1000 watt MH/HPS advice?

[Blue brother]

Thanks for covering cost, heat and efficacy on point, still more areas where to look at when deciding between LED or HID like bringing out the best out of a strain for example thrichome rich cookies pheno, ofcourse high wattage HPS will foster a good frost but if cooltube is needed then the glass will block uv and instead of extra thrichomes that protect leafs and bud more likely results in light burn, with modern LED success is quaranteed.
Another issue would be differing in plant height like 2 out of 5 plants grow 1meter tall and 3/5 strech over 1.5meters, now you want a powerfull HPS that reaches far down with all the energy to support growth.

In the future I will invest in a LED but for this run settle with the 1000watt bulb baby

You are right about the glass blocking the uv, but hps doesn’t have much uv anyways. Can I ask have you looked into ceramic lighting ? They’re my favourite lights if efficacy isn’t the be all and end all. Lots of nice uv for the plants, which also builds very sturdy plants on a cellular level if used for veg too

 

[Tuomas Jeffersson]

You are right about the glass blocking the uv, but hps doesn’t have much uv anyways. Can I ask have you looked into ceramic lighting ? They’re my favourite lights if efficacy isn’t the be all and end all. Lots of nice uv for the plants, which also builds very sturdy plants on a cellular level if used for veg too

This I tell you my good man; my last grow I used three different lights at the same time: 150W LED, 315W CMH and 250W MH/HPS. What happened was the pigs did a house search at my residens and took everything, so buying new light for decent dollar is my case atm. No sweat tho my game was solid and had harvested before the bust and stashed 9oz.