have noticed with interest 'fluorescent ' tube style led growlights have appeared just recently-check out the old fleabay-in the hydro section
any of you boys and girls tried these ?

LEDs... Ive just made made my own LED SET UP.a couple of weeks ago i was in pound land and bought a pack of 6 ciggi lighters with LED torch blue very bright £1.00.anyway i put some seeds in a propergator put three lighters on top, got up in the morning all the seeds have sprouted ,a fluke or not i don't know until i get some more seeds,i went and got 3 more packs and made a lighting system from a plastic 4ft fish tank lid by gluing them on,to keep the lights on push the button rite in and push it to the side and they stay on i will post some pics soon...TGP.

Save your money

8 watts of white LEDs will grow you diddly squat I'm afraid.

I haven't been keeping up with the LED threads, but I would hazard a guess you could grow a lot more cannabis with a 20 watt CFL - £1 from the supermarket.

They are blue LEDs and my plants are growing tidy, like i said could be a fluke.

Sorry - I meant the linears - at £70 each !

I suspect those are prototype replacements for domestic linear fluorescents.
(for extremely rich people)

Here's another ripoff :-
http://fuzzlight.com/
(though when he was discounting them, they were actually quite good value per led.)

If you check out the LED threads you'll find that you actually want mostly red ones.
Good luck