Hey the new set up has been (almost) completed. I recently got the air cooled hood and hooked up a fan right into it and have ducting coming out of the fan. This shit works so good that right now I have to close this little space off (which is good because otherwise its fucking sketchy) just to keep the temps hot enough in there. I recently had a 50$ increase in my electric bill and don't understand why because I have done this before without this happenening. The funny thing is that my neighbors also had the same increase and only ended up paying like 3 dollars less than me. The only thing I did differently was put a SunMaster MH conversion bulb into my 400 watt hps htgsupply ballast, but I dont think that should do anything I mean the light was working really fucking good, but I switched it out anyways just to be safe back to the hps last night. I also put up some white poly or something I'm not sure what its called. But yah so I am feeding them fox farm grow big and wonderin how I should transition them into the flowering cylce. I need to do this quick cause I'm runnin out of space fast (these girls are doing great). Oh yeah forgot to mention I managed to get 8 females from 12 plants!!!! But is just this 400 watter gonna be enough for these 8 girls? Or should I consider some other options? The strains are mostly Bubblegum and Sweet Dreams. Thanks for ANY help in advance. Heres the pics, don't be afraid to ask me any questions if you want either.
Just like us plants like to have big houses and lots of room to move and grow. thats 8 plants?.. its gonna get real squishy in there..
400W wouldn't be enough for 8 plants even if you could fit them in there.. My guess is they will be begging for light around the bottom leaves.
What about if I trim most of the lower branches off before or in the begining of flowering? Would that help anything? Yah I kinda got lucky because last time I got 2 fems out of 8 plants so I wanted to make sure I would have enough this time, however I ended up with more than I expected. Now I dont really know what to do except flower em and see what happens. I dont really have the outlets for more lights because theres only one right next to this closet. Any ADVICE (not just telling me what I did wrong, but how I can actually fix it) would really help.