speedingximports
Active Member
Im not sure if youve ever seen a plant with 30 or 40 tops, but im not sure that it's possible. ive seen a plant topped 3 times with 8 heads and it had to be 5 feet tall to get that far due to the time it takes between toppings. you would be much better off making 30 or 40 clones and flowering them all while very small it would take less time and you would get more product. also, i am a believer in using more lights with lower wattage due to the fact that you get light overlap. if youve got one 1000w hps it only has one light source, due to one bulb. if youve got four 250w hps then you still have 1000w of light but there are 4 sources of light, ie 4 bulbs., which means that there will be a large area that is between lights and receiving light from more than one bulb. this will virtually eliminate your penetration problem because the light isnt limited to one source. Also, depending on your specific lights, you may end up with more lumens per watt with 250s. With my galaxy 250w I get 29,000 initial lumens which is quite a bit more than 1/4 of most 1000w systems lumen output.