The Pros and Cons of Adding Supplemental and Side Lighting (UV-A, UV-B, IR) 

Good tutorial conversation. Thanks, In-A-Pot and Thank you, Shane. I understand your point on providing a lamp that doesn't require a lot of fussing about and if I had a commercial grow. But for me and my obbsessive personality I enjoy tweaking the light depending on the plant's growth stage. Good vid guys, Thank you

❤ this guy is the best light tester ever. Great job 👏 thanks for having him on. Great info.

Thanks for this video man, I've been wondering about side lighting for a while now

I’ve been experimenting with supplemental lighting and can confirm it’s very beneficial. I personally just keep a 500w light at the bottom and I can confirm it’s makes a huge different in yield.

This is one of my favorite videos you've ever been in. Men are always looking for some sort of angle, Edge or whiz-bangery that just doesn't exist, I think you just sealed the deal for me I'm just going to be happy with what I have currently until I can afford something better and it doesn't look like it's going to be this year 😢

Adding side lighting increases the yield if using a grow box.. it mainly works on the under vegetation that normally doesn't get much light

Around the 12 minute mark I said fu outloud to my phone. It was like he was talking to me specifically 🤣

That was a great video Great concert and tips to know great show ✌

Awesome content, Awesome Creator! Great work all along the way. Conversion bulbs were a thing-- I was HID for years (MH for veg HPS for flower ) now I've got a 4x8 tent, and a Mars fce-4800. Medical license Medical plants. 😀 How about a test of gualala robotics light rail? I'm going to try it, would love to get your take. 👍🏽👍🏽🙂

My theory on this, not a pro by any means, but the genetics of indica/ruderalis plants are impacted by seasonal change unlike tropical sativas, and I think it has to do with the amount of daylight each region recieves. The steeper the angle of light is, hitting every leaf, the more surface area of each leaf is being contacted by every photon, so the plant doesn’t need to grow taller, thinner in order to gain the energy it needs from sunlight. It would explain why sativas grow thin and tall versus the bushy short genetics that are already receiving light from wider angles, so theoretically more light COULD create more vegetative growth, but too much light might trick the plants into maintaining the size they already have, since they have no extra demand for light. I think the trick to gaining the most yield per sqft is finding the golden ratio for lighting in vegetative state, and as soon as flower comes, keeping the light levels just a smidge brighter than the vegetative stage. I see lots of grows where people use powerful lights in their veg stage and either come into heating/burning issues, or the plants start off growing very slowly… however in some grows that I’ve seen labeled as “we ran into problems week x-x vegetative stage” I find that a lot of growers will accidentally give a plant too LITTLE light initially, but the plants demand for light is so great that they end up exponentially stretching. While that can be a bad thing, resulting in smaller yields, I’ve always wondered if starting out with barely enough light, and then slowly increasing 5-10% output a week until flowering stage can impact the size/yield of your grow, instead of traditionally getting the biggest LEDs and adding even more light in veg stage

I found that 4 foot t5 ho worked great to supplement the sides of my quantum board leds .. I was also able to throw a uva uvb in combination with a 2700k bulb to add the uv and lower my over all veg/bloom spectrum from my led lights as well

Thanks Dan. Thanks Shane. Needed info right about now. Brought a new 6 bar 480w light with no IR, although it was advertised. Fkng eBay

Great topic!

I like having a gap down the side for a walk way/work space. If your hitting 1000ppfd on the top can the plant use more on the lowers that arent getting as much light without CO²? If you can make hairy legs worth while thats a lot of area. CO² is spendy here, then needing a closed loop and all that comes with that

Thank you💙

I use added side lightning, It produces twice the amount of big buds.

I read an article about a study and bottom not side lighting increase yield by 20 percent and increased the potency of the lower flowers.

I use a G8600 above and G4500 as side lights, 1 on each wall , dimmed down. In a 5×5 Many more big buds, fill a 5×5 with 1 plant.

Will I be able to produce pungent and good yields with plain 3.5k led strips without other spectrum lighting?

Hey quick question, do you start counting the days of flower from when you flip the lights or first signs of pistils??

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

Good run down on lighting basics. Have used UVB with good results do need to run a separate timer best to have it set up at the begining of the grow. School of hard knocks there.

I'm going to test this ,I have 6 boards from Rapid LED 4 660 red and 2 uv with my photontek 600 on top

I just started using side lighting and it's GREAT

Hey what happened to weed in a pot is everything okay?

Great stuff. Side lighting is very important imo. Canopy penetration! Green leds are a much needed feature imo. It combines w/blue to make yellow. which the sun has plenty of. Combine that with red & we get the late afternoon orange that we also see plenty of.

Bro what happened to your other page?

I use a 150w 6000k garage led from Amazon and dont seem to have any problems.

I'm using 80 watt LED light strips

You can add uv-b with led

Seems like Shane is doing a dance around side lighting? When you're stuck with a fixed space and excellent top side lighting, side lighting must help with the lower parts of the canopy. Hopefully some of the lower branches will catch-up to the upper parts of the canopy, or at least form more substantial flowering below the canopy. Great video!

Personally, think you should try your best to match the 🌞 spectrum

So is the 20% far red from the sun the reason plants get so big outside? You know cause far red over 5% causes stretching... and is also backed up by the power of the sun and the microbiology

What are you saying?? Red blue or full spectrum 😳😳😳🤦🤦🤦

I love migro but in this one he only look at it as a led light producer if your light fixtures are low in wattage the plants can touch the light i know the light fixture wouldn't be that powerful but youre only supplementing light to maybe raise the par to a usable par if you add more like the barinas or the ac bars or even led shop lights you most likely wouldn't have to lollipop so you get a 20 to 30 percent increase in bottom canopy it was proven in your wardrobe grow

Individual diode's par output is limited to the color temp of that diode. A 3000k diode has a higher red to blue when a 5000k diode has a higher blue to red. Migro claims to be an expert however,,,, he fails to address diode color temps. Most new boards mix 3000k and 5000k together and the ratios are different between manufacturers. This ratio determines the wave length saturation and output spectrum thereby affecting plant morphology. Review lights based on plants growing under them instead of trusting words from a hungry entrepreneur...✌️

What is he saying again???. Damn I'm trying to understand. But he just confused the heck out me. What is he saying😳💯✌️🤣

I thought green light was unusable light

Not a clear enough to understand what is going on here???. We are used to your voice and pics on videos.. lol