Encryptednz
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So I have a flower tent and a veg room setup sadly my ballast has gone for my veg room with my 6 day old clones and suppliers out of stock until the 30th would my clones be ok under the flower lights for 2 weeks?
New clone under flowering lights?
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JAMO_Grow
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It sounds like you are using an LED for the vegetative tent/room and HPS for the flowering tent/room. I suggest that you keep the humidity at 80% if the clones have not rooted yet , in all honesty I have grow seedlings under 600w HPS and had cloned under the light. There is not a lot to worry about, main factors are the distance of the light from the clones and the humidity.
Hope this helps!
Hope this helps!
Encryptednz
Member
Cheers dude I had a male clone in there that I pulled to see how far along they'd come and they've rooted ready for transplant in 3 days
Mrgoodsusa
Member
So a light specific for seedling isn't necessary?
JoeBlow5823
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Ive sprouted seeds under a 1000w hps.
lime73
Weed Modifier
Almost any light will work. I wouldnt use a halogen light though, cuz they put out way too much heat.
xtsho
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You don't need a light at all. The sun works just fine.
I prefer using a T5 for starting seedlings through veg indoors.
Mrgoodsusa
Member
So i can use like 24 strips 3000k in a 4x4 tent for seedlings? All i have to do is keep them at high level?
*Raises hand*
Me too, hundreds of them. I've put as many or even more freshly rooted clones directly under a 1kW HPS lamp.
Overkill on the electricity by a few miles if seedlings are all you've got in there though.
Typically I start seedlings in one of my 400W tents.
xtsho
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I don't grow with LED's so I can't comment on height. I also prefer 6500k for seedlings and veg. You can use 3000k if that's what you have.
I've been forced for short periods to veg with a 2700k HPS in the past. Found the plants grow just fine, but I didn't like the extra stretch that comes with not having more of a veg spectrum in there.
I've heard that the 3100k CMH bulbs work not bad for veg, but again, I'd expect to lose some of the short compactness I get with a more appropriate bulb for the veg period.
PadawanWarrior
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These were under 3100k CMH the whole time. I thought they stayed pretty compact before the stretch. They stretched a bit during flower, but I also had a bigger temperature differential than I do now.
Nice! Thanks for the feedback about a full 3100k grow. I've read about people running the CMH throughout, but haven't gone out of my way to really look into it at all.
PadawanWarrior
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I love the CMH lights alone. But I also like mixing LED with CMH. CMH makes really frosty nugs, but I got 1/2 lb off a plant once with CMH and LED.
CMH alone. Bodhi's Pura Vida.
