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Its all a learning experience my dude. I spent at least a few hundred i didnt need to on my very first setup (check it out i just posted it in general indoor growing) learn from it. Backup equipment comes in handy sometimes too. Im sure it isnt a total waste. People make pretty decent crops with cfls. But 6 cfls @ 50 each?
I bought my 400w hps ballast, glass enclosed hood and a bulb for 200$ altogether my dude. Local hydro stores will generally cut you a good deal if you let them know your on a tight budget. Are those the self ballast cfls? Very cool man. Dont let those go! Keep working on that heat issue.
If nothing else, maybe a bigger fan blowing across the cfls might help, those looks a little dinky. Something with higher power should help. Maybe some more power to your exhaust out. An exhaust fan eith a higher cfm rating? I cant tell what your running.
Temps above 80 arent good, i read it slows down growth and opens the door for pests, diseases... That sort of thing.
Is the ac inside the tent? Does the tent stay closed?
I agree about having backup and learning as you go. Exhaust fan is 240 but with filter and ducting probably only 70%. Still plenty I think. I couldnt justify the added electricity and noise. Might as well buy the air cooled hid instead. Those little fans keep the lights cool to the touch. Its the ambient temp that is the battle. No ac in tent. Is that possible? Tent closed for 12/12 to keep light out. Other light in the room.
No, I mean a 600 hps...it only needs a foot away from the plants...the fan blowing up on it cools it down and I ran the plants within 6" and no bleaching or burning...You mean a single hid or cfl? Hid would burn the plants in the center from direct contact and only one of the cfls wouldnt be enought light, correct?
Interesting... How did you keep the plants from growing into the light? My tent is only 3x3 so a foot away in each direction would only leave a 6" perimeter for growing.No, I mean a 600 hps...it only needs a foot away from the plants...the fan blowing up on it cools it down and I ran the plants within 6" and no bleaching or burning...
Or scrog!;) under 400w duel spec
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use trellis to hold them back...or tie the branches back...
Looks really good. When do you trim all the underneath foliage? Do you do it gradually or all at once? Can you clarify "dual spec"? Thanks
I gotcha... So you would have the bulb with no reflector about half-way up? In theory the yield should be much higher because you're using much more square feet. 3ft x 5-6ft times 3 walls of the tent. Did you use a 3x3 ten? That would suck to get all the way to flower and burn the buds.
Id be considering changing up to that 600w LED's later on, yet grow a few harvests out with those cfls perceive how it goes. You can simply utilize them as supplemental light in the event that you decided to overhaul. In any case, i have an inclination that id burrow vegging under a few those gentlemen, they put out a huge amount of lumens and function admirably suspended in the middle of plants on a level plane with no hood.
Perhaps Save cash on power just running a Aeon Grow LED's for blossoming.
That's what I've decided to do. I should at least see what the results are like before I move on to other lighting.
Here is one I have plants vegging under right now. Is this what you're talking about or do you mean for the light to be hanging above the canopy? What do you think the difference would be as far as yield and light distribution if I were to hang the 3 in the tent vertically like this, only above the canopy instead of in the center of the plants? The heat would drop down a lot without the hoods.
I bought a lux meter and discovered that directly under the bulbs, the reading is around 250 whereas on the perimeter it drops to as low as 30. So I raised the hoods up in order to get more even coverage. They went from about 3" to 6" above canopy. I also used my laser thermometer to measure the temp at different levels and realized that the lights were heating up the thermometer I had in the tent with radiant heat and causing it to read much higher. So now I'm getting 75 degrees at canopy level with the window AC in the room set at 67, tent closed.
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