Hortilux - Blue

[JohnBell]

Anyone useing these for flower? I just swaped out my ballist so Im running 2 1000W of the blues for the next round or flowering. The Spectral distribution looks great more red then the HPS and all the blue and green.

Im curious to hear if anyone has noticed anything different.

 

[Blunt_69]

Will let you know shortly. I just swiched out my 1000 HPS for a hortilux bulb for this round($103.00)I freaken hope its money well spent.

In my case it will be fairly obvious if a drastic change occurs. The only other change i have made is reduced my temps by about 4 degrees.Same strain, same feeding schedule. Im looking for better more developed solid nugs.It's C02 time next round.



Here is a pic of my plants a week before flipping into flower.

 

[JohnBell]

Will let you know shortly. I just swiched out my 1000 HPS for a hortilux bulb for this round($103.00)I freaken hope its money well spent.

In my case it will be fairly obvious if a drastic change occurs. The only other change i have made is reduced my temps by about 4 degrees.Same strain, same feeding schedule. Im looking for better more developed solid nugs.It's C02 time next round.



Here is a pic of my plants a week before flipping into flower.

103.00 is cheap are you sure its the MH 1000w hortilux-blue or did you get the HPS hortilux? If you have the HPS you will have great results i went from HPS to MH. The MH hortilux-blue I bought was 170.00 let me know if have the same as th one I bought if so i need to order them from your guy.




This is what you will get with the Hortilux HPS

 

[ÆROSPACE]

I'm going to use the Hortilux blue 400w I would like to see and update.

 

[whoamI?whoRu!]

I was just about to ask about the 1000W Blue aswell.
Eye is claiming that the spectrum makes up for the reduced lumens. But I don't know. There's quite a difference in lumens and bulb life between the Blue and the regular MH .

I'd love to hear what anyone educated about bulbs thinks

I used some Super HPS yrs ago...brighter, but HOTTER too. I was using barabolics, so that didn't work well at the time. What was the point of a brighter bulb if you have to move it farther away right? haha

 

[Dreamscape]

Anyone useing these for flower? I just swaped out my ballist so Im running 2 1000W of the blues for the next round or flowering. The Spectral distribution looks great more red then the HPS and all the blue and green.

Wait i'm confused - I thought the point of going with MH (especially MH Blue) is to intergrate more BLUE into the spectrum because HPS lacks in that department ...

In your post you're saying the MH blue has more RED and the same amount of blue and green of an HPS ??

~Dream

 

[Guest]

I use a hortilux blue 400 for veg and to the eye it does not look red like a hps at all. Don't know if that's because the other spectrum is mixed in with it or not but the hps looks red, orange to my eye and the hortilux blue does not.

Here are the spectrum tables for the 1000 super hps and the blue..
hps


hort. blue


The graphs are shown against a plants sensitivity curve so the super hps does peak higher and in a more sensitive spot than the horlitlux blue

 

[ÆROSPACE]

One thing that has been bugging me about that company's research is that eveywhere I look and everyone I talk to who is in the know, says that that sensetivity curve is crap. Plants are mostly sensitive in the red and blue ends the sensitivity drops to almost nothing in green, yellow and low orange.

I'm going to get the bulb anyway, but I would like to see an update so we can see results from the grow.

 

[JohnBell]

I use a hortilux blue 400 for veg and to the eye it does not look red like a hps at all. Don't know if that's because the other spectrum is mixed in with it or not but the hps looks red, orange to my eye and the hortilux blue does not.

Correct the addition of the other part of the spectrum evens things out to a more natural look. Yor also not seeing te spike in yellow. I have a test growm over in the the soil forum.


Alll under 2000W MH-Blue














All under 2000W HPS hortilux



























See the added yellow