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when you get your High Pressure Sodium light set up place your hand underneath the light bulb and move it to the point you can not feel any heat and adjust your light above your plants to that level, raise the light as your plants grow.
 
howdy rune here's a nice chart on distance vs light output. Good info.

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Thanks guys... I have these charts saved along with some of the other good reference material found here at :420: ... this place is a wonderful information resource... and yes, I am psyched that the delivery is supposed to be here Friday... I also got a provider's old

Dynasty mom today... she got clipped for clones, repotted and now I'll start trying to baby her back and veg her for a flowering in later fall/early winter. My girl loves that strain and vortex (need to find decent seeds or clones for that one) so I want to let the original mother become a good bush before flowering.
 
good weed rune:)
 
runewulfsong said:
WildRosebud, are they more droplight style or more fluro tube style? I haven't seen any worklight / drop / prop ones around here in the right color spectrums unless I want to buy a fluro style fixture over a CFL one... I did find a 250 actual watt hydro cfl with reflector ($50 bulb / $72 with reflector) that I'm thinking about as well... though more for veg and literal indoor veggies over the winter.
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I got the worklight for $10 no bulb , the bulb for $20 at walmart. Your 250 watt bulb produces 16500 lumen and is an actual 250 watt HiD unit. Almost got one myself very attractive setup capable of growing 5-6 plants to maturity if you position it properly. It has simular coverage to a 400 watt Mh light it is very safe and versatile in comparison to Mh but equally as dangerous if the bulb breaks , in North America we still do not have proper methods of handling and disposing of mercury based lights :( I consider CFL to be safest in handling usage though easier not to break them in climat or environment they are tough in that aspect like I find HPS is. The 45 watt lights I use produce 3000 lumen but I can not find a 2700 or less more yellow color range for them so it is limited there so I turn to HPS for middle veg and finishing using CFL still for sun up and sun down primarily , it saves 7-9 amps of energy for those hours and is still efficient I think. I think I am still drunk from last evening I should review my post later to ensure I am not talking out my butt lol
 
Good weed to you as well Fishy ;)

Morning WildRosebud... I'll have to keep my eyes open at Homie's for that. I haven't found higher 2700k bulbs at wally or homie around here, unfortunately. I think the Hydro store and farm store neither carry cfl bulbs around here, all HID and T5. I was looking at an online hydro shop that has 250w CFLs and I might get one of those for veg, but they have them in both veg and flower spectrums.
 
what ever bulb type and K rating yall choose I hope you grow more than yall need:)
still like HPS the best:)
 
HPS arrives tomorrow. I'll end up moving to LED for places outside this one tent, but I might go with the 250CFL for veg, not sure whether to use that or some HO T5 bulbs, in all honesty. For that use, I need 3 things, low heat, low electrical draw and cheap, but not always needing bulb replacements. I might go T5 for that, I'm honestly not sure. I'm also going to be starting a garden in the autum (veggie) in the laundry room so we have good salad all winter, but without the ridiculous costs associate with the grocery stores in winter. I was thinking a couple of the 250w CFL in reflectors for in there would be enough, the room is only about 6ft x 8ft or so.
 
Hey here is something I notice about high range K..... High number color temperature penetrates canopy at lower wattage better and has better coverage at lower lumen/wattage. Whiter/Bluer light is amazing but I agree cakes HPS is the most sexy of them <3 will be tough to convince me otherwise too.... haha
 
if you can swing a cool tube at some point soon you will be golden ! it pulls 90+% of the heat off the bulb,put the ballast outside the grow area and your heat will go way down from where it is right now,i saw a cool tube 6 inch for as low as 60 $ somewhere, s1ingblade has a line on some shockingly low priced gear, let me see if i can get the link,or check my bookmarks,,what i do with a batwing is blow a fan across the tops of the ladies under the light, or blow it straight at the blub that allows you to get it good and close!, your plants will explode under the power of the 400 you may need to upp feed & water!
 
I measure my electrical consumption by amperage if that makes sense. I make a goal of attempting to keep amperage around 10 for one room I am frugal and only willing to spend roughly an additional $50-$80 extra on a power bill haha and I seem to keep it under that even , atm I am consuming roughly 7 amps and the power bills are impressively low lately I think my comp is using more than my damn lights! 'shakes fist at over clocking..... sorry I am still drunk ><
 
check flea bay saw a 26 $ cool tube! just now
 
Thanks BID... I was planning on picking one up next month. I couldn't afford that and the tent at the same time this month... I did get an 6" inline fan and some 6" venting so I can vent out some of the heat and be ready to switch to the cool tube next month. Right now I'm figuring next month will likely be cooltube, UFO for the closet, some silk screen and some form of cheap water pipe (or replacement ecig since my battery seems to be holding less of a charge these days). I know that after this flower round though, I need to shift the time schedule to run at night time. I had it running day time for now just in case of a light leak.
 
when i switched over to air cooled hoods temps dropped at least 10 degrees, but just having the exhaust will do fine,your reducing your most limiting factors by massive amounts! im effing proud of you brother! and the tent gives you a controlable micro enviroment, in the begining i was against the tent idea i cant remember why now,but i got one and my plants improved dramaticly
 
Thanks BID... I was against it mostly because I "could" build better to fit the space... the room has a few odd corners in it (I think due to the bathroom plumbing in the room next to it, as well as the electrical as the circuit box is in there as well), but I however could not buy the parts and a pvc cutter for less than the tent, so I went that way. I can't wait for it to arrive either, lol... like a kid on xmas morning :)

I'll turn the closet into a SOG/Scrog space, after redoing the front cover... I'll boost that tent's exhaust as well and drop the first UFO I get in there with a "couple" CFLs to supplement. We plan on a second 4x4 tent in Oct for the other room. I'm also rotating a few plants into sunny windows during the day. It seems to be helping, at least while all I have is CFL anyway :)
 
Welcome Alex, it's been a bumpy ride, but it's leveling out now. According to Fedex, my new tent and lights will be here tomorrow, so the girls in flower will get to finish out under HPS instead of CFL, so I'm psyched. I also have some new seeds down to germinate that DonPaul sent me to test, as well as a little more bagseed that will probably live it's life in the window, lol, and a small seed order from Herbies on the way, so things are definately accelerating :)
 
Luckily my landlady knows I grow, so I can plumb to that room's window like with a freestanding A/C unit, so I'm golden there.

My girl asked me when we went shopping today if we could make medicated cheddar bisquits for edibles tonight. I agreed, sounded good and she was just too cute to refuse when she asked. Well, I made them, same dose as extra strength cookies. They taste excellent. She decided she wanted penne pasta for dinner, since we had cheddar bisquits. Be careful with cheddar bisquits when medicated, we've both had 6 since I made them... she is totally baked, I don't expect her to be conscious much longer, lol... me, I dunno, I'll see
 
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