I like the Apache WR 3:2 spectrum
Yeah, I liked that light, too....but they just simply cost too much for my budget...so I went with the "poor man's copycat knockoff -A51 SGS 160. It has the WR spectrum, too. The plants responded well to it, I guess, but I'll never do business with them again because the owner is so sketchy.
When I got my first Timber Grow Lights COB fixture, I opted for the 4000K -because that's what everyone was touting as being "best" at the time. As I understand it, that color has more blue built into it from the start....but might lack in the red range a bit too much. I'm trying to determine what kind of supplemental reds I could/should add to my current 4000K COB fixture in order to optimize the spectrum for better flower production when the time comes. Timber now offers Osram Olson supplemental reds in kit form, but I'm looking for something pre-fab that I could just plug-n-play...
...I was looking at how the Kessil fixtures can be mounted to the internal tent poles and thought maybe a Timber Osram might be able to be mounted to an armature or something similar, too...
...but, again, how many watts of Osram reds and which specific red colors)?
I know, now, to only run a 730nm red for 15 minutes AFTER the regular lights go out...so that would likely have to be a dedicated fixture to do only that one thing....
As far as the other reds are concerned...I had the idea to run my Timber CXB400R 4000K fixture "soft" for veg and then crank it up for the flowering cycle....then start adding more and more red into the schedule in order to mimic how the color of light changes as fall approaches...and simultaneously decreasing the 4000K light output via the dimmer...ultimately ending the harvest with a very red-heavy mix of light...just to see if it would make a difference in yield and/or potency (in comparison to previous harvests under just the 4000K color throughout the entire run)
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