Thanks Tomula. I feel good now
I'm beginning to settle down into the HB routine. Watering/fertilizing them as individuals during veg and treating them mostly as a group during flower and Brix spraying has simplified things for me - with good record keeping, I can keep myself on track.
The vaping thing is still up in the air. I don't seem to get high or body buzz, just the perma-grin. But it is still a bit unclear for me, because the sativas are not hitting me hard. A bowl of Indica can last me 4 days and I feel high as --- brownies. I smoked a bowl of Sour Diesel yesterday and the day before - I felt good, had ton's of energy and enjoyed myself, but didn't feel at all high. Another lightweight friend of mine took me to the hardware store in her pickup truck, so I bought her some hardware store goodies and smoked her up for a thanks. She hung around for 2 hours until she felt like she could handle the 5 block drive home. - Same stuff and I'm out there with the chain saw and power tools and not a worry in the world, working for hours. I could do laps on a race track on either of the recent Hi-Brix Sativa harvests.
In a previous grow, (grown with small harvests in poor organic soil,) AK47 XTRM knocked me back hard, but her HiBrix sister doesn't phase me - she just supports me and takes me to a happy place, a place where I spend a lot of time anyway. The sativas seems to mix well with alcohol, doubling the euphoria of alcohol without no obvious after effects. So with that going on when smoking, I don't have a solid baseline to explore the effects of vaping
By cooling, are you meaning large heat sinks? I've been running a 6" canfan with adequate CFM through the HPS hoods to cool the room. Are the COBs fine with heat sinks and room cooling?
As I think I've said before, I haven't felt seriously tempted to replace my lights until recently. At this point, I'm tempted to contact the lighting guy who sponsored SweetSue and talk about a 'kit' solution. Do the Vero and Citizen normally come pre-wired with driver compatible plugs, and a mounted lens? As you can tell, my thoughts are all over the map on this. So far, everytme I start googling for answers, family life intervenes.