hps vs led help?

Greetings fellow farmers I am about 4 week out of harvest. I have been growing under a 600w led by Bloomspect most of the grow. i decided to change it out now just to see how it would affect the grow. i changed it out with a 150w hps by sun system. With in days i'm starting to see a lot more trichs. Do you think the 150w hps is a better light or is it just a timing thing that if I had left up the 600w I would have gotten the same results.

I have a strain that produces better strength and terp quality but less yield under HPS compared to LED. 150W HPS is not much light, are you growing in a small area?

Maybe it just looks like more trichs due to the different spectrums you are viewing the plants under?
I'd use both lights now if you can fit them in the area.
Is the bloomspect 600w actually 132 watts?

Blurple junk LEDs are not indicative of what real modern LED Boards will do. Ditch both and look at HLG, Timber, Spider Farmer and others.

Use them both if you can control the heat.

hebrewdiver said:

Greetings fellow farmers I am about 4 week out of harvest. I have been growing under a 600w led by Bloomspect most of the grow. i decided to change it out now just to see how it would affect the grow. i changed it out with a 150w hps by sun system. With in days i'm starting to see a lot more trichs. Do you think the 150w hps is a better light or is it just a timing thing that if I had left up the 600w I would have gotten the same results.

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i mean surely the timing helped too it gets frostier everyday till chop. other than that i cant see how switching to an hps helps in trichome density.

it emits ir maybe that bumped up your leaf temps to an optimal level and you see increased vigor because of that effect which results in more trich production? maybe that extra bit of heat also triggered a mild defensive reaction to decrease transpiration by trying to decrease the leaf temps, thus plant started putting out more trichs.

on the other hand full spectrum leds usually make denser buds so the trich density should be pretty good under full spectrum leds but blurples i’m not qualified to comment on haha

got before after pics?

I did not flower under the "blurple" LED but I will say the 600w blurple LED light that I am vegging in is producing tighter nodes, better structured plants vs the 600w HID that I have right beside it.. It may be a fluke or maybe it actually does ok with vegging.

Playk328 said:

I did not flower under the "blurple" LED but I will say the 600w blurple LED light that I am vegging in is producing tighter nodes, better structured plants vs the 600w HID that I have right beside it.. It may be a fluke or maybe it actually does ok with vegging.

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blurple leds are not incapable of growing plants. there is big hate towards them but they actually can and do grow plants they have 3 basic problems imo and exp

-they are inefficient compared to modern full spectrum leds
-lack of green makes it impossible to see true colors, work under and inspect plants, also green i guess is also useful for the plant
-bs marketing of 100w lights as if they were 1000w soured people off them

Blurple in veg has made some too compact here, (long ago) but they perform reasonably well in veg. When I went back to CMH/HPS for a while, I used my old 357 Magnum to veg.
New generation Boards are incredible.

hillbill said:

Blurple in veg has made some too compact here, (long ago) but they perform reasonably well in veg. When I went back to CMH/HPS for a while, I used my old 357 Magnum to veg.
New generation Boards are incredible.

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i even had good flowering performance under purple leds years ago. not quite the blurple leds as they have a sickening color but with a soft pinkish hue. anyway plants grew decently. not hating on the pink but there are better options nowadays.