400w hps for £40?

hello, i have an extremely tight budget due to the devils bank taking anything i get away from me.
i will be flowering in the next 3 weeks, was just wondering what would be the cheapest and most efficient option. cost comes first, second by a hair to yield.

okay, the options are:

-400w hps my friend is selling for £40/$70. (although no more cost initially, i am concerned about the electricity consumption. i also probably wont be able to afford a new bulb. i know his has been used for about half a grow...).

-125w envirolite 2700k cfl, i could probably pick one up for around £25 on ebay. if i used this, i would probably through in either another 125w 6400k cfl to add additional lighting (which i already have), or a 85w 5500k cfl which would cost me another £20..

cheers for any input. i know alot of you will instantly say go for the hps, but times are very hard for me right now. roll on chaps!

i started out with envirolites,but soon changed to hps,pay less than £10 a week in electric,but thats for everything,the bulb i'm using is on its 3rd grow now and still going strong,and during veg i did a 16/8 schedule instead of the usuasl 18/6,saves a bit cash

cheers eimer, what wattage was your lamp?

it's 400 watt hps

go with the 400 MUCH,MUCH beeter buds thats cheap and itsbarly used.

For my first grow,I did design my own CFL box for about £20 (10 x £2) and the yield was amazing .I Just bought 10 normal cfl with full range of light (6400-2700)... You can use a combination of 6400+5500+2700 and you will not have any problem with elect consumptn. So , I think its better to start with cfl.

If you do the math, you really don't save that much money going with the CFL. I am all for CFLs, but if you can get a HPS and ballast for that cheap, jump on it.

Just my $.02.

dont worry man a 400w hps uses as much as a computer no one will notice the differance.

Maybe you lot might notice that morp posted that question 18 months ago,lol

haha wow i didnt even notice that

Ghost420 said:

haha wow i didnt even notice that

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We've all been caught by that at one time or another

You need to get that 400w mate.... CFLs are pretty good for veg, but a 400w HPS will pay dividends when it comes to flower time.

Yes, it will cost £20+ a month in electricity, but you'll get a lot more bud!