I have used the hortilux blue for a good year now. I have a 1000W and a 400W. I like them but yes, they are expensive as fuck. I buy them as cheap as I can find on ebay, FROM a reputable seller.I want to grab some of the hortilux blue bulbs but yesterday at store they wanted 190$ per bulb...is that goin rate or anyone have a link to betteer place? The cheapest i can find on ebay was 160$ i currently use no blues n the cheapo hps generic bulbs.
Sup RROGI was dragged kicking and screaming when I was being told how to build these. Actually the issue was the designing of these. So my thought was to sort of define the process, and make a parts list, instructions with pics and / or a video. So someone is essentially building a kit. You'd have to be a handy person, but again, the design is the much bigger pain in the ass.
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My buddy here really felt comfy with the lights way low, and this actually kept plants squat and super-full. Not going to help us with yield. So I convinced him to raise them, and boom! Nice stretch and 3/4" a day growth.
Runs cool and low electrical use.
Belle just said to get this shit out of her car.OK. I called green finger garden supply in st ignace.
He said it the light isn't a gavida.
It's a gavida hood ($100 ea) with a Ushio high-lux double-ended bulb. (or something along those lines.)
He says the gavidas are 400 volt and these others run off reg. 1000w ballasts.
He says the bulbs retail at about $170 and he can do them for me at $130.
I keep repeating he says....
He says with the gavida hoods and those bulbs you need to be 38 inches above the plant cuz they are so fucking bright.
They have brand new AC/DC hoods that are air cooled. That cost about $320 apiece and $250 for me, buying a few.
With those hoods they are great at cooling the bulb and the plants can me more like 16" off the plants.
He told me several times the gavida hoods are fantastic for the price.
I haven't researched any of this at all. But he will have two sets for me on Wednesday in the Menominee store.
He said there are a few other brands that are a little cheaper for the bulbs, but I am not really interested in those.
So it's looking at close to $800 for 2 ushio high-lux double ended bulbs in 2 of the ac/dc air cooled hoods.
These are brand new on the market, sunlight is the distributor.
Now maybe I should look some shit up, eh.