African D how big do you want to grow those plants and how much do you want to pull from them? 5 foot trees can be expensive in LED land.I have a grow area of roughly 10sq ft (3sq m) and 7ft height. I'm looking to grow 4 plants in this area. Could anyone recommend the required wattage I would need? Any grow lights in particular known that would be suitable for this space?
Only flowering in this room, so will I need specific "bloom" spectrum?
Thanks in advance
). Wattage is how much it costs to run a system/panel and the figure you want is only good for what model of panel you choose. So a 150 watt panel from company A can have the same growing power as a 300 watt panel from company B. So if I say 600 watts, 4 panels (600) from company A is overkill, when 2 panels (300) would do the same thing as 2 panels (600) from B. See? You can't really think in watts with LEDs. You need more info than just watts basically. Good Luck.
I have just about the same space as you, sir. There are a lot of options on the LED market that covers 6 sq ft (most are rectangle panels..), so you are wanting to look at the Quality of things and Warranty's
To cover a 2 x 4.5 ft flower area for $500 shipped to the door .............NO...............happy shopping
The cree light bulbs are a 60watt equivalent, they're only rated to use 9.5 watts, more than likely 10.5w in real world. I've been replacing all the bulbs in my house as they burn out with them, they're awesome.
Hey AD, sadly 300 bucks isn't going to get you too far, especially for the size of your grow. Also 4 plants of any decent size would be difficult at best. IMO you need to start small and work your way up, otherwise you're talking 2 to 4 larger panels and quite a few extra light$ because of the plant'$ $ize. Best bet IMO is to get a Hans panel with some T5s and do a SCroG, (you could go with something from Cidly instead of Hans but I'm kinda down on most Chinese panels nowadays). SCroGGing will offer you the best way to maximize your yield with small or cheap LED panels and Han's little panel is very good for it's size and price and it and some T5s, (or some CREE Bulbs
), will get you a good yield where you could upgrade to another 2 panels, and so on... 
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I have Kessils and love 'em. I have 4 H350 magentas on a spectral spinner and two diy units right now for veg of royal blue and white. The spinner is really a great addition to these small multiple units and provides great coverage. The plants look fantastic - structure, color, everything. I'll be flopping to bloom soon and changing the diys to deep red. This will be my first grow with the diy units and a lot of deep red during flower. Some folks like deep red and some don't so I'm going to find out for myself My first grow with Kessils went well too and I grew some great Purple Urkle - decent yield, great quality. I think that they are a good bargain at growershouse.com too. The build quality on the Kessils is the best for any commercial fixture that I've seen....now I'm not saying I've seen 'em all by any means but these are well manufactured and several of those named above are NOT well built and in fact are known to fail regularly.Kessil gets no love
For $200 bucks the may be the only choice http://www.bsled.com/led-grow-light/h158d-140w.html it should do well in a 2x2, tell them you want a "sample/tester" panel and they should ship it for around two bills......good luck
http://www.bonsaihero.com/ledgrow.html 3-4 panels should rock that space, check the first review and see what these little fuckers can do. This is a heavy red leaning panel.hey guys, I have been thinking of a way to supplement my 400wMH when it comes time to flowering, i dont have the space for cfl tubing and and ballast with hps is also a space and electricity issue. basically, im looking for red spectrum for 5 plants, grow space is about L 1.5m X W 0.6m X H 2.5m. nothing hectic, just want some red for flowering
any1 got a quick link to a schematic? i assume they are linked in parallel?