LED GROW TEST. 126W hydro grow led VS. 180W pro source LED LIGHT

here you go. their is a wood wall lite proof from each grow area. i actuly put a wall up because i had to raise my 180w lite up for a little bit, the clones dont like it close at all, so i moved it up to 15" over the nite and moved it down to the recomended 10" with half led power turned on.
the hindu skunk that i thought were going to die came back last nite. both of them are standing up, but the one on the 180w side was looking like it was dead then she just stood up and it taking off now since i raised the lite last nite.
on the 126w side i have the lite @ 6" and their seems to be no stress from that. they are all standing like they should be. that just shows the diff between the lites one you can have close and one you cant when their just baby clones.

project fuoro said:

You have plenty of camera battery's right Irish!??! hehe!

Post them pics like its the last day on earth!

Peace brotha man! Glad to see people are showing up to watch!

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i have rechargable batterys i will post some pics today since i count it the first day since it will be 24hrs. then ill post pics once a week from their on, i like the once a week because its always a big change and you guys can see the differnce better.

Sounds good to me boss. Once a week is more than enough

here are some updated pics of both lites. check out how much better the Hindu skunk is doing now with the 180w. i thought she was going to die, then i woke up this moring and she was standing up alot better. i have the 126w at 6" and the 180w at 10" and half of the leds turned on, like PS told me to do.

Just curious as to why the suggestion was made to switch some of the light off?

Looks like both are doing well! Glad everything will survive!!!

Keep it up mang! I can't wait for a week to go by!

Peaces!
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hey im loving to see you doing these tests im just wondering why you didnt keep the lights at the same distance ? i was just thinking that they should run at the same heights and on the same power, putting one light at 50 % is a huge difference . are you having a heat problem ,also wat are the heat bubbles like for each light ? im just really curious

kushRx said:

hey im loving to see you doing these tests im just wondering why you didnt keep the lights at the same distance ? i was just thinking that they should run at the same heights and on the same power, putting one light at 50 % is a huge difference . are you having a heat problem ,also wat are the heat bubbles like for each light ? im just really curious

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i keep them at each diff higth because thats what the company tells me to do. i am using half the power on the 180w because that what i was told to do for i dont over power the clones, then when they strat growing bigger then ill turn more power on.
the reason i am not keeping them at the same higth is because i thik its best to let each company pick how high to test their skills after all they made the lights and know what best for their lights highth. their is very very little heat from these lights.

That makes perfect sense, you want to test each light at it's maximum capabilities and they may have different high requirements

Things are looking good, that place you went to get you clones, how was the Bud there?

I am always looking for good clubs to visit, I hear Sac has some good clubs

Can you recommend any?

Thanks

T

very interested in this... i am currently vegging 5 papaya and 1 wonderwoman girls under a 90w ufo led... i was thinking of getting another 90w and have u ufo's side by side for the six plants... thinks this will be sufficent lighting?

MRsteverson said:

very interested in this... i am currently vegging 5 papaya and 1 wonderwoman girls under a 90w ufo led... i was thinking of getting another 90w and have u ufo's side by side for the six plants... thinks this will be sufficent lighting?

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i think you could get by with two 90w's, for 6 small to med tall plants. i think 3 or 4 90w would be alot better that way you could keep the light closer and not lose foot print.
i veged and flowerd 4 sativas with my 90w untill i got my 180w. it did ok for that big of a foot print.

irishboy said:

i think you could get by with two 90w's, for 6 small to med tall plants. i think 3 or 4 90w would be alot better that way you could keep the light closer and not lose foot print.
i veged and flowerd 4 sativas with my 90w untill i got my 180w. it did ok for that big of a foot print.

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yea, the footprint for the closet is rather small, the plants are in a fogponics 10 gallon res with 2" net pots roughly 6 inches apart... the wonder woman is next to the tub in a 5 gallon dwc bucket..probably 2 feet by 2.5 feet of a canopy... i am thinking 2 x 90s would be sufficient and i possibly might add some cfls or a flouro tube

irishboy said:

i keep them at each diff higth because thats what the company tells me to do. i am using half the power on the 180w because that what i was told to do for i dont over power the clones, then when they strat growing bigger then ill turn more power on.
the reason i am not keeping them at the same higth is because i thik its best to let each company pick how high to test their skills after all they made the lights and know what best for their lights highth. their is very very little heat from these lights.

