Do you need to take the glass off the hood?
Local store guy is pimping the 10k bulbs but says you need a digital ballast for thatedit, the reason i started to ask about the sunpulses in the first place was that i was running a digital ballast and was using eye hortilux blue brand bulbs, about $110 or so per..
about a month into a new bulb i went to check on the girls and the bulb had blew.. yeah, i was pissed to say the least.. the sunpulses like a few other brands like digilux and oshio are said to be made in conjunction with the higher frequencies that digital ballasts fire at, extending the life in the process..
face palm.
nope not the solution will not provide enough ...here you go as these are the only AFFORDABLE sources for uvb amounts high enough and without too much heat available
exactly. kite high pointed you in a good direction if your interested in UVB but there are also reptile flourescents, which are okay, good for small grows, and mercury vapor bulbs for reptiles which are powerful and good for lager grow but have thier pit falls too, but these are the ones i prefer.
well there are no hid bulbs that emit enough uv to cause effect...it takes a quartz glass formulation to allow uvb through...regular glass as used for the outer envelopes is regular glass and due to hids being manufactured to be around people hey do not allow uvb emmisioni've been using mh's for my entire grow for like the past 3 or so grows after talking to someone on another forum about sunpulse mh's..
the sunpulses come in various k ratings, much in the same way the cfl's do... you just buy the correct k rating for w/e phase of growth you're in at the time.. ie, i use the 6 k for veg, and the 3 k's for flowering.. they even offer a 10k for the last two weeks of flowering, which i have, but have yet to run it yet..
like has been said, mh's have light in the uv range, which is supposed to increase tric production.. it's believed that trics are used by plants kind of like a sun tan lotion... the more exposure to uv lighting, the more tric production on that plant, or that's the science behind it although i'm not 100% about it tbh..
it's also said that the you get a fuller flavor profile from using mh's over hps bulbs.. something about the way mh's effect the terpenoids in cannabis..
overall, like i said, been running the sunpulse mh's for a good three of so grows now, and i have to say i'm impressed.. i'm loving them.. the blue dream i just ran has to be some of the stunkiest bud i have grown to date.. is it all the mh's or do i just kick ass at growing, lol, idk, but what i do know is i'm not going back to hps anytime soon.. it has been said though that hps bulbs will increase your yields while mh's will increase just about everything else, ie, tric production, flavor, etc, etc..
Hehe!, most *grow bulbs are sold without a safety coating. Sorry, I should have mentioned that fact as opposed to assuming people who actually buy them would bother to research.
per my solartech uvb meter...its the glass of the outer envelope that is the wrong formulation for uvb emissions ..has to be that way as hid bulbs available except for the one I listed above are designed for use around people and its a fed regulation law of very little allowed uvb if around people
the safety coating would be to block uva to prevent fabric paint fading etc....but it is the glass formulation that blocks the uvb and uvb is what causes the effect of ratio manipulation we seek
Nice...question...your reasons for vertical oriented bulbs in parabolic reflectors?thats all i use is mh for the entire grow... for years now
$23 a bulb for 1000s 4000k.. case of 6 for $150....Same bulb at the grow store $85-95
Have you tried using HPS and compare the results?
