Good info's, Tom.

Cameron, darned nice setup! Looks excellent, that's worth a +rep for sure. There are also some other alternatives to buying pre-made nutes.. I'm with you, I want to add nutrition to the soil, but I prefer not to buy stuff.. I just don't want the "industrialized" feel, I guess. Call me a naturalist.. Do you have access to any large herbivore fields, like cows, horses, or heck, rabbits or chickens? Their manure is excellently high in Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphorous, the big three nute elements. Also, it's straight up peculiar, but our piss is also extremely rich in those three elements, and isn't harmful to you or the plant, and doesn't effect the plant or its bud negatively at all (just to dispell all the common misconceptions..). Weird, but works very well. However you find the nutes, they definitely do help your yield and the quality of your bud. Again, seriously nice setup! It's nice and organized, and the plant looks gorgeous!

thanks, i probably could get manure of some sort, id agree with u and say im more of a naturalist. how would i go about applying the manure to an already potted plant. thanks and ill tell my plant u love her!

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You can get bone and blood meal from lowes and make a tea to feed your plants. If you don't want to make a tea you can just use it as a top dressing

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lol im a coffee drinker whats a top dressing, lol

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A tea is where you add the powdered bone or blood meal, worm castings, bat guano whatever organic powder to a container with a certain amount of water (so many gallons) and add an airstone connected to an air pump to bubble the mixture. It will dissolve the powders and make it like a tea. That works much better than a top dressing (when you add the powder to the top of the soil and water over it). The only problem with this is that it causes pH fluctuations and takes much longer to be broken down than if it were in a tea. Just a thought man

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lol cool, never knew any of that. thanks

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I saw that you said you want to get a 70 watt HPS but was concerned about heat. If you have 70 watts of CFL and 70 watts of HPS it will be the same temps, it is about the wattage. I would def suggest hooking up a 70 watter in there

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i know that i could get one from screwfix direct, but then again i also seen that something like 90w led lights are comparable to 600wHps, but i dont think that could be true
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/79506/...ial-Floodlight
theres one for £25, i wouldnt mind getting that but im gonna wait till my CFls are done, i cant wait to see some bud formation...itll put a big smile on my face for days..

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I would stick with HPS over LED

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Hey, thanks for leaving a post in my thread, now its my turn =) Your plants look very nice! Though I have a suggestion for you, you should try to surround your plant with lights rather than having the lights so far up and only concentrated on the top of your plant, to maximize during flowering you should try to surround your lights as close as possible to your plant without touching it. This is what I learned from the book Buds for less by seemorebuds I bought. Oh yeah, SUBSCRIBED =)