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I have a 400w mh ballast i want to get a bulb a cost effective one out of this selection http://www.sea-of-green.com/lighting/lamps-bulbs.html what should i buy?
Hey, it's not the most cost effective but you get what you pay for... so just go for it. Here is my pick: http://www.sea-of-green.com/ushio-conversion-hps-to-metal-halide-bulb-400w.htmlI have a 400w mh ballast i want to get a bulb a cost effective one out of this selection http://www.sea-of-green.com/lighting/lamps-bulbs.html what should i buy?
Yeah i just don't wanna purchase a expensive bulb if i can get a good grow started out of 30 bucks and then upgrade to a hps conversion bulb when i get more cash I'm strapped for cash at the moment. But if I'm just gonna produce garbage then ill wait till i can afford a respectable bulb.too bad it wasnt the other way around and you had a 400w hps ballast or a switchable ballast, for flowering hps works better than mh and they sell mh bulbs that work in hps ballasts, so you would just have to switch bulbs when you start flower. I just went and checked on google and i to my surprise did find hps bulbs that work in mh ballasts, in the past ive had trouble doing so(well, technically in the present too i guess since i looked through 3 or 4 pages of results till i saw it, lol), so thats a good thing kind of, your local grow shop may have them in stock and if not i bet they would special order one for you if you ask. The ones ive found are all about 100. you can go ahead and kinda cheap out on the mh bulb so you can afford the other bulb for flowering later on..