two days after being put under the HPS in the flower room, she shot out white hairs and new growth and took off.. She is healthy and happy and almost ready to come down. I had to pull a plant from it in the beginning too, just don't remember which one it was.. I had a love cheese that stayed in the LED tent from the beginning to the end. So I had five plants that were in the LED tent the whole time. The HPS tent could only hold four plants when they got bigger. I had two extra (6) in there in the beginning but had to remove two because of coverage issues... I think I could have grown 6 of the LED sized plants in the LED tent for the full grow...
If I could have changed anything about this grow, I would have vegged the HPS for a week or two less and would have vegged the LED plants another two weeks or so.... The HPS grew almost twice as fast.
Thanks to the all of you for the words and watching... I hope everyone is having a great Holiday... Peace,love,happiness, and good health to all..
Me personally, for looks alone..... 3rd D- HPS Chernobyl- HPS SnoCap-LED and the Satori-LED....
Had two friends over the other night and we did a little blind test with the snocap ( meant to grab the two third D's). They checked the two jars over smell and looks, then we proceeded to to try them out....
All three of us picked the LED bag for all around goodness... it took all the categories from the HPS... it was still a bit green though.. Has a bit more time to cure an get even better..
I don't tell my peeps which is which either.. One friend told me if he knew which one was HPS he might have been biased??? Tard!!! not sure why, but is good to know.. All tests will be done blind... I will get better detailed smoke reports too.
The LED tent did have more purples. It was much easier to keep the plants cooler in the LED tent. It was also tougher to get the temps up when it was cold... I think the main reason for the low yields was the temps that I kept. After the great mite rebellion in the summer of '10 i was trying to keep temps way low to control the little fuckers. Not only did the mites not like it, but the ladies were not to happy either. The HPS were so tall and close to the light that it was a bitch to keep the canopy a decent temp, so they didn't get the coloring that the LED tent did.. Both Chernobyl's and the snocaps have always had the late purpling in flower..
I did notice on the snocap that it was like trimming a felty plant.. The trichs are pretty thick, almost like a furry coat. That was the LED one. The HPS was normal.. It is covered, just not the same consistency of the LED plant.. The Snocap,Chernobyl, and the satori LED plants took a day longer to dry then the HPS counterparts... Little things I am trying to figure out why?
I had to pull a cheese haze out of the LED tent because it was not happy... Two days after being put under the HPS in the flower room, she shot out white hairs and new growth and took off.. She is healthy and happy and almost ready to come down. I had to pull a plant from it in the beginning too, just don't remember which one it was.. I had a love cheese that stayed in the LED tent from the beginning to the end. So I had five plants that were in the LED tent the whole time. The HPS tent could only hold four plants when they got bigger. I had two extra (6) in there in the beginning but had to remove two because of coverage issues... I think I could have grown 6 of the LED sized plants in the LED tent for the full grow...
If I could have changed anything about this grow, I would have vegged the HPS for a week or two less and would have vegged the LED plants another two weeks or so.... The HPS grew almost twice as fast.
My bad, but hey I was half right.
