Krondizzel
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#1 If you pound them harder with light and keep your temps stable, they will naturally shade themselves and create a lot more foliage, thus you'll have a bushier plant with several colas. Your node spacing will be nice and tight too. Leaves are transparent, so if you hit em hard enough with light, you wont need to defoliate to get the light through. If you have your lights set higher, you'll avoid bleaching out your plants as well. Running less light in bloom is my way to mimic the fall weather. It's cooler. Spring and summer is hotter, fall is cooler. The plants understand this too. This is also why I run 65 degrees at night and 79 during the day. What youre doing when youre indoor growing is trying to create the perfect environment. Seasonal changes are no exception.
#2 Hydro is more of a yield. For sure. BUT, even soil growers can produce dirt taste hay weed. The taste of hydro is fine. If your plant is healthy you have nothing to worry about. It's when you get root rot and algae in your system when it starts tasting funky. Been there done that. That problem has long been solved.
#3 I'm 10 years in the game. I've run 600's, 1000's, dirt and soil. 1000's and hydro win. That's it. I was new once too and I remember my first beer.... yeah it was called 600w draft. 600's are real cute. Really. But they don't make 1000w'ers for nothing. I ran the same strain for years and nearly doubled my yield when switching to hydro, increased my yield again when I added co2, and the story goes on. Point I'm trying to make, after 10 years of doing shit, you end up in a personal preference position and youre usually set on tried and true methods. My tried and true is 1000's and hydro, I simply laugh at anyone that buys 600's now but hey, that's just me and personal preference. More power to you 600 guys. I'd rather run the 1000w mag ballasts because IF I decide I need more floor space, I can run a splitter off the 1000w mag ballast and run 2 600w lights. The issue isn't floor space. I have enough damn power and enough dang lights not to worry about any of the 4x4 or 5x5 foot prints you speak of. I had 4 lights covering a 4x8 spot so I don't think I was having a problem with a foot print.
#4 Test results on 600 is better than 1000 because of this and that. Who did the test? You? Probably not. I did my own test and when something obviously works better, you run with it. I could hang 600's over the exact same setup and I wouldn't get a 1/2p per plant. Nope. I'd get about 1/4p per plant. The increase is significant, plus, the nugs are solid. the 600's are average, and 400's are pretty weenie. But don't trust my word, you can try for yourself. If you have a personal preference because of test results and personal comparisons that you didn't make, I'd suggest doing your own set of trial and error work to see if you're actually right about what you say.
