I recently received an ungodly amount of equipment from a friend that’s retiring from the grow life, and I have adjustable ballasts that I can switch down to 500 from a thousand, so I’m wondering if it’s more efficient for growth to run an MH at half power, and an HPS at half as well, I have way more equipment than I’m going to need, and just looking to find out if anyone has done this, if it did anything for growth, and if it’s a bad idea, still green and I’m just looking to speed things up a bit Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
What I’m wondering is if I should run MH and HPS, I’m in a 4x4 with this grow, and I have the 1000w MH going for Veg right now, but I have 7 more ballasts, and 11 more hoods, so I’m just toying around with the idea Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
I also have all the pumps timers, CO2 tank and regulator, everything was giving to me, so I’m trying to put it to use, I already had this grow started when I got all this, and I only have so much area to use as of now Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
People talk about different frequencies of light and say using MH gets a bushier plant. I find it makes no difference at all save as for less lumens per watt for MH. What i do find is that adding a MH for the last week or two of flower send the buds into crystaled to death syndrome....
I had that thought, was reading on it, and I was thinking frequencies, I had an HPS in my tent, and I felt like I was starting to stretch, even at 22”, so I switched over to MH and my little guys started throwing nodes, super tight, had about an inch of growth in two days right after a feeding, so I’m pretty happy there, if I can get things set up I’ll get out of the tent and put all my ladies where they won’t be crammed in, I’m currently running a Nebula’s manifold on the plants in my tent, so I’ve got about a month and a half since seed, and have finished my topping, now it’s the agonizing wait for my plants to reach up far enough to get the net in, not doing a scrog, but I’m going to use my screen for support Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Thanks for the info guys, I’ve always been an outdoor grower, which is weird because I don’t like to smoke outdoor. I’m trying to get dialed in so I can run everything on timers, it’s just a matter of getting it done Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
So, I’ve got the MH running at 600, and the HPS running at 500, and the ell see what happens, I will say that overnight the leaves are becoming a darker green, I backed the lights up 26” to avoid heat issues, the exhaust from the hoods runs into one tube via a piece of tin, and then through the fan (each with their own intake), they run into the fan, which is run out of the tent and into an 8” fan on the other end of the tube, heat is maintaining, got up to 82, adjusted fan speed, back to 73, looking good for now me thinks, it does put a little heat out of my exhaust into the area my T5 is in, but I’m pretty sure I got that figured out too, when I turned fan speed up, temp came down from 91 to 79, pretty sure that takes care of the heat in both the tent, and my little veg area Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum