It has nothing to do with my experience, you are 100% correct, identical clones are the true test of any component in your grow room but that is not what we were discussing at that time, he is going to be doing a small scale grow to simulate the scenario that a home grower that can only have a few plants would face, thats why I said seeds, not cali style where you can have 3 mothers in a mother room, a veg room, and several flower rooms for " personal ". On the same token since you are all about R&D you would know that if he wanted to do a true scientific test, he couldnt use the cuts from the plant he is using now, he knows exactly how they react under led and what he can do to push em, he doesnt have the same know how with that strain under hid. That goes back to my point about veg time, he knows he can veg those 6 plants for 6 weeks and fill a tent nicely with his rig, he cant veg those 6 plants for 6 weeks and flower them under a 1000 watt hps in a 4x4 tent, he will have huge plants with no air movement resulting in crazy high temps, pm, bugs, and the entire bottom 3/4 of the plant will just be stem, thats not what 1000's are for. I think cali guys forget how small a 4x4 tent really is. In my state 5 plants is a few months in county, 6 plants is 3+ years in prison, mothers arent an option, everything grown is flowered