fiveJ
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I think you hit it right on the head with your F1s. F3 is made for summer/fall food crops (tomatoes or squash) not for vegging short day flowering plant (cannabis). It may veg better with SOME indicas if that really like their yellows and reds to stretch. But I think it will preform well in flower (for its wattage). Side note is your F1 rig a DIY? I have only found a 24" ES1 in F1 for like $900.Hey Lord it's probably not you it's that the NeoSol 600 is not a true 600 watt HPS replacement when it comes to marijuana IMHO. Illumitex seems to be as full of shit as anyone when it comes to real world performance and from what I know you don't have enough F3s per square foot. A NS can't do a 4x4 crop of weed. Plus they need to be driven a bit harder than the 530mA for marijuana. Maybe the F3 is probably not the best spectrum for vegging but it still should do well. I use to use a F1 rig for veg and it worked fine for me. I think it's you've got too much area for it to cover properly. How high is the rig? Have you been lowering and raising it to see what the plants do?
Good Luck.
In my experience when using a "purple" spectrum you have to play with how you feed. I have read about people using "low light" (depending on who you talk to can be less than 400w-1000w) dosage but I had ZERO luck in soil/less. I found when I switched to hydro, when vegging I used my less than half my base but 2-3 times my calmag. It just takes some playing with... and clones.Here is a little background if need Scotch089 : http://www.illumitex.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Horticultural-Brochure-4.25.14.pdf
It may be to much nut i think having a little nut burn it showing here a pic what do you think.