Exactly
. I've been screaming about this since the day
PetFlora Donnie started the "you NEED to use this" BULLSHIT. I hate these fucks who like to divide everything/everyone for their own self interests
. Use the BEST tool for the job. Growers serve the plant. Hazes love red but don't love it more than intensity, right? Want an intense 660nm source so you're gonna buy a 610nm peaking COB
? At least I wouldn't but if that 610nm WW COB has enough 660nm in it for your plant/environment/setup then it is the BEST, so in that sense "fans" of monos and COBs can both be right. But really the only right, or best, to me is what the plant is telling you. So what is BEST CDG$?
It's like a runner. First you gotta have a good heart/circulatory system. Equate that to efficiency. Can't be a track star with COPD just like you're wasting your time growing with an inefficient light source. But at that point if you have the solid heart/circulatory system then it's your musculature that takes over. You can equate your muscles with intensity. You need a certain degree of strength and agility or you're going nowhere, just like your LED light source must be intense enough to provide your plants with enough photons in a given area to promote healthy growth and flowering. But at that point with all things being equal or close to it with intensity and efficiency then spectrum takes over and spectrum can be equated to equipment. The lighter than air shoe or outfit that gives you that extra boost or advantage is spectrum. The selection of the right shoe in the right condition is going to give the athlete an advantage but not to the point where the average runner is beating a pro runner because the sneakers they got on cost $500.00. You can throw all the budget LEDs found in MARs panels hitting all the MMJ peaks but it ain't outgrowing a CXB dissipating the equivalent in watts.
COBs make DIY soooooooooooooooo much easier and easier is better in a lot of people's books but it only makes it better if the plant agrees IMVHO. I would like a Heliospectra but I would buy a COB based panel. Know what I mean $$$?
Did fuckin' Reals just say what I think he said :rolls: