very nice indeed m8 looking very good
cheers all :)
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very nice indeed m8 looking very good
cheers all :)
Hey, thanks Grim and Buster...
So I hit Home Depot before they closed and grabbed a 70w MH and a 70w HPS. I only had time to rip apart one old lamp for it's cord so far, but I got the HPS wired. I plugged it in outside my grow room to test the temp and was surprised to find that the housing remains COOL. The glass front that covers the bulb only gets moderately hot right at the bulb. I switched all my fans up one notch, so I shouldn't see a temp spike.
The box claims the HPS is the same brightness as 375w incandescent and the bulb is rated to last 24,000 hrs.
These are security lights, with photocells, so I'll have to cover the sensor with a piece of foil, I suppose.
I got it in just as the timer went OFF. This is flower day 30. Okay now for the MH....
BTW, the MH runs $118 and the HPS is $70.
Shit dude you did the right thing.
Not much heat at all and just enuff light to power those lower fans to keep pumping the juice up to those tomato flowers.
You should find they produce far more light than your CFL's were and your tomatos will thank you for it.
I notice your pics have the plants in the exact same position as previous pics so I am assuming you don't rotate them around. Personally I would, but I am not sure it results in much.
At the very least, just make sure you frequently at least rotate the individual pot containers...just turn em 180 degrees every day.
It WILL help you get a 'harder, more dense' tomato bud in the end!:dance:
It really will!
Man you doing real really good. Those will result in some awesum tomatos.
Ski! - Keep providing the excellent log following your advice with the help of harddon!
Harddon! - Keep providing excellent information for the log!
I've gotten quite a few tips from this log that I haven't in others.
For this, I love you both.
Thanks, HD! I'm limited in movement because these girls shot up vertically. I would like to do the bowl effect, with the shortest in the middle, but I can only do 1/4 turns of the pots. Maybe I should work on that tomorrow and come up with something...
Awesome tip on the 70 watters...I appreciate the find. Can't believe I was growing without them. Temps are not an issue after adding them to the light cycle all day.
And I sure look forward to getting tips from you, Grim...tough subject you had there, too; he apparently found the only remaining female on Earth that doesn't like to be e*ten.
How did I miss this thread... DOH.
Anyhow just read it all. GREAT info here. And very nice looking ladies.
Hope mine turn out as nice as that.
--Tuning in to another great thread---
Thanks, bob...
So as to not be a lazy ass, I went ahead and screwed around with my height problem tonight, which was keeping me from switching the pots around. I had been tying the stems to hooks on the walls. I looped short pieces of white pipe cleaner around the stems, then leaned them over. I just needed to get back a few inches, but they were critical inches under the 400w HPS.
But, tethering them to the wall made it impossible to move the pots, other than little turns.
Sooooo, instead of anchoring to the wall, they are now anchored to rocks on the floor. So even if I'm not moving the pots around daily, I can easily rotate 180 degrees.
Man, it is so important to veg for the right amount of time, considering how much they grow in the first weeks of flower. These girls were vegged a week less than my last grow, but were treated so much better early on, and were a foot taller.
This was just as the timer went off on Flower Day 31:
hey nine, just stopped in to see your progress. :thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by HARDDON
sort of a bump/question.....has this mix been substantiated....I favoritized it and i just came across it today....also the 14hr flower? I realize that throughout the thread Hardon is being recognized an experienced grower, i'm just wondering about the 14 and the homemade bloom mix.....i want to try both but i dont want to fuck my shit up.