How many plants can a 600 watt HPS grow light grow? 420 Guide for Beginners

How many plants per 600 watt HPS grow light? This is sometimes an issue for novice growers and it has a pretty simple solution. The amount of plants per light depends on the type of plants and how you grow them, apart from the space you have and the potency of the plants.
Planting seeds is not the same as planting clones, and autoflowering seeds aren’t the same as seasonal seeds; plants that have more yield on the tips of the branches aren’t the same as plants that have larger yields in the central calyx.


Basic Lighting Principle for Growing Weed

The idea is quite simple, really:
  1. hang a high-output, full spectrum LED grow light or HPS grow light above the plants
  2. hang a lower-output, blue-spectrum light source to the side of the plants.
The plants get most of their light from the overhead HPS or LED light.
This is supplemented by the blue light source, either from an MH bulb or a cold (5500K and up) fluorescent bulb or LED equivalent.
This secondary light source hangs about a third of the way down from the top of the canopy, in the rows between the plants.
The intense light from above feeds the plants and promotes fast growth and strong bud production. But with only overhead light, especially the reddish light from an HPS bulb, plants tend to grow tall and thin.

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