Son Agro vs Eye Hortilux

1)I was wondering about the Son Agro 430w, does it require a 430w ballast or can you just use a 400w ballast?

2) I have a 400w ballast with a 400w MH bulb, I was thinking about buying a hortilux super blue HPS bulb, could I just use the MH for veg and use the HPS Super Blue for Flowering? and compared to the Son Agro is there really a difference? Aren't both Dual Spectrum? (Wouldn't having a dual spectrum light ultimately be inefficient because it's wasting power on a different spectrum which is unnecessary during different stages of growth).

I have heard that having some of the other spectrum is beneficial during different stages and I've also heard that if a plant is in flowering its not going to absorb any of the blue spectrum.

You can fire a MH bulb with a HPS ballast but not a HPS bulb with a MH ballast. And they are both great bulbs to use start to finish.

m3snwbrder98 said:

1)I was wondering about the Son Agro 430w, does it require a 430w ballast or can you just use a 400w ballast?

2) I have a 400w ballast with a 400w MH bulb, I was thinking about buying a hortilux super blue HPS bulb, could I just use the MH for veg and use the HPS Super Blue for Flowering? and compared to the Son Agro is there really a difference? Aren't both Dual Spectrum?

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The son agro 430 is a superb bulb Good choice! 5 stars!!!!!

You can use a 400 watt hps ballas to run it.

The son agro has extra blue in it.

You can indeed use the mh for veg, and Super Blue for flowering.

The son agro is ONLY an hps bulb... not dual spectrum.

The super blue is a dual spectrum bulb...if your talking about the hortilux That puts out mh and hps at the same time.

all of those bulbs are outdated if you ask me. The best bulb to use in your 400w HPS ballast (assuming it's CWA/magnetic, not digital) is a Philips mastercolor ceramic metal halide. I use them for everything except the last half of flowering, at which point i use half n half cmh/hps. Basically it's the ceramic tube from hps lamps coupled with gases from MH, with a bunch of new updates. You can touch the bulb after it heats up!.I run plants 6-8in from the bulb no problem. Cant beat the spectrum/output/price/results, from seed to bud, plants are hardier, less stem, more bud sites, denser formation, etc... It's the thorn in every horticultural lighting company's side right now, until they can copy the technology. part no. cdm400s51/hor/4k/alto .......... GL

I used a 430 watt sun agro and was very pleased with the results.

Blue/white light is used by plants to process nitrogen, nitrogen turns into plant proteins which is what makes up your plant entirely.
Red/orange light is used to process phosphorus, phosphorus is used to create chemical energy which is built into the THC compound we all love so very much.

HID bulbs provide the entire spectrum of light, just a very low overall spectrum. Adding extra blue light made sense to me and it helped out with results