Son-T-Agro Vs Son-T-Plus

[dogsted]

I would agree there the plus would probably better used in conjunction with a retrofit metal halide for veg and just used for flowering but they still give a decent veg I used an old one I was given and it worked fine but the plants never look quite as green and spritely as they do under metal halide or a good bank of fluoros or compact flouros.

[Chev]

We use the son-t plus for both veg and flower, and yeah, you'd get better growth in the veg cycle with a MH, but I've got no complaints about the plus, it's one of the best I've used.

[Tom]

We use the son-t plus for both veg and flower, and yeah, you'd get better growth in the veg cycle with a MH, but I've got no complaints about the plus, it's one of the best I've used.

Yeah, it craps all over the Lucagrow beside it.

 

[Chev]

:: Yeah, it does

[F420]

how do I turn a PDF file in to something I can post here???

master_son_t_pia_horticultural.pdf

[Rohald]

I registered just to find info about the Son-t Plus and the Son-t Agro and I've found so much trash....

 

please, I beg ya, stop saying the Son-t Plus is a 600 watt lamp because it's also a 400 watt lamp. And how do I know that? I HAVE ONE!

 

after 4 pages of talking, most of people say is a difference of wattage (and that's wrong) others say one is better in flowering and others say one is not better in flowering. So we haven't found nothing till now.

 

G-R-E-A-T!

 

Where is the dude?

[mace]

Hello Rohald,

 

i spend some time searching for the discreption for the bulbs by phillips... their sites are a mess... they are pretty useless...

 

Here is what i think i know:

Son-T Agro are HPS that have a strong red spectrum, a specialist for flowering.

Son-T Plus are HPS with added blue spectrum, more the allrounder, not as good for flowering as the specialist.

 

I know that my son-t agro 400 is a 430W bulb (or was it 423W?), they do not comply with the ANSI standard and need a stronger ballast than the standard S51 for 400W HPS to perform at their maximum...

 

Still searching for some official documentation.... later

 

mace

[mace]

nothing found, giving up.

 

mace

[F420]

read that pdf file I posted. its what the manufactures sent me.

it may help?

[jackfrost]

my two cents is that you are heaps better off with 20-30% blue light in a cannabis flore room and the rest HPS, the extra blue light will cause the flore to go for a week or two longer and thus you have alot bigger buds - if you want to finish the flore quicker go for straight HPS with no MH at all ie - SOG grow - but for most people adding a MH light to there HPS flore room will give greater returns, more tighter buds and higher THC levels

 

The more stress a plant has the quicker it will try to finish its cycle - and result is allways reduced yeild and potancy

 

now if one of the phillips lights had a 30% blue spectrum then it would be the ultimate flore light for stress free growing. IMHO

 

Jack