born2killspam
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CFL's could help to add a touch of bluer light with a standard hps.. With an enhanced bulb I'd agree it pointless..
I'm not really in this to be Mr. Wizard... Just to grow bomb buds and make money. I use this reflector to keep my vegging plants growing fast enough to take clones every couple of weeks, and it definitely works. My point was just that if I were to add an HPS bulb to it, it would be an HPS reflector as the CFLs would not be improving the setup that much.CFL's do veg pretty nicely.. Lumen support is irrelevant though.. To keep the best possible leaf chemistry, its best to keep all pigments active if possible..
And light measurement/addition really doesn't work like popular opinion describes it.. Plants don't care about W/m^2, or lumens, or lux.. They care about photon count.. If you're adding photons, you're adding benefit.. The only reason distance even matters is because we aren't growing in a vacuum, and air absorbs/scatters photons.. In a vacuum, all photons leaving the light/reflector would contribute equally at any distance.. (Well technically even a perfect reflector could only collimate light as well as difraction allows)..