That sucks , htg has everything any grower needs but their prices on nutrients suck & alot of other products are so so priced , where they excell is in lighting & inline fans , i have 1 of their store fronts a half hour from me but i use the online store instead .
2 315 lec and forget the uvb bulbs,
Solis Tek is made entirely in Japan which is a slight step up from chinese stuff. Solis lamps are made by Sunpulse, where they're based I don't know and don't really care, they make shitty lamps.
Are you using single glass bulbs and an open fixture? That to my understanding is the only way CMH will give any UVB worth considering. The second layer of glass pretty much kills what is left of the UVB. And without the second layer of glass you have to at least consider the risk if a bulb fails catastrophically.
htg doesn't have the sun systems lec 315
Google it and see, a lot of the results mention "Higher amounts of beneficial UV and far red spectrums increase the lamps growth"
Sorry dude, but I definitely know for a fact that Jayo Technology makes the Solis-tek ballasts as well as the Galaxy Matrix ballasts among other ones.
Look at the specific bulb you have, find it's data sheet, then if you add any more glass figure out what percentage of the UVB that reduces you by again. It's going to be way less than you would experience in the hindu kush mountains. I'm hitting at or higher than hindu kush mountain levels.
I am aware of all the rebadging of chinese products, but I don't think that the Chinese make all the nutrients, additives, etc etc that are out there, actually I am quite positive they don't. Mentioning just the lights is just a small fraction of all the other gear, nutes, and accessories out there.
I don't think you want to expose when seedling/cutting, just in flower for UVB benefits. UVA is useful for stem growth, it helps build big stems for big bud support.
You're correct - though if you want to go there all the nutrients are just a mix of various farming fertilizer mixed to various concentrations. You can literally remake your own for cheaper by looking at the MSDS and buying your own bulk chemicals if you wanted to - it's just easier/simpler to buy pre-mixed.
I remember reading a study a long time back that exposure to UVB early in life will trigger the plant to produce resins later in life to protect itself from DNA damage and as they grow bigger but the UV lights really won't hit the plant hard enough to make a difference unless you surround the plant with them.
Galaxy Matrix?? Sounds like a lawsuit.
Yes. looks pretty identical to the solis matrix but I can't believe they could legally call it a matrix. They don't anywhere that I see, plus the rotary knob the solis doesn't have. Parts could be sourced from somewhere else, they're similar but def not identical.Close.