noobish lighting question

FilthyFletch

Mr I Can Do That For Half
Dump the cfls as they suck for pretty much all grows unless they are the actual 125 or 250 watt kind the 18 inch long ones.But for $80 you could have gotten a 400 watt hps setup on ebay and would have been doin great
 

Al B. Fuct

once had a dog named
If you can have only one light, get an HPS. It'll veg OK but the plants won't be as compact as with MH. The distance on the stem between leaf nodes will be longer with HPS. You can get MH conversion lamps for HPS ballasts, but I haven't used them. Going to try one in coming weeks for vegging my mums.

If you're going to do a continuous output op, you'll need separate clone, mother plant veg and flowering areas. Fluoros (CFLs if you like) in the clonebox, MH on the veg & HPS of course on the flowering area.
 

iwir3d

Well-Known Member
That was my plan. To continuesly grow. As I stated before nothign can be shipped to my house. The service is refused actually as my house acording to them doesnt exst. Just the mail box. My mailbox is down the road on the other side so its very very hard to find it and when you do your still 1/4th a mile in the wronge direction.. o_O Tho we could possibly have it delivered to the ups place and have me pick it up myself. That has been done before by my dad many years ago.

I was planning on seperating my closet (80 inches tall into 2 areas 40 inches tall.. and getting a rubber maid for cloning with the cfl's.. I could easily controll a setup like that.. but that leaves me 1 room short? (clonning, veg, flower, mother?) or do I not need a seperat area for the mother? Also the nodes on my stems (I think those are nodes? were the leaves come out from the main stem) how it does 2 leaves.. then the 3 leave nodes then the 5 leave nodes? Well mine are really close together but i noticed they grew a bit further apart as time passed.. I have yet to make a successful grow but I think I can do it... I just want my first success to be a good one xD

Looks like I am gonan stop by and ge ta 1000w MH to start with and eventually the HPS when flowering time comes around.. I will need to section my closet and the sog is the best way for me to grow tho the power bill will be outragous? I was wondering how I could ru na battery and have it charged by the sun and have an outlet for my house's electric to pick up the slack the solar doesnt.. any suggestions for DIY on this?? Google doesnt give alot of info and refers to solar as "new" technology when its been aroudn for nearly 40 years.
 
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