Just took a pic of the jungle before heading to bed..not looking too bad tho could do with more bud, hopefuly next time lol
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Your very next upgrade needs to be a better light. HPS is doing you no favors and that magnetic ballast, tsk, tsk... allow me to explain;
You see those dark bars in the pic you just posted? Those come from the interference pattern between the sine wave output of your magnetic ballast and the scanning rate of your digital camera. It's trying to tell you something!
That image takes a few hundredths of a second to expose. You can therefore effectively read the interference pattern and it will tell you how much time your light is dark (?!?!) WHILE IT'S RUNNING.
Careful measurement will confirm that your magnetic ballast is shutting your lamp off for about 30% of the total time it's running; you just can't pick up the flicker yourself and thus we need the camera to tell us.
This is the main reason why a digital ballast is better, and why a square wave ballast is the best of all. 315W CMH lamps provide excellent spectrum and run on low frequency digital square wave ballasts, and are roughly equivalent to between 400-500W of HPS lighting. Good growers will pull a pound a run from one.
That dim bulb and magnetic buzzbox is costing you dearly in terms of electrical consumption and yield, Sir. Out with it, forthwith!