special HPS bulbs that emit more blue light

[cherokee]

wondering if the special HPS bulbs that emit more blue light are better for flowering than reg HPS????? any input would be helpful

I'll try to answer this question the best I can with my experience! You must be talking about the new hps blue by hortilux?, I just recently purchased a metal halide eye hortilux blue 400 watt, what I understand the HPS version by hortlux is not as good as the mh eye hortilux blue for veg to flower, another words from beginning to end my understanding is the eye hortilux blue mh has a better all round spectrum for vegetative and flower!, I recently just purchased this lamp eye hortilux mh blue 400w and a brand-new hydrofarm ballast mh hps combo and a new reflector, prior to this we were using just a regular 400 W metal halide and old ballast, and I'm understanding without a doubt that the MH eye hortilux blue has got more spectral energy shown by the graph on the box this one came in than the HPS blue by hortilux, in comparison, there is no doubt about this! The M H blue ran $125 for me at the Hydro store here, yes it's expensive but if you could see what it's doing for us at the time compared to standard metal halide you would probley drop your jaw very vigerous growth 5 inches a day with folage to follow, now I'm sure you are used to HPS doing the flowering job? But I can tell you right now if you took a mh standard from the Hydro store no matter what it is brand wise, and at the same time you took an HPS standard at the Hydro store both of them 400 W you would have to add 17 to 24% spectral energy from both hpa and mh and put them into one lamp such as the eye hortilux blue mh and that's the combination you have in this mh eye hortilux blue! I have done the research looked at all the charts and graphs and you're adding 17-24% from mh and standard hps together each seperately in one with the eye hortilux blue, you can not get a better spectral energy for start to finish such as this lamp I have just mentioned so it's better than HPS alone of any kind! i know i went off the subject for you but just what ive explained about this lamp mh eye hortilux blue i would think you mite want to reconsider your start to flower lamp?? So thats why i explained it this way, if you were you use a standard mh for veg yes you would still come ahead using the super blue hotilux hps for flower over standard hps cuz theyve added more spectrums to the new hps over standard hps,but if you want one lamp that does better than both from start to finish alone its the eye hortilux mh blue that will do it and i have seen the results first hand we have it as you know,and its told by many folks on here that it grows the most robust buds theyve ever seen short of outdoors and even matching that!!!hope this helps my freind, cherokee