Quote Originally Posted by Thehulkster321
as far as wiring everything I'm all set with that ... my brother is an electrician and has experience with setting up indoor grow rooms.

as far as 100w lights over 600w lights,
its a sog setup so penitration is not an issue considering the plants will be kept very short with one main cola. The advantage of a 600w light is a dual mh/hps ballast setup. I can flip from mh to hps in seconds and there cheaper to run.
These are all pretty good justifications for doing things the way you are doing them. However, you seem to be putting way too much emphasis on vegging, or maybe just the wrong emphasis? :wtf:

For the kind of SOG grow that you are talking about, you are going to be starting with very small plants. There is really no need to ever veg them under the big lights. You can fine tune your operation so that the clones you produce are ready to flower as soon as you put them in your hydro unit. You really only need a few cfl's to accomplish this first part of the process. (Clone in Rapid Rooters. Put only four clones in each six-clone egg-crate thingy. Put six egg-crates in each dome - in other words, give them plenty of breathing room/space. It'll take about 6-7 days for the clones to have roots. When they all have roots, take the domes off, put the trays under more flouros for 3-4 days and you are ready to flower. And you'll be starting out with plants with a bodacious root structure.)

Anyway, you might want to re-think how much space and what kind of equipment you want to devote to the cloning/vegging part of the operation.

Regardless of if you actually ever use your lights with MHs, the digital ballasts are more efficient and are a good investment. One real nice thing about the 600w's is that they sell real quickly on ebay when you realize that you actually should have 1000's.

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