TheRoach
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Nice flowering. I love how the AI looks!
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Looking great there Scarfinger. Those buds are filling out nicely
Nice flowering. I love how the AI looks!
That space is perfect for a P600.... looks good. nice canopy...
Hey Scarfinger sounds like a great idea getting a 400w if you're losing spectrum. I'd never realised that was the case when running at partial power. One thing I just noticed though is that your ballast is close to the plants too, is there anywhere that you could move it so that it's outside the room, or even maybe make a tiny air cooled partition for it? I say this because I made the mistake of leaving my ballast in my tent when I first set up, gave my friend a great laugh when I was complaining about the 40 degrees celsius temps when he came to help me out. I'm not sure how yours is but mine used to get really hot so if not outside the room then at least some form of wind tunnel will help
I hope this experiment works well for you ScarI did order a 400w bulb. at 75% the 600w looses some spectrum so I want to try running a 400w. I believe a 400w bulb will be enough light and better temps. The Quantum ballast at 75% is suppose to push 410w and I have read that people are using 400w bulbs with no problem. I will find out in a couple of days.
Later.
I hope this experiment works well for you Scar
I was wondering how your grow space is closed up.
I remember you saying opening a door and smelling your plants, I guess how much air is your fan moving added to what we cant see in the photos may be a better question?
Im thinking of how my flower space can be cooler a couple degrees closed then open to the closet. My space is about 30" x 47" x 60" tall inside a closet about 47" x 8' x 8'tall. I am lucky for central air and having a vent in the closet but I have to have that closet door open to the bathroom its from and keep the bathroom door open with lights on at night for my best temps low 80's now
Those fans can move alot of air and the smaller the space is better I think for heat and smells but we can only break even at the air temp coming in.
Anyways your plants are looking great not showing any heat stress to me.I tried matching flower times to your CFL AI '13 grow with 27 and this last 29 days flower shots.They are so far ahead and much bigger
now.
There was a huge swell up in buds you had then in the second half of flower
I feel it coming again and hitting your goals and recovering your upgrade investments easy
Subbed and looking good! I just realized that you already had an HPS. I replied to your LED vs HPS thread as I thought u were trying to upgrade to one or the other. Oh well! Im sure you can see the results you are getting from your HPS. Keep up the great work!
Edit to add.. I still have to read over your journal but i noticed you said you had temp issues so you took your 600 out? How is your setup? You should be venting into another room or outside and pulling fresh cool air into your room. My little 2x4 closets only raise the temps 5 degrees in this 110 degree weather! Is this the reason you are thinking of going to LED?
Wow nice setup! Im kinda confused how you are having temp issues! You do have a cool tube right? You see my small rooms and my temp rise is only around 5-8 degrees. Are you getting temp readings from directly under the light or off to the side? I always test off to the side as directly under the lights it could raise a little more. I like to get readings from the actual room temp. I have a fan blowing over my colas and other than small heat stress on my leaves from the 600 watt being 12 inches from the colas thats the only issues i have.
If heat is the only reason for you to switch I would do a little more research. Especially if you are going to put a big wattage LED in your room. They raise the temps more than a HPS cooltube IMO. Theres a few well known LED growers here that have to keep there tent open during lights on because the temps are so high...
Good luck and keep us posted!
Hey Scar, those ladies look awesome after defoliation. I hope you get fat nuggets from those! If it works as promised I will be doing it in my grows from now on. You have teached me a lot with your grows!
Reps+ for your good job (haha I can at last give a decent amount of reps!!!)