should the light be. Its 250 watts but its a heat lamp. ??

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almost the same as my wardrobe setup. but you need to vent it better. the fan above the shelf wont do anything, its in a seperate part of the wardrobe. you need to get rid of the shelf or put the fan lower down. i have a 400 HPS and use it for veging and flowering, it gets very warm inside the wardrobe so i vent mine with a shower room fan and a fan at the base that throws air around the plants. also my balast is by an open window as you get a lot of heat from that alone. I am on my second indoor grow and my babes are in there second week of flowering. i am hopeing for a very merry christmas.
pics to follow soon.
may i just say i have been a member of this forum for just over a year i think and the guys here are very helpful, i had 6 oz of great white widow with the help of these guys. thanks for your help and advice. Hope my next grow is as productive.
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i also tried the computer fan thing trying to save cash but found they did nothing so got rid. you need a better fan to extract the hot air from the lamp.

7 months membership, wow , i thought it was longer. how weed grows fast.

Wooo sally, hijacking my thread!

My light is only a fluro at the minute and im gonna be using it throuthout the veg period. Im actually worried the temp at the moment is to low, ive got average readings of 18C so im not worried about heat.

Obviously when my HPS goes on, it will be warmer yes, if a need more fans, so be it.

im learning as i go and at the minute, its working perfecly.

Look again at how the ait flow will go in my cab. from the bottom, straight to the top, into shelf camber (also cooling all ballasts, power boxes etc) and out of the big vent at the back. I designed it to work exactly that way.

Like i said, pc fans are very cheap and easy to fit/work with. when/if i need more, i will add them.

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Mate ditch the floresent light straight away, is it the blue floresent I used too of these vegging for 2 month's and my plants hardly grew at all they were only 7 inch's flowering, switched to a HPS and they shot straight back to light during flowering 2 inch's within a week. point is there useless and aint worth it get the HPS or MH.

Ok well on the bulb itself its a "Polylux XLr - F18w/830" 2 feet.

The two older plants are already 5-6 inches now and there around 2 weeks old. *Take a look at the pics below...

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Id say they seem to be doing ok, but then again i am a newbie! what does everyone think??

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Those look healthy but a little small for 2 weeks along which is probably due to your low powered light.
Use the hps and keep it at a maximum of 24" away from the seedlings,put an osciallting fan on the hps to keep it cool and blow the heat away from the tops of the seedlings

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I think im gonna give them the rest f the first month under the fluros and then switch to HPS to see how they go then.

itll be easier to tell the difference then i suppose...

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