Club Vert(600)
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BobBitchen
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also on board..
think time has come
next run, a few weeks away....
think time has come
next run, a few weeks away....
Dezracer
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I really want to follow DST's suggestion and let them be for another week but the wife is already asking about the bill and stuff. She likes to budget for our larger bills and when I grow, the elec bill is one of them. It will probably be in the $250-300/mo range while running the 1k. I will swap it out for a 600 at some point and bring the plants in a little closer. I just need the extra funds to buy a new 600 ballast and bulbs. I'll sell the 1k ballast and bulb after to recover some $.
ttystikk
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Don't wait. Your future self will kick your ass for every day you wait. Mine did!
Mrs Dez will not worry about bills when she see results.
ttystikk
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There is no way your power bill will notice the difference between a 6 and a thouie- maybe if your AC cooling is all hacked up, but that's a separate issue.
But if your concern is to stay small, run two sixes in a five foot tall silo. This could easily produce five # a run, plenty to pay the bills.
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Dezracer
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I have run that before too. There is about a $50 difference between running a 600 and a 1k on my power bill. Running a 1k for 18 hrs a day will be even more than that. She's used to our bill when I run a single 600 and a t8 veg light. She's just concerned with what it's going to cost us. I'm not worried at all about the power Co, lol
ttystikk
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Another power saving trick that I've proven to myself just over the last month is to run your veg on this schedule;
6 hours on
6 hours off
Repeat
Also known as the 'navy watch' schedule because navy watches onboard ship used to run the same way.
This does NOT induce flowering, although you will see preflowers. It saves power, seems to encourage root development and stretch.
Then again, the stretch could be the result of my use of HPS light in veg. You see, I'm looking FOR the stretch in an effort to get the veg girls nice and tall for the vertical trellis.
Another fun fact with this schedule is that you can now run two rooms on a flip schedule and they both stay in veg!
I think I just saved your marriage...
ttystikk
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I see you've been surfing my posts a lot lately, doing your homework? If you want to start a thread about it, do the @ScreenName thing with me and I'll give you my best thoughts about your plans.
Most people get to spend four figures to hear those words come out of my mouth- and they think it's the deal of the century.
Dezracer
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That's part of why I went back to vertical. My yields weren't stellar running a single 600 over a 3x3 tray. I would get around 10oz on average per run that way. With vertical I was killing that number before so I went back starting with this run.
ttystikk
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I'm interested in the various ways people do vertical gardening. In my case I am plant count limited, so trees are the order of the day; I'm growing them onto a trellis that's over six feet tall by four feet across. Four of these ladies sit round table style, shaking hands around the two stacked bulbs inside.
It's only one level because I wanted all the water on the ground, so that meant growing tall plants.
They do take maybe a week or two longer to get to six feet than four- but it's half again or even twice the yield!
It's only one level because I wanted all the water on the ground, so that meant growing tall plants.
They do take maybe a week or two longer to get to six feet than four- but it's half again or even twice the yield!
Dr.D81
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4 or 5 like my old room , but it will start at the floor. I will lay it out and see.TStik i run a multilevel sog with shelvesfor 2 gal grow bags. I have pics on here and my thread.
ttystikk
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I've heard of people running an HPS thouie AND an MH thouie over a 3x3, IN A TENT! One dude said 'it was bright as Ja in there but the plants went batshit'- they absolutely loved it. IIRC, he said the only reason he didn't continue was that AC was an adventure in there and he couldn't figure out how to scale it up and not fry everything.
Noooooo DOUBT. That's pushing 200W/ft². Whoa! It does make a guy wonder, though...
ttystikk
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Yes, I saw a thread with a stadium grow with metal shelves on casters, can roll them in n out, right? That's what my mind's eye is seeing, anyway.
