I ALWAYS run supplemental/side lighting. We have talked a bit, so you've seen a little how my mind works. Growing inside allows us several advantages, the main one being light manipulation. & light is the #1 factor in the plant quality, growth, whatever.
If you are not blasting your plants with light, from every angle, in my opinion, it's a waste. I pick off the larf before flower, & as I go, but not nearly what other people pull off. I get nice hard nugs all the way down the plants. It increases yeild by about 5%. We can give the plant MORE light than the sun, at more angles. This is why I run Co2, it's another thing that we can alter by growing indoors. I have all that light, if the plants want to use it, we need more co2. I get bigger yields, & better quality meds when I grow hydro...so I do that too. If I could give my plants PED's, I would. If ME being on PED's would help, I would do it. I give the plants PDA's & talk to them, just because I think it helps.
I use every advantage an inside grower has at his disposal to maximize the plants. This round it appears I'll pull 1.5 g per watt...but I can far better I think. I think I could pull 2.5. The next round will be very pretty.
Tons of light from above, side lighting, reflective walls, co2. These are all advantages of the Indo growers. & I will use any advantage I can get.
Not to beat a dead horse, but if that other site did not delete EVERYTHING I had ever posted there, you would have enough side by sides to read for days :(
Know what I might do for the next round...pick up one of the $25 Mh bulbs
@Tnelz uses & do two bays. One with the
Hortilux Blue, one with the Home Depot. & maybe use the IR one....I dunno, is there a way to incorporate the IR into the test without doing 3 bays? I can't think of one.
This is not to try to show Tnelz up. i <3 Tnelz :) I like the Blue, but it costs more than a college loan. I want to know how the Blue stacks up agains a bulb that costs 10x less. So, it's not to pick on anyone, it's to convince myself that I'm not getting
ripped off!