Who said 10,000K metal halides are no good?

Hi

I reacently posted a msg asking if 10,000K metal halides could be used for the vegitative stage of plant growth and many people replied and said hell no its way outside the range for non aquatic plants, i had already put a bid on a 150W 10K marine metal halide setup and ended up winning it. so last week i got bored and thought hmm maybe i should give it a try anyways so i fitted the light to my vegitative closet and removed 2 cfls. i was used to seeing extremely slow growth using the cfls, any how this is the result of 1 weeks growth using the 10K marine metal halide, i'd estimate it would take me 3 weeks to get to this stage using only cfls normally and the plants look healthier then the previous batch that were vegitated only using cfls.

anyways i guess its just another case of people that have not tried these things commenting to sound like they know alot.

my advice is that 10K metal halides are awesome and i will continue to use this lamp against their advice

Regards morbid79angel

LOL, morbid! It's a HALIDE....a HID...a REAL LIGHT...so it's no wonder that you are seeing some kick ass growth!!

And yes..you hit the nail on the head. There's far too much cuttin and pastin' of CRAP info here...second hand "advice" that most of the time is out-of-date, incorrect, or worse, ***untested*** by the PERSON CUTTING AND PASTING THE INFO.

Anyway...you can't tell folks that CFL's are inadequate/inefficient and not intended for growing dope....they must see the INCREDIBLE difference for themselves...just as you did/had the balls to do. (I can see the smile from here!)

Keep yer eyes open for a 400/hps or larger for flowering. You'll be AMAZED.

rock on

bt dt

you know that 10,000K would be far out of the range of visible light as well as the range plants could use.... just by the way and to have your plants shooting up like crazy isn't the best thing to have normally either, it's normally called then stretching

i accidently double posted and they were on the other post