The Happy One
Well-Known Member
Welcome aboard! Your beginning a journey, that for a great many of us has lasted a lifetime! You've opened up a can of worms akin to a Pandora's Box. Once your hooked, your hooked. Once you achieve your first harvest and enjoy the first fruits of your labor, realizing you can grow as good a product as anyone else, you are indeed hooked!
As far as lighting goes, opinions are like *ssholes...everyone has one.
Here is mine. For better than 30 years, my indoor growing involved three lights.
1. T-5 for seedlings
2. MH for vegging
3. HPS for flowering
LED has indeed come of age and without a doubt can and do replace HPS and MH lighting with the right chipset. I've also been privy to performing direct comparisons in the two. The results speak for themselves. The Samsung LM-301's are a proven winner. This chipset has dropped our lighting operational costs to 50% of what they were, and it doesn't end there. HVAC cost (and initial sizing of equipment) drops substantially. We flower under pure LED in a 3000k spectrum. We are converting the veg/mother rooms to LED as well, though they are driven at a more veg friendly 4000k.
I look forward to following your journey!
As far as lighting goes, opinions are like *ssholes...everyone has one.
Here is mine. For better than 30 years, my indoor growing involved three lights.
1. T-5 for seedlings
2. MH for vegging
3. HPS for flowering
LED has indeed come of age and without a doubt can and do replace HPS and MH lighting with the right chipset. I've also been privy to performing direct comparisons in the two. The results speak for themselves. The Samsung LM-301's are a proven winner. This chipset has dropped our lighting operational costs to 50% of what they were, and it doesn't end there. HVAC cost (and initial sizing of equipment) drops substantially. We flower under pure LED in a 3000k spectrum. We are converting the veg/mother rooms to LED as well, though they are driven at a more veg friendly 4000k.
I look forward to following your journey!
