1st Grow Room, 400 W Ceramic Metal Halide (10 Chem Dawg, 1 Blue Dream)

Updates? I am thinking of going CMH as well, but only a 250w since I have height restrictions. Last pics look great!

Sorry for the lag time, been busy and didnt think anyone was watching.

I got back from a week long trip 2 days ago to find my girls had put on a bunch of weight. So much so that I had branches falling over everywhere. I built a fence all the way around to keep them off the walls and am adding stakes as needed in the middle to hole em up. I gave them more water, same nutes, same strength as before. Also I am still battling the fungus gnats. last week was the wrong time for me to take a vacation, but thats the way it went.

Heres some pics

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Looking good. I have been thinking about throwing a CMH in my flower room. What do you think so far about its performance?

So far I love it, and I think the girls do too. They are all super frosty and so fat they are falling over. I'll be posting more pics in the next couple days.
Any suggestions on how many days to flower Chemdawg #4 and Blue Dream?

After a full 8 weeks, and close examination under my microscope, I let the lights go out Sunday and gave them about 20 hours complete dark before harvesting. I am VERY satisfied with the performance of the CMH lamp. They guy I got the ChemDawg from said my buds are way stickier than they normally get from their HPS. But there are also a lot of other differences in our growing techniques. I forgot to take pictures prior to harvest (sorry) but here are some I took very shortly afterwards:

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Very nice! I have a CMH coming next week. I'll be finishing up my current crop and the next round will get full spectrum! Looking forward to seeing the difference.

Final weights are in. Got 17g off the Blue Dream, and 130g off the Chem Dawg 4. A total of about 5.25 ounces off 11 plants. Not too bad for my first time, not to mention it taught me everything I couldn't learn from a book. I WILL get more next time!

They look really good. Not the frostiest buds I have laid eyes on but not the worst by any stretch of the imagination. You came out to .37 grams per watt so there is definitely room for improvement. Not trying to kick you in the teeth..just saying. My best grow so far was .87 but it depends allot on strain. I seem to recall chem dog not being a huge yielder. I don't know how tall your room is but judging on the pics you could veg them a little longer. If you only have 1 400watt I would also suggest scrogging them. You can get a nice even carpet of buds which is ideal if your using a bulb with a little less penetration like the 400's.

happy growing.