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first off theres no such thing as overpowering your clones , there are plenty of people using 400 or even 600 watt hids aka mh or hps ive even been 2 a ga rden using a 1000 watt mh and they were loving it with a 100% success rate . i was s ying b4 for a true test of the lights they should b the exact same regardless of the manufacturers advice think about the scientific method your changing the heights is a new variable . it makes this test uneven as to which light is truely better also if i were u id start your lights 6 or 8 inches above your plants. your yeilds will b way better look up the law of square inverse

A friend has been using one of these.
I was not too impressed with LED's until I saw his results.

I think he said he got it from abrpa.com

They keep a very low profile. Thing works unreal.

Maybe I can talk the wife into one for xmas...

Yow

kushRx said:

first off theres no such thing as overpowering your clones , there are plenty of people using 400 or even 600 watt hids aka mh or hps ive even been 2 a ga rden using a 1000 watt mh and they were loving it with a 100% success rate . i was s ying b4 for a true test of the lights they should b the exact same regardless of the manufacturers advice think about the scientific method your changing the heights is a new variable . it makes this test uneven as to which light is truely better also if i were u id start your lights 6 or 8 inches above your plants. your yeilds will b way better look up the law of square inverse

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you have to undestand led and HID are differnt. ive used leds for a few growes ever befor i joined the fourms, and you can over power the leds. their wont be a fair test if all of the other clones die, i am just leting the clones get use to the leds and ill move them down for their. thats how i am going to do it. once i raised the light they are already starting to pick right back up. so that tells me that they were over powerd. everyone knows with led when you leaves are making ram horns that means the light is to close. ask any led company encluding hydro grow or pro source. ive already stated that this test was also with the led comanys telling me what hight to keep their leds at. the companys made the light and they know whats best for their light. please anyone using leds chim in on this and say what happens if you have the lights too close? i know their is alot of people using 180w PS leds right now.

also are u using leds or have you used them befor?

enryone please give ur opion on this? do u think my leds test is unfair because i am going by what the led companys is telling how to use their light? because out of the three fourms i am on this is the first time ive heard this is unfair.

i just dont see how its will be a fair test if my other clones die because i kept my light too close when the led maker told me not to.

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You're a good man to do product testing like this.+reps

Andy Botwin said:

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Lookin' forward to your progress...

You're a good man to do product testing like this.+reps

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thank you bro, hope you enjoy.

irishboy said:

enryone please give ur opion on this? do u think my leds test is unfair because i am going by what the led companys is telling how to use their light? because out of the three fourms i am on this is the first time ive heard this is unfair.

i just dont see how its will be a fair test if my other clones die because i kept my light too close when the led maker told me not to.

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you got it irish, with leds the leaf tips fold over when their not searching for light , doesnt really matter later on, but at their age it could only hurt your test... p.s. my clones like em at 9" with procyon or prosource 90

bigkuz68 said:

you got it irish, with leds the leaf tips fold over when their not searching for light , doesnt really matter later on, but at their age it could only hurt your test... p.s. my clones like em at 9" with procyon or prosource 90

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dont get me wrong latter on i will lower the lights to the same hight but right now i am only causeing unneeded stress for the baby's. they barley have root their so fresh. my 90w ufo loved it at 10" during veg and 6" @ flowering.

but this 180w is a whole new ball park. plus my 90w was only a tri-ban not this new 5-ban i have.

i just dont see how putting such young clones threw soo much stress is going to give me a fair test. i listen to the company but i realy listen to my plants first no matter what!! and their telling me their is too much light on them, i am the weed wisper.lol. i hear my plants talk to me would you take a fresh clone with hardly know roots and throw it in the direct sunlight? or put it in the shade and move it close and close to the sun over time to let them get use to it? or would you just take a cuting and throw it under a clone dom and but a 1000w hid light right above it? or use cfl's untill you get a goot root system them put them under some HID light and move the light closer as it grows? it just dosent make sense to do that to me. maybe i am wrong but it is my plants and my yeild and i will be crazy to mess up my yeild by stressing my plants out like that.

please correct me if i am wrong somone?
if everyone thinks my test is false them i will listen. but i wont listen to only one person claming my test isnt fair. sorry bro i need to see some killer growes done by u with leds to take that adivce that you cant over power a plant with leds. in know way am i trying to be disrespectfull towards you, but i am just being real.

like i said if more then a few people this this is a unfair grow i will listen, but also why would pro source tell me to grow this way if it wasnt going to help their plants and why would hydro girl agree with me raising the light to get a fair test. both companys told me the same thing. no companys is going to mess up their grow when their is alot on the line. after all its their lights and they know what going on with their product.

and realistically the next week is just keepin em alive and strengthening em... the differences in the lights most likely will not surface until those babies are getting strong into veg mode... your test is very fair no worries bro