Whats the best Light bulb for indoor grow?

Wag1 im starting a indoor..need to know whats the best light for plants that are flowering,that will help the buds grow bigg!

dem09 said:

Wag1 im starting a indoor..need to know whats the best light for plants that are flowering,that will help the buds grow bigg!

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What is your setup? You going HID or LED?

If going HID, my girls responded very well when I switched to Ushio. Very happy with the quality and the yields

Check out my thread (sig) and these Philips Elite Agro 315w CMH bulbs, they're blowing me away. Highly efficient, no heat like hps (closer to LED's), faster flowering/finishing times, and a 315W setup can cover 3' x 3', highly recommended...

GroErr said:

Check out my thread (sig) and these Philips Elite Agro 315w CMH bulbs, they're blowing me away. Highly efficient, no heat like hps (closer to LED's), faster flowering/finishing times, and a 315W setup can cover 3' x 3', highly recommended...

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I have been curious about them. Will they work with any ballast? Or do you need a specific ballast?

ushio

#1 Super Hortilux HPS
#2 Ushio HPS

amgprb said:

I have been curious about them. Will they work with any ballast? Or do you need a specific ballast?

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There are few ballasts that support these bulbs, Philips makes one, and Ceramatek makes a good one but will only run @220/240v, they're (Ceramatek) also very expensive. The cost of a Ceramatek ballast kit with just the ballast, bulb and adapter is about the same as the LEC Sun System 315w/120v I have (2 now, just waiting for a second unit to show up any day), everything packaged into a ready-to-go kit which will run on 120v, including a very nice/high-end vertical reflector hood. Well worth it imo, depending on what you pay for power, one to two grows for payback in reduced heat and increased yield.

dem09 said:

Wag1 im starting a indoor..need to know whats the best light for plants that are flowering,that will help the buds grow bigg!

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You can flower with MH,HPS, CFL and incandescent. Led would be cool, but I would only use it as a supplement. The led setups seem nice, but they're fucking expensive.
IMO For the most part it seems like bulbs are pretty comparable. The difference is gonna be the quality of materials used. So, they may lose lumens faster, not work in a digital but work in a magnetic ballast, or burnout faster. I've done grows with streetlight bulbs from ace... It's all in the care and environment.