Guess who got their new 960w Mars Reflector in the mail today???? ME!!!! So excited to have this soley for veg...besides running perpetual I am excited to see how the plants respond differently to the LED, fingers crossed for some tight nodes and strong branching!!!
Which light? I'm not giving you a hard time, I'm curious.
I went to their site to look it up....wow, they have really upped their game! Their new lights look dope. If you are listening
Mars Hydro, I could take the light for a killer, documented, comparison. I'm all set up to do a perfect side by side!
Even their older Mars2 series is an awesome veg light. Ime, it vegges better than an MH. Not as good as the Horti Blue, but only slightly. In this pic, I just rotated the blue to the middle hood, but you can see how much fuller the plants on the left are...those were vegged under the blue. But anyway, even their older series lights would perform just about as well as this. I bet the newer ones will slaughter. My singular complaint was that it doesn't match the yield of HPS. Although, I don't know if any LED has done that yet, at least, not personally. & a lot of the documented tests are done by someone with a stake in the lights success. It's not that I think they are fabricating the results, but if you
own Mars hydro, you aren't exactly the most unbiased person to do it. & that gives people a preconceived notion.
Finally got new bulbs for the t5. It had 2 new-ish sprectrolux in it, but the apollo's seemed much brighter no contest so I swapped em all out to 4 Apollo 6500's. Letting the seedlings soak up some hps for an hour or two so they should all be ready for a fresh drench come morning. Hopefully the bulb change will boost the temp for the seedlings as well, struggling with that in the cold ass closet.
If it's too cold, they will die (obviously). But if you are below 72, they can practically stall on you. You want
at least 75*, for seedlings I shoot more for 82-85*
lol, I pictured
@SeaF0ur being a lot older in my head. What are the chances he would be on the news? For the record C4, I hope you win!