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[BudGoodman]

HID FTW.

 

[beluga]

Solatubes or bust.

 

[MIMedGrower]

im telling you guys these are the best lights on the market at the moment https://thegreensunshineco.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Home-Page-Background-Blackbg.jpg im useing 4 of the 300 sieries and growing 25 plants veg to flower in 15 gallon pots and getting 15 lbs of dried and trimmed bud on every grow ...my smallest was 10 lbs and biggest was 15 lbs

4 330w lights with a 2x4 reccomended area each grew 15 pounds?


Maybe wet. ;-)

 

[MIMedGrower]

HID FTW.

my favorite bulbs have almost doubled in price. This happened to guitar amp tubes when crappy digital amps came out. Tjey were the blurple of the guitar world.

 

[Aqua Man]

4 330w lights with a 2x4 reccomended area each grew 15 pounds?


Maybe wet. ;-)

Think 2.5x5 area each. Which is about 27w per sq ft. Kinda low especially when less efficient by that margin and definitely not optimal for co2

 

[Milson]

Im just gonna bail now... Aqua and lights don't mix well

Think 2.5x5 area each. Which is about 27w per sq ft. Kinda low especially when less efficient by that margin and definitely not optimal for co2

🗣=(🗣+)

 

[MIMedGrower]

🗣=(🗣+)

I did that to @Aqua Man on purpose. :-)

 

[MIMedGrower]

Think 2.5x5 area each. Which is about 27w per sq ft. Kinda low especially when less efficient by that margin and definitely not optimal for co2

Think 2x4 for those older lamps and that claim is double what the best growers are getting.


Or 4x my hps yield. ;-)

 

[_mahavishnu]

my favorite bulbs have almost doubled in price. This happened to guitar amp tubes when crappy digital amps came out. Tjey were the blurple of the guitar world.

God I feel that. $60-70 for a matched pair of 6L6s. Unholy. At least tube amps themselves are getting cheaper

 

[BudGoodman]

my favorite bulbs have almost doubled in price. This happened to guitar amp tubes when crappy digital amps came out. Tjey were the blurple of the guitar world.

God I feel that. $60-70 for a matched pair of 6L6s. Unholy. At least tube amps themselves are getting cheaper

I hear you... Always spent the coin for the good bulbs... Before.
I went cheap on what's in there now though... $100 for a dozen off of Amazon... Price of one Sunmaster.

 

[Dirtbag]

Man ive been getting just as good results with $40 Cdn cheapo chinese grow lamps. The hortilux are like $120 each.

 

[MIMedGrower]

When i tried cheap hps bulbs they were much redder than the hortilux to my eye and one out of two failed in the second month. I have never had a horty bulb fail and they go a good 10 months before i notice growth slowing conpared to the cheapo that went maybe 4.


and i just found grow green michigan has the 600’s for $75. Thats only 10 more than i was paying before at plantlightinghydroponics.

 

[Dirtbag]

When i tried cheap hps bulbs they were much redder than the hortilux to my eye and one out of two failed in the second month. I have never had a horty bulb fail and they go a good 10 months before i notice growth slowing conpared to the cheapo that went maybe 4.


and i just found grow green michigan has the 600’s for $75. Thats only 10 more than i was paying before at plantlightinghydroponics.

Yeah they arent all built the same for sure. The ones i have are easily as blue as the hortilux. Ive got one of each hung in the room at the moment, one hortilux and one cheapo.

These are the ones ive been buying, i can highly recommend them.

Light EnerG High Pressure Sodium Lamps | Homegrown Hydroponics

LightEnerG Super High Pressure Sodium Flowering Lamps are designed to outperform standard HPS lamps. They have a light spectrum shifted towards the red making them ideal during the flowering stage of growth with added blue spectrum for vegetative growth efficiency. Light EnerG (TM) Super HPS...

hydroponics.com

 

[MIMedGrower]

Yeah they arent all built the same for sure. The ones i have are easily as blue as the hortilux. Ive got one of each hung in the room at the moment, one hortilux and one cheapo.

These are the ones ive been buying, i can highly recommend them.

Light EnerG High Pressure Sodium Lamps | Homegrown Hydroponics

LightEnerG Super High Pressure Sodium Flowering Lamps are designed to outperform standard HPS lamps. They have a light spectrum shifted towards the red making them ideal during the flowering stage of growth with added blue spectrum for vegetative growth efficiency. Light EnerG (TM) Super HPS...

hydroponics.com

a 600w is $57. These are mid priced bulbs. I can get ushios for $55. They are doing a great job in my room.

 

[Dirtbag]

a 600w is $57. These are mid priced bulbs. I can get ushios for $55. They are doing a great job in my room.

Thats a good price. The 1k Ushio lamps are $110 here. And i can get the 1k Light EnerG for i think my last ones were 2 lamps for under $90.
And seriously they grow bud just as well as hortilux. Its what i used for both my rockwool and coco grows.

 

[beluga]

Now I remember why I went from 400W HPS to LEDs....

 

[BroScience101]

When i tried cheap hps bulbs they were much redder than the hortilux to my eye and one out of two failed in the second month. I have never had a horty bulb fail and they go a good 10 months before i notice growth slowing conpared to the cheapo that went maybe 4.


and i just found grow green michigan has the 600’s for $75. Thats only 10 more than i was paying before at plantlightinghydroponics.

I buy random things from grow green all the time.

I get my eye hortilux 1000watt for 72.99 shipped from "The Hydro Store" on ebay . They used to be even cheaper when ordering multiples but they got rid of that discount option

 

[Dirtbag]

Now I remember why I went from 400W HPS to LEDs....

Lol why?

 

[Aqua Man]

Lol why?

Cause you HID guys are always yelling and screaming about which is the best bulb

 

[beluga]

Lol why?

This whole damn page!

I'll put some new strips on my fixture for about $60 in about 6 years...