Quote Originally Posted by invision
but is the added heat really needed this time a year from a bulb that doesnt do shit but make things hot?

cmon man you should know better than that and that 250watt light can and will produce over a 1/4 pound of herb so dont lose hope and get mad over mistakes made from being new at it, my 1st plant wasnt all that great but hey it was mine and i grew it out to what it was.

if you dont already have one get a glass cool tube for you if keeping the light close to the plants is a problem, its a 70.00 investment that wull save you from killing your neibors from being frustrated.

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Well the more I study my grow, (and yet I'm still reading as I go on for more and more knowledge) the more I am experience and realize different things I never thought that mattered. And rather you realize it or not I have an open space so I am losing a lot of light that could have been directed towards my plants with that 250 watt. The only way I could efficiently use that as in utilizing all the light I have would be to build a cabinet. I don't have an air cooled hood or anything to exhaust the heat from the light so I have to keep them at 15'' which is limiting it's penetration. Trust me I'm the one monitoring my grow and I see the suffering that bottom growth is going through due to lack of light. When I added the new bulb those bottom bud sites just lit up, now that I rotate my plants everyday the bottom growth is developing faster. And no heat is not an issue because I have a fan in there, and I learned how to control the dehumidifier. Now the temp doesn't even rise above 83 degrees. I'm not trying to sound arrogant but me being new has nothing to do with this. Everything I've studied hard for has just lights up like a bulb in my head when I actually encountered it, it's just how I thought it would be and I think I know what I'm doing.

Unless you've actually tried an incandescent then I can understand how you would think, because of what everyone else says, that they are rendered useless..not true. In fact I'll start to show the bottom growth to show how it's picking up. And the only way for ME to yield 1/4 lb of herb with a 250 watt would be for me to get an even canopy and or ScroG WHICH I didn't do and do not have have, it's like a tree with lower bud sites, trust me I know how to work my grow and you'll see in the end that everything that I'm doing is going to pay off. I know exactly what I could and can do but this thing is probably only going to go on for a maximum of 3 more weeks so I'm working with what I have. Next time will be better because I know a few things that I'm going to upgrade and change. I got this. :thumbsup: