Yeah 18 hours of light and 4 hours dark during veg. Then move to 12/12 when flowering. Although i know people that leave the lights on for 24 hours. I dont recomend. But what ever you prefer

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18 on 6 off

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Thanks Tom420, how does this affect the grow? (Changing the time from 4 hours off to 6 hours off.) Will they grow faster, or heartier?

Ive saw roseman put wet towels hanging in his lil closet that might help humidity.
you really dont need a hps for veg. are you feeding any nutes.

It is best to give the plants a rest in darkness, 4 hours isn't much
6 is just right

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I too am having humidity problems as thisns the first year in my new house and this winter is looking to be a bad one here in the east. I am going tomarrow to buy a humidifier I used a couple wet towels hanging in my room w buckets underneath and it raised the humidity 8 points but m still under 40 and having probs with sedlings and clones not rooting so Ima step it up

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Thanks for the advice Skateforlife6, I know I dont "need" the hps, But I do "want" one really bad. Lol. The only nutes im giving right now is a vigoro tomato and plant food. just started with that like 3 days ago.

Thanks Tom__420, I just started them on that schedule (18-6) last night for the first time. We'll see how it goes.

And Maintman let me know how it goes after you get the humidifier, I was not really having any problems rooting or growing, but then again I now dont know if my humidity gauge is even accurate. Im going to get a new one later when I get off of work and see if it reads any higher than my wonderful "springfield"..

Heres a couple of pics of how they are doing so far.

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Things are looking good so far I had it going for a few hrs and the humidity rose from 35 to 50 and when i get home Ima make the space smaller and close the ceiling back in to reduce the sq footage to be humidified. I got an evaporative type which seemed safer than the hot steam type this kind just blows realy humid air through a filter system. Ima check in am to see the numbers and I'll put some pics of it up and my meter as well.

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