Test Grow with MH, Sunshine 90W Led and 240 Watt BlackStar Led

[fssalaska]

OK, I have wanted to try this for a time now, most the test with leds on line are posted by people selling LEDs light, I don't sale $hit. I have 3 types of auto seeds for this test auto blueberry, auto widow, Lowrider #2.
All plants growing in the same Rockwool grow cubes PH 6.3 to 6.5 Lights are on 19/5
Using the same drippier system for water and fertilizer "same Tank", Using General Hydroponics Flora Series fertilizer.
Also trying 2 different sized pots, but with hydro I don't need as much room as you dirt people.
The pic's show my starting point, I will up date this thread over the next 2 months every week with pic's..

PS I know the lights are way to high but there seedlings, I'll start puring the coals to them in a week after there all up and growing..

 

[webb107]

WOW man nice looking set up there. +rep and good luck im going to be watching this 1

 

[Griffin285]

Nice. I subscribed.

 

[Flicker]

Im also using the 240w blackstar led on auto blueberry and ak47xlr2,they are 14 days old and seems to love the light.will follow this one

 

[fssalaska]

Im also using the 240w blackstar led on auto blueberry and ak47xlr2,they are 14 days old and seems to love the light.will follow this one

Yah the 240w blackstar is a awesome light 4 sure way brighter than the sunshine UFOs and also 6 bands of light.. I know they work great for veg I hear all bad when it comes to flowering with the LEDs so I'm trying it for myself, I really hope the Blackstar 240w works for the flowering I would love to change all my lights over to just blackstars.. We shell see.

 

[surgedup]

Just with the blackstars or with every LED you hear its all bad when it comes to flowering....

Yah the 240w blackstar is a awesome light 4 sure way brighter than the sunshine UFOs and also 6 bands of light.. I know they work great for veg I hear all bad when it comes to flowering with the LEDs so I'm trying it for myself, I really hope the Blackstar 240w works for the flowering I would love to change all my lights over to just blackstars.. We shell see.

 

[fssalaska]

Just with the blackstars or with every LED you hear its all bad when it comes to flowering....

Surgedup Its every LED friends and a lot of online people say LEDs suck for flowering, I hope not. I think people that don't know talk out there a$$ a lot. also I believe that LEDs are the future of grow lights thats why I dumped out the 1100 dollars for the LED lights I'm going to be testing with in this grow..

 

[surgedup]

prove them wrong brother!!!! lol im trying!! so far ive bought two 240w blackstars

Surgedup Its every LED friends and a lot of online people say LEDs suck for flowering, I hope not. I think people that don't know talk out there a$$ a lot. also I believe that LEDs are the future of grow lights thats why I dumped out the 1100 dollars for the LED lights I'm going to be testing with in this grow..

 

[Flicker]

Yah the 240w blackstar is a awesome light 4 sure way brighter than the sunshine UFOs and also 6 bands of light.. I know they work great for veg I hear all bad when it comes to flowering with the LEDs so I'm trying it for myself, I really hope the Blackstar 240w works for the flowering I would love to change all my lights over to just blackstars.. We shell see.

Yeah so ive heard,today i added two 11w 2700k cfl in my box with the led,beacause the led does not have much of that spectrum as it doesnt do good on flowering. I guess the plants will respond positive to the added spectrum? As this is my first grow,it will also be an experiment

 

[fssalaska]

UPDATE end of week one..
I thank so far the MH is working best 400 watts I have 420 watts of led light over the same amount of plants that is not working as good as the MH so far.. The LEDs are not working bad but just not as good as the MH, also the blackstar is kicking butt on the sunshine UFOs so far.
Added CO2 about 3 days ago, The LEDs are not to bad BUT they don't come close to covering the amount of S/Feet they say they do.

 

[LostCochran]

nice setup man i am gonna watch this one to see where it goes

 

[carl.burnette]

Subscribed

 

[fssalaska]

New pic at bottom of 1st page I post new ones every Wed's

 

[ColoradoLove]

Badass man. Looking at a couple of 240w Darkstars to replace my 600 this summer. I'm pulling for the 240!

 

[chokeonthesmoke]

great setup. i'm subscribing

 

[fssalaska]

Ok heres a update on the leds, 4 real it would take 3 240 watt blackstar LED lights to = just one 400 watt MH in Veg, the plants right under the blackstar are very red the next plant over is red then to pink, piss poor coverage and as for the UFOs they are fine for people that want 1 or 2 plants and don't really care about yield.. In the photos I have added 2 more 400 watt MHs.. I'm very sorry I bought the leds I really think there shit. Test ends here. PS not trying to piss off the led people this is just what I noticed..

 

[ColoradoLove]

You quit after a week? I'll take those Blackstars off your hands

 

[surgedup]

i would lol ill buy that one for 150 if you want lol

 

[fssalaska]

You quit after a week? I'll take those Blackstars off your hands

Quit after 2 1/2 weeks. Still using the LEDs as fill lighting but not for main lighting anymore, The LEDs are not bad for weekend growers but really have no place in a bigger grow op and thats what I wanted them for.

 

[fssalaska]

See still using them as fill lighting, I don't think there total shit just WAY OVER PRICED for what they are and what they do.
Also If I was going to buy any LEDs ever again it would not be the sunshine UFOs as there 2 band and weak 85% rating on my shitOmeter The Blackstar seems to work good but the coverage sucks it would take 3 of them to cover what one 400 watt MH dose, So I give them a 40% rating on my shitOmeter.
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