GARDEN PICTURES 2 - 1000HPS and 1000 MH

[MegaOctane12]

Ok nice setup. Just a few words of critisicm about the efficiency of your grow OP. You have cool tubes right there, which also have reflectors to reflect light back down. This isn't particularily effective as light setups go, your losing a substantial amount of light having it go through glass. Light (most) all bulbs, only half the bulb sees the plants canopy, so I can see your logic in reflecting the top of the bulb back down. In a senario like this, light is passing through the glass at the top but its being reflected back down, back through the glass, so your effectively heating your bulb up, which is definatelly not a good idea. Expectedly, you have increased the lumens hitting the plants somewhat. But I'm suprised you don't have serious hot spots, even with the closed vent ventilation. If you are so adament on using cool tubes, at least get one's with the reflector inside the tube, you wouldn't have to scrape what you have, just coat the top half of the tube, on the inside, with reflective material. And scrap the reflectors altogether.

[BlueBear]

It is not GK's grow, sorry to say, but we all make mistakes.
Adieu

[Garden Knowm]

HI MEGA..

VERY GOOD EYE.. : )
The effciency of the cool tubes mixed with the light mover is truly amazing.. These 1000 watt bulbs are are usually 4 inches from the foliage..

If this grower had just 2 more 1000s, this garden would be producingno less than 8lbs.. pretty darn good for a simple ghetto grow..

What I would like to hear you explain a bit further is your idea about HOT SPOTS.. because there were 2 very very minor.. (actually not even worthy mentioning) burns that I noticed ... I could not figure out how just 2 leaves in the entire garden of 150 plants ... were burned.... I appreciate your insite..

cheers

[Garden Knowm]

It is not GK's grow, sorry to say, but we all make mistakes.
Adieu

iloveyou

[TheGreenFog]

HI MEGA..

What I would like to hear you explain a bit further is your idea about HOT SPOTS.. because there were 2 very very minor.. (actually not even worthy mentioning) burns that I noticed ... I could not figure out how just 2 leaves in the entire garden of 150 plants ... were burned.... I appreciate your insite..

cheers

I'm curious about that too. I will look through my pics to see if I can find the ones I have with some leaves with some really weird things that look like they might be "hotspot" burns. But those are under CFLs! But they happened when we switched from 23w CFLs to 42w CFLs and only on a couple leaves. Curious.

TGF

[BlueBear]

GK I think you are a clown, we will have to toke one of these life times, and we will have to bring Brook and her brother along.
Adieu

[MegaOctane12]

HI MEGA..

VERY GOOD EYE.. : )
The effciency of the cool tubes mixed with the light mover is truly amazing.. These 1000 watt bulbs are are usually 4 inches from the foliage..

If this grower had just 2 more 1000s, this garden would be producingno less than 8lbs.. pretty darn good for a simple ghetto grow..

What I would like to hear you explain a bit further is your idea about HOT SPOTS.. because there were 2 very very minor.. (actually not even worthy mentioning) burns that I noticed ... I could not figure out how just 2 leaves in the entire garden of 150 plants ... were burned.... I appreciate your insite..

cheers

What I meant to say was thoretically, the bulb is being cooked, not necessarily the plants. Any leaf burn due to heat with a setup like this would be purely coincidental. So, apologies about that misunderstanding GK.

[Garden Knowm]

YOOOOO MEGA...

uggg.. and I thought you were a genuis... LOL... cheers..


BEAR... a clown? grrrrrrr............

[MegaOctane12]

YOOOOO MEGA...

uggg.. and I thought you were a genuis... LOL... cheers..


BEAR... a clown? grrrrrrr............

You right I am a genius