Vertical kinda sucks

Originally Posted by noris559

i am 71% sure that without a cooltube and a 1k temps will get way too crazy!!, but i am gonna run a 600w bare bulb for the summer.

With summer comin fast will leave it at that. It all depends on what part of the country yas in and ambient temps your exchangin in the room to keep things in check. I know my 2 1k bare bulbs will have to be dealt with soon. Exactly why i built a hybrid room, to run sealed with AC during summer time and open 2x a minute air exchange in winter.

If yas get a chance at some point ( maybe after summer) try it without the cool tube and see whats yas discover.

Originally Posted by Bob Smith

Why would you want your plants to touch the tubes? Or even come close? That means your canopy management sucks, IMO...............I use "fooltubes" and for my application, they're perfect.

Nothing against bare bulbs, but running four stacked 600s, I LOVE my cooltube.

YMMV.

Or it means you're growing stretchy ass sativas and want to be able to leave for a few days at a time

I agree though that cooltubes aren't necessary and in fact hurt your end product.

Can you take the glass tube off the light socket without damaging it

Originally Posted by vein5

Can you take the glass tube off the light socket without damaging it

Probably, different models are built differently. Have a look at yours and figure it out. A new socket is pretty damn cheap though for the record if you are lacking another.

Yeah a socket set Is about 35-40$... Well worth it!

Well im growing in a 4x4x8 room with 2 600's so maybe it will keep the heat down. Dont want to spend more money when i just got my cool tubes a week ago

Personally if only one choice of lighting is allowed I would say vert has always been better for me, not to say a nice scrog horizontal wont kick ass. Just very always seamed to have more "luck" with vert.

However i've recently started running both vert and horizontal lighting , and i'm personally likeing what i'm seeing .

Gotta remember end of the day all we are trying to do is provide optimal light levels all over the room for our ladies,the plant dosnt care how you go about that , just so long as it has them.

All roads lead to rome.

Originally Posted by cary schellie

3 weeks veg and 6 oz's, id sure like to know what strains and see proof

Those results are quite achievable, just finished a Blueberry Gum test run that yielded just under 9oz dried to 55% from 3 weeks veg and 8 weeks flower under 400W.

Originally Posted by jcommerce

Here you go. It was my first grow a long time ago in a 4 ft. tall box. As you'll see, there were 4 plants, but one was male. The other two got drawfed out by the plant that yielded 6 oz. Mandala Satori.

DWC Bubbler Grow (4 plants)

Very nice grow indeed, time to get a 600W and harvest the lb.

regards,