sunny747
Well-Known Member
I had to put the smackdown on promoter on another forum for promoting Amare.. It's just dishonest.. He grew a plant that looked like my first CFL grow. Check it out. The article is just crap..I'm a lurker here but this thread is off the rails. Hybridway is obviously such a shill for amare it's "plain" obvious. I love how he uses "plain" to define COBs, especially a new series not more than a month old.
Telling someone that a fixture using outdated COBs + "enhanced spectrum" can beat a cutting edge COB at the same wattage will only work on someone that doesn't understand photobiology. To a certain extent, red and blue have a better return on quantum yield but it's really not that much of an increase; especially when you go to higher PPFD intensities where green is king because the outer choloroplasts are saturated since <1% of red light reaches the inner ones while ~90% of green light does.
Adding smaller diodes consisting of red/blue is a waste of time, efficiency, money, and most importantly, plant growth. Stick with 3500k/4000k 80 CRI on a newer generation COB and your light will destroy everything else out there on the market that isn't quantum board tech. If you want more blue, then add a 5000k 80CRI. If you want more red, swap for a 3000k 90CRI.
TL;DR: Raw photons + Sieve effect > "enhanced spectrum". End of story.
https://www.autoflower.net/forums/showcase/amare-solareclipse-se450uvb.55/