Quote Originally Posted by jajojo
IMO HIDs lights are good to grow with if a have a decent are to grow in. A friend of mine was using something similar to a HID i believe it was a metal halide and it brought temps in his grow room up to 110F. I prefer CFLs just for the low heat factor and it allowing you to grow in a very small area
I couldn't agree with this synopsis any more.. Really 1000Watts of CFL would be more managable to cool than 1000Watts of HID ANY DAY? Someone want to disagree? hit me up 'yo

yah thinking about this a minute and i've decided 100x the surface area @ 1000Watt will always have a way better thermal co-efficient for heat dissipation heh... i.e. steady and slowly , not rapid and low surface.. definately. I'm all CFL so... yeah.. maybe a 100W HPS would be an idea for small boxes for flowering, other than that i think CFL is fine, I'd be inclined to say in fact 500W CFL + 100W HID could produce equal harvests to a 600 HID, i'm sure theres research that disproves that, but i know theres also research that the plants need a broad spectrum of wavelengths but not too much or too little of just one... So one would hope the HID spectrum would add enough for flowering to make CFL the one and truly _best_ way to grow heh. Truly think this is possible sooner than we think!



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