GROW LIGHTS REFLECTOR FULL

When growing cannabis in a tent or other restricted space, you want to get a hood that’s been specifically designed to get the most amount of light to your plants in a space like yours with the bulb you have. Get the Most Effective Hood for Your Light & Space – Narrow vs Wide Dispersion of Light

Ideal for grow tents as they have been specifically designed to work together to help growers create the perfect indoor growing environment.

Can be easily hooked up to an exhaust system or a carbon filter via ducting.

You are able to keep lights closer to plants for increased light levels using the same bulb/electricity.

Prevent heat stress by containing heat near the bulb (also giving you overall greater environmental control).

Most effective type of hood for reflecting light down to your plants.

GROW LIGHTS REFLECTOR FULL

Only recommended if you can’t fit a full sized air-cooled hood in your grow space! Although these are great for cooling, they usually have a smaller (less effective) reflector than either a batwing or a full-sized hood. They are even good at containing heat when not hooked up to an exhaust (though venting out the extra heat will certainly give you the best results). Highly recommended!Ĭool Tube – A Cooltube is a variation of an air-cooled reflector that takes up less room so it can still contain heat but will fit in smaller spaces. Air-cooled hoods are the most effective type of reflector when it comes to reflecting light downwards while also keeping plants cool. They have holes in the side so they can easily be hooked up to an exhaust fan via ducting. That means you often will be able to keep a bulb much closer if it’s in an air-cooled hood compared to a wing reflector, increasing light levels without causing extra heat stress to your plants.Īir-Cooled Hood – considered the “golden standard” of reflectors, they contain heat away from your plants by trapping it behind a piece of glass located at the bottom of the hood. If you take a bulb from a wing reflector and put that same bulb in an enclosed air-cooled hood, the overall temperature in the grow space will likely stay about the same (since the bulb is still giving off about the same amount of heat), but the temperature felt by your plants in the top canopy will be dramatically less since the heat is being enclosed near the bulb instead of beaming down. The heat gets contained behind glass, and the hood itself can be easily hooked up to a fan to vent extra hot air outside the grow space. Not recommended.Īn air-cooled hood is a must to contain the heat from your MH/HPS bulb so you can safely bring your light close to your plants. Even if you have a fan blowing directly over the bulb you may not be able to keep bulb close enough for maximum light efficiency. Wing Reflector (sometimes called a “bat wing”) – Cheapest type of reflector, be careful of sharp edges! Wing reflectors are usually pretty good at reflecting light, but they can make it difficult to prevent heat from beaming down on your plants. In order to get the highest levels of light to your plants you need to be able to keep your grow lights close, but that can be impossible when the heat from a naked bulb is beaming directly down onto your grow space like with a wing reflector. Each of these types will reflect light down onto your plants, but they differ in how well they reflect the light, and how well they contain the heat of the bulb. There are three main types of hoods/reflectors: wing reflectors, cooltubes, and air-cooled hoods.

The hood / reflector focuses light down, increasing light levels experienced by the plantsīut which reflector is best for your grow light and space? Is it worth it for you to get a better or more expensive reflector than what you have now, or will your results end up being about the same? Higher light levels (up to a point) are also associated with increased potency.īy using a reflector (especially when combined with reflective walls), you can get a significant amount of extra light to your plants without using any more electricity, resulting in faster growth and bigger harvests. When growing cannabis under HID grow lights like MH or HPS, you want to take as much light from the bulb as possible and deliver it directly to your plants. This is important because maintaining strong light levels in the flowering stage is the only way to grow dense buds and get brag-worthy yields.

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