It's better mate, but you have to be sure you get proper Cree diodes, made in us not Chinese cheep ones, as they got low input like 1<3W. But these on the ion8 are proper US creed,10w each white and 8w blue diodes + proper hydroponic UVB bulb as well as properly designed heat sink for the...
Mate I'm getting a pair of ION8 UVB, I heard many crap feedback on most led like vipar.... Btw the ion8 is upgraded series of blackstar chrome with removable led's so you can fix broken section easily :) the cost £400 each but I recon it's worth it
Mate my advice is go with it,
1st of all : More watts= more grams as the light covers bigger area and supply more photons for photosynthesis ie better growth.
2: blue spec or the HID tend to decrease the stretch of the plant.
3: I read that mix spec is beneficial to the plant in many ways but...
This topic is getting interesting, looks like we all got to learn bits and blobs about curing our yields, after all it's all we are after a decent smoke
Try yeast with sugar in bottle, fill it with Luke water and add aquarium tube into the cap of the bottle same as you did with the water shake it and add it to your grow room don't add too much yeast just a bit they will multiply once they get alive, change every 1-2 weeks ;) or add tea candles...
Buy carbon filter defo it will help the smell and better air circulation btw it looks like nutes are burning your plant see them yellow curled leaf tips defo nutes if not the excess of heat
Mate I was using carpet knife about 20min ago now it's a week since it's missing turned the whole house upside down still haven't found it looks like it grew pair of legs and ran off hahaha decent grow btw, how many bulbs was you using? What wattage ? And what ratio of 65k&27k for the flowering ?
I read an article somewhere where it states that early harvest result in more THC than CBD, and longer curing result in less THC and more CBD as the THC degrade into one of the CBD forms anyone had any experience with this?
Mate light spectrum doesn't confuse the plant, you can even flower with 65k but plant uses blue spectrum during vegging ie( increase the overal growth) while the red spectrum 27k increases the growth of buds, so red light will bud the plant and stretch it but if you mix ie2:4 you will slow down...
Mate don't look at the equivalent it's only comparisation to normal bulb you need to look at the actual wattage also I usually switch to 12/12 after about 2 months of vegging
Yeh we all know what UVB light does to us, in your opinion people with reptiles are fools too when they peek into their pet tank... lmao it's like looking into 1000w HPS or trying to touch it, mate we're just discussing the effect of UVB on our plant not sunbathing in our grow rooms