Olive Drab Green
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Exactly this. ViparSpectra 300w Reflector series for $99 on Amazon, 450w for $149.
Grow area way too hot (90+ degrees)
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coreywebster
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Sometimes you just have to reduce the amount of wattage you are using. A 600w in a 3x3 cupboard is too much without some monster ventilation and extraction.
That said if you want to supplement Co2 and add a air con you could do. But it is a closet so how easy that would be I could not say.
When your heat is too much for your ventilation it will just get hotter and hotter. Maybe you could pick up a 400w dimmable and see how you go before spending too much changing your whole lighting scheme. If its a small amount of personal then you could go down to a 250w or pick yourself a cheap LED up. They get some bashing but they still grow weed. It depends on what you want out of it.
If you want to build a cheaper light yourself have a look at this dude and his antics. It may not be your cup of tea but still worth seeing how other people grow personal amounts
https://www.rollitup.org/t/a-little-project-to-pass-the-time.909832/#post-12624751
BM9AGS
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Dude stop spreading bad info. Cobs are up to 70% efficient now and make much less green light than hid.
We have many people with $1000 or more par meters and my 800w of cobs crushes a de gavita 1000 pro!
BM9AGS
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You're advertising some of the worst China panels there are bro. They may be super cheap but you get what you pay for. 3 cobs for same price would crush those lights!
StoneyMcphatter
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Ya just dont know what your talking about mate. You just don't know. I am talking about COBS vs other LEDs. The fact that cobs even put out green light makes it worse than any blue/red spectrum light such as a mars hyrdro(which is good for the price by the way). My mars hydro LED light will crush any HID or COB except a 1000w HID but no ones growing with that unless they're trying to move pounds. And the Viperspectra is a fine light What because it comes from china it has to be bad right? That's just rhetoric. When you grow with cobs its like buying food for a child that can't eat the food. The green light being the food and the plant being the child. Again I'm done. Why do you care what i or anyone else grows with? This isn't what these forums are about mate.
BM9AGS
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Im gonna sig this. Everyone will get a kick outta it. Haha
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Olive Drab Green
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Here's how they were doing, like.. 2-3 days ago:
Olive Drab Green
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Still got like, 28-30 days left. Give or take a week.
Olive Drab Green
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I couldn't say. My experience is, with my BlackStar panel, it was probably 60-75% of what I could estimate I'd get from HID. Veg'd for, like, a month. Yielded 3.8 oz from a 3-foot high GDP. I have never used HID, so who knows how much I would have yielded with one? This is showing faster and greater growth than the BlackStars so far, though.
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SPLFreak808
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SPLFreak808
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Plenty of options here. The best two is sealing off that hood with its own ventilation out the window or swapping the entire light with something that pulls less from the wall. Either way, you NEED some headroom with ambient temps if you dont have a sealed hood
Bubblin
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Just an fyi, you're not supposed to ingest nutes/fertilizers or any type of ph adjustment fluids. Just sayin.
Olive Drab Green
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This was today, for what it's worth.
I have a 20-inch box fan in the doorway to my flower room and a ceiling fan going 24/7. I reversed direction of the ceiling fan so that it now "sucks" the air towards the ceiling. With the box fan turned around to blow into the room I have been able to keep my ladies going. Idea is that the box fan pulls in cooler, lower air while the ceiling fan pushes the higher, hotter air out the top of the door. Works for me!
Your main concern should be making sure your gals get properly hydrated. With temps rising I sometimes have to give each plant a second, smaller daily watering. Typically, a flowering plant that has received 16 ounces of nute water in the AM may get another 8-10 ounces in the PM if the pots tip dry.
You might also want to increase the distance from the plants to the bulb. If tops start to look bedraggled I take a spray bottle and mist the top colas.
Good luck, BigSteve.
Your main concern should be making sure your gals get properly hydrated. With temps rising I sometimes have to give each plant a second, smaller daily watering. Typically, a flowering plant that has received 16 ounces of nute water in the AM may get another 8-10 ounces in the PM if the pots tip dry.
You might also want to increase the distance from the plants to the bulb. If tops start to look bedraggled I take a spray bottle and mist the top colas.
Good luck, BigSteve.