There's definitely an element of that Derby. I love how mine are doing, but then I look at yours, and Ase's, and Swagg's that are running in parallel and think, wow, those guys are killing it!
I think I'm finessing it the right way with my wife though. She hates the smell I've had this round; the last few weeks have been pungent, and when I open the tent up at 8:00 the house is full of the smell in no time. I told her the only way I can keep the tent closed without screwing up my grow will be to get lights that run cooler, but they're expensive. Her response was, why don't you use the money in our change jar? We haven't cleared it out in quite some time, and put everything up to toonies
p) in there, so we rolled it all up and it's $500! I'm a little nervous about DIY but I would love to put the HLG 550 (or equivalent) in my tent. I'll still need to save but that $500 is a great start.
I guess I need to take the long view - I can actually decrease the power consumption and thus come out ahead with the HLG 550 in cost in the long run. And I bet I'll get stellar results, beyond what I get now. All these QB grows pretty much confirm that the lights are fantastic.