O totaly go for that hps if i had the money i would have one to and as for power my power bill i couldn't even tell a change in it until i started runin fans then it goes up a lil so i spend more money runin 2 fans then i do with all my cfls lol and i wanna see some picks of this 5 ozs give us some pornThose CFLs add up fast though! I tried growing with just CFLs for a while and in the end it cost about as much as a 400 watt HPS. Now the guy at the hydroshop has me almost convinced on spending the cash for a 1000 watter.
Sorry I've been absent for a while. Just thought you guys would like the final tally, depressing as it is. 5 oz total! Granted it's pretty good stuff, I was really hoping for more. (this adds to the wanting a 1000 watter ).
good job on the final weight. 5 oz is a good harvest so dont be depressed. im sure your next grow wth this strain will be better. always takes trial and error to perfect things.Those CFLs add up fast though! I tried growing with just CFLs for a while and in the end it cost about as much as a 400 watt HPS. Now the guy at the hydroshop has me almost convinced on spending the cash for a 1000 watter.
Sorry I've been absent for a while. Just thought you guys would like the final tally, depressing as it is. 5 oz total! Granted it's pretty good stuff, I was really hoping for more. (this adds to the wanting a 1000 watter ).
good idea on putting in the HPS. im sure your plants have really taken to light very nicely. MH is better for veg but i have seen mutliple grows using them by themselves and with HPS. with just MH they produce short fat little buds but with the mix of HPS and MH its pretty freaken good haha.hey I'm really sorry ive been slacking on the updates, honestly there isn't that much to say, ill be back on track this sunday. i did however put in that HPS and have been using it for little over 2 weeks. i got a 400 HPS and a 1000 metal halide, which should i use?? i only got 5 plants in the flower room and i'm trying to keep cost down. i heard metal halide is more for veg.
hahha im sure theyre not that bad zieg. those plants in the second pic look pretty killer though should be some good ones when it comes to harvest. the first pic looks a lil mixd up so i kinda got lost haha. its really hard to keep plants perfectly healthy in hydro. i used the bubbler for my last grow and the plants had complete yellow leaves so dont be ashamed cause it definetely happens especially with not alot of exp.You heard right Muffinman, metal halide has more of the blue end of the spectrum that your plants would need in veg. But 1000 watts . . . That is a lot more light than a 400 watter, honestly I'm not sure which to go with.
Sorry for the delay in reply Littlegrower. The plants I'm getting pretty close to harvesting would probably break the camera. I'm not sure what went wrong but they are ugly. I think the timer for the pumps might have gotten messed up and not watered for a day or something but at one point they wilted and just never came fully back.
However, my newest little girls, they are the apples of my eye. I've been toying with just keeping my HPS both insanely close (for the girls in the eb and flood tray) and a little further back (for the girl in the bubbler) the bubbler started out ahead but . . . well you can see in the pic the girls in eb and flood are my favorite.