Honey Oil Riot Squad
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Hello all,
My seedlings are about 2 weeks old now from seed. They are just poking their 4th pair of leaves up now, stems seem to be thickening and so far very healthy. I've got GSC, NYCD, and Misty growing (1 plant of each, all fem except misty which unfortunately I got 2 bad seeds from out of 3 ...*cough cough*... it's all in the name -_-... lettin me downnn that was my high yielder!)
Right now they are and have been under CFL's (I know this is generally better for starting plants), but I recently got a hell of a craigslist deal for a HPS light and ballast. 80 bucks for 400W galaxy digital ballast + hardly used "super" hps light. I'm gonna pick up an econowing reflector very soon (probably tomorrow, black friday) and my original plan was to either buy a metal halide to put in (expensive, i'm poor) or just go CFL until flowering (which are a pain in the ass trying to adjust all the time to different levels on every plant). However, the hps bulb (note: "super") he gave me says it has an optimized red and BLUE spectrum and that it can be used through 100% of the plant's life.
Does this hold true for cannabis? I mean, i'm sure it would grow veg under 18/6, but will it grow well in comparison to having a full blue spectrum from metal halide or CFLs? (The CFLs I have are blue spectrum btw). Is it worth it to set it up and start putting them under this "super" hps light rather then the CFLs?
Or another thought... what if I put the hps in, in addition to having some CFLs on the side (but not quite as many)? to get just a bit more of a blue spectrum? Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
My seedlings are about 2 weeks old now from seed. They are just poking their 4th pair of leaves up now, stems seem to be thickening and so far very healthy. I've got GSC, NYCD, and Misty growing (1 plant of each, all fem except misty which unfortunately I got 2 bad seeds from out of 3 ...*cough cough*... it's all in the name -_-... lettin me downnn that was my high yielder!)
Right now they are and have been under CFL's (I know this is generally better for starting plants), but I recently got a hell of a craigslist deal for a HPS light and ballast. 80 bucks for 400W galaxy digital ballast + hardly used "super" hps light. I'm gonna pick up an econowing reflector very soon (probably tomorrow, black friday) and my original plan was to either buy a metal halide to put in (expensive, i'm poor) or just go CFL until flowering (which are a pain in the ass trying to adjust all the time to different levels on every plant). However, the hps bulb (note: "super") he gave me says it has an optimized red and BLUE spectrum and that it can be used through 100% of the plant's life.
Does this hold true for cannabis? I mean, i'm sure it would grow veg under 18/6, but will it grow well in comparison to having a full blue spectrum from metal halide or CFLs? (The CFLs I have are blue spectrum btw). Is it worth it to set it up and start putting them under this "super" hps light rather then the CFLs?
Or another thought... what if I put the hps in, in addition to having some CFLs on the side (but not quite as many)? to get just a bit more of a blue spectrum? Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!