400w Club-Show Off Your 400w Pride And Joy

totally smokin' dude!

400watt / 50watts per sq. feet =8sq ft
2ftx4ft= 8sq ft

so 2x4 would be good

i got a 3.5x3.5 incase i want to upgrade to a 600 but not for a while

2smoke4bud7 said:

400watt / 50watts per sq. feet =8sq ft
2ftx4ft= 8sq ft

so 2x4 would be good

i got a 3.5x3.5 incase i want to upgrade to a 600 but not for a while

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daang, thats the max? my closet is about 5x8 ft, if i set it right in the middle, had sufficient reflectix covering the whole walls ( or panda plastic not sure which works best or even painting the walls flat white? ) and maybe a bunch of cfls under plants would that work .. or no?

would another 400w spike up my bill greatly?

I posted a few weeks ago but here an update on my cabinet.

30" x 30" x 4' tall....

noice , hoping to have somehting worth postin in the next week or so . . we shall see . .
continuing on from the queery about max space for a 400 , whats ur thoughts on a 4 foot wide 5 and a half foot high and a foot and a half deep area ( dimensions aint the best i know , the plan is to hav at least 4 flouros verticly )

SenseiGT said:

daang, thats the max? my closet is about 5x8 ft, if i set it right in the middle, had sufficient reflectix covering the whole walls ( or panda plastic not sure which works best or even painting the walls flat white? ) and maybe a bunch of cfls under plants would that work .. or no?

would another 400w spike up my bill greatly?

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50W/sq ft. is a good baseline. It is not a minimum by any means. There are very successful grows at 40 and the plants will grow at 35 but they will be airy buds rather than tight nugs.

You have 40 sq ft. To make that whole area a flower chamber it would be 2000W. Not sure how much you pay per kwh but that would increase my bill over $100 a month. That does not include the fans, pumps, timers, etc.

Given that same space I would section it off with a simple 1x1 frame and panda film (black and white plastic sheeting available at hydro store or online). Make a 3x5 bloom room and a 3x5 veg room for mom and clones. Hang a 600W HPS in the bloom and a T5 fluro or lots of daylight CFLs in the veg chamber.

Perpetual goodness

i considered something liek that before but id really like to get as much out of it as pos , i think realisticly i wont be going any higher than 3 feet ish ( even that height seems mind blowin right now) - and while the 4 flouro was the minimum the plan was for 8 - 2 2footers in all corners

I highly recommend an HPS. HTGsupply.com $119 + ship. Just look at this thread as evidence what a 400W HPS can do. You will not get the same results from 400W worth of fluro.

yeh man sorry , iv no slept in 4 days im not the best communicator in sucha mindframe.
iv got a 400w hps - n the plan is to flower a few with it aswell as the flouros ( to make up for the lack of width and depth they will go vertical as i can see the hps not getting so deep down )
thanks for setting me straight , i dont have time for people like me. its good other people do

That makes more sense. If you are growing bushes then some fluro under the canopy can be very beneficial. If you trim the undergrowth off and all buds get direct light then they are kinda like adding a model plane engine to the wings of a small jet. Keep growin'!

chazel said:

noice , hoping to have somehting worth postin in the next week or so . . we shall see . .
continuing on from the queery about max space for a 400 , whats ur thoughts on a 4 foot wide 5 and a half foot high and a foot and a half deep area ( dimensions aint the best i know , the plan is to hav at least 4 flouros verticly )

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1.5' deep ?, i would lst them heavily

SenseiGT said:

daang, thats the max? my closet is about 5x8 ft, if i set it right in the middle, had sufficient reflectix covering the whole walls ( or panda plastic not sure which works best or even painting the walls flat white? ) and maybe a bunch of cfls under plants would that work .. or no?

would another 400w spike up my bill greatly?

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of corse it will work man, keep em short, and move the plants around in there every other day.

420Weedman... are you meaning to rotate the plants relative to their position under the light? So far, I've kept mine static under the idea that less change and disturbance is better... but I'm just a stupid Noob, too.

Kriegs said:

420Weedman... are you meaning to rotate the plants relative to their position under the light? So far, I've kept mine static under the idea that less change and disturbance is better... but I'm just a stupid Noob, too.

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yea move em around..onces that are the furthest away move closer ... ect.... .doesnt disturb them at all...except giving them more light that they want

it's like having a cloudy day or hit with shade for a while

Yeah I need some Mg in my plants but the vegging feed I got doesnt have any So could I feed my plants with some of my flowering nutes to give em that kick of Mg they need? Its floranova

My 400W setup.

alrite pple just got myslef a 400w yesterday. got 2 girls in flower bout 3 weeks or so left. had them under a 150watt MH. so hopin they will fatten up to fuk in the last couple of weeks ere. im using canna bio flores and just gave them canna PK13/14 y'day. will post more pics over the few weeks.

heres so pics of them

oaye and the first pic is white widow and the second is ice

My grom room 6x4x4
400 dubbs
Agriculture grow mix
temp 82

d@w$y said:

alrite pple just got myslef a 400w yesterday. got 2 girls in flower bout 3 weeks or so left. had them under a 150watt MH. so hopin they will fatten up to fuk in the last couple of weeks ere. im using canna bio flores and just gave them canna PK13/14 y'day. will post more pics over the few weeks.

heres so pics of them

oaye and the first pic is white widow and the second is ice

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cool Im growin ice/widow as well
are your widows growin really fast?

Lizard.King said:

cool Im growin ice/widow as well
are your widows growin really fast?

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yeah dude she seem to be fatten up everyday or im just too monged and thinkin she is