Clw aren’t very good lights. Look to timber, hlg or build your own qb or cob light.
I use a solarstorm 880 and just replaced my gavita with an clw 1100 those lights are legit you’ll see.
They aren't going to keep up with current gen cobs and QBs, but CLW builds the best damn blurples on the market. I ran an old solar storm 440 and that light used to crush my 3x3.
Your new to RIU so watch out. Everyone here will talk down on blurple and by no means do I think they're top notch but i've grown some beautiful bud with them.
Growing is kind of a preference thing if it works for you and you see results go for it I recommend personally if you want to do hydro just start that way and run it through you can switch from soil to hydro it’ll take the plant a second to develop the roots for the hydro but it’s hard to get all that dirt out might cause problems if your using pumps so rinse well. The new clw lights are pretty neat and if you buy their spectrum controller your able to customize depending on what stage your in, you’ll get a little less yield than hps but the quality is great they also stretch a lot less under those clw lights. If you supplement uvb it’ll get even frostier.
I’m hip to your trip. I just got a 550 for a 4x2x7 tent, along with a couple supplemental 2’ Kind LED bar lights (different spectrums for veg & flower). The controller and preset programs seem very handy, just from a bit of playing around. You are ahead of me in starting a cycle with it, though, so I can’t offer you anything more than good vibes. I do think your setup is sound planning, so looking forward to seeing some nice blurple buds! Good luck!
