tilemaster
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ya i feel u..its all bout the big MH for veg after wut i saw today...
Dr. greenhorn..glad to have u onboard for the journey..it can only get better...ya i hear ya. my wife gets tierd of the big lights so i tried the cfl's for veg, but i yanked them basterds out and hooked up mt 400wtt mh just for that reason, faster growth.
my caregiver just let me peep his setup..all i can say is real serious..30x20 flower room...10x10 veg area..greenhouse 20plant strong too w/ 4ft outdoors plants..prob close to 200plants..bud room had probably 10 x 1000whps..veg room was 2 1000w mh..w 6'' can fan pulln heat from em. fattest healthiest plants ive ever seen..he said he'd give me 2ft clones..in big pots so i can jsut start flowering with no real vegtime. said he'd work with me on the pricing. im absolutely now convinced mh is where its at for veg, and big wattage too.sup bro!!
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Lennard i wanna go big thoi wish i had the space to compare the growth rate a 400w mh to one of the floros i use... they are similiar lumen outputs... and for what mine lacks in penetrating power it makes up in by being able to be so close... hmmm.. i wonder if i could fit a 400w'er in my veg room?????
I did a 2) 200 watt cool white for veg, and 2) 200 watt warm whites for flower. Not grown in coco grown in rubbermaid.
Now I have 600 watt HPS.
Differences:
Fan leaves much larger before flower w/Fluro
Bud sites / branches not nearly as strong w/ fluro
I thought too well since you can run the fluro right off the top of the plant you can maybe gain an advantage of less lumen loss there. But from my current grow I openly admit I wasted a bunch of money on those CFLs should have went 600HPS right off the start. However, My CFL grow did alright I got 51gm out of two plants and it was excellent bud. but Im going to stomp a hole in that figure with this HPS system. I may add in the fluors in the hard to reach shady places or so, so they definitly arent just getting tossed in the trash.