The cheap bulbs in the U.S might be better than over here,but I can buy a Digimax 1000 HPS for $120 or a Growlush for $65 all I need is for that Digimax to give me 2% more yield and it was worth the extra money and from my experience they will give a lot more than 2% increase
$120 vs $24 and I get no REAL effective increase brand to brand.
I think you find what you want and overstate facts! Name brand is simply paying for a name! NO real increase in yield, period...
I've tried several times over the decades. NOT worth the bother!
Did we know that there are only a few actual manufacturer's
OF all these different "Brand" of bulbs? These "name brand" bulbs are simply made to a spec. supplied by the company who's name is on the packaging. Sometimes that spec isn't even as good as "cheaper" bulbs!
When you buy one or two bulbs for your personal grow....Go ahead and do what you want. Go ahead and believe that the bulb makes a difference..(LOL). It had nothing to do with any other changes to feed or environment to better a 2% shift in yield....right?
Hang 12 lights at a time? At $1440 vs $290 ? With 7
running at the time bloom lights, and a
conservative est on yield. Returning $13,500, the 2% is $270 or about 1.4 zips under those lights..
ANY shift in environment, feeding change can go beyond explaining the change. So then, you just spent $1200 dollars for 1.4 zip increase! About $270 bucks of wholesale weed...
I call BS! Sorry but, you can't even put down proper evidence to support your "need" to spend on over priced and over hyped products that don't deliver the goods!