Nice man, I've been interested in that Roots soil looks like good stuff . . .

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Thank's LG. It was either Next Gen ballasts or the Lumateks, but I'm glad now to hear that they work fine for you!! I like the 3 year across the board warranty, + 2 years prorated after that.

And I'll definately consider some White's; I've always liked 'em too! We'll probably keep a number of strains on tap, and just do whole runs of one strain, for continuity.


Fletch: the next Gen from CAP are awesome. best ballasts i have seen yet. still a bit new on the market but the fact they come in such versitile makes is great. Im grabbing the dual volt dual wattage next gens. they are both 400 watt and 600 watt hps/mh in the same ballast and are multi tap so run on 120 or 220 current with a 5 year warranty...Should be real nice and save so much time and energy can go for using 400 watts to 600 watts in flower with a swap of a bulb

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damn dude i subscribed +rep also your electic bill is gonna be the shit

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Hey DirtyDan!!!!! Clownin bro!!

Hmmmm..........we didn't go with light movers initially because it wasn't in the budget. I like 1000's, what can I say? I see the title under your name says you can do it for half, but I like to do it whole, feel me?

In the future there will probably be light movers involved, and if I can reduce the wattage and still maintain the coverage that I want, I will do that, but it just isn't in the cards right now.

But then I'd have to change the name of this thread right??? hahahaha

I'm anticipating the canopies from the 3 plants in each tray to be much larger than 3x3 as I'm goin for big bushes, and I like the thought of one 1000 per table, coverin about a 6-7x6-7' canopy. Call me crazy, I don't care.

The R/O is necessary in this case, but all treated water will be ph balanced, as well as dialed on E/C and TDS's.

The scrubber is the biggest one they sell, and is rated for far more square footage than what I'm runnin ( I'm pretty sure, I'll double check on that ), but if it isn't up to the task, a second will definately be added!!

Thank's for your concern and advice!!!

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Ok no issues just curious to what led to your decisions of materials. i have gone away from my 1000 watters since with new digitals the 600 watters put out alsmot equal to the magnetic 1000watters and I can cover more area with 2 600 watters then 1 1000 watter. i like to use 2 600 watters on the 4x8 tables I run but I dont do the bigger plants usually. i like to run about 25 plants in 4x8 tables using 6 inch square pots with hydroton and 4x4 rockwool cubes. try to yield about 2 lbs dry plus per table in a 6 week flower. I am pulling out one of my old 1000 watters for a dirt grow inspired by MBlazes post gonna do 5 bigger soil plants in 30 gallon pots but want to finish at about 6 feet tall at highest. on the scrubbers Im thinking more on the lines of that many lights will heat the room up making it smell faster so one may not move the smell fast enough but 2 would speed it up and keep it stunted in the room better.I also was looking at the RO water as I dont use it in any hydro or aero grows as it tend to flux pretty bad in hydro and it doesnt have the micro nutrients or buffers tap water gives so it had always been an issue causer for myself and fellow growers I have known over the past 15 or so years so i stopped while back and went all tap with much better results.Ill definately watch and see.. check the light movers can be found cheap. i just bought 3 more hydro farrm 8 footers for $120 shipped for all 3

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I'm going to make a prediction that your portable a/c units fail to keep the room cool and that they run away screaming with their two hoses tucked between their stumpy little rolling legs.

Aside from that, still looking forward to seeing this.

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I've personally only ran nothin but Lumateks, and I can say I'm not really impressed with them. Within the first 2 weeks, one of my 1000w's blew, an while I was returnin it, there was a guy in the shop who was returnin 3 out of 12 600w Lumatek ballasts that he owned. The store says they have many complaints an returns on their ballasts, at a minimum of 8 a month. So I bought a Next Gen to see how it works out, they're smaller, and they have 2 built in fans, so hopefully they stay cooler then the Lumateks.

Anyhow, impressive grow, cant wait to see this thing going!

Al right, found it. re-subscribed!

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That setup looks pretty big time. I'm interested to see how it pans out for you. I agree with OregonMeds that you could have some heat issues, but aside form that it looks very interesting. Keep us updated +rep