The Smith
The Smith by Grow The Jungle is an LED fixture to boost plant's growth, to keep motherplants and root clones. The Smith is an led lamp available in 2 powers: 100w and 150w, that improves plant's performance in vegetative stage, or bloom stage, reducing heat and improving efficiency, besides growth ratio, thank to a more specific spectrum (3000K - 4000K - 5000K).
¿What's The Smith fixture?
The Smithis an led lamp type QuantumBoard, thought to improve performance of plants in vegetative stage. The Smith, thanks to its cool spectrum 5000K, improves growth ratio of plants, gets to reduce internodal space and enhances root formation in cuttings.
The Smith to vegetate motherplants, seedlings and cuttings
The Smithhas been developed by Grow The Jungle as a supplemental light for growing stage of motherplants, seedlings and cuttings. Even thought it can be combined with other fixtures and light types to enhance spectrums, The Smith can be used separately to light plants with a specific spectrum.
The main advantage of using a cool spectrum light is it shortens internodal space, in addition to a lower side-branching formation, what turns into plants better prepared for abondant bloom in SOG type of gardens.
Another advantage of using LED growlights to vegetate plants is energy savings (consumption is notoriously lower than HPS lamps), besides savings in expensive air conditioners, as generate much less heat.
The Smith as supplemental growlight in bloom
The Smith is available in three different light spectrums (besides two different power (100w and 150w). The colder spectrum 5000K is suitable for vegetative stage, the 3000K is thought for bloom stage, and 4000K allows you to use it for the whole cycle.
Once this explained, The Smith can be used as supplemental growlight during vegetative phase, during flowering phase or even in both stages of growth. This LED growlight helps improving yields, specially when growing surface is not regular (when it's not squared, so lamp can't cover the whole surface and needs a supplemetal light).
Coverage of The Smith LED fixtures
The Smith has a compact size of 30cm x 30cm, what makes it ideal to be used indoors to cover grow spaces up to 60x60 cm. The lighted surface will vary depending on the intensity needed (closer the light more intensity, farthest the lower).
In example, if we pretend to use it for clones in rooting process, one fixture of The Smith will be enough to cover a surface of 80x80 cm, but if you pretend to use it with a motherplant to produce as much clones as possible, the intense coverage surface would be 50x50 cm.
One of the advantages of this modular system The Smith is you can increase the number of fixtures as your needings rise, up to a maximum of 4 lamps per squared meter to get the maximum light intensity for that surface.
Distance between The Smith and plants
This LED fixture is highly effcient, and produces great amounts of light, so it is recommended to keep a minimum distance between light and plants to avoid leaf burns.
As a grower you must adjust distance to plants based in two criteria: growlight power and function to be used for.
Recommended distance for The Smith 150w
If you will use The Smith 150w in your garden, you should keep a minimum distance of 25cm between led fixture and plants (no matter if growing motherplants or seedlings).
In case you use The Smith led panel to root clone, it is enough you keep a distance of 50cm between LED panel and cuttings. This longer distance is justified because clones do not precise intensity for the rooting process.
Recommended distance for The Smith 100w
As it happens with its big brother, The Smith 100w can also be used to keep motherplants as well as to root cuttings.
In this case SantYerbasi recommends keeping a minimum distance of 20cm fixture-canopy for vegetative plants, and a distance of 35cm for cuttings.
Characteristics of Grow The Jungle The Smith 100w
Power: 100w.
Spectrum: 3000K - 4000K - 5000K.
Opening angle: 120º.
µmol lum: 206,01 µmol/s
PAR: 201,59 µmol/s.
CRI: >80.
Efficiency LED: 2,40 µmol/J.
Efficiency fixture: 2,18 µmol/J.
Size: 280 x 280 x 80 mm.
Tolerance: 10%.
Volatge: 100-240V.
Intensity: 0,43A.
Power factor: >0,95.
Frequency: 50/60 Hz.
Volatge of PCB: <60V SELV.
HPS equivalence: 200w.
Boot time: <0,1 seg.
Control and diming: Optional
Model LED: SMD Samsung.
Driver: Inventronics /Moso 150w IP67.
Heatsink material: Aluminium.
Caracteristics Grow The Jungle The Smith 150w
Power: 150w.
Spectrum: 3000K - 4000K - 5000K.
Opening angle: 120º.
µmol lum: 295,79 µmol/s
PAR: 289,445 µmol/s.
CRI: >80.
Effciency LED: 2,27 µmol/J.
Effciency fixture: 2,07 µmol/J.
Size: 280 x 280 x 80 mm.
Tolerance: 10%.
Voltage: 100-240V.
Intensity: 0,63A.
Power factor: >0,95.
Frequency: 50/60 Hz.
Voltage in PCB: <60V SELV.
HPS equivalence: 300w.
Boot time: <0,1 seg.
Control and diming: Optional
Model LED: SMD Samsung.
Driver: Inventronics /Moso 150w IP67.
Heatsink material: Aluminium.
Reviews of The Smith LED and price
Grow The Jungle has made a huge eford to release to market top quality LED fixtures for a competitive price. In this case The Smith with the price of the basic model (non dimable) it's way lower than its competitors, so it is a great choice for grower that precise a growlamp for vegetative stage of plants.
In refference to this point, even though The Smith is available in different models (non dimable, manual dimable, and bluetooth) and powers (100w and 150w) at SantYErbasi we do consider that the need of diming is almost inexisting in a fixture of 150w (or less). We do not recommend investing the extra money in a feature that you barely use (unlike it happens with more powerful growligths).
Another detail we consider that must be explained is the possibility of choosing between different light spectrums. Even though The Smith is available with different spectrums of light (3000K, 4000K and 5000K), in our opinion the only interesting option is 5000K, which is the one that allow you to grow plants in vegetative stage and root clones. If you pretend use this quantumboard with that will, you'll benefit from one of the best growlights in market with a really low consumption and high efficiency.
If you plant to supplement your flowering room with some The Smith Leds (3000K or 4000K), our advise is forget about The Smith and use The Jackson instead. You'll get higher efficiency and more light production, what derives in higher performance and yields. If you still prefer the characteristics of this The Smith, we consider the 4000K is the best choice, being more versatile as it can be used for the whole cycle of plants thanks its more complete spectrum.
About price: Do your research, you won't find an LED fixture using these compounds for this final price. It's almost a bargain.
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