Re: 420 Consumer Reports Competition - Haight Solid State vs. Hydro Grow LED
I bet if your grew one plant under each light you would have yielded more. I know this grow was not really about the yield but more so the better light and we will all find that out shortly. I just want people to understand they wont be able to grow multiple plants like they could under an HPS. It is just not in the deck of cards when considering using just one led light. Optimizing growth potential with one plant per light or multiple small plants per light is the true success with LED growing.
SS the plants do like real great though. Your a master at this trade and I applaud you for that
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This 4-plant, hands-off grow style handicapped both lights, but for different reasons.
The HGL's higher-intensity, narrow-angle beam wasn't used very effectively through bloom because I had to spread the plants out as they got bigger and bushier, and the HSS's more diffuse, wide-angle beam suffered in penetration as the plants grew taller.
It's going to take a bit more time for growers to learn the ins and outs of LED's and what grow styles work best with them.
I've gotten a pretty good feel for these two lights through the course of this grow and I think they definitely require some adjustments and tweaking of grow styles in order to do their best, as does every new technology.
thank you Botanist
You know what this journal has taught me? The grower is the most important variable in growing. Being able to adapt is biggest part of being successful, regardless of the equipment one has to play with.
Call me Captain Obvious if ya want to. Sometimes I'm a might slow.
1000w helps, but it won't cover a multitude of sin
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I'd say in pretty much every one of my pursuits/hobbies/interests, the limitation is in my game, not my gear.
You're not slow, it took me several carbon fiber/boron/composite/graphite/unobtainium bits of gear to figure that out
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It will be interesting to see what the GROWLed guy yields from his grow. Its 1 plant. I think this is a better real world test, and I think this will yield better, but it will certainly be interesting to see.
Should be interesting. It's possible that his one plant will yield more with all of the light focused on it. I've seen a couple of grows with the HGL covering just one plant that turned out pretty decent.
You could not be more right and it takes many of us a long time to understand that. I am yielding almost 2x as much now with same wattage as I did when I started, and I have a long ways to go. Its threads like this that have helped increase those numbers. Not better gear.
Agree completely.
I get far more info from 420magazine than anywhere else. And these growers threads are where the learning takes place. True, we all need to learn and relearn the basics but this is real life experience, as told my many varied angles and circumstances, and every one of them has curve balls thrown at them that they must deal with, and that we all learn from.
You can only learn so much from articles and books. These journals are priceless learning tools because, as you say, they are real grows done by real growers facing real-life problems and challenges.
You look through the completed journals and you'll see a thousand different ways to grow MJ successfully. A grower's dedication and devotion to the craft is more important than the chosen method.
thanks BreakPoint
