Anyone use CMH in veg and LED in flower?

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SourDeezz

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• Oct 29, 2021

• #1

Thinking of switching my veg lights to 315w CMH and keeping my LED's in flower. Anyone use this setup?

 

Herb & Suds

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• Oct 29, 2021

• #2

That sounds bassakward
The cmh is to boost UV light to increase trich production

 

Chip Green

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• Oct 29, 2021

• #3

Use both, for both.

 

Coldnasty

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• Oct 29, 2021

• #4

SourDeezz said:

Thinking of switching my veg lights to 315w CMH and keeping my LED's in flower. Anyone use this setup?

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I do the opposite, use LED for veg. Flower under old school HPS.

 

Lordhooha

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• Oct 29, 2021

• #5

SourDeezz said:

Thinking of switching my veg lights to 315w CMH and keeping my LED's in flower. Anyone use this setup?

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Checker board the grow one led one cmh they works really well together. especially depending on the led it works well.

 

PopAndSonGrows

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• Oct 29, 2021

• #6

CMH slays in flower. And this is with a 3850k bulb, a 3100k would do much better even.

LED in spring/summer, CMH in late Fall/winter, if you live where it gets warm.

 

Rocket Soul

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• Oct 31, 2021

• #7

SourDeezz said:

Thinking of switching my veg lights to 315w CMH and keeping my LED's in flower. Anyone use this setup?

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We've done this when the climate didn't work for our veg leds. They veg really nice

 

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OG-KGP

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• Nov 2, 2021

• #8

Ive been doing something similar for a couple years and love it. Veg under the CMH is wonderful. The plants love it.

I run a combo of alternating LED and CMH in flower. The two together provide everything and produce awesome flowers.

 

Rurumo

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• Nov 2, 2021

• #9

It all comes down to your room temps, LED just doesn't do well if you have a cold or even cool room.

 

Norml56

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• Nov 2, 2021

• #10

I run LED in VEG and LED/CMH in flower. As the temps start to drop I've been thinking of putting a CMH back into the veg. They are just an amazing light all around. I run the 4200k on the flower side squished between 2700k and 3500k LEDs

 

Norml56

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• Nov 2, 2021

• #11

it doesn't suck

 

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DukeFluke

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• Nov 2, 2021

• #12

Only do it if your LEDs aren't working for you.

I don't see any reason to use any other bulb while my LEDs are around because it reduces my efficiency massively.
I can veg an area of 2m2 fully with around 500w of LED. I could never do that with HID or CMH

 

420Dust

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• Nov 2, 2021

• #13

I run a 370w Aglex led light beside a 400w hps in a 5x5 tent and works pretty damn good.