roseypeach
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We shall see, just PM'd himWell that's awesome. Yeah would defiantly love to see some finish pics of the genetics you got going. You can always pm me if he doesn't want them up on a thread.
Yeah I've always had success with FFOF, wasn't necessarily trying a new thing. Just figured it work better then my mix, which was FFOF to begin with after a year or two of reusing and reamdening ect. After this happened, and hearing it has happened to a lot of people that used FFOF, Im not using it anymore. I have boughten a large 30g+ tote that is full of my old soil, leaves and stems, vermicompost. Just cooking it up and should be ready for the new ones to flower and new babies for veg.
T5 will do for now but will defiantly want to get that HPS going for flower at least. Yeah you'll be amazed with what those HPSs can do.
This was actually my first run that I did with my new light. I replaced my 600w HPS and my 384w Apollo Purple Sun LED fixture with my custom made one.
The custom one was made for the specific dimensions of my growing area, which is 6 1/2' x 2'. It covers it perfectly. I didn't really get to see it "shine" so to speak, since my plants did so poorly. But I expect to get a GPW easily when I'm running smooth.
For 8 COBs ran at 1400mA gives me 50w's a piece. I basically cut my electricy use for flowering in half, got a better, more even spread of light, they put out the same if not better lumens, they are not as rough on the plant.
The thing is the FFOF had time to desaturate before, the fresh stuff is way too hot. The idea is a good one, you know what works and doesn't. Lots of growers think they have to push high amounts of N clear through flower but the truth is, the N should be stopped before that.
I'm pretty excited to see the results from the HPS. We have a 1000w bulb already from his old ballast. He was pulling 1/2 to 3/4 pd per plant with it before. We've got a good regime going, he told me what nutes we're using but I can't remember just now..still waking up. Hahahaa
I remember when you built that, glad it's working out good for you brother. How many total lumens is that putting out? This bulb we have puts out 140k, it's gonna cost plenty to operate. The power bill is 200 mth without it so you know that shit is going up..lol guess that's what I get for buying a 2000+ sq ft house. Hahaaa