Recent content by draglow

very good points that you made. just take those into consideration. just remember its' all personal opinion and what you think that you can handle, it's all based upon your limitations. double to stuff just again means backup to fall upon.

theres many variables. for instance what kind of ballat you are going to use, what kind of hood, the kind of air venting that can fit your situation. i personally would get 2 400w lumatek ballst with cooltubes as your hoods. and with that you can do a total inline duct work with one fan to...

go with the two 400hps with that you will have a total of 800w off the bat... and you can keep the lights closer to your canopy increasing your lumes/sqft

you just said the answer. "I know they're supposed to double or triple in size when you go to flowering." hate to say it but flowering is flowering regaurdless of the light the size will increase due to genetics. hope that could help but tieing is deff your best bet..

in my opinion i think its overwatering... if you look at the leaves notice how they curl inward? Thats a clean sign of overwatering just give it time and check your soil ph again to make sure it's not to high. Oh and by the way go easy on the SUPERthrive!! only 1drop/gal!!

theres two bibles. the first one by jorge cervantes which is 1000 pages plus+ . and the second one is by greg green. both are great books got both off of amazon for like 30-35?

shawshank redemtion is the shit

just go for broke and get the 400w. you will thank yourself in the end. heat issues can always be fixed. i have a 400w also in a closet grow and it's perfect and i have no ventelation.

nice dude. glad to hear about more growers in the central valley. im near the fresno area and it's hot as balls. but you could still get a nice crop if you plant soon. welcome to RIU

yes i have tubes for veg. they work great i got them at walmart. im still trying to situate my grow closet so my mother plant is under tubes. i should be finished this week. i also have a hps/mh sunleaves 400w system but fornow tubes are workin. sorry if this is kinda rambeling im just...

well all i have to say is according to the grow bible if you use MH bulbs make sure the spectrum is around 3000k for the optimum growth during veg. your plants will be thanking you for that bulb... so just do some research and compare light spectrums and lumes and you should be fine.

well then cfls will produce more lumes then led's for show... if you do get over 100w cfls thats all i can say and make sure you have side lighting for the smaller nodes and pre flowers that you will have at the base of the plant.

don't waste your time with led's.... theres just not enough luminems(SP) but if u want to get a closet grow going start with a 400w mh/hps sunleaves unit. thats what i have and it works great because you can put the mh/hps bulbs closer to ur plants espically in a small closet.. just my opinion

ok idea use the mh in the closet for your clones and your mother. buy a 2-3 hps ballast and lamps for your plants that are gonna be flowered... and spend the extra cash on fox farms ocean forest and buy 1 liter bottles of Grow big (use 2 weeks after applied in soil then vege for another 2...

there is no such thing as miracle grow for what WE GROW.. closest thing is foxfams ocean forest. great mix.