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Gee, thanks for that input, you needn't have bothered.

I don't understand what you're saying. If you mean one has high upfront costs and lower running costs, while the other is cheap to buy, but uses much more electricity to operate, then I think I made it clear in my previous posts that I understood this trade-off. My only additional point in the...

Yeah, it seems fun now, but wait 20 years and you'll have 5^2 grandchildren to buy presents for... Just forget about that extra garage/comfortable chair you were planning on! :D

Except that LED panels aren't like oranges because, among other things, you can't just buy another one if one is sour. Not to mention you might actually be buying very expensive lemons, expecting them to taste sweet, while you've got perfectly good, sweet citruses growing everywhere. And while...

There are way to few garage pot-growers to make a dent in the LED industry. What you need is a government imposed directive disallowing the sale of flurescent and HID lamps - what basically happened to high-watt incandescents in EU, then you might see some change. But even with that, CFL prices...

You've got $1000+ worth of lights? Jesus, how many plants are you growing?

Hey, that's great! I disagree with idosimon that there's no discussion to be had. Even IF LEDs are better in PAR/w, which is not necessarily the case, the question is really whether one is more cost-effective than the other. In other words, is a less power-hungry but more expensive LED panel...

Child abuse! Where's her CHILI???!!! I see not ONE hot pepper anywhere in her vicinity! :fireball: Congrats! :party:

I'm not, which you would know if you'd read any of the previous posts. What I am saying is that it's not because of "how it is in the wild" that we know it's not better, it's because someone actually conducted a scientific experiment. But I guess that was a giant waste of time as they could have...

They also don't grow "in the wild" in a nutrient solution, yet hydroponic yields can be much higher than normal. "In the wild" conditions are not necessarily optimal - while plants are adapted to the (frequently very harsh) environment they live in, that doesn't imply that bettering growing...

Do you have access to these publications? Well, you can at least read the abstracts, the first is only for seedlings, the second one might be interesting though. http://www.sciencedi...304423897000782 http://journal.ashsp.../2/202.abstract EDIT: the second article is actually accessible...

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They don'b absolutely NEED darkness in the sense of having a photoperiod and seedlings actually seem to do a little better with 24/7 light, but it's not optimal for an adult plant. But there's light and there's light - you can still easily have a 20w incandescent on and it will essentially be...

Yeah, I've got a lot of plants like that - they look like a tall, lanky fella' with a doofus haircut. From my experience overwintering last year, it's a better idea - especially for these plants that aren't bushy - to cut them back. If you just leave 5-10 inches of that main stalk, you're going...

Well, I kept a small habanero plant under a 20w "daylight" (6400K) cfl for a while and it did ok and even produced peppers (they were kinda small-ish). So I see no reason why it wouldn't work with your Chinese 5-color, but it probably wont be as full as it could be. If it doesn't work, just add...

Well, whether you apply fertilizer periodically or there are nutrients already present in your growing medium, there could be a relative abundance of nitrogen that could cause flower drop. But since your plant is only two months old, flower drop is actually quite normal and not something that...

40% humidity is a little low, but should be just fine as far as pollination goes, you probably want to stay in the 40-60% range. Above 60% you're just asking for mold/fungus. And while it's true that low or high humidity (as well as a nuber of different factors) can cause flower drop, at least...

You can't overwinter peppers in the dark, you can reduce light levels significantly, but you'll need at least ambient light. The decision of how much light really depends on what you hope to achieve. If you simply want them to survive until next season, you don't need a lot of light. If you want...

Hhaha :D

Sure they are, that's what the OP is asking - from the web site in question: "Providing more than four times the output of the original GlowPanel®, the GlowPanel 45® uses just 28 watts of power and surpasses the output of a 250 Watt HPS - easily providing five square feet of coverage for...