260 square foot flower room

Greenmanalberta

New Member
So I’m doing a 260 square foot flower room I’m thinking of using 10 1000 watt Cmh lights in it remo Nutes (love remo) soil grown cannabis I figured I should be able to pull 1 gram to 1.3 per watt my veg room is 10x10 with 2 600 watt quantum boards and 2 4 foot 8 bulb florecent grow light fixtures anyway was wondering if Cmh average pull is a gram plus?
 

Renfro

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I gave DE CMH lighting (3000k) a run next to my DE HPS. The flower was fluffier and not as dense as the HPS nugs. Resin production was excellent with the CMH but I wasn't impressed with the yields. Quality LED lighting really impressed me with density, running a 3500k COB setup really produced beautiful nugs that were denser than the same cut flowered under HPS.

If it was my grow I would likely stick with HPS for flowering. If money was no object then I would hang some HLG 650r lights but they aren't cheap. Gavita LED would be my next choice. Really though you end up spending 3x as much on lighting when you go with LED and output diminishing over time is a big concern, I have heard figures of 20%+ reduction in 3 years due to the surface of the LED reacting with compounds in the air. The real energy savings with LED come from your air conditioner, it is fighting about 35% less wattage and you don't want to set the temperature as low as with HPS due to the lack of IR.

Call me a dinosaur but if it aint broke, don't fix it. HPS is still my go to lighting for commercial production.
 

sf_frankie

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Chinese LEDs are really starting to catch up in quality to the name brand stuff. And the prices are super reasonable. I don’t expect them to last more than 3 years and figure there will be some new tech to take advantage of by then anyway. Worth a look. I’ve been impressed with my lights thus far but I am admittedly new to this. My growing partner has been in the game his entire adult life and while he was super reluctant to try these out at first, he’s now a believer.
 
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