Quote Originally Posted by hatch
OK, Believe it our not but I understand your story. Put it this way, you have heard older growers say that when they use a MH to flower they get more potent smoke and more trich. In my maddness its the ultra violet through blue that the extra energy is coming from. With that said when we are using the HPS solo its more in the orange to red. Thats why you always here when they mix the MH / HPS in flowering they have a better finish. When HPS is alone its to high in the spectrum and thats where the extra energy is lost. The reason the HPS gets any results is the high output of lumens. Is that definition any help. Have we made a break-through? Maybe so maybe no? My patient are like a virtue! WE will keep tring till we get it staight. What's the dill with the headaches? High blood pressure, sinus? Man that sux! Later
Ah the friggen headaches. Got my record yesterday, 6 days straight fluctuating in and out of migraine territory. Nobody can tell me why I have them, including the time I was 12 years old and they stuck the needles under my scalp and hooked me up to some machine (EEG - Electro Encephilo Gram)(sp?)

Well at least I think we're getting closer. I understand that there is a lot of wasted light when using HID. But wasted isn't really that bad, it's just... wasted. If you have enough money and don't care much for the environment, "wasted" is just fine. "Lacking" on the other hand certainly is not, and that's where LED lighting systems are right now. In order to be completely as efficient as possible, the're going to need some of those Q and S wavelengths.

I think what threw me off track is you said that by not using the lights that waste light, we will be getting extra energy. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure now that you didn't exactly mean that.