whats best for lighting

Save money grow 8X8 and use 2-600watter an a sun circle maximun for the minimun! I grow 4X4 1000watt and double the space would make my avg yield about4.6 lb's...with 30" plant's 12 in that size room.....mixing bulb's no I don't bothert it's all about the bud and my yield's don't suffer I would add UVB lamp's to pump the thc...my way my grow works..no bullshit...light at top never move let plant's fill space 1/2 strength nutes Fox Farm and you will get this!! Wishing you yhe best my brother!This my friend is what $255.00 will get you and my first grow was even more successful than this time around! (clone's this time shorter!) and two day's screwing it all together..to break down easy.. A.C. was free found on craig's list I am retired and this was a must as no one will sell me weed at 65yo...I know in the day I wouldn't!! so this is better weed and an endless supply (grow's faster than I can smoke IT ha ha.) need any idea's ask me! hope this help's to put you in the right direction!!jack1000watter as high as possible six feet 11 inches!.jpgstelth flower clone room.jpg429 cfm exhaust thru lamp outside.jpgLSD clones should have die'd hardy!!.jpgsea of bud's 4 week's left LSD G13-haze.jpg31 day's 1212 LSD.jpgtoo many top's too count twenty somthing! 2nd week flower.jpg24 bud's this G13 streeching 3rd week flower!.jpg

you want 2 hps to one mh for best mix. if you bare with me. there a good peice written showing resluts. also backed up with links. proff of why ect. i just have to through my history bookmark ect to find it. i just use 2 600 watt duel spec sunmaster bulbs. wich do both veg and flower perfectly well pics if needed to back up what i say. but thats all i can fit in my tents

Nice setup Sandie, looks almost surgical-suite-y. Ah, retirement.................

http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-gr...ng-flower.html there is one in there advanced forums. ill just have to make myself a member
Mix HPS and MH in flower?

HPS/MH Flower Lighting

there loads out there i just carnt find the one i need for you. i just got to go to my room for 20 mins then i come back and find it for you. if youre not on a pm it to u

You have to keep bussy ha ha I came home two years ago to take care of wife with hasimoto's enchepelitis needed somthing to aid the quality of my life.... Thank's any one can build cheap set up like this that produces!! clean is green and no bug's or any problem's!! Had a visit by spider mite's 2nd week flowering....mighty wash....all set now have slight magnesium deficiency added epsom salt's this am all set..four more week's and I'll crop and move clone's in for the next round!!looking at about 2 1/2 lbs yield this go round avg.......washer and dryer in cellar so when I wash I garden......all automatic only have to watter and feed! (and watch like a pervert!!) allway's liked a pretty lady!!65yo not dead!! Hope you grow! allway's a way! jack my fav plant!LSD should have died!!Lost power 9 day's!.jpg

i would make all 3 horizontal lights hps and hang dome 125-200w veg spectrum cfl's in the canopy. i use the ratio of 3-1. having a mixed flowering spectrum is always better.

Have not been able to prove this out on a grow...tried 2-600watters HPS and a single 600 MH and my yield was a little smaller 3 oz's per plant...but no two pheno's are the same and there were other influences on the grow....but certainly don't feel it is necessary....I do believe you as I have read all the studie's....just in practice not proven...I do not like the dual lamps I am an engineer and feel the mix is not evenly distributed with my xxl hood's....When I put my lux meter in the space it made hot spot's and did NOT blend well! w/1000 dual arc the lumen's at 1 foot went from 86,000-120,000 (sylvania 1444) my luminex 1000 watter is 155,000 at almost all location's varie's 5-7% no hot spot's! If you use give me your reading's and your yield statistic's per plant per grow if you can I would really apreciate it! not locked in my thinking just careful with change until proven thru application (don't care about what is said to happen I live in the real world not a lab!)...I've been growing over 50 year's and feel my openion's are valid...wishing you the best with your grow my brother! and if you have first hand info I will be very pleased to talk to you as I have gone down this road in the past with no difinitive answer's...allway's room for improvement!!Thank You jack

Do you really feel the need for the cfl's?? are they reptile UVB for resin production? what yield's do you get per plant? size of plant's are we talking 30" or are we talking scrog or sog? two lights in sun circle have better coverage than three stationary and uses much less power! and of course allway's horizontal or you can't cool room! I have tried mixed and yield was less...actuality vs principal......real life....my yield's are large and big tight bud's is what we "Growers" do not vege.....If you have first hand knowledge give us some specific's not say it's allway's better..bad statement no paramaters set! put your grow up and we'll talk yield vs "stratagies" reality vs fiction..I have tried both MH HPS and Dual arc in this senario and have failed to change my thinking...the proof's in the pudding!! qty-yield-cost-efficency-consiistantly constant! wishing you the best with your grow however you choose!!Keep smiling!...jack