250w HPS setup.. help please

oash999

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i recelty purchased two hps lights, SunMaster 250w each, dual spectrum

I have two G13haze sativa with is a tall one. flowering of 11 weeks
and i have the cheese (UK skunk) with is a hybrid, bushy but not that tall compaired with that sativa. flowering of 8 weeks
i have a white shark but I'm keeping that bitch as a mother plant

they are still in vegitative but almost ready for flowering maybe couple of weeks. grown hydro on 250w cfl and NPK of 3-2-3
I'm planing on feeding them with a kickass full nutrients course i'm excpecting it to arrive this week, just got held up with the customs for 2 months

so my question is, what is the best setup for the lights since i have to flower the two sativas and the cheese at once and in the same room,

I was thinking of lifting the cheese up gradually towards the lights along with lifting the light up away from the sativas
I know the question seems dumb but i have 2 sativas that i need to get some proper light but at the same time i need that cheese to get some of that hps too
 

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UncleReemis

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So you have three lights total, one cfl and two hps. Well... if your space isn't vertically limited, I'd go ahead and do what you said and elevate the shorter plant so that it's canopy is around the same height as the others. If you can't do that, you could use the two hps at the same level, then add the cfl at a lower level above the Cheese so that the cheese gets moderate light from the HPS and moderate light from the CFL at the same time. There's really not many options here, but it shouldn't be that big of a deal.

Or... if you wanted to, you could sort of LST the two taller plants by bending their tops down a little bit and tying them. But I wouldn't recommend that so close to flowering.
 

oash999

Member
okay well do you know how much coverage space that would be? and i think I'm only using the 2*250w hps cuz i have to use the cfls for the veging and mother plant, i wish i can add more than 500w but 750w totall is my limit of security

and lets saying I'm gonna make a triangle of all three of them, line up the 2 sativas in the base of trangle and the cheese is the head of the triangle.
should i just line up the 2 hps in one line and place them in the middle of the triangle parallel to the sativas? and lift the cheese at the same time?
 

UncleReemis

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Something like one of these? Hm. It's difficult with a triangle to utilize the maximum amount of light, considering you need space in between the plants. Maybe this will help you model some sort of solution.
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UncleReemis

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I was gonna suggest that too but I feel as if two lights wouldn't cover as much that way because it's a triangle. Could hang one down the middle but that still leaves two sides where light is needed after you rig up the second one :/ TRIANGLES MAN IM TELLIN YA
 
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