Mars-Hydro LED Grow Light Discussion

[tucker99]

hehe, yep look like your stranges green leds may be faulty leds Sara is talking, me i looked at all my panels and they are all right ... will start a journal soon dont worry

if you prefer im doing around 50-60g per square foot .... or around 12-15g per pot (4X 5,5" pot in each square foot)

this is a better way to calculate

Yea, My 96X3 is new and I got the "green" led's. Smoke Sara, did we determine if this is faulty led's or is my sight playing games on me?

 

[Zebs]

mars2 1200W (525 true watts) is perfect for 1MX1M and to replace a 600W HPS for full power light. this is always better to use more smallers panels than only 1 in big area, for a better light distribution. 2X 600W old model may be good yes with good light distribution, but will not be as good as mars2 1200W cause old models are lower quality. if your budget is limited 2X 600W old model will be good. 4X 300W will be even better light distribution.

I was looking at the 1600w mars2 due to the grow/flower option and long term savings there as well as it providing ample light for my space, just cost preventing me pulling the trigger.
4x300w are about the same price as 2x600w. so will likely go for that option, the heat from my 600w hps needs to go away..lol

 

[arellanobrian]

so i just finished trimming the bigger buds and will have final numbers after a 2 week cure so the numbers are a little more accurate but this is both the golden goat and kosher kush separated by bigger buds, medium buds and fluffy larf buds

Kosher Kush buds (big buds on the right, medium buds middle-right, small/fluffy buds middle-left and trim on the left)

Golden Goat buds (big buds on right, medium buds middle, trim/larf buds left)

all the buds

i used the new mars reflector 144x5 so it pulls 314 watts from the wall and i feel that once i get final weight 5-6 OZ is def not out of the question so 1/2 a gram per watt, for all the mistakes made that will be a great haul and wait to see what the lights can do with a perfect grow!!

 

[DarkSidofMike]

0.5g/watt is really not bad ... this is what i did for a very long time ... i started to do better when i finally understood that growing with coco need a lot of feeding, even if the coco seem wet. coco is a very airy medium and can be very wet and still have oxygen for the roots.

my results really change and clearly better now i know that ..... i manually feed them 2 times a day minimum .... before i was waiting too long and for the coco to dry, this is a mistake

the best way is to go with automatic feeding but i prefer manual .... i have more control like that

coco is at best when always wet everywhere (dont forget to flush sometimes to avoid problems)

 

[Gorgar]

0.5g/watt is really not bad ... this is what i did for a very long time ... i started to do better when i finally understood that growing with coco need a lot of feeding, even if the coco seem wet. coco is a very airy medium and can be very wet and still have oxygen for the roots.

my results really change and clearly better now i know that ..... i manually feed them 2 times a day minimum .... before i was waiting too long and for the coco to dry, this is a mistake

the best way is to go with automatic feeding but i prefer manual .... i have more control like that

coco is at best when always wet everywhere (dont forget to flush sometimes to avoid problems)

Hi DarkSidofMike,

What are you feeding? Have you come across any reliable auto watering methods?

I'm doing my first grow ever and I'm in coco. I have two plants under three 3x96 Reflectors and using the GH Flora 6/9 (micro/bloom) schedule. Currently almost a month and a half into flower.

 

[DarkSidofMike]

using Canna nutes only (A+B coco, rizothonic, cannazym, PK 13-14, canna start) + technoflora sugar daddy + any calmag ... nothing more.

i like Canna cause there is only a few bottles that do all ... instead of 15-20 different ones with others .... and i use any Calmag from any one cause they are all the same. i use sugar dady instead of canna boost, cause canna boost is very very very very too expensive (150$ each Litre!!!!) .... other canna products are expensive too, but nothing to compare to canna boost.

so in my mind they are the best nutes .... but very expensive too ... maybe not a good idea for begginer when money is important.

i feed them very often as i said using beetween 1/2 and 3/4 of suggestions on bottle (full for PK at 3rd week flowering &+) .... the coco is always very wet .... and i flush them with water and florakleen 1 time every week. (i let them dry a little bit before flushing)


(before that i was using technoflora with nice results)

i dont like autowatering ..... i have the time cause at home very often and never looked for it

 

[arellanobrian]

Thanx for the advice darkside! i do water everyday by hand as i used general organics nutes and they dont sit for long very well but im going to test the cyco platimum series nutes and have an auto drip system as i can only imagine how much of a pain mixing so many nutes everyday. i plan on feeding twice a day. i had great luck with the gen orgaincs go box but i cant stand mixing nutes everyday so i want to try some synthetic nutes and i just read on there website then gen organics just got bought out by a Monsanto/miracle grow subsidiary so i am going to try to stay away from them but def have a great product!!

and week 19 update on my Roslyn Road and trimming the smaller buds i posted earlier

 

[Gorgar]

.... and i flush them with water and florakleen 1 time every week. (i let them dry a little bit before flushing)

Thanks for the reply! I have found out the hard way how important the routine flushing is as one of my two plants was very stressed. I was doing an infrequent flush with weak nutes but I have since started doing a Florakleen flush on a regular basis. Things are looking better. This first grow is a real learning experience!

