Newnugz
New Member
So basically I have a good space and good load of various equipment. I need some opinions on how to make best use of my space and light.
So I found an ad on kijiji for 2 1000hps ballasts, 4 bulbs, 4 parabolic reflectors, a huge squirrel fan, a bunch of moguls etc and I talked him down to a really good price under a couple hundred. I own what I call my wall of CFL with 2 t5 fixtures and a 125 CFL mounted on a board I use a roof I can lower. I have this in a 3X2 cab I painted with elastomeric reflective.
I also own a 3x3x7 pro grow tent. I cut one parabolic down evenly around to fit the tent and with the squirrel mounted on top I have been able to maintain Temps below 29 in tent using a 1000w hps. Although my young plants (2-3 weeks) were exposed to the hps (I'm new and eager) they produced extremely small yellowing new growth and had claw. Man the new growth was all small and skinny it looked pitiful although the plants themselves seem to be trucking along and are 3 times the size of my buddies who split the pack of seeds with me (he using 400 mh). I have two strains 1 Sativa and 1 indica and both reacted this way to light. I put both back under my wall of cfl and they greener again but the new leaves never thickened yet.
Now the other thing is all of this stuff is in an insulated room in the back of my garage and I could theoretically light up the whole room or cut huge chunk of it with panda poly. I bought the tent so I'd like to use it somehow but it seems the 1000hps is way to intense for that small of a space. Or maybe the tent is poisoning the plants but this seems less likely. I know hps isn't ideal for veg but I dont have a conversion bulb yet and I have seen posts and grow journals where people do the whole thing with hps. Is it just the wrong spectrum causing this reaction or is it likely nothing to do with the light? I had them like 3 feet away and the light meter read 125k lux so I was scared to go closer.
So I found an ad on kijiji for 2 1000hps ballasts, 4 bulbs, 4 parabolic reflectors, a huge squirrel fan, a bunch of moguls etc and I talked him down to a really good price under a couple hundred. I own what I call my wall of CFL with 2 t5 fixtures and a 125 CFL mounted on a board I use a roof I can lower. I have this in a 3X2 cab I painted with elastomeric reflective.
I also own a 3x3x7 pro grow tent. I cut one parabolic down evenly around to fit the tent and with the squirrel mounted on top I have been able to maintain Temps below 29 in tent using a 1000w hps. Although my young plants (2-3 weeks) were exposed to the hps (I'm new and eager) they produced extremely small yellowing new growth and had claw. Man the new growth was all small and skinny it looked pitiful although the plants themselves seem to be trucking along and are 3 times the size of my buddies who split the pack of seeds with me (he using 400 mh). I have two strains 1 Sativa and 1 indica and both reacted this way to light. I put both back under my wall of cfl and they greener again but the new leaves never thickened yet.
Now the other thing is all of this stuff is in an insulated room in the back of my garage and I could theoretically light up the whole room or cut huge chunk of it with panda poly. I bought the tent so I'd like to use it somehow but it seems the 1000hps is way to intense for that small of a space. Or maybe the tent is poisoning the plants but this seems less likely. I know hps isn't ideal for veg but I dont have a conversion bulb yet and I have seen posts and grow journals where people do the whole thing with hps. Is it just the wrong spectrum causing this reaction or is it likely nothing to do with the light? I had them like 3 feet away and the light meter read 125k lux so I was scared to go closer.
