Vertical CMH 400w Chem 91 grow experiment...aptus vs H&G

Yea im testing a tomato plant in there at the moment and its about 4'' away from the bulb with no burn at all its just turning its leaves down a bit because its a bit to little for the light and cant handle it yet but its gettin there and my bagseed are sproutin now and should be in there in a week or so.

What do you reckon the chances are that my strain will yeild ok with sog? I know its hit and miss but do most take ok to the method?
sorry for the trouble thanks!!!!
BTW for some reason i find your plants so appealing i dont know why you can tell they had a bit of a hard start cant wait to see some flowers on em.

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What do you reckon the chances are that my strain will yeild ok with sog? I know its hit and miss but do most take ok to the method?
sorry for the trouble thanks!!!!
BTW for some reason i find your plants so appealing i dont know why you can tell they had a bit of a hard start cant wait to see some flowers on em.

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they are looking good now they are drinking a lot usually its about 7 days to dry out its been about 3 or so and they are pretty light almost ready for more food

Sorry if this is a out of topic but...has anyone ever compared or seen results of a CMH against an LED?

I had an LED and am switching to CMH. thanks in advanced guys

no i dont think that LED can compare to HID in my experience

Nice CMH grow! Very interested in these. Currently im running 10 23w CFLs in my cab and my temps are a bit higher than i would like. Do you think a 250W CMH would compare or exceed vs the CFLs and do you think it would be hotter or cooler than what i have now?

Thanks!

BlazedMonkey said:

Nice CMH grow! Very interested in these. Currently im running 10 23w CFLs in my cab and my temps are a bit higher than i would like. Do you think a 250W CMH would compare or exceed vs the CFLs and do you think it would be hotter or cooler than what i have now?

Thanks!

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i dont have experience with cfl, but 250w cfl would be very very cool comparable but with a lot more light you would increase your yield by ALOT

jdmcwestevo said:

i dont have experience with cfl, but 250w cfl would be very very cool comparable but with a lot more light you would increase your yield by ALOT

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Yes i figured as much. But if cfls are very very cool and CMH arent very cool then im afraid i would burn my cab up.:/
We shall see. Anyway good luck ill be watching your grow. thanks for the thoughts

400w cmh is 100 degrees at the bulb with laser temp sensor

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400w cmh is 100 degrees at the bulb with laser temp sensor

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My 400w CMH is running so cool that my purple diesel is actually turning purple.

the girls are looking great quick update enjoy





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Looks great man.. my girls just went into there second week of flowerin under a 330w cmh also. Glad to see more cmh users. My temps dropped over 5the degrees compared to the reg mh bulb. Check out my thread if u want. Links in the signature

I saw in one of ur posts u have ur own dispensary. Im actually in the works of startin my own delivery only dispensary. What part of socal u from? If u don't mind me askin. Me and some of the other guys were thinkin about startin a collective. This will be my second one. Pm me if u want

looks great!! keep up the good work

thanks guys i love the CMH cant wait for the 600w bulbs to come out

Don't get ur hopes up. There not gna be selling anything higher then 400w to the public do to safety issues and ineffiecency. They have already been using upto 2500w cmh for industrial use for years. I got more details on this in my thread if ur interested or pm me and ill explain in better detail. (The info is from a credible source also not some bullshit)

my friend emailed phillips and asked about higher Wattage they said they were working on a 600w currently

My girls are under two 400w cmh's to finish out their flower cycle. They seem to like them. 600w cmh's would be kick ass.

Ps. your plants are looking bomb bro

Dubbz0r said:

My girls are under two 400w cmh's to finish out their flower cycle. They seem to like them. 600w cmh's would be kick ass.

Ps. your plants are looking bomb bro

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thank you sir

I have heard it from two people. One of my good friends thats a lighting distributor and thomas from advanced tech lighting.com (he was the first guy to start marketing cmh to hordiculture). Phillips already makes one for a 600w ballast, it s actually a 550w (I saw it in person a week ago). They do not work well for hordiculture because after 330w they become very inneffiecent and provide too much light for the sqaure footage they can cover. So it is best to use multiple 330 or 400 set ups then to use a 550 or a 1000.