hps for veg???

Hi all

Until now all i have grown is autos, i have been doing some searching and found that you can but your plant will stretch a lot, but if i lst will i still have the same reaults as if i used blue cfls for veg? I have been so happy with my autos until now but after reading and finding out photoperiods would take about 3 weeks longer and yeild atleast twice as much i am crawling up the walls thinking how could i be so stupid.

hps for veg is fine. CFL's will give you nice tight nodes though. I use both in veg and HPS in flower

No. MH "should" produce plants with tighter node spacing then the hps. So even if yu lst, yur node spacing will still be greater with the hps.
That said, i don veg with hpss', but yu certainly can do it, and successfully. Especially if yu can keep temps down and get lights real close. That always gives me nice and tight nodes.
Oh yeah, strain dependent. Obviously, indicas will be less stretchy then sativas.


Sir KK

To be honest with auto's it really does not matter LED, CFL. HID, ect (this is because of their genetics!)

Thanks for all the replys, i got a pack of big bang auto on the way so im going to run them, then get some photo northern lights and hopefully all will go well. Thanks again, furious

Get a conversion bulb. https://www.1000bulbs.com/product/110798/GROW-XTB3010.html

run em 24/0 and you will have tight node space

I have vegged with HPS. I always panic when I see them stretch at all then I fire up my CFL box for two weeks. One day I'll just let them do their thing under hps. Yea, adding in some blue cfl while under hps could work well. I did that once.

Diabolical666 said:

hps for veg is fine. CFL's will give you nice tight nodes though. I use both in veg and HPS in flower

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me too....start with CFL's then add the HPS at about 3 weeks old with the CFL as supplement