PHILLIPS SON-T PIA

[tohtori]

I have PHILLIPS SON-T PIA bulb. It came with 400w hps cooltube set.

When I make order I ask Phillips son-t agro but they send me son-t pia.

Can anybody say how that works as a grow bulb

Thank you for answering, Tohtori

[tohtori]

OK thanks!

[RIX]

There whack,you want sun master Duel spec,I guarantee you get more yield and bigger plants.

[flowers to the people]

Hi mate,

tokage is right; it is an improved son-T

I was using son-t bulbs almost 20 years ago.

Besure to replace your bulb after 9 to 12 months use at 12/12.

I replaced mine every 2 crops.

I now prefer the Sunpulse bulbs.

also if you can give you plants when they are flowering extra blue light.

a CFL is ideal for adding extra blue light. Choose one with a spectrim around 6k.

take care

john

[tohtori]

Hi john,

whats the point of giving blue light at flowering stage?

Do they grow more compact or what?

I suppose that plants need blue light only vege stage.

[Nutes]

yeah tohtori i cant really see the point my self too buddy

[Dust]

Hi guys this post Is from Flower_to_the_people, he had post it on my frist grow here some year back

Posted 26 October 2010 - 01:33 AM

ok mate,

no worrys.

In my experience to increase your yeild, by the buds being denser and heavier, you need more blue light.

in flower, i suggest, you use your halide as your main light, but suppliment it with red light from a CFL.

The plants need more blue light than red through out their life cycle,

but in flowering they need more red than they did in veg on 18 hours.

They need still need blue light to continue making energy through photosynthesis,

this is the case especially during flowering.

A HPS used on its own lengthens inter node length;

the buds, therefore, are not as dense or compact

as when a halideis used supplimented by red light either from a HPS light or a red CFL.

I know this from experience;

[Flail]

there isn't much difference in using HPS full cycle and MH full cycle, with the MH pumping out less lumens and WAY more blue light.. getting a nearly identical crop if not better, that should say something to someone... can't really find hps vs mh side by side can you? its negligible

[Dust]

yes i agree flail, difference between 2 methods are not big enough to say one is better than another ^^

I think it has to be used in case you know you'll have a more stretchy plant for example maybe. now what i do is start flowering with mh until stretch ends and buds forms nicely and then i put hps back when flowers starts to get bigger.

[Growmaster J]

_{Using a MH during Veg and during the transition stage decreases stretching for sure..... And adding it back in the last 2 or 3 week of flower seems to increase crystal production. Not convienent or cost effective for bigger crops obviously.}

[Nibirubian]

Hi mate,

tokage is right; it is an improved son-T

I was using son-t bulbs almost 20 years ago.

Besure to replace your bulb after 9 to 12 months use at 12/12.

I replaced mine every 2 crops.

I now prefer the Sunpulse bulbs.

also if you can give you plants when they are flowering extra blue light.

a CFL is ideal for adding extra blue light. Choose one with a spectrim around 6k.

take care

john

can you expand on your use of the sun pulse bulbs? which ones and what ballest are you running them on? thanks, peace

[Dust]

Yes i Think i remember he had Lumatek too.. even more than one lolol ^^

Give a look in the Grow for all medium part and check his threads you might the infos somewhere on that. Or wait for rom as Tok said ^^