Indoor Op Help

AfroSizedClouds

AfroSizedClouds

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Hey everyone, im getting ready to start my indoor op, im having a little bit of trouble on what i should do.
My specs are:
Room - 4.2ft W, 6.5ft L, 8ft Ht.
Strains - Northern Lights, White Widow, Strawb Cough, Pink and Purple Kush.
My lighting, i was thinking of using 600w LED with one or 2 150w HPS along side my cfls which come to 150w combined.
Any help and advice would be great, im going to try and fit 11 into my Op, im going to lst, scrog and top.
Thanks Rollers.
 
ipeeinpools

ipeeinpools

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AfroSizedClouds said:
Hey everyone, im getting ready to start my indoor op, im having a little bit of trouble on what i should do.
My specs are:
Room - 4.2ft W, 6.5ft L, 8ft Ht.
Strains - Northern Lights, White Widow, Strawb Cough, Pink and Purple Kush.
My lighting, i was thinking of using 600w LED with one or 2 150w HPS along side my cfls which come to 150w combined.
Any help and advice would be great, im going to try and fit 11 into my Op, im going to lst, scrog and top.
Thanks Rollers.
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LSTing, Scrogging AND topping....overkill in my opinion. I would LST then scrog. I think topping takes too long to recover and produces less canopy branches. LST at least gets those bottom branches up to the top with very minimal stress.

How big are your pot sizes? I would go either HPS lighting or LED. I started with CFL's, then moved to HID lighting so I dont' know much about LED, I just imagine it would be a pain since each light needs to be a certain distance to be most effective. Two 600W HPS hoods would be perfect imo for that size room

This is why I don't top....LST and Scrog on 3 plants fill a 4'x10' screen quite nicely.
 

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ipeeinpools said:
LSTing, Scrogging AND topping....overkill in my opinion. I would LST then scrog. I think topping takes too long to recover and produces less canopy branches. LST at least gets those bottom branches up to the top with very minimal stress.

How big are your pot sizes? I would go either HPS lighting or LED. I started with CFL's, then moved to HID lighting so I dont' know much about LED, I just imagine it would be a pain since each light needs to be a certain distance to be most effective. Two 600W HPS hoods would be perfect imo for that size room

This is why I don't top....LST and Scrog on 3 plants fill a 4'x10' screen quite nicely.
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How long of a veg on that?
 
ipeeinpools

ipeeinpools

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Underground Scientist said:
How long of a veg on that?
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8-10 weeks maybe? I had them vegging on the back burner, then russet mites killed everything I was going to run so I had to put these guys into hyper veg. went from a 1gal pot to 10gal pot and then vegged under a 315 CMH for 2 weeks...was getting 2 inches of growth a day for those last 2 weeks. first pic is day 1 under the CMH, second is the day they went to flowering tent lol.
 

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AfroSizedClouds

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Okay so dont top, jus scrog and lst, got it. and yeeh well im not the wealthiest of people so im working with what i can get my hands on atm yknow
 
ipeeinpools

ipeeinpools

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AfroSizedClouds said:
Okay so dont top, jus scrog and lst, got it. and yeeh well im not the wealthiest of people so im working with what i can get my hands on atm yknow
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Oh I think we all know how that goes, I still have to work with what I have sometimes. Been growing for only a couple years now and my current grow will be the first time I DONT dump everything I make back into the grow lol. Tons of DIY ways to get the same job done too, no need to go buying everything. I'd scour craigslist or ebay just to see if someone is selling cheap equipment, there are even FB groups for people that are selling or trading equipment.
 
ipeeinpools

ipeeinpools

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AfroSizedClouds said:
Okay so dont top, jus scrog and lst, got it. and yeeh well im not the wealthiest of people so im working with what i can get my hands on atm yknow
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If you use everything you got, the LED, HPS and CFL....i'd make your LED your main center of light, use the HPS on each side as close as you can get to the canopy, and then I'd use your CFL's for undergrowth and the bottom of the plant
 
coreywebster

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AfroSizedClouds said:
Okay so dont top, jus scrog and lst, got it. and yeeh well im not the wealthiest of people so im working with what i can get my hands on atm yknow
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Cheapest option would be 2x600w hps.
Don't buy cheap LED.
Sounds like you cant afford high quality LED so go with HPS.
2x 315w cmh would be my first choice but you may not be able to afford them.
 
AfroSizedClouds

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Unfortunately, I believe a few of my seeds arent gonna germ this time around, im thinking if they do, im jus gonna do a late outdoorsy thing and extract whatever i can from them.
 
ipeeinpools

ipeeinpools

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AfroSizedClouds said:
Just so happens my good friend is going outdoor this summer, so hes going to let me use his 1000w LED :D
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Very nice....Concentrates from outdoor weed is my fav if you can get a good crop. Did Kong last year and had a wet last couiple weeks so I had bud rot running through them, made really awesome oil. Doing Citral Flo outdoors this year, can't wait to turn her into oil.
 
AfroSizedClouds

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ipeeinpools said:
Very nice....Concentrates from outdoor weed is my fav if you can get a good crop. Did Kong last year and had a wet last couiple weeks so I had bud rot running through them, made really awesome oil. Doing Citral Flo outdoors this year, can't wait to turn her into oil.
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Nice, I got some Green Crack and Mango Kush outdoors right now, i should grab some pictures let yall check them out
 
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