2400 watts mh/hps......help

**123.afro** · 02-15-2009, 09:21 AM

my little plants are reacting bad to the hps/mh mix....last go they where awsome. this time i added 1200 watts of mh a total of 2400 watts....they are 1 week in their hydro buckets and hurting...i will post pics later

**123.afro** · 02-16-2009, 04:34 PM

nothing...anyone

**lampshade** · 02-16-2009, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by 123.afro

nothing...anyone

Its probably too hot. What are the temps at the tops of the plants?

**123.afro** · 02-20-2009, 03:27 PM

the temps are great 24 deg....having some trouble with ph i think

fureelz · 02-20-2009, 03:43 PM

24? what? get rid of the MH, you dont use that spectrum to flower.

**Tronica** · 02-20-2009, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by fureelz

24? what? get rid of the MH, you dont use that spectrum to flower.

don't get rid of the mh, im sure you know better already. but for fureelz sake, plants do use the spectrum in a mh for flowering, they just do better under more red spectrum. but hps lacks the lighter spectrum and plants use that also, even during flowering. if plants didn't use mh for flowering noone would be able to flower under mh, and some people do.

i am combing both spectrums in my garden right now and I expect great results.

my next grow will use 3 600w ballasts with Hort's Super Blue bulb.

600w super hps and 400w super mh in one bulb.
expensive but promising.