HPS LIGHT FOR VEGGING????

[smokinbuds21]

i just went out and bought a 50 watt hps light and fixture im gonna get another but my question is can i use a hps light for vegging and flowering i konw i can use for flowering just not vegging

i also wanted to know if you can use a mercury vapor bulb/fixture for vegging

please if i can would love two add it to the grow area!!!!

smokinbuds21 Reviewed by smokinbuds21 on 08-15-2007. HPS LIGHT FOR VEGGING???? i just went out and bought a 50 watt hps light and fixture im gonna get another but my question is can i use a hps light for vegging and flowering i konw i can use for flowering just not vegging i also wanted to know if you can use a mercury vapor bulb/fixture for vegging please if i can would love two add it to the grow area!!!! Rating: 5

[SpaceNeedle]

yea that will work

[smokinbuds21]

hold on so are you saying that yes i can use hps for vegging or a mercury vapor for vegging witch one? or both?

confused!

[jamstigator]

I'd get rid of the MV light - doesn't do much for the plants, generates much heat. You *can* veg with HPS lights, but your plants may be kinda straggly. What I'd do is get some cool CFLs and use those for vegging, or use those *and* the HPS for vegging then swap the cools for warms when flowering.

[stinkyattic]

Lose the Mercury Vapor. It's all wrong for cannabis.
Cool white tube flouros or CFLs will give you the blue light that cannabis wants during veg.
HPS isn't the most efficient use of electricity until you get to flower, when the plant wants that nice red light.

[psteve]

I once had to use HPS for the last three weeks of a veg cycle. They were already doing well, but it didn't seem to hurt anything.

[twoguysupnorth]

same here, ive done it but they did seem streatched out and sorta bare at the bottom. it was my first time indoor so i have nothing to compare it too. 150hps all the way through, except for some florescents to start with.

[HippyInIreland]

I used 2 use a hps for vegging and flowering for ages, a few grows any way .It Did the job perfect but was costing me more than i needed to you could just buy a mh buld and switch it with the hps its still going to cost the same thou .

I got two of these 100w energy saving cfls from ebay cost me under 10 pounds each they are perfect and saves me loads and they are great for vegging i luv em:jointsmile:

[smokinbuds21]

im only using 50 watt hps light and a 2 100 watt fluro's at the same time im not using a mv bulb at all never bought one bought the hps

so im just gonna use cool white cfl's and 50 watt hps for vegging for about 3 weeks and then going to switch over to warm kalvin cfl's and still use 50 watt hps for flowering only been in there for one day and already seeing good growth on the clones got the seedlings sitting under fluro's only 2 100 watt's and as they get bigger will move them to the hps and fluro's as well!!

so what do you think this should work pritty good im using less fluro's butt that one bulb is almost 4000 lumens and im sittin at 78 deg and fan is on medium as they get bigger i will turn on more fluro's and fan higher

[smokinbuds21]

the only reason why i wanted to add this is i seen a video tape on how to grow they were growing k2 and using 600 watt hps 3 of them and for vegging and flowering and came out to be real good chronick!!!

but always love suggestions and tips