 

[DarkSidofMike]

yes, flushing is very important with coco .... 1 time every week is the minimum, more often is better, but im lazy lol

(cause i need to take them out of the area to flush them, not when i feed them)

(feeding them with a long nose sprayer to reach them all without moving ... with no or only little runout)

 

[TheBoogyman]

feeding twice a day seems like a lot, arella. at least IMO.

 

[Czertorres]

Hello everyone,

Im fairly new to growing and freshly new to indoor growing. I want to purchase a Mars hydro LED Light. I need help knowing which would be best for me(debating over reflector series 5w or Mar II). I will be purchasing a 4SQ FT tent and I want to have 2 flowering plants and 2 vegging at all time. I definitely prefer quality over quantity I've been medicating for a while now and I spend about 150 per week on about 1/2 OZ, I figured that would be my electric bill per month if i grow my owe. Please help me pick what would be best for me

*Grow space: 2x2x5 in a closet for 2 flowering and 2 vegging plants, heat my be a concern so the coolest temp model would be best unless there's a big difference in the quality of the final produced ill go with the the one recommend for good quality (I could also go 2'x3' on the tent if needed)

*Location: Southern California Orange County will be running the lights at night so temps will be around mid 80's high 70's outside.

*Quality over quantity- Dont know how much of a factor the lights have to do with this but I prefer Quality or Quantity for sure. Dense, potent nuggets


Thanks Again,

 

[Robert Celt]

Hello everyone,

Im fairly new to growing and freshly new to indoor growing. I want to purchase a Mars hydro LED Light. I need help knowing which would be best for me(debating over reflector series 5w or Mar II). I will be purchasing a 4SQ FT tent and I want to have 2 flowering plants and 2 vegging at all time. I definitely prefer quality over quantity I've been medicating for a while now and I spend about 150 per week on about 1/2 OZ, I figured that would be my electric bill per month if i grow my owe. Please help me pick what would be best for me

*Grow space: 2x2x5 in a closet for 2 flowering and 2 vegging plants, heat my be a concern so the coolest temp model would be best unless there's a big difference in the quality of the final produced ill go with the the one recommend for good quality (I could also go 2'x3' on the tent if needed)

*Location: Southern California Orange County will be running the lights at night so temps will be around mid 80's high 70's outside.

*Quality over quantity- Dont know how much of a factor the lights have to do with this but I prefer Quality or Quantity for sure. Dense, potent nuggets


Thanks Again,

Being in the US, I would suggest checking out their tent/light combos...price seems very good and you get a light matched to the tent. Find them on their site under the 'Promotions" tab

 

[DarkSidofMike]

if you have big pot yes, but mines are 2L pots. sometimes i feed them 3 times a day!

feeding twice a day seems like a lot, arella. at least IMO.

 

[DarkSidofMike]

a mars2 400W is perfect for 2X2 area, go for it to have full power light. reflectors series produce less heat, but this is hard to find a reflector for 4SQF ... one of them is not enougt (48X5) and 2 of them dont fit the area!

by the way, i dont know how you can flower and veg in the same place .... you need 2 differents area if you want to do the both, cause flowering plants need total darkness for 12h, this is very important, and vegging plants need 16h of light minimum. so cannot figure how to do both in the same place. (if you are using autoflower seeds its ok and totally different)

Hello everyone,

Im fairly new to growing and freshly new to indoor growing. I want to purchase a Mars hydro LED Light. I need help knowing which would be best for me(debating over reflector series 5w or Mar II). I will be purchasing a 4SQ FT tent and I want to have 2 flowering plants and 2 vegging at all time. I definitely prefer quality over quantity I've been medicating for a while now and I spend about 150 per week on about 1/2 OZ, I figured that would be my electric bill per month if i grow my owe. Please help me pick what would be best for me

*Grow space: 2x2x5 in a closet for 2 flowering and 2 vegging plants, heat my be a concern so the coolest temp model would be best unless there's a big difference in the quality of the final produced ill go with the the one recommend for good quality (I could also go 2'x3' on the tent if needed)

*Location: Southern California Orange County will be running the lights at night so temps will be around mid 80's high 70's outside.

*Quality over quantity- Dont know how much of a factor the lights have to do with this but I prefer Quality or Quantity for sure. Dense, potent nuggets


Thanks Again,

 

[DarkSidofMike]

just to be sure everybody saw it ...

(little bit confusing cause she is talking about leds/lens as the same thing!)

My Dearest Friends,
Recently we got some complains about the issue of the burnt out of leds. Then some of our competitors mislead our customers by saying that our products are low qualified and with bad warranty and spread the words like everywhere. Here I wanna make an explanation.
Our suppliers of lens changed the material without notifying us. The lens will turn yellow under long-time high temperature. We actually found out this problem in March this year. At that time, we cannot do any compensation cause those lights were already sold out, but we changed our supplier since then, and we tested the new suppliers’ products for a long time, get pretty good result. So anyone ordered our lights afterwards will seldom have the lense problem.

For the wrong lens, if you guys have encountered the same problem, we will offer two solutions.
1. We send to you free led diodes. You can choose to replace them by yourself or repair them at the local maintenance store. We will cover the maintenance fee.
2. If we have repair centre in your country like USA, UK, DE, CZ, AU, you can send the lights to our repair centre, and we repair the lights for you, the first year, we will also pay the shipping for you.

For those who don’t bother to repair them, we will offer 10~15% discount on next order for new Cree lights as compensation. Ha, some of you may start to check the leds, lol, don’t feel shy to tell me.

Please don’t worry, the light will not get on fire just because some lens burnt out. All of our materials are fireproof. We will stick strictly to our warranty policy on our website, you can all check it on Warranty Policy | Mars Hydro

Here, you guys are very friendly, truly, I love you so much. And I want to say thank you for all those kind words here, but still we have made mistakes, too and you are free to judge us. We will take it sincerely, including those from competitors. However, some competitors spread bad views and untrue comments about our products and company. I can understand them, they must be very jealous of us and they don’t know one thing, Facts speak louder than words. To them, we will keep silence and not bother to fight back. Most efforts will be put in developing more good-quality and affordable lights rather than bad mouthing. You guys are the only one to judge whether we are good or not. Haha, can’t you see how nervous I am when you have a problem, lol.

At the end, if you see anyone say bad words about our company, please don’t defend us by quarrelling with them, we don’t wanna get better sales by defaming our competitors and we believe the one who concentrates on doing this will not build good business in a long run.

Everyone, happy growing!

 

[Czertorres]

Oh wow that was fast thanks guys.

DarkSidofMike- thanks for your input man much appreciated. LOL Good one i wasn't thinking of that. Im growing outside at the moment and I acutally have a box were I put her in after she gets 12hr of sun. Im thinking I could use that? Your opinion is appreciated bro.

How would you compare MarII to the 480w reflector series as far as light and heat. I believe the MarsII will give me a better par due to the fact its squared and im using a small area anyways

 

[DarkSidofMike]

hmmmm yes then, if your veg plants are outside for a time .... yes, maybe all ok that way

Sara said often that reflector series are producing little less heat ..... personally i never saw a noticable difference but i cannot really compare the 2 panels i have (1X mars2 400W and 1X reflector 144W). they are in 2 different area and cannot compare.

Oh wow that was fast thanks guys.

DarkSidofMike- thanks for your input man much appreciated. LOL Good one i wasn't thinking of that. Im growing outside at the moment and I acutally have a box were I put her in after she gets 12hr of sun. Im thinking I could use that? Your opinion is appreciated bro.

How would you compare MarII to the 480w reflector series as far as light and heat. I believe the MarsII will give me a better par due to the fact its squared and im using a small area anyways

 

[Mars Hydro]

Hmm... prote, we can ship to South Africa and the cose is indeed not cheap, but cheaper than what you pay in the local.

where can i get LED system in South Africa? power costs here are sky rocketing........

 

[Mars Hydro]

Eh, sorry for confusing you.
leds and lens are together, if the burnt out of leds are caused by the wrong lens, we will send replacements. It's better to repair in Hungary, the shipping cost is not cheap.

@Sara:

"the burnt out of leds"
...
"Our suppliers of lens changed the material"
...
"For the wrong lens"
...
"We send to you free led diodes"

Am I the only one who doesn't understand? Leds = diodes = lens? Do you use these 3 terms for the same object? Or?

Do you already have a repair center in CZ?? If I buy from Hungary, and I have a problem (hopefully not!) I don't have to send my light for repair to China, just to CZ?

 

[Mars Hydro]

hello, smokehog, it may be the problem of driver. You can swap the drivers inside and check whether the leds will be on again. If the light is on, it must be the driver. We will send the replacement to you. Who are you contacting with?

Dear SmokeSara, I have a problem with my mars 2 1600w. Some of the LEDs have gone out on the unit. The light is still under warranty. I did email with a picture and someone said that it must be 1 of 2 drivers. I am trying to find out if someone is going to send drivers so i can fix the unit or will it have to be sent back for replacement?

Any help is grateful as i have paid a lot of money for this unit.

Smokehog