Hi there tamjam, jjmd & gumball
To be honest I'm really just running this thread until I upgrade after Summer. At the moment I'm taking advantage of the amount of full sunny days were getting here. I think the quality of the buds I'm currently smoking has more to do with Snow White genetics than my growing of them
Just 2 small single skins with a couple of beers and my heads gone! The SW is a very strong strain, its up there with the best I have grown/smoked in the past few years for sure. Could be the old White widow in there as that's always had a powerful effect on me. As I'm not a heavy user these days I find smoking less has a much bigger impact, and that's how I like it.
tamjam, I removed the heat screen due only to cleaning issues, it became a real hassle to remove/replace and to re position the bulbs that had been resting directly on them. So I re hung the bulbs as you see them and the plants fit nicely under them, 3 groups of bulbs about 110 watts per 4 bulbs for a total of 330watts in the box.
jjmd, Ideally I'd grow with just 2 main tops and 2 lower tops and remove everything else, thats the way I used to do it. under my old HPS I could average between 1 and Q to 1 and 3/4 oz dry from my quality genetics off of just 4 main buds: Purple Rhino, UK Cheese, Bubba Kush & Critically Mashed. I lost all of those so its been a long hard road back and I'm not yet back there, but the SW is a sure fire keeper for me (thanks again TJ mate). I just cant get near those yields under this set up, but bud quality is as good, especially the SW mutant pheno. I'm averaging just around the 14 to 21g dry mark, probably closer to the 14g mark, but I'm turning them round faster with staggered flowering. That's about the mark for small heavily trained plants under cheap CFL's I'd say.
Gumball, I saw so many threads with bulbs hung this way I thought I'd try it! But all of this will change when I upgrade at the end of summer
The 2 SW seedplants are doing nicely and the 2 Big Bang clones are well rooted now.