I fear no one, and I fear nothing, little man.
I've been places and done things that would make you shit your pants and cry for your mama.
So don't keep proving yourself to be a douche nozzle.
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I'm glad you're actually (claiming) to be willing to try a mH for yourself to find out.
I hope you'll do a thorough job of documenting it from start to finish and post results on a week to week (or day to day) basis to add to everyone's knowledge.
That way, when you make outrageous statements on things at least you will have one grow worth under your belt to give you ammunition, or to change your perspective on things.
But before you make even more outrageous claims based on incomplete evidence, I would invite you to try several strains and as many of their phenos as you can, because every strain (and their phenos) have slightly (sometimes radically) different needs.
That's why hornedfrog brought up the point that a test like this would need a large, mutli-strain, multi-plant endeavor that could take a year or two for useful data to be collected and studied.
Which is exactly why those of us who are participating in this discussion are not saying that "mH is the way to go", or "mH is the mostest awesomest light source for cannabis ever!".
Because we already know it's not.
But, because many of us have tried it ourselves, we know it's perfectly adequate to use from start to finish.
Just as HPS isn't the bestest & mostest awesomest for growing cannabis, but it is also perfectly adequate.
I hope that, once you have a mH bulb and done your own experiments you'll end up doing what many are doing and run it side by side with an HPS over the same batch of plants so you can maximize your indoor grow (look at any of the grows where both are used, like whodat's pics above).
When the wife & I are back in a house this year, I plan on getting another 600w ballast so I can run dual bulbs like that.
And the wife has suggested that I grow some cannabis outdoors in the future backyard, too.
Will build a greenhouse for veggies, and a greenhouse for cannabis and let Ma Nat's big 600 in the sky work it's magic.
Going to run 4 big indoor girls, keep one mother plant with different strains grafted to it, and will grow one medium-sized outdoor girl in a greenhouse. (only allowed to have 6 mature plants at a time, under Oregon's MMJ laws)
Summer is here, people's kids are all out of school, and there are now houses slowly popping up, so it's just a matter of time.
Just need some houses to start being put on the market in the South part of town so we can find one that suits us.