Lighting: Solid State vs. LED

[WA State Grow & Show]

I am finally taking the plunge from MH and HPS to LED. What should I be looking for? I need to replace 6,000 watts to LED. 3- 10'x15' rooms.

 

[Mo Harester]

I am finally taking the plunge from MH and HPS to LED. What should I be looking for? I need to replace 6,000 watts to LED. 3- 10'x15' rooms.

About 35w per square foot if you go with mid grade fixtures between 2.6-2.8 PPE, 2.8-3.0+ PPE fixtures are ideal get better coverage for the same wattage (not to be confused w/ 3.14 PPE diodes that everyone likes to advertise in big bold letters everywhere). Dual peak blues, single peak red (not dual peak, that's just marketing nonsense, 660's are already dominant in the 640 range they just peak at 660). Stay away from any fixtures that have dedicated far red or 730nm diode you don't want those in your main fixture unless they can be turned all the way off in flower. Over 20ppfd worth of it starts reducing yield and terpenes. If you're on a budget get medic grow fold 8's or ez8's, use code mogotyou @ checkout and save an extra 10% on top of whatever sales they are having. If you want the best Mo's, Photontek pro series, Mammoth, or Fluence. There is nothing in the middle that's better than medic grow in any kind of measurable way. Stay away from aci/mars/sf/vivosun/Migro they are all red heavy between 45-55%+ you generally don't want more than 35-40% red and no more than 2% far red for maximum genetic expression, yield, thrichs, and terpenes indoors, and then stay far far away from them pretty much anything on Amazon/temu/AliExpress/TikTok shop.