bottletoke
Well-Known Member
I work and have wotked in all aspects of the electrical professioon for quite some time now so needless to say that when I checked out the ceramic metal halide numbers and the theory I was very interested in trying them out.
So i did. I removed my old mh setup in my germ/veg area and tossed in a 400w hps ballast with a 400wcmh lamp and tested it out. Right away I was impressed, other hids I am able to look at the centre of a lit/energized lamp with a squint but not so with the cmh, waaay to intense, resembles an arc from a welder. So I gave it a test run and placed 20 seedlings under it the next day.
10 days later and the babies are at least a third larger then your typical seedlings at day 14. On 3 plants the foliage is too heavy for the stem to hold up lol, no lie! I started feeding them potasium silicate after the first week and gave them their first meal of nutes last night.
Has anyone else had the same results? Does the growth slow down or does it keep growing at this rate as long as i use this lamp? My flower room has 3 1000w hps lamps, thinking of taking one down and replacing it with 2 400w cmh's. Is anybody mixing them up too??
Why isnt there a big interest in these lamps? They are awesome!
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So i did. I removed my old mh setup in my germ/veg area and tossed in a 400w hps ballast with a 400wcmh lamp and tested it out. Right away I was impressed, other hids I am able to look at the centre of a lit/energized lamp with a squint but not so with the cmh, waaay to intense, resembles an arc from a welder. So I gave it a test run and placed 20 seedlings under it the next day.
10 days later and the babies are at least a third larger then your typical seedlings at day 14. On 3 plants the foliage is too heavy for the stem to hold up lol, no lie! I started feeding them potasium silicate after the first week and gave them their first meal of nutes last night.
Has anyone else had the same results? Does the growth slow down or does it keep growing at this rate as long as i use this lamp? My flower room has 3 1000w hps lamps, thinking of taking one down and replacing it with 2 400w cmh's. Is anybody mixing them up too??
Why isnt there a big interest in these lamps? They are awesome!
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