So question. Anybody a fan of the blurprle ( blue and red)light? Been doing some reading and a lot of negative reviews.
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Burple lights are highly inefficient and more of the wattage used by these lights go toward making heat rather than light as compared to more efficient lights. It’s best to stick with lights built with high efficiency diodes such as the Samsung LM301 series of diodes.
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Agree with this ^
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I’ll add that most burple manufacturers flat out lie about the wattage capacity of their lights. Lights cited at 600 watts are typically only 100 to 150 watt lights. They are highly creative in how they calculate wattage.
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Well first time grower here by the way. Wife got me a light. LED 300 watt so it said. From the walk it’s actually 100 watt I’m being told. But so far it’s been doing ok. My first drop was a feminized blue cheese. Ended up with root rot and I tried clean with the peroxide method and I ended up severely stunting the plant. She looked dead… like she wasn’t going nowhere and I was told to give up on her and throw it away lol. I didn’t. I stuck with it. Learning curve for me. Anyway she is doing a lot better now. Actually showed signs of flowering a few days ago. After all that 
I guess my question is should I just continue to use the white light and not use that burple color? I’m at 12/12 now as well.
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The yellow at bottom of plant is from me coming home from work and the humidity was at 77. I don’t know how long it was that high. I quickly got it down and that’s how she remained.
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A burple will be more effective than standard LED white lighting such as GE or Phillips bulbs. Standard white lighting will perform very poorly in flowering. I’d consider going for lights built with LM301 diodes when you decide to upgrade. Good lighting makes a huge difference in plant yield.
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So stay with the purple light?
This is my light. Again wife bought it. All I know is it came in mail lol. I will upgrade once I can afford too but working with what I got
Until you upgrade, correct.
The light you have is very poor. It says 300 watts, but the light is most likely only a 60 to 80 watt light. For good productivity I’d recommend no less than 200 watts of quality lighting (with LM301 diodes) for a single plant. I’d also use white lighting to supplement the light that you have since it is so weak. It is not a light that is suitable for growing cannabis, which is an extremely light hungry plant. The only plants that need as much light as cannabis are palm and olive trees and some varieties of cacti.
Quality lighting will cost a little more than $1 per watt, so ~$230 for a good 200 watt light.
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Yea I know. Light not 300 watt. It’s a 100 from the wall.once I’m able to I’ll get better light. Got a 1000 watt coming from my bro who’s been growing for years. He’s just in Michigan lol but it will be here in a few weeks.
Im using this and its super cheap right now. MICRO on yt reviewed it well and they use LM301B samsung leds. 280 bucks
HYPHOTONFLUX HPF4000 LED Grow Lights 4x4 ft 480w
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You can use the white light and the blurple together.
What is the white light?
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It says it’s for veg but after reading more it says to can use it for all stages. The light is actually working. It’s just not a lot of wattage so it’s taking forever. Pls the plant m growing as of now got really sick nd stunted. It helped bounce her back
Ok I would still use both at once.
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You mean both on my light? Only ones that come on together is red and blue. Then I have a soft whit and bright white. It’s like two red bulbs then blue two red then blue
You said you have a white light and a blurple light. Run them both on the plant.
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My bad. Misunderstanding. It’s 3 different modes. White soft white and then burple
Only one useful mode…All of the LED’s on.
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