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Hey all,
I've been growing with Gavita DE's the last few years since I've scaled up from my basement and the quality has been good but not as good when I was using single ended hortilux super hps. To me its the difference in spectrum... I'm building out a 4th flower room and am about to run an experiment. I've swapped out 6 out of 15 gavitas de hps with gavita cmh 630 with 4100k bulbs. The one room in week 4 with this light combo looks amazing and very frosty compared to what i've been doing with all de hps.
What I'm thinking of doing in my other two flower rooms is swapping out every other bulb, instead of fixture, with a double ended metal halide to increase the spectrum and compare to the CMH rooms.
Big questions so far is what bulbs can I use? From what I've heard Ushio de mh will not run in gavita... I've seen Nano lux makes a 4k and 6k de mh... and solistek makes 3 de mh, a 4k, 6k, and 10k. Apparently the 10k is more for finishing flowers off with increased UV output.
I'd appreciate any advice, input, experiences anyone has had using these double ended metal halides and CMH's, especially mixing spectrums.
On another note, I was going to try to mix in the new Ceramic HPS that hortilux is supposed to be making, distributors just dont have it yet...
I'll post some pics of the girls under the mix of HPS and CMH later, Thanks again!!!
I've been growing with Gavita DE's the last few years since I've scaled up from my basement and the quality has been good but not as good when I was using single ended hortilux super hps. To me its the difference in spectrum... I'm building out a 4th flower room and am about to run an experiment. I've swapped out 6 out of 15 gavitas de hps with gavita cmh 630 with 4100k bulbs. The one room in week 4 with this light combo looks amazing and very frosty compared to what i've been doing with all de hps.
What I'm thinking of doing in my other two flower rooms is swapping out every other bulb, instead of fixture, with a double ended metal halide to increase the spectrum and compare to the CMH rooms.
Big questions so far is what bulbs can I use? From what I've heard Ushio de mh will not run in gavita... I've seen Nano lux makes a 4k and 6k de mh... and solistek makes 3 de mh, a 4k, 6k, and 10k. Apparently the 10k is more for finishing flowers off with increased UV output.
I'd appreciate any advice, input, experiences anyone has had using these double ended metal halides and CMH's, especially mixing spectrums.
On another note, I was going to try to mix in the new Ceramic HPS that hortilux is supposed to be making, distributors just dont have it yet...
I'll post some pics of the girls under the mix of HPS and CMH later, Thanks again!!!