AL B. GHOST????
or would that be casper?
hay LB, wozzup?
No ghosts here. They really hate people who think the supernatural is ridiculous bunkum. And they'll haunt you until you go mad. Or grow dope.
Hey Al good to see you online again.
Thanks for all your hard work at promoting the SCIENCE of growing.
Thanks, orzz, I'm
truly only visiting and will be bailing off RIU soon. Just got ahead of my usual workload and have a few spare days this week. Truly, science is always your best friend. If it's science, you can replicate it yourself and use it to sniff out the difference between evil bullshit and yummy composted cow manure.
Hey Al,
Just a quick one before you slip off into the night again. I have a 3'x4' flowering area. 2 2'X3' tables.
Isn't that 4'x6'?
A 4 or 5 week rotation. I am going to be cramming around 50 lollypops in there. The question is 600W or 1000W?
I need a clarification on how big your lighted space actually is before I launch in, to be honest.
Actually just wondering what you would do. Either way the light will be air cooled by A/C air from inside the house.
If you're going to use cooltubes (and I highly recommend them), they don't need a feed form the aircon, in fact, that's a bit wasteful. A cooltube doesn't care about the difference between low-humidity, ~10C air and 20-30C ambient. Cooltubes should take their intake air from outside the room's airmass and dump it outside the room as well, taking care to be organised such as not to re-draw cooltube exhaust right back into the intake.
I understand the 50W/ft^2 which puts the 600W at the minimum for the space. Thing is, I am leaning towards the 1KW just because I do not want anything fluffy. I want only the most dense of buttery nugs. Thanks.
All depends on the actual size of the the area you need to light. As a rule, a 1000 in a cooltube will kick the pants off a 600 because both can each be spaced about the same distance from the leaves. Also as a rule, fewer ballasts are gooder. There's eddy current wastage in iron core ballasts which can be minimised by using fewer, bigger lights. In example, a 600HPS draws about 665-670W from the mains and makes about 95,000 initial lumens. A 1000 makes about 150,000lm and draws about 1100W from the mains. However, it may be better to use a pair of 600s, depending on the size & shape of the tray space.
4x 600w - 48 clones under each... a far cry from the Aerogarden days .. eh?!?!
Wowwwww, niiiice work, GB.
Very pretty.
Aerogarbage users, take note...
I'm very familiar with the technique, just never been able to pull it off quite like that yet. I mean that cola starts below the top of the pepsi can...no branching. Very well done.
Well, you got your answer as to how that's accomplished- scissors! Trim off any branching that appears on the lower 1/3 of the plants. The end of wks 1 & 3 is about the right time to prune in most cases, but regardless of specifically
when you prune, the point is to not allow any branching more than 1" long to remain on the plants. Restricts airflow and small lower branches tend to produce popcorny buds.
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(wish I could frame this...lol..
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