how many plants can i grow with a 400w hps?

[icon77]

how many plants can i grow with a 400w hps? and keep them healthy with room to grow and yield a decent amount? is a 1000w hps really worth it for a 6by 3 closet grow?

icon77 Reviewed by icon77 on 09-16-2010. how many plants can i grow with a 400w hps? how many plants can i grow with a 400w hps? and keep them healthy with room to grow and yield a decent amount? is a 1000w hps really worth it for a 6by 3 closet grow? Rating: 5

[icon77]

how tall should you veg your plants for a good yield? im a month into my first grow with some florescents there about 3 feet and next time around i want to do it right

[sleeperls93]

If they are about 3 feet tall, I would start to flower them... They will stretch during budding...

[whenwethc]

if you have the space you can grow up to 12 plants with a 400 hps my current grow consists of 12 3 feet tall various strain plants under 400 wt hps flowering now yes they will grow around twice there size but i have the room for them

i think this helps

[icon77]

thanks man, ya i was thinking around 6 so hopefully this all works out. thanks alot

[widder]

Mostly it depends on what shape yo've pruned your plants into. In my 4x4 closet I have grown 4 bushy plants that were topped several times or 12 of the same strain un touched. Don,t wait too long to begin flowering....a3 foot plant in a 12 inch tall pot can wind up too close to your light if you're not careful. This happened to me once and I have an 8ft. ceiling...

[widder]

....and a 400W HPS works fine in my space, and should be plenty for you if you use about a 3x5 as the primary lighting area.Which would leave you a small storage space, something I wish I had!...I have vertical flouros in each corner,which helps a little

[drudown11]

how many plants can i grow with a 400w hps? and keep them healthy with room to grow and yield a decent amount? is a 1000w hps really worth it for a 6by 3 closet grow?

way too much heat for the 1000 watt light. Your plants will fry.


If you dont take ventilation precautions, that 400 watt light is going to add tons of heat too.

[blucheese]

how about a 200 watt bulb?

[ZeroWingX]

how many plants can i grow with a 400w hps? and keep them healthy with room to grow and yield a decent amount? is a 1000w hps really worth it for a 6by 3 closet grow?

I personally Grew at one time around 36 Plants under one light while I was saving money for an upgrade lol.This was about a week ago actually.They are all doing very well and though not budding quite yet are thicker than a Sharpy and dont show sign's of stopping. If you do rotate the plants Manually, swap the placement to that short plants have better lighting to catch the bigger ones, keep temps down as a 400 HPS bulb will shine pretty hot man. I had to run AC to keep the room a constant 78-84 F. I also cracked about 15 Seedlings in a high humidity tank under the same light with the other 36, they are now all very healthy and around 10 inch's tall alrdy.
1k will run VERY hot so be warned ull need a fan and make sure the lights 2 feet away from the plants to prevent heat exhaustion... Trust me I lost a Purple Kush and 2 Master Bubba's to that...