Oh you bet! :hippy:Quote:
Originally Posted by Puffzter
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Oh you bet! :hippy:Quote:
Originally Posted by Puffzter
looken very very nice.
I sure wish I could afford an hps light.
I didn't pay much for mine, agreed all I needed was 150 watts...scope out ebay, you might luck out too!Quote:
Originally Posted by hydrocannabis
Watered the girls, no plant food today as I want to gradually flush the soil (good idea? Bad idea? Too early?). I might be on the lookout for a quieter exhaust fan though, that rumble is getting annoying!
A HPS is not a cost it is an investment that pays for itself first grow you use it.
I mean if you get just 1 ounce extra both the cost of the light and the extra electricity is for free. And 1 ounce any grower would get extra changing from cfl to HPS.
Even if you will not sell any it is still money you don't have to spend.
Another gain is that the grow is faster with HPS. You save a week or two in veg and probably about the same in bloom.
CFL is great for ops where temperature can be hard to control, they won't save you any money though.
Dude, if that's the case I should be ready to harvest either this weekend or next weekend: flowering time is 6 to 9 weeks, I'm well past 6 weeks going on 7... if the HPS really cuts a week or two from flowering I should be done soon!Quote:
Originally Posted by Puffzter
Bumped up the exhaust fan to a 90 CFM and dropped the noise level by 3 sones, the grow cab is now very quiet! Now it's the waiting game, making sure the buds are nice and ripe! :hippy:
If it says 6-9 weeks it's probably 8-10 ;)
And they count from actual start of bloom, not switch to 12/12.
They wanna sell those seeds and there is a lot of competition.
Watch the movies from Green House, one of the most serious seed banks out there. In their grow videos they always say now you can harvest for commersial reasons and that's what we print about the strain but we go 2-3 weeks extra for quality.
Anyway, if you wanna harvest at ambre I am sure you will cut 3 weeks minimum seed to harvest with the HPS. I did some tests for veg and those plants took almost 3 weeks more to 40cm. Cloned from the ones that made it faster. Both in coco and same nutes, only difference was I used my Bloom HPS the fast time and my Veg! CFL the slow time.
Hell the HPS pays for itself even before you switch to 12/12 hehe.
Anyway in comparison there is no way you save money by using CFL over HPS. There can be inviromental reasons CFLs are better used but those two compared it's cheaper to use HPS.
Ah, and sweet grow m8. :)
Ate 4 biiig White Widow muffins about an hour ago and it just kicked in hard here. Noticed I wrote quite a post in your log hehe. Shit happens.
:stoned::stoned:
And today's gallery! ;) I snapped as many bud closeups as I could! :hippy:
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And the last ones!