Quote Originally Posted by low_rdr
Looking great bro, you got that yellowing under control?
thanks low_ryder and esteban, the yellowing is pretty much squared away on the front two little residual left on early leaves, the back 2 just dont seem to want give it up. they are growing but not like they should i cant seem to change it for them. im just gonna see what happens. the new one in the middle had a minor issue as a seedling but has really come along nice. as long as i keep the water/nutes ph going in around the high 9's the runoffs are fine. if i get lazy and dont monitor it they will drop like a stone.
all things considered i think i will be able to call this a success at the end.

esteban i got lucky with both my blackdogs. they took off 200 beans each because they were backordered when i put my order in and the website didnt show them as unavailable. the 360 was like $600 and change and i forget what i paid for the 700. im sure there will be knock offs out there. ive seen a few with same exact housing so the light wont be far off. still i think right now anyway if you find a cheaper one theres gonna be reason for it. i looked at it this way if i spend $4800+ a year in herb getting a grow set up will ultimately be cheaper so putting the money in to the lights, while painful, was money well spent. even with all my dicking around and adding a rdwc set up is still well below the $4800 limit set myself. blackdogs are awesome lights but there plenty of others around just ask weezard and some others.