Wanted Hps bulb help??

[Snicklefritz88]

Simple question. I have to replace a 400 watt hps bulb. Whats a good brand that has a good spectrum,

 

[Chem77]

Hortilux

 

[Ponky]

The full spectrum "super" hps is fine. Brands not that important. Phillips, GE, something like that is fine. Cheap bulbs work. 600 watts would also be fine of your ballast is adjustable

 

[Ponky]

Hortilux

Hortilux is premium aswell as Gavita. Coat quite a bit. Worth it overall if you just want purse.

 

[Snicklefritz88]

Its a vivosun 400 watt dimmable ballast and wing reflector. OK n the ballast the dimmer goes past 400 to super lumens. Should I only go with a 400 watt bulb. The hortilux looks nice and says enhanced green and yellow spectrum.

 

[Dirtbag]

430w Son Agro. Hands down the best lamp available for that ballast.

 

[Ponky]

430 watt bulb on super lumens is pretty good. I wouldn't over drive a cheap bulb.

 

[Dirtbag]

430 watt bulb on super lumens is pretty good. I wouldn't over drive a cheap bulb.

Even just running on a 400w setting the Son Agro is a beast. I used to use one in a magnetic ballast for years and it grew wicked pot.
If you have the super lumen option though, even better.

 

[Petrochemical]

I loved my setup ....dirtbags description is spot on and quite studied......those sun agros were a quiet slayer for a minute. Parabolic reflectors man oh man I miss the height of hid growing
600 kooltubes
400 6000k parabolic
Yar bar baby

 

[Snicklefritz88]

I loved my setup ....dirtbags description is spot on and quite studied......those sun agros were a quiet slayer for a minute. Parabolic reflectors man oh man I miss the height of hid growing
600 kooltubes
400 6000k parabolic
Yar bar baby
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Yeah man HIDs are still nice I just wish I would have got an air-cooled hood and I may have never even went LED. But I had got the wing reflector and dealt with heat issues ended up getting an LED and saw how good it did no I think I'm sold on LEDs

 

[SSgrower]

My grow mentor uses HPS and he just bought a new 1000w with a hood, I just bought a Philzon 450w LED bar style to increase my yield. I've never used HPS, but I might one day,SS

 

[Snicklefritz88]

I don't know if I said this earlier in this thread but my last girl I got half a pound off of one bag seed under a 400 watt MH/HPS Wing reflector. I can just imagine the yields I would pull off if it was air cool then I could have got it closer to my canopy. I bet I could get a pound off of one plant under a 600 w HPS easily. But right now my 300 watt LED seems to be outperforming my 400 watt hid but there's a lot of variables one plants a week older they're both on different nutrient lines both in different soil so.

 

[Snicklefritz88]

To be honest In my opinion using both LED and HID at the same time is best. Or during flowering using HPS and MH together like a 600w HPS and a 250w MH at the same time. Ed rosenthal's book says some growers switch back to metal halide in the last 2 weeks of flowering for resin production and density.

 

[Snicklefritz88]

I loved my setup ....dirtbags description is spot on and quite studied......those sun agros were a quiet slayer for a minute. Parabolic reflectors man oh man I miss the height of hid growing
600 kooltubes
400 6000k parabolic
Yar bar baby
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