I was just in MG yesterday and they said someone asked about this but they said they didn't really know the answer. I guess you were the guy asking in there.
The only reason they even know what the AT can do is because one day they were chatting up the LG so much I brought my own AT into the shop and showed them...they were speechless and I also saw them testing the LG. I didn't get to peak the LG spec because they were keeping it a secret...go figure. So interesting they are claiming that now...I will set them straight the next time I am in there.
Unless they give you the actual par footprint readings to prove that it's Bullshit...lumigro = hydrofarm = monstergardens main $$$ source.
I know they didn't get the par footprint of the AT because I was the only reason they got to test the AT and they/we didn't have time to do the footprint. All they got off the AT was the spectrum...read from the center only. Not very much info considering the claims they just made.
I stand by this too...I will call out MG no problem. Because that is just an uneducated/misinformed/lying information unfortunately.
I would love for them to show some actual proof of this.
Just for starters they fact that people think apache uses 3w is funny...even oneshot has said it recently...BUT THEY USE 5W'ers....nichia
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For apache the White3:Red2...also known as the R2 spectrum is the best for flowering...despite what they will ever say... cannabis was the plant the R2 was designed for...all their big normal greenhouse clients use the R1 for their food crops. But cannabis is the R2 all the way.
I have offered to let MG use one of my at120R2's as a display instead of the R/B they have in the shop. I think I will have to educate them on LED's for real...no more nice guy...listen to facts and stop selling bullshit.
If they or anyone can show actual hard fact results of why and how LG is better than AT then I will gladly retract and correct my statement. But as far as the information I saw quickly for the LG and the stuff I know better than anyone about AT's, says differently.
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COme to think of it...they were testing the LG when I go there...then had to change the scope of the spectrum graph to get the AT's curve in it because it was so much more intense than the LG. I trust MG for most stuff...but this is sounding fishy as fuck.