12/12 When dark...How dark?

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with my light situation(150watt HPS w/ 2 15watt floro-tubes) would it be more beneficial to spend $70 on a 70watt MH security light to supplement the blue and green spectrum or just buy a $50-60 160watt son agro HPS bulb. and is my lighting enough to grow healthy plants. im doing some bag seed from widow,shivers,and cali citrus. thanks. oh and from the pics i put up what would you change about my setup? when flowering i will build the tent.

i'd say start with your current bulbs and save some bucks and get a good 400wattHPS with a reflector later when ur plants are bigger. if you really cant spend more just get HPS for flowering no need forMH they're ust slightly better in vegging but yiu can veg with HPS. you can grow healthy small plants with your current lights in small numbers and growing them from seed means they'll grow bigger your bagseed will probably give you no good plants but you can get lucky it's like a lottery chances to win with those if u can invest in a good F1 strain to keep a mom it would be good. F2s from good suppliers like nirvana are cheap 40$ or so ad reliable as i heard

how much light am i loosing using a vertical bulb? and what can i do to optimize light from it? thanks

again you'll need to buy reflectors and spend money on a smaller less efficient lights you wont be saving much $s if any so i'd suggest you get a 400watter with reflector... cheers