Heya orangeman <-------(Syracuse?)


Excuse my shitty artwork - this picture is pretty bad, but tries to explain why I like the cooltube for my current space - especially when growing different strains. The tall plants can be placed on the backside of the cooltube, to extend up past the tube. This keeps the light closer to more of the plant, lower budsites get much more intense light, and if your reflector is designed right (I made mine), the plant can actually be taller than the tube. With the standard light hood, imagine how much farther up the light would have to be to be above this plant. Not to mention everything else has to be on stilts then!

If you are doing a scrog or sog, or something where you will have an even canopy, the other style of hood properly cooled, will work better than a cooltube IMHO. A much more concentrated footprint