Ok, today is the last day of veg, the girls still arent 100% but they are getting to big to wait any longer. As you know I ve had 2 timewreck under the COB light and the other 7 are under the 1000w hortilux superlumen. Now the hortilux is a flowering bulb with some extra spectrums so tecnically you can veg with it just fine but a metal halide is still better imo...Heres some side by side pics..
THe 2 on the left are the ones under the COB light,sex still unconfirmed, the 2 on the right are confirmed females that were under the hps.\
All of the hps timewrecks are alot bigger than the 2 COB plants.The stalks on the hps plants are twice as thick and twice as stiff..first pic is of a COB plant second is a hps plant..
its hard to tell from the pics but the COB stalk is around as thick as a pencil and the hps stalks are more like those really thick pens.
Now tecnically this could simply be different phenos but I dont think so,the branches on the COB plants are ALOT more plyable than the hps plants, I dont know enough about spectrums to diagnose whats going on here but imho theres something missing from the COB. Dont get me wrong, the COB plants are the epitamy of health, they're just not as beefy as the hps plants, maybe somebody with knowlege of what spectrums do what could chime in here?Also, all of the hps plants have or are starting to show sex, I have 3 confirmed females and one confirmed male so far and it will only be a couple more days before the rest of the hps plants show me they're junk, the COB plants havent even started to show anything yet, again some pheno's show sex later than others but theres to many things going on here to blame on phenotypes, I think these lights might need some more work before they can be called full spectrum grow lights, hopefully it will rock in flower