Using MH & HPS at same time on autoflower. Thoughts?

J1LOVER

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First time grower here! I've been reading through a lot of forums and watching hours of different videos. I'm thinking about going with MH and HPS bulbs at the same time for an auto grow. With two 1000watt MH Bulbs with reflective Hoods and four hanging 400-600Watt HPS Bulbs from each corner during the veg state and then vice versa for flowering. Any thoughts on this? It would be much appreciated!!!
 
heres my theory behind it , just add up the watts from the 4 lights and then compare it to the 2 1000w its basically the same watts so if you ran 4 400w it would only be a difference of 400w of light when you changed spectrum 4 x 400w = 1600 2 x 1000w = 2000w
 
im planning on running the (4) 400 Watt Bulbs and the (2) 1000WATT Bulbs simultaneously. So for instance for veg. it will be 2 horizontal Hanging 1000watt MH Bulbs with reflective hoods and 4 vertical hanging 400watt HPS bulbs. This way the upper canopy is getting light from the MH bulbs and the lower canopy/sides of the auto's is getting the light from the HPS bulbs. Then when getting into the flowering stage ill switch to (2) Horizontal hanging 1000watt HPS Bulbs with reflective hoods hitting the top canopy and (4) Vertical hanging 400Watt MH bulbs hitting the under canopy and the sides of the plants.
 
Im planning on getting my system down with the auto's because they are easier to work with then planning to make the jump into photo periods.

Have you heard of titan controls?

Im thinking about getting the "hyperion 1 wireless (environmental controller) Heat, Humidity, Light and CO2 controller" by Titan Controls

Plus the "Bluelab pH controller"

amongst a few other things, I'm trying to take out as much human error as possible especially because its my first grow

still looking for a good reliable irrigation system with timer holding tank (Suggestions?)
 
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