FOR SURE! the mars ii 400 panel throws off twice the amount of heat then the XTE: 200 - and they pull roughly about the same wattage from the wall I would assume. Mind you, for the price of the mars II, it would of been a great veg light if it wasn't a red and white spec. It does veg plants mind you, and that's what im currently using as my veg panel in my 2x2.. with a nirvana blue mystic, seedsman cheese and a ugly looking sensi skunk #1 and I also have a really tall northern lights auto from cropking seeds going in the 2x2.
Really can't wait to replace the 250hps for the XTE 300 panel and change out the Mars II for the XTE 100 panel for veg. And I can probably throw the Mars ii in the 2x4 and have a xte 200, 300 and mars 400 (but the mars isn't really needed once the 300 and 100 come in) Def open to suggestions, and hopefully will start a small journal of my own.
I started 2 random bag seeds.. and one of them kinda smells like mint, the other skunky. I had some purple kush.. and founds some seeds and someone had given me "blue mokai" seeds, I couldn't find the strain anywhere really online, buddy said he bought them off someone.
On the one side it's scrog and on the other I have lsted, and I have a lsted cropking auto northern light seed going in the flowering tent as well, and a smaller solo cup auto seed, maybe 5 weeks old and almost finished I believe.
I coco and 6/9 .. hand water daily.
will post some pictures next week when the girls start fattening up