CFL or HPS
- Thread starter Bigmick
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mondaypurple
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Welcome. if you can afford it, of course.
Garden Knowm
The Love Doctor
Hi MICK 
Depends on your SPACE... Can your space handle the heat of an HPS? if not can you provide ventilation?
cheers
Depends on your SPACE... Can your space handle the heat of an HPS? if not can you provide ventilation?
cheers
highguy4706
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how much space does a 600w cover?
highguy4706
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when its stationary not on a moving rail
it's in a 3 x 6 room but i have it off to one side. i am flower 16 plants in a 3 x 3 area. my next run i will put it on a mover and use the whole 3 x 6 area. the roof is 6'. i keep my ballast OUTSIDE the room.
highguy4706
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thanks. i was wondering if i purchesed 2 75w hps flood lights and put them on moving rails about 2 foot apart and suplemented with like 8 2bulb 40w 4' lights and some cfls if that would be enough light for a 24 plant garden in a 5'x5'x8' roomthey would only have 2 weeks veg time from clone before put into flower. i want to grow with the ebb and flow system if htat makes a differents
highguy4706
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dont realy have the money to get one
highguy4706
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all the lights ive looked at are around $400 i can afford maybe 200 i want to do a perpetual harvest so i would be harvasting about every 2 weeks
highguy4706
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yeah i am copletley going with the hps, im stimm gonna use some floros wor side lighting and vegging but im gonna get a 400w hps thank all of you for the great advise
PlatinumKasse
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hps during veg = stretch factor! (grab some flos for veg son, the kind of light they emit won't stretch yo shit, HOLLA)