Ok, no new pics today. But I did rearrange the plants, lights, fan and reflectors. Basically, I just raised everything to make room for future growth. The Fim-ed tops have not totally recovered but not doing too bad. The new growth has been healthy.

Also, today starts 12 on-12 off. I had hoped that the flowering lamps would all be in but not yet. I'll go pic up the (2) T8 lamps that they do have in stock tomorrow. The lamps will actually be 3000K not 2700K but close enough for the price. I did the veg with 4100K cool white (which some folks claim are all but useless) instead of 6500K. I think the plants look pretty good inspite of that : ]

I pay less than $2ea for the 34wT8 and $9ea for the 54wT5.
The side lighting fixture is a brand new (4) lamp T5HO from Ebay for $40 w/lamps! The (2) 250w HPS are a trip, I've never seen their likes. Self contained ballast, like a CFL. It has almost instant on but restrike time is similar to traditional HPS lamps (it takes a few minutes to relight if you shut them off). I picked two of these up for free when I consulted on our church's lighting upgrade and these were removed. To hold these lamps I bought (2) new, 250w hi quality photographer's lamps with switches and ceramic sockets w/ reflectors from Ebay ($20ea). I figure that I can use them with 85-125w CFLs when these HPS lamps are done.

So, no new pics but a little look at some of the hardware I'm using for this econo-grow.


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