Lizard.King
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Does MH make the plants grow more then HPS when in flowering?
HPS is in the red spectrum. What you would want for flowering stage.Does MH make the plants grow more then HPS when in flowering?
That is EXACTLY what i've heard.I've noticed more crystals on my bud under a metal halide but the buds were smaller. I use HPS because the size advanage over an MH makes up for any possible small increase in quality.
Great response, and im glad your going HPSI recently read an article in IC mag that concluded after doing multiple side by side grows that using hps only from start to finish produced bigger buds, bigger plants and higher yields than using MH during grow, HPS during bloom. They also stated that even when they used the MH and HPS simultaneously the plants more directly under the HPS bulbs produced much bigger, higher yielding plants and a really uneven canopy.
So, that is what I am doing wit my current grow. HPS only from start to finish.
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Does MH make the plants grow more then HPS when in flowering?