Milky Way week 5

[Whistlingypsy]

Hi from the UK. This is week 5 of flower in soil under HPS 600. Using FoxFarm nutes, only half their suggested dose. Getting sticky and fat. Question is though. Do I go LED?

 

[Enr0n]

Greetings nice looking plants I really don't understand the question, must be because your wrote it in English and I am reading it in Merican but cannot connect the thoughts. Must be me meds
More will chime in to help out and say hello

 

[Whistlingypsy]

Greetings nice looking plants I really don't understand the question, must be because your wrote it in English and I am reading it in Merican but cannot connect the thoughts. Must be me meds
More will chime in to help out and say hello

Do I ditch HPS and go to LED. If so... what would suggest. I’ve seen quite a few so far. It’s only for a cupboard space 1M x 1M

 

[Enr0n]

Ok gotcha now there are many lights to choose from. We have Sponsors that can help
Look for the flowering footprint and light spectrum coverage.

 

[VetSmoke85]

Nice garden. Fellow UK grower here. I've only grown with LED and love them. Here we are a little more limited on choices for quality options but they're out there. Mars do some great lights and there are a few others but not sponsors. Invisible Sun have some nice looking lights. I ended up building my own for my flower tent.

 

[1ne eye]

Looks like there doing ok under hps unless your having a heat problem.

 

[Whistlingypsy]

Cool tube

 

[Whistlingypsy]

And thanks

 

[startergrow]

LEDs are great (I use two older Mars II 700s) they keep the heat down, and I have good results. Recently though I ran a grow with HPS and the results were really incredible.

If you have the HPS lights and heat isn't an issue, I'd stick with it.

 

[Whistlingypsy]

It’s more the cost of running it

 

[SoGnotSOG321]

Yes. HPS is ok for the bare minimum adding a CMH would get better results, fatter thicker flowers. So do you invest in the flowering CMH or spend a few hundred on a good full spectrum LED that's adjustable and doesn't carry the same heat or watts ? My plants have been taking about 70% of my Mars Hydro 2000s (square one that's 300 watts at the wall full 100%) any higher and the leaves fade and I'm stuck under 78 inches ceiling and you have less than that. I bet it would fit nice in your space if you could mount it flushed with the top.

 

[StoneOtter]

Welcome Whistlingypsy, HPS is good light, LED is cool good light at 1/2 price on energy I'd guess. How do you think a winter grow would go if the heat was cut by 1/2? Also do you have to use ac in summer rather than want to?

 

[Whistlingypsy]

LEDs are great (I use two older Mars II 700s) they keep the heat down, and I have good results. Recently though I ran a grow with HPS and the results were really incredible.

If you have the HPS lights and heat isn't an issue, I'd stick with it.

I’ve worked the cost out and it’s on £29 a month @12 hours a day. CFL 300w even less, also running in the background. I think I’ll stay where I am for now