I finally got an HPS on it's way!!! I'm real excited as I haven't even put my plants into flower yet. It's a 400w Hps w/ a reflector and ballast. My question is how far should I keep it from my plants (when it gets here!!), and secondly are all HPS bulbs in the red spectrum the plants need?? It comes w/ a bulb that supposedly puts out 52,000 lumens. I'm gonna supplement that w/ 1 150 red spectrum cfl, my 4ft Fluro tubes (think I'm gonna leave the cool whites in so there's some blue during flowering, but I'm not sure on that either??) and 1 24" fluro tube w/ an aquarium light. Every thing other than the hps is going to be shining up from the bottom as supplemental light. I'm only growing two plants so I should get some killer buds!!! Any help would be great thanks in advance as always.

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Ghost Toker Reviewed by Ghost Toker on . HPS I finally got an HPS on it's way!!! I'm real excited as I haven't even put my plants into flower yet. It's a 400w Hps w/ a reflector and ballast. My question is how far should I keep it from my plants (when it gets here!!), and secondly are all HPS bulbs in the red spectrum the plants need?? It comes w/ a bulb that supposedly puts out 52,000 lumens. I'm gonna supplement that w/ 1 150 red spectrum cfl, my 4ft Fluro tubes (think I'm gonna leave the cool whites in so there's some blue during Rating: 5