Quote Originally Posted by dsm711
It's my first foray into the realm of a 1000 w hps.
heehee... your fun is just beginning. Natch, I'm also a fan of the big HPS bottles. You're gonna have so much bud you won't know what to do with it all (but I bet you get some ideas. ). You're really going to like the density you get, not just in the tops but all the way down the plant.

Everybody learns from their ops, even folks like me who have been at it for decades. I shoot myself in the foot occasionally by leaving a timer in the wrong mode or something equally stooopid. I'm making some noob mistakes at the moment because I've recently had to rebuild my op in a new location and the ambient conditions are different enough that I'm running into probs I don't usually have.

Once you get settled in to how your op runs based on your own conditions, you'll work out ways to either make it produce more, produce harvests more often or make it easier to operate. These forums are terrific for sharing little tips & tricks.