BirdieNumNum
Well-Known Member
There is no scientific debate as to the increased efficiency from modern led grow lights and chinese crap burples.
The "seeing" has been done.
The fact burples can grow perfectly decent plants is not evidence for their longevity, efficiency, second hand price or safety.
A burple also makes it more difficult, much more difficult for growers to see what is going on with a grows leaves (nutrient defficiency, burn etc) versus natural light.
Your lights are on hour upon hour over month after month to grow a crop and often largely unsupervised. It matters...
It is also quite easy to build your own leds or cobs or buy second hand for what you pay for cheap chinese burples.
I am not the first person to buy a crap tent that was too small, multiple crap lights etc and regret it later.
It is difficult for most new growers to pull out the better modern advice from adequate modern or out of date advice but no one should be in doubt that quality light needs to be the bedrock of any grow.
Thesedays, burples aint it and if you are throwing them away after a grow or two, you probably wont have learnt much using them that you couldn't have learnt with better lighting from day 1.
In the Uk (where growing is illegal) it is now at the point where even buying traditional grow lights and ballasts etc second hand is not as efficient and more expensive than buying a decent modern led grow light unless you are growing on a commercial scale and know what you are doing.
There is much to be lost and little if anything to be gained buying cheap chinese burple lights...
This guys channel will keep most new and intermediate growers upto date on grow lights
Grow Light Comparison Channel
The "seeing" has been done.
The fact burples can grow perfectly decent plants is not evidence for their longevity, efficiency, second hand price or safety.
A burple also makes it more difficult, much more difficult for growers to see what is going on with a grows leaves (nutrient defficiency, burn etc) versus natural light.
Your lights are on hour upon hour over month after month to grow a crop and often largely unsupervised. It matters...
It is also quite easy to build your own leds or cobs or buy second hand for what you pay for cheap chinese burples.
I am not the first person to buy a crap tent that was too small, multiple crap lights etc and regret it later.
It is difficult for most new growers to pull out the better modern advice from adequate modern or out of date advice but no one should be in doubt that quality light needs to be the bedrock of any grow.
Thesedays, burples aint it and if you are throwing them away after a grow or two, you probably wont have learnt much using them that you couldn't have learnt with better lighting from day 1.
In the Uk (where growing is illegal) it is now at the point where even buying traditional grow lights and ballasts etc second hand is not as efficient and more expensive than buying a decent modern led grow light unless you are growing on a commercial scale and know what you are doing.
There is much to be lost and little if anything to be gained buying cheap chinese burple lights...
This guys channel will keep most new and intermediate growers upto date on grow lights
Grow Light Comparison Channel
. Are they autos or photoperiod? Have you germinated them straight in the 25L pots?