McToker Grows Again ~ CFL/HPS Hempy Bucket ~ Bag Seed

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yeah, pretty much. there might be a switch. i don't know much about the lumatek (besides i want one, just too far off to do serious research into, ya know?).

it will run cooler not to mention more efficient. think they say up to 30% (obviously taken with a grain of salt).


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[McToker]

I just realized that I had a major brain fart. I put in the 2700k bulbs instead of the 6500k ones. At least it hasn't been very long. When the timer switches the lights back on, in a few hours, I'll switch them out.

Doh!!!

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i just finished building a new grow box last night, and i did the same thing! lol.

another reason to get an HID!


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[McToker]

Well......... after all these months of talking about it, I finally broke down and ordered some HID lighting. I went with an air-cooled reflector and a 250 watt digital ballast so we can run both MH and HPS bulbs. For flowering we'll add some CFL's for additional lumens. I found some clamp-on gooseneck lamps on-line that should fit the bill for the CFL's. We'll just clamp them to the corner poles inside the tent.

We'll just put Frankenlight in storage as a back-up, just in case.

[killa12345]

glad you went to a hid but i will say if you run 250w in CFL the yeilds will be the same....i always get more than a g per watt when running CFL i cant say the same for when i run my HPS.....i got 3/4 a lb with 350w(14- 23w/27w) of CFLs last run and only 9 oz running my 600 hps! i still need to get my number of plants down but i think i can get over 1.5 lbs from my 600 with over 50 plants but the number of plants scares me!

[McToker]

Time will tell, killa. My two main reasons for switching are heat and electricity usage.

With the HPS + 4 CFL's I'll get a few more lumens than I'm running now while burning over 100 watts less of electricity.

I'm also hoping that pulling cool air through the enclosed reflector will greatly reduce the temperature at the canopy height.

[McToker]

It's been several days since the last sprout appeared. I'm thinking that all that will sprout already have.

Final count appears to be:

Blue Apollo = 5 out of 7
AK-47 = 4 out of 7

Now, we veg and wait to see how many females we end up with. The tent will only handle 2 to a max of 4 flowering females.

I'm thinking that we'll move males and any extra females outdoors and let them pollinate and go to seed.

Would a cross between AK-47 and Blue Apollo be "Space Invaders"?

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space invaders sounds awesome!


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[tokr2153]

thats some very sexy bud man

[McToker]

Here's a progress shot from this morning's feeding.