viciousesque
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Hello "Inda-gro Induction" thread!
I just wanted to chime in as a n00b grower who took the plunge into electro magnetic light generation. Like a lot of folks I simply could not run HID lights. My number one issue with HID is that I am constrained by the wattage I can draw at my location. Additionally though, I just don't believe HIDs are 100% safe. Anything that gets so hot as to require its own dedicated cooling system is just a poor design (heat=waste), and intrinsically hazardous. In a list of things I don't want to do, burning down my apartment building competes aggressively for the top spot.
Anywho, I dropped the bank roll on a pair of 420s and couldn't be happier. As a n00b I was told to expect a fair amount of failure on my first grow, but so far only one of my couple dozen plants has failed. I've visited other grows running HIDs with ballasts, and I love my cool and quiet set-up. Stealthyness was another requirement, so just removing the additional noise and over-head of the cooling system required by HID has been a huge win.
I'm about to enter flowering with my first crop, and while I think I've done a sub-optimal job of pruning my ladies, I think I have a pretty handsome crop so far. The advice I received as I was setting up my grow was to do things exactly the way everyone has always done them. Go with what has proven to work, I was advised. I'm super glad I ignored that advice as it regards my lighting. The reduced heat, along with resulting decrease in electrical consumption and increase in safety and stealthiness makes my grow a sustainable effort.
Here are some pics of my ladies and my lights:
![jane_002.jpg](/data/attachments/1812/1812465-6d9f9382554043b6d4e29e3a47c2eec2.jpg)
![jane_004.jpg](/data/attachments/1812/1812466-a1212b157e368ca31b561780b9e56253.jpg)
![jane_005.jpg](/data/attachments/1812/1812468-aec5be168e802f6aa8afc0d8f0a98a18.jpg)
I just wanted to chime in as a n00b grower who took the plunge into electro magnetic light generation. Like a lot of folks I simply could not run HID lights. My number one issue with HID is that I am constrained by the wattage I can draw at my location. Additionally though, I just don't believe HIDs are 100% safe. Anything that gets so hot as to require its own dedicated cooling system is just a poor design (heat=waste), and intrinsically hazardous. In a list of things I don't want to do, burning down my apartment building competes aggressively for the top spot.
Anywho, I dropped the bank roll on a pair of 420s and couldn't be happier. As a n00b I was told to expect a fair amount of failure on my first grow, but so far only one of my couple dozen plants has failed. I've visited other grows running HIDs with ballasts, and I love my cool and quiet set-up. Stealthyness was another requirement, so just removing the additional noise and over-head of the cooling system required by HID has been a huge win.
I'm about to enter flowering with my first crop, and while I think I've done a sub-optimal job of pruning my ladies, I think I have a pretty handsome crop so far. The advice I received as I was setting up my grow was to do things exactly the way everyone has always done them. Go with what has proven to work, I was advised. I'm super glad I ignored that advice as it regards my lighting. The reduced heat, along with resulting decrease in electrical consumption and increase in safety and stealthiness makes my grow a sustainable effort.
Here are some pics of my ladies and my lights:
![jane_002.jpg](/data/attachments/1812/1812465-6d9f9382554043b6d4e29e3a47c2eec2.jpg)
![jane_004.jpg](/data/attachments/1812/1812466-a1212b157e368ca31b561780b9e56253.jpg)
![jane_005.jpg](/data/attachments/1812/1812468-aec5be168e802f6aa8afc0d8f0a98a18.jpg)