Vegging with HPS???

I am sure the info I am Looking For is here somewhere, but my searches have done me no good. What I am curious about, is this. I have a 400 watt HPS light that I would like to use to veg my plants. I know it is not as good as metal halide, but it has to be better than the CFL's I have been using. My little operation has grown to where I need more light, but right now I cant afford a MH light. So, instead of buying more CFL's, I want to wait a couple of weeks until I will be able to get what I want(400 watt MH). This should be OK to do for a while shouldnt it?

u can vag under HPS man. jus make sure that it's well vented and cooled and place it as close as possible to the tops...otherwise the plants will strech!!

yeah either light will work all the way through. nice new avatar cheetah

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Get a 400w CMH bulb for your hps ballast. CMH bulb is great for veg.

wot is CMH?

use the hps and cfls so it will recieve both specs and u can have the cfls prettymuch on the plant too

convertible metal halide. Dey cost cake tho bra. You can stick wit da hps in veg i done it also and i get stocky ass plants from it too.

take ya time homegrown

oh i c.......... thanks

good luck...

Thanks for the replies. The reason I dont go with the conversion bulb is, I have two seperate areas to grow in. I have a veg closet (2'x6'x7') and a flowering room(12'x12'x7'). I need two light setups so I can do a perpetual harvest kind of thing. My first 6 plants are 2 or 3 weeks away from being put into a 12/12 cycle, so I guess I will just move them into the flowering roon along with the CFL's and put it on a 24/7 cycle till its time to flower. By then I should have a MH light and will get on schedule so I can harvest about every two weeks.

oh $ aint a issue to you. Mh is da way to go den bra.

$$ is a BIG issue. Thats why I am doing a semi-ghetto grow. But, when I set up my HPS light this aft., I realized that what I have is a 430w Son Agro setup. It has enough of the blue-green light to do exactly what I need to do right now. It had been in storage for a few years between grows and I had forgotten what I had. Now, when I get enough $ to get my MH light, I will be set up pretty good. I also installed a window AC unit in the flowering room and that should help too.

da 430 does have dat 30% blue, it's not nessacary to have a MH just an luxuary. Cant wait fo you to open a diary bra.

Be easy

mane2008 said:

da 430 does have dat 30% blue, it's not nessacary to have a MH just an luxuary. Cant wait fo you to open a diary bra.

Be easy

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I am going to be using 2 separate areas for vegging and flowering, so a MH light is not a luxury.

use cfls for the vegg room,you could also make the veg room the clone room to,to save on space

I intend to keep the mothers and the clones in the same room. But from everything I have read, I think I will get better results if I use CFL's and a MH in the veg room. I will light the tops of the plants with the MH, and use CFL's to bottom light them. Maybe a little overkill, but you cant have too much light.

txhomegrown said:

I intend to keep the mothers and the clones in the same room. But from everything I have read, I think I will get better results if I use CFL's and a MH in the veg room. I will light the tops of the plants with the MH, and use CFL's to bottom light them. Maybe a little overkill, but you cant have too much light.

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exactly to what u say,no such thing as too much light.