I have an 8" Blockbuster hood and like it. Has a better spread for the 4x4 tent I use than others I have had.
I am using it currently without the glass since I have a 600 in there and its winter time.
Temps are under 80, and generally 75-76*
i thought i was the only one around with an 8" hood. i love it... i cant vent properly so it lets me cool it easier. i paid far too much for it, but its an amazing hood/ballast/bulb set up. eye hortilux super hps 600 on a lumatek (2007 - ish). bulb is nearly two years old... its fading slower than ANY other bulb ive had. its been banged up and shook up and all too... i love my 600 setup. so much more than my 1000
however if i remove my glass it seems like it makes it the heat worse... like the glass helps redirect some of the heat back away from the plants and with the breeze that is flowing thru and around the hood from a couple of box fans. i actually JUST tried this last night... because im having to keep a space heater on in the flower room. so its easy to not wake up early enough to shut it off before the lights come on. Atm its not worth going out to get another timer and risking a ticket due to the weather emergency... or get stuck. im in a buick lesabre, not a monster truck lmao!
so ive been trying to do a balancing act... hard. la con is doing great tho. i must have got a lucky seed... growing better than the 2 bubba kush i grew, which its very similar to. loves having a ton of perlite and drying out quickly. the PGA next to it, loves having its soil nice and soaked w/ plenty of nutes. well this La Con is even more nute hungry, i couldnt believe it... i figured it would be a slow feeder. just a slow stretch/veg is all. it loves its nutes, as long as it gets to dry out the way it likes to. i figured it would be like that, growing the bubbas first taught me a bit on how to treat the la con probably.
Ive been putting my heavily indica plants in a mix of roots organics original potting mix and perlite, just like all my plants go into now. Only i add quite a bit of extra perlite to the mix for these heavy indicas. seems to be making a world of difference. i didnt do it with one indica i had, it just had more problems all around... seemed to have stemmed from the soil holding too much moisture. which RO potting mix can be bad for if u arent used to it. i always add perlite to it. just alot more in the indicas.
in about 2 weeks ill be popping 7 FAK & 12 alienfire........you know what they gonna do,they gonna have sex..icky!!!!
ill post the sex scandal pics in the 600 breeding club.
TIGHT!!!(<---ha ha funny ya know?? tight? tight buds = tight action for the pollen??

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so happy to come in from the -50 F wind chill and shoveling 2 ft of snow (literally) out of my driveway after the plow comes by and makes it about 4 ft of extremely heavy ice and snow clumps, and see genuity say this

now on to digging thru 30 pages of 600... edit will come soon