Feral's Journal Of Insanity & Some Growing

FeralA9X said:
Yep, two of them suckers in my flower tent already :rofl: :rofl: Less heat than a HPS but not less than an aircooled HPS, cant run these in a sealed hood or you lose the UV which is the whole reason they work so well :thumb: the closest color spectrum to the sun, this is my first run with them so its all a test right now :)
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I just ordered one right now and I'm only going to have one what do you think of the footprint of it I'm thinking of us 3 by 3 by 7 foot 10 for it

my new dwc Afghan Kush run and flowering mothers
 
So feral i am looking at a lec cmh its a no brand Chinese knock off. Its only 250.00 and comes with 3700k bulb. Should i go with no name or stick with nanolux or sunsystem?
 
Phillips definitely does but its phillips money to so I was just wondering how much difference there was. The draw is 120/240 volt and its a lec cmh 315 with ballest for 250.00 thats a great price
 
Tbh i wouldnt know what the cheap ballasts are like but i was highly recommended making sure the bulb was a phillips 930, im pretty sure their color is around 3000k and guaranteed to last minimum 2 years with only 10% loss in strength. I am running Hi-Par ballasts, came in a kit with a hood and phillips bulb for about $700au, the bulb itself is about $200 but as i said you buy less of them so end up saving in the long run as well as saving on power costs. I went with a good brand because if i have any problems i know i can send them off to be fixed, cheap ones do not have any support, something goes wrong and you are up for a whole new unit, go buy another cheap one and you have just spent more than you would have on a good brand to begin with ;)
 
FeralA9X said:
Tbh i wouldnt know what the cheap ballasts are like but i was highly recommended making sure the bulb was a phillips 930, im pretty sure their color is around 3000k and guaranteed to last minimum 2 years with only 10% loss in strength. I am running Hi-Par ballasts, came in a kit with a hood and phillips bulb for about $700au, the bulb itself is about $200 but as i said you buy less of them so end up saving in the long run as well as saving on power costs. I went with a good brand because if i have any problems i know i can send them off to be fixed, cheap ones do not have any support, something goes wrong and you are up for a whole new unit, go buy another cheap one and you have just spent more than you would have on a good brand to begin with ;)
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My thoughts also my hps is sunsystem and ballest is nanolux so i am gonna go with one of those companies
 
i usually send it back when I don't get what I payed for :rofl::rofl: unless what they sent is better :rofl::rofl:
 
Im just over buying things 5 times to finally get the right thing :rofl: gets quite costly :rofl: these days im thinking i might as well spend the few extra dollars now and get the right thing the first time :thumb: I look at some of those cheap ballasts and think, they are not even willing to write their own brand name on there, is there something wrong with it? :rofl:
 
Spookies said:
Not bad not bad
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I think i should have started with a cage on my sour d mate :rofl: bit late now hehe :thumb:

Dogwash said:
You get what you pay for eh - I've got the Philips sunlight system and it rocks
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I would have loved to have got two of the phillips lights, that was another step up again at about $1000 each, Nanolux was a little cheaper than mine but i dont like the hood and ballast in one setup, the hood doesnt really look much chop either. Settled for the Hi-Par because they built their ballast specifically for the phillips bulb and their reflectors are much better :thumb:
 
Feral's Journal Of Insanity & Some Growing

Perfect time mate never too late. Helps open up plant for airflow and gets more light to it. Give it a shot if you have the time and extra cash. I can recommend a brand but should be straight forward. My last cage went on today snapped a branch and been flowering for a week or two. Cage is cheap should only cost $13 or so for a roll big enough to make a few the size you want.

Now I'm not sure I'm not confusing your plants up. Thought the C99 was the plant you were talking about and I think that is too far down road.
 
Im definitely thinking about it for my next outdoor grow, right now i dont really have the space indoors to let it get to its full potential with the other 2 girls in the same tent :thumb: maybe a single plant run down the track :) have spent the past 2 hours readjusting all the plant yoyos making space for 24k gold, she has gotten even bigger overnight and is shadowing all of the other plants :rofl:
 
Feral's Journal Of Insanity & Some Growing

Yeah sorry about that I was totally confused. I had another plant in mind it was outdoors and it might have even been one of our mates not yours. Trying it indoors would be neat that's quite a compliment suggesting that! I've been defending the technique all over the place.

How labour intensive is it all. More addictive than smoking.
 
All good mate :) yeah i reckon it would work quite well attached to the dwc, probably wouldnt have the space to run multiple cages but would be a great way to evenly space out the limbs so they get better light penetration, 2 lights angled down towards it should be sufficient lighting the whole way round, almost like a 360 vertical scrog :thumb:

I spend most of my hours with my plants and although it takes it out of me i wouldnt trade it for anything in this world, got it in one mate, way more addictive than smoking :)
 
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