This was a quarter pound of dinafem blue cheese grown with 100w extremely inexpensive dollar store LEDs. I think weve all triesd growing crap with cfls, my first thread 9 years ago was a cfl grow,then budget led, moved on to hps, les/hps, and no running hlg quantum boards and loving it. Regardless you live and learn. Youll need twice as much wattage to get half the penetration that any other light gives off. Also need to keep them extremely close to the plant. Theres really no benefit at all other than the fact you unscrewed it from you lamp in the living room for free (and to be honest thats also up for criticism) . jokes aside, in simple terms, it will grow pot but as you sharpen your sword youll realise the benefits