week 1 and2 days of 12/12 250w Hps Cabinet Grow

Growing 1 Delicous seeds Critical Sensi Star and 1 El Aquimista Samsara seeds

I am a little after one week from switching to 12/12.. To give some insight . I started out using CFLs but I was tired of getting a whole bunch of popcorn size buds and a few nice ones.
So I decided to get a 250w HPS and a cool tube . Which showed results right away.
On this grow I am using only Hesi nutes and a bottle of some stuff I got at the Spannabis cup which I tried on my White widow and seemed to work magic its called Umph Power.
The Umph power I only use after switching to flower and only for about the first 2 weeks to stimulate bud growth. You mix it in a spray bottle and mist the foliage.

Here are some photos of the plants taken today 10-31





Here are some earlier photos to give you an idea of how the whole grows been going.
10-22, a week ago when I first installed the light.


A couple weeks into Veg with CFLs, I think about a week before I got the lamp

Looks good,You should get some nice buds out of the setup, What are your temps like?

Looks good. Leaf texture a bit different than I'm used to. Guess it's just a strain I haven't grown.

dlftmyers said:

Looks good,You should get some nice buds out of the setup, What are your temps like?

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between 75/81 degrees

bioWheel said:

Looks good. Leaf texture a bit different than I'm used to. Guess it's just a strain I haven't grown.

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The earlier photos the leaves were curling from the heat off the cfls. The problem is you have to keep the lights close or you lose what penetration you do get. Thats why I went to Hps to keep some distance with pentration and the cool tube to get the heat out of there.

man...dont know how far away is your 250w...but i keep mine 8 inches above the buds without cool tube..just use one strong PC fan to blow between plants and lapm..

cooltube is for 600w + bulbs..waste of lumens

belive me..try to use that hose from cooltube next tu bulb to suck hot air, but without glass tube...same effect

Before I was using cfls with an exhuast and an intake pulling cooler air. Temps were high and leaves were curling . I think your grow beathes a lot better, in the tent but, I am in a wod cabinent that is sealed hot air tends to linger. Thanks for the comment. Next grow I will see what I can do to get more lumens and reduce temps. But I think I am going to have add some holes in the side of the cabinent and figure out other things. As of right now this is looking like my best cabinet grow and you know what they say, "If it ain't broke don't fix it"!