600w HPS Flower Tent Upgrade? Emerson Effect?

Hello,

I currently have a rectangle hood around a 600w hps going in my 4x4 flower tent. I am installing UV Led strips along the long sides of the hood, and along the shorter ends of the hood I am interested in installing two new lights.

I was curious, after looking into different options, I can either implement 2x 30 watt red/far red booster strips and go for a 15 minute Emerson effect wake up/ sleep schedule to shorten the nights to 10.25 hours for the flower cycle, or I could keep the flower cycle standard and add in 2x extra standard flowering spectrum strips to make my HPS more effective. The spectrums I've been looking into for those are 2700k & 3000k. Which type of upgrade (Emerson Strips or 2700k/3000k Sunboard strips) would you recommend?

All advice is greatly appreciated,

Jeyo

You only need around 15 watts far red for flower initiation in that space. HPS already has the emerson effect in it's spectrum, no?

PJ Diaz said:

You only need around 15 watts far red for flower initiation in that space. HPS already has the emerson effect in it's spectrum, no?

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the whole point of hps if for the red effect if u were using mh maybe hps what is the point ??

PJ Diaz said:

You only need around 15 watts far red for flower initiation in that space. HPS already has the emerson effect in it's spectrum, no?

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rob333 said:

the whole point of hps if for the red effect if u were using mh maybe hps what is the point ??

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Thank you for your inputs, I decided to instead upgrade my HPS bulb to one with a better red spectrum called Agrosun Red 600w HPS. I have an iPower bulb now with a limited spectrum , I cant wait to put the new one in and hopefully see a difference.

I will probably upgrade supplemental led lighting in the future, but for now I decided to put my surplus money into pheno hunting; went with some crosses from Greenline Organics.

Runtz x (Grape Pie x Animal Cookies)
London Pound Cake #75 x (Grape Pie x Animal Cookies)
Gello x Creamsicle
Lemon Tree x Creamsicle

jeyo said:

Thank you for your inputs, I decided to instead upgrade my HPS bulb to one with a better red spectrum called Agrosun Red 600w HPS. I have an iPower bulb now with a limited spectrum , I cant wait to put the new one in and hopefully see a difference.

I will probably upgrade supplemental led lighting in the future, but for now I decided to put my surplus money into pheno hunting; went with some crosses from Greenline Organics.

Runtz x (Grape Pie x Animal Cookies)
London Pound Cake #75 x (Grape Pie x Animal Cookies)
Gello x Creamsicle
Lemon Tree x Creamsicle

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The red affect will do nothing with the hps buddy

rob333 said:

The red affect will do nothing with the hps buddy

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Yes I understand that now, I am not adding any additional red lights, I am going to just use the hps bulb for red effect. I bought a premium bulb to achieve a better red spectrum. Thanks

ahh im with ya