phillips 315w LEC with D-Papillon reflector

[distiller]

I am on my second grow woith the D pap double and cannot praise them enough... tight growth with fast thickening flowers...... brilliant.

[Moondog 11]

how much coverage do you get ?

[Earthling]

Distiller what sort of grams per watt do you get?

 

I just got 1.2grams per watt using conventional 600watt HPS...do these do better?

[forgetiwashere]

hey there earthling thats pretty impressive, have you got a link to a grow i would love to see that, not saying i dont believe you because i certainly do just really interested to see it, sounds like it would have been an epic grow.

 

and if you dig back through this thread you can see i pulled 1.3gpw with the LEC, my strain was fairly low yielding and i would quite confidently say even without seeing your grow that if you did everything the same and simply swapped the 600w for a 315w you would have yielded about the same with about half the wattage so i would say you would have had epic gram per watt figures.

 

it is dngerous to use these figures though sometimes, as i can say yes it can pull 1.3gpw but that doesnt straight away mean the next person to use it will do the same, it depends a lot on grow style. its like someone saying a strain yields 500g/m2 but that is in ideal conditions, doesnt mean everyone that grows it will get 500g/m2

 

Edit i just checked out your grow, with a clone of that white widow x big bud and a scrog i would say you would almost certainly be hitting like 2g/watt with the 315w LEC, i also believe your temps would be more managable and your quality would probably increase as a result of the lower temps

Edited March 17, 2015 by forgetiwashere

[distiller]

I never really ever weigh my crop so don't really know how many grams per watt... I usually do 6 to 8 autos at a time. enough for myself and a mate with liver cancer.  my grow area is 1.8m x 900mm the coverage is adequate for my purposes.

[Earthling]

Thanks for the replies guys. I guess its a suck it and see in the end.

I might hold off for a bit and see how things are going for me in a grow cycle or two...unfortunately I'm on a budget.

If I'm still growing come summer, I might have to bite the bullet and buy a couple.

[MediKat]

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Got two of these puppy's ( sk450 LED spectrum kings ) yet to set up my kit, My plan is:

An sk450 on each side ( for side penetration ) Going to split my 630w double D Papillion into

two seperate lights ie: two 315w Papillions & Have them above. I have a 4 x 3.5 m room to deck out. Going to seal room and run Co2 bottle with regulator, have regulator on a timer ect. Have access to Big Bud & Blue Cheese clones, apparently they

are high yield strains. Hopefully my first grow will be a successful one. Any tips or opinions would be appreciated.

Hey Moondog, how are those sk450's going. 

[Moondog 11]

Yeh they defiantly let your plants be the best they could be, had my bro do a crop with them. Weed grown under these turns out to be stronger than if grown under Hps, though your yield would be 2/3rds of what a Hps delivers due to Hps having more penetration.

[Ford Fairlane]

Any idea why it produces stronger dacca? Does it have UV enhancer or??????

[Moondog 11]

our theory is the sk450 LED gives just the right light spectrums the plant needs without flooding it with too much light. where as the HPS just floods the plant with light without delivering all the light spectrums it needs, also there is very little heat from the sk450.