7 days into 12/12 - does this look ok?

Gs3000

Gs3000

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Jimdamick said:
Get Jorge Cervates "marijuna horticulture medical grow bible". It will give you all the information on lighting that you need. $20 on Amazon, so put down the pipe and get it. It will clear thing's up for you. Peace
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Thanks for the recommended read. As far as putting down the pipe, I don't smoke, yet!LOL So how bouts you give your pipe a rest. Peace
 
Gs3000

Gs3000

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This is my first grow, so the CFLs work for me. I'm at 1000 watts eqivalents using 6 bulbs. So the question was what is the different between my 1000 watts eqivalents and the HID 1000 watts other than the cost and heat production?
 
joe blow greenthumb

joe blow greenthumb

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The difference is the cfls can grow one plant nicely while my 1k hps can grow a crop with no issues. Cfls grow smaller, less dense buds. It's harder to grow a plant with nice size using cfl. There are some good cfl grows but those same grows would double in harvest if an hid is put in place of the cfls. I began with a 1k hid and wouldn't put 100 cfls in its place. My lowest buds are dense and coated with resin only half way thru flowering
Gs3000 said:
This is my first grow, so the CFLs work for me. I'm at 1000 watts eqivalents using 6 bulbs. So the question was what is the different between my 1000 watts eqivalents and the HID 1000 watts other than the cost and heat production?
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99Watt$723Pot$

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CFL or HID its a matter of preference and whatever works best based on conditions of your grow.
Plant looks healthy good start mate. :peace:
 
Gs3000

Gs3000

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ok my flowering plant is about 30 inches tall and i thinking it will hit around. for flowering with 278 actual watts 1000 eqivalent = 16,000 lumens. Vegging is 378 actual watts 1200 watts eqivalent = 52,000 lumens. I may be doing the math wrong. I have 11 plants vegging.
 
Gs3000

Gs3000

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99Watt$723Pot$ said:
CFL or HID its a matter of preference and whatever works best based on conditions of your grow.
Plant looks healthy good start mate. :peace:
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Thanks! Cheers! My grow boxes can't accommodate the heat generated by HIDs. And yes I'm happy with my plants so far especially with this being my first grow.
 
Gs3000

Gs3000

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Fenian Brotherhood said:
You can use the Veg lights for flower as well with the flower lights.


More light = More Bud!!
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I was thinking of adding my extra 6500k lights to the flower. But I have to leave my main 6500k lights for my plants in veg, Ok so I read that you use 2700K for flowering and 6500K for vegging.
 
Fenian Brotherhood

Fenian Brotherhood

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Correct. But alot of people use a 2:1 ratio in flower. Meaning for every two Red spectrums they use one blue.

Unless you still have plants in veg and you don't flower them all at once...
 
Gs3000

Gs3000

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Yes, I have 12 in veg. But I have extra lights that I'm going add to flowering to mix up the spectrum. I just end picked up six northern white ape clones. Got them isolated.
 
cochroach

cochroach

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You will need a bigger light eventually.
Craigslist has sweet deals all the time.Gardeners that quit, etc...
or whatever. Jmo.
Unless you want to keep your plants really, really small.
 
Galvatron

Galvatron

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i dont think lumens stack like that. the only way it you can add it up like that is if you had all your bulbs as a spot light and all lighting in the same spot(like 5 flashlights spots all pointed in the same spot). otherwise it would be like 2400 lumens from x amount of light sources(just an example, i dont know your bulbs exact lumens). of course in a fixture set up like you have you will get overlapping areas of light but it would be hard to calculate the exact numbers without a meter.

cool grow though and good luck with the progress.
 
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