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russ0r said:
its all gravy, i gear it all the time when i take pics cuz if i dont move the lights my camera sees the plant as glowing entities.



i agree my cfl's are slow at vegging. however some people dont have a choice... hps lighting systems have more to it than someone that wants a small personal operation, the reason i cant have one is heat... i have no way to get the heat out safely unless i cut a hole in the side of my house and put an exaust fan there. (grow in my closet) doors have to be shut.
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True, 400 watts are pretty warm, but they arent too bad. Your room temp will most likely be around 75 degrees. thats what mine is.
 
videoman40

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Dude, wait til summer hits, you are going to have to have like 300cfm in there to maintain a temp within 4 degrees of the ambient temp. You'll see.
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True, 400 watts are pretty warm, but they arent too bad. Your room temp will most likely be around 75 degrees. thats what mine is.
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mogie

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Investing in an air cooled hood that has a gasket that keeps it air tight will make a big differerce. You can always vent using a tube like a dryer has and run it to the crack in the closet door.
 
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videoman40 said:
Dude, wait til summer hits, you are going to have to have like 300cfm in there to maintain a temp within 4 degrees of the ambient temp. You'll see.
Peace
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its been high 80s humid as hell lately. still maintained a cool temp in there. fans keep the heat above the bitches, plus AC helps
 
Gamberro

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crickitmd said:
IMHO floros are useless. i had my plants under some floros for like 4 weeks and the plants only grew a coupla inches. then i hooked up my 400w MH and the plants started to grow hella fast. floros are lame for vegging
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It's a thing of balancing your needs. On the positive, fluoros
1) don't emit much Federali-attracting heat
2) don't use much Federali-attracting energy <<you see a pattern here?
3) cost infinitely less than a full HPS fixture

So if you're a South Philly grower now buying Canadian energy, fluoros are a good bet.
 
Gamberro

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dadvocate said:
if you're going to go for CFL's, get the 100w (home depot/fluorex) or the 125w from a hydro shop. the small bulbs seem like a real waste of time comparitively.
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I went on homedepot.ca and the highest wattage they had on there was 42W.
 
Corso312

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how much of a jump in eletric bill do u see when ya use a hps 1000 watt hps? and how many plants can ya grow with one ?
 
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Why would you buy the home depot 400w HPS for 200 bucks, when you could buy a ready to go remote ballast 400w with a cheapo reflector for like 250?
 
demonic1

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A 1000w HPS covers an area of about 4x4 sufficiently. I get about 20 plants in that using 3 gallon round pots. I just got 3-gallon square pots and I expect to be able to fit three or four more in there. I found that rotating the outside pots to the inside and more directly under the lights helped also, and I do that every watering.
 
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crickitmd said:
IMHO floros are useless. i had my plants under some floros for like 4 weeks and the plants only grew a coupla inches. then i hooked up my 400w MH and the plants started to grow hella fast. floros are lame for vegging
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Don't CFLs actually not put out less heat per lumen than HPS or is that not true?

dirkadirka said:
Why would you buy the home depot 400w HPS for 200 bucks, when you could buy a ready to go remote ballast 400w with a cheapo reflector for like 250?
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For me the answer to this would be b/c I'm sketched out about buying growing equipment/supplies online.
 
wil2279

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Gamberro said:
I went on homedepot.ca and the highest wattage they had on there was 42W.
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you are looking with the light bulbs... go to the isle with the flood lights and security lights... you will find bigger flouros over there...
 
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