a light question

[ProGroWannabe]

First-off, your welcome on the tech.
Secondly, you have several options as far as where to get good carbon. Do you have ANY stores nearby that sell aquarium supplies? They use a good grade of carbon in some aquarium filters, and that makes it available from aquarium supply places. Even local pet shops have it most of the time. If nothing else seems available you can get it online, or just go back to the crushed charcoal--it WILL work, just a bit less efficient.

Third, are you asking for ideas for your veg. setup? ANd then planning to transplant into your flowering chamber?
If so, how long are you planning to veg for? The reason I ask is because if you do DWC, then you can easily just move the entire bucket into the flowering chamber and not have to transplant at all, assuming your not planning to veg for more than 30 days or so.

Opie....don't you have some DWC experience? What are your thoughts on this one?

ProGroWannabe Reviewed by ProGroWannabe on 11-07-2007. a light question :smokin: ok so i just want some feed back on these enviro lites. im thinkin of gettin 2 of the 200w as im really intregued by them after doin some readin. I know they're cfls and most will say stick with mh/hps but apparently they have a higher lumen/watt output than other lites and the light it gives off is 100% par which is grat for plants, right?? and as they are cool running they can be placed right on top of the plants so the lumens arent lost over distance. so guess im just lookin Rating: 5

[psychocat]

Hey, Psycho... How much have you been yielding with that setup? I love using 125 watt cfls from Farmtek. Yet, that looks like an interesting seutp.

I was harvesting around 12 - 15 ounces every two months because I had a split veg/flower set up and added 5 plants every 8 weeks. I had my mother plant in permanent 16/8 and cloned on a regular basis. This meant that with the constant rotation I was always using maximum space. I found with the Northern Lights that 8 weeks grow followed by 8 weeks flower on cloned plants I was getting the best out of my set up.

I recently had a few problems with the law and have since sold all my equipment .

[Opie Yutts]

psychocat is correct about having separate veg and bud chambers. Of course you get to harvest twice as often this way. Search sog and scrog if interested.

And ProGrow is correct in that I do have DWC experience. I recommend starting like I did, with an Emily's Garden set-up. Run that through a search engine to learn more, but it doesn't take up much room vertically, it's extremely simple, and it produces fantastic results. It didn't take long before I built a couple of them, since they are so simple, which anyone can do with limited craftsmanship skills. The net pots are a little taller than normal, but they sit directly on the bottom of the reservoir. I recommend altering it, by substituting a bigger air pump and by adding 4-6 small air stones. The bad part about this is doing that will take up a little more room, since you have to find a place for your new bigger pump. The small pump that comes with it tucks neatly under and inside the reservoir. You will still get great results without alteration. I also put some extra holes in the pots near the bottom, since I didn't quite think there were enough.

[sweetgreenbuds]

so as i've had such a delay on my plans (i wont even get into it) i've designed a new vented lamp shade with built in scrubber. not in a position 2 post pics at the moment but i will soon:thumbsup:
the two ends will be flat sheet aluminium at 90 deg to the base shaped like topped triangle and the sides are just rectangles to fit the sloped sides of the ends (hope ur followin this:stoned
on one of the the ends cut a 4" diameter semi-circle from the center of the top. then on the other end fix a 4" circle of mfd/ply wood half on half off on the top

for the top take some 4" plastic pipe and sit it into the semi circle and over the piece of wood leaving a few inches over the end.
now attach some aluminium to fill in the sides.
on the piece of pipe exposed inside the lamp shade drill as many holes as possible. god i know there'll be questions lol. now take some 6" pipe the same length as the 4" and cut it in half along its length and aslo pepper this with as many holes as possible.
fix this length inside the shade over the 4" and fill the space between with carbon.

now simply fix a bulb holder inside and hey presto a vented lamp shade with carbon scrubber thingy......i hope:jointsmile:

know your gonna love this pro grow:bigsmoke: