Metal halide vs high pressure sodium

I have a 600 watt digital ballast, I am currently vegging a few plants, I have a metal halide light that gives off 75,000 lumens, and I know MH bulb has a good spectrum for vegging. But my high pressure sodium gives off 95,000 lumens. That's quite a few more lumens! So which one would really be better for vegging?

Lumens aside, the color spectrum of MH is better for veg than the color spectrum of a HPS.

MH is great for flowering too if your all about quality over quantity.

Using a H.P. in veg, the only real difference you'll notice is a taller plant..........not much else or at least worth mentioning.

Do both at same time if you can, even better....

Lumens don't mean everything

Both spectrums even better, the more you can replicate the suns colour spectrum the happier your girls will be...

Ford Racing said:

MH is great for flowering too if your all about quality over quantity.

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What benefits does MH have over HPS during flowering? I was under the impression the red spectrum from the HPS is what will fatten your buds up and make them potent.

In my experience MH is good for vegging if you want to keep your plants short and squat, the internodal spacing seems to be shorter with MH. An HPS though can be used for the entirety of the grow and you won't suffer at all.

Seems to produce more oils and trichs as well as slightly better terpenes. You will sacrifice weight tho

I have recently found that a halide-spectrum seems to affect the cannabinoid/terpene profiles to one's advantage. I'm harvesting a little here and there from my perpetual 12/12 from seed halide-grow and the potency is superior as compared to the usual hps-harvests. Like someone else mentioned, Lumens aren't everything. PAR (photosynthetic active radiation) seems to play a big role here. Long ago I read about this in an old High Times mag. Interesting article, and my current findings are "on-par" with that research. Personally I would always trade yield for increased potency, but I realize everyone else may not. This is just my experience regarding the whole issue -

Cyrus420 said:

What benefits does MH have over HPS during flowering? I was under the impression the red spectrum from the HPS is what will fatten your buds up and make them potent.

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You use your MH at the last 7-14 days of flower to boost trich production.

MH has UV vs HPS doesn't have any UV.

The UV helps with the production of trichs, I use a 10k bulb (it's has a lot of UV) on my finishing weeks and I do notice a difference in potency and frostiness.

Just curious, which brand of lamps do you have?

Genesis bulbs are what I use.

lilzuko said:

You use your MH at the last 7-14 days of flower to boost trich production.

MH has UV vs HPS doesn't have any UV.

The UV helps with the production of trichs, I use a 10k bulb (it's has a lot of UV) on my finishing weeks and I do notice a difference in potency and frostiness.

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Do you use 24-48hrs of darkness before chop as well?

Ford Racing said:

Do you use 24-48hrs of darkness before chop as well?

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That's a debatable question around here...

But no I don't flush nor do darkness in the end.

lilzuko said:

You use your MH at the last 7-14 days of flower to boost trich production.

MH has UV vs HPS doesn't have any UV.

The UV helps with the production of trichs, I use a 10k bulb (it's has a lot of UV) on my finishing weeks and I do notice a difference in potency and frostiness.

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I have a cool tube, as it is encased with a glass tube how much UV will I be losing or better to use different hood without glass ?

I run two hps 1000w and 1 MH 1000w in between. The hps are air cooled, the MH is in a open parabolic hood. I run them in a 5×10 tent, and the buds are resin monsters,lol.
Much better than when I ran 3 hps.

slyone said:

I have a cool tube, as it is encased with a glass tube how much UV will I be losing or better to use different hood without glass ?

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I have an air cool hood myself, I take my glass off when I run the 10k bulb due to the glass is not "low E", which blocks most of the UV.

OK I will get my other hood out as I can take the glass off and have a go.... Practice makes perfect as is said.... Thank you