Need to upgrade lights , help pls

afshinn · Sep 21, 2015

Hi people
As u can see in pictures , i have a grow room with 15 plants (22 days old )
Growing with 6 cfl 10 fluorescent and 2 mh400 far away from the plants in the corners of the grow room i need to upgrade or change the lights to reach at least 400gram harvest from each plant if possible.i also have 2m height in the grow room.
What would you do ?

Trynax · Sep 21, 2015

afshinn said:
Hi people
As u can see in pictures , i have a grow room with 15 plants (22 days old )
Growing with 6 cfl 10 fluorescent and 2 mh400 far away from the plants in the corners of the grow room i need to upgrade or change the lights to reach at least 400gram harvest from each plant if possible.i also have 2m height in the grow room.
What would you do ?View attachment 3504840 View attachment 3504844 View attachment 3504850

first thing I would do is put the mh's over the tops of the plants instead of in the corner, if you could afford more mh you could just do that, get even just one more and that could prob almost cover all 15 easy and you could keep the extra CFLs to hang in shade spots and promote lower bud growth

rkymtnman · Sep 21, 2015

you want 400 grams per plant? or per harvest?

rkymtnman · Sep 21, 2015

per plant, you'll need around 4 to 6 thousand watts of light, a cooling system, and a taller ceiling. 2M is too short in my opinion.

afshinn · Sep 21, 2015

Thanks for your respond .
I will add more mh for now till i switch them with hps ,
I also had some questions about carbon scrubber and super cropp but i dont know if i can ask em in the same thread?

grandpa 1949 · Sep 21, 2015

Were I am from, the electric company and police have started to monitor the amount of wattage used over a number of hours.
HPS lights use a lot of watts. I switched over to t5 lighting. I liked HPS lighting much better but the t5 do work, & sure beats jail.
Grampa 1949

DannyBlaze2 · Sep 22, 2015

afshinn said:
Hi people
As u can see in pictures , i have a grow room with 15 plants (22 days old )
Growing with 6 cfl 10 fluorescent and 2 mh400 far away from the plants in the corners of the grow room i need to upgrade or change the lights to reach at least 400gram harvest from each plant if possible.i also have 2m height in the grow room.
What would you do ?View attachment 3504840 View attachment 3504844 View attachment 3504850

How big is your grow tent in square feet or whatever? this is the biggest deciding factor of picking a light you wanna to shot for 50 watts per square feet. I have four hundred watts too but they look better than yours.

Trippyness · Sep 22, 2015

Mate, only way your going to get 400g per plant is a LONG Veg, but if your into that go for it.
My suggestion is you need new lighting.
WHat is your budget?
How high is your ceiling?
Id suggest either Genisis HPS bulbs.( covering a 4 x 4 footprint with good PAR)
5 gallon Grow Bags if you have the space.
If you have the funds Double Ended is where its at and if you have an even larger budget LED.

Please let us know what your space is and budget.

afshinn · Sep 22, 2015

Trippyness said:
Mate, only way your going to get 400g per plant is a LONG Veg, but if your into that go for it.
My suggestion is you need new lighting.
WHat is your budget?
How high is your ceiling?
Id suggest either Genisis HPS bulbs.( covering a 4 x 4 footprint with good PAR)
5 gallon Grow Bags if you have the space.
If you have the funds Double Ended is where its at and if you have an even larger budget LED.

Please let us know what your space is and budget.

Hi
I don't have a problem with time, i can wait 4-5 months for harvest.
I've decided to change the postion of mhs and keep the cfls and buy 1 or 2 more mh , then replace all the lights with hps in flowering .
Budget is not much of a issue right now.
And my grow room is 3mx3mx2m
But i dont think led would be a good idea for me right now since i don't have any info about em .
And About the grow bags, why do u think ill be needing them ?

hotrodharley · Sep 23, 2015

grandpa 1949 said:
Were I am from, the electric company and police have started to monitor the amount of wattage used over a number of hours.
HPS lights use a lot of watts. I switched over to t5 lighting. I liked HPS lighting much better but the t5 do work, & sure beats jail.
Grampa 1949

With the new Smart meters they have a lot more info than wattage. Timers are a dead giveaway.

DirtyMcCurdy · Sep 24, 2015

hotrodharley said:
With the new Smart meters they have a lot more info than wattage. Timers are a dead giveaway.

I've wondered about this myself. I have mine set-up so almost everything is off during "peak hours" which is 1pm-6pm so there is little draw on the meter but then at 6 we're pullin amps lol. It helps that it is in the evening and it is getting dark sooner but I still wonder if they look for spikes and monitor times? I might start staggering my timers a bit.

Bruce knowles · Sep 24, 2015

Trippyness said:
Mate, only way your going to get 400g per plant is a LONG Veg, but if your into that go for it.
My suggestion is you need new lighting.
WHat is your budget?
How high is your ceiling?
Id suggest either Genisis HPS bulbs.( covering a 4 x 4 footprint with good PAR)
5 gallon Grow Bags if you have the space.
If you have the funds Double Ended is where its at and if you have an even larger budget LED.

Please let us know what your space is and budget.

I've got 2 that have been in veg for 3 months one big ish topped ones and one I've topped3 Times trimmed and lots more she only small but sick. in that way were I'm going to say she going to give me more than the other 2 using cfl only in my room 450 watts of them 2 125 blue and one 200watts red how much do you think I may get off her

R1b3n4 · Sep 24, 2015

In the nicest possible way mate, it REALLY sounds like you could do with having a read thru the newbie forum on here an the associated sticky threads etc, if you dont even know where to position your lights or how to setup your room etc then you are going to need to learn the basics n progress gradually as everyone else has to instead of just basically asking ppl to design your room for you n tell you everything you need to know to grow in this thread etc

bravedave · Sep 24, 2015

grandpa 1949 said:
Were I am from, the electric company and police have started to monitor the amount of wattage used over a number of hours.
HPS lights use a lot of watts. I switched over to t5 lighting. I liked HPS lighting much better but the t5 do work, & sure beats jail.
Grampa 1949

Where is it you live? I really don't think they are systematically mining everybody's usage data looking for small growers. Not that they don't have the ability. It would have to be pretty wacked to reach the level of probable cause. If you suddenly added 4000w a red flag may pop...sure.

afshinn · Sep 24, 2015

R1b3n4 said:
In the nicest possible way mate, it REALLY sounds like you could do with having a read thru the newbie forum on here an the associated sticky threads etc, if you dont even know where to position your lights or how to setup your room etc then you are going to need to learn the basics n progress gradually as everyone else has to instead of just basically asking ppl to design your room for you n tell you everything you need to know to grow in this thread etc

I dont need you to come here and post rage kid replies.
And trust me you dont know half the things i do. I can explain the situtation to you but i just dont feel the need.
Have fun

fandango · Sep 24, 2015

grandpa 1949 said:
Were I am from, the electric company and police have started to monitor the amount of wattage used over a number of hours.
HPS lights use a lot of watts. I switched over to t5 lighting. I liked HPS lighting much better but the t5 do work, & sure beats jail.
Grampa 1949

A new light is out granpa...SunBrightCDL Agro Grow Light draws 315 watt but puts out 686 PAR

justugh · Sep 24, 2015

afshinn said:
I dont need you to come here and post rage kid replies.
And trust me you dont know half the things i do. I can explain the situtation to you but i just dont feel the need.
Have fun

Led man

odds are u are able to import still from China
http://www.ledzeal.com/p44.html

that is the maker ....contact them directly they will sell u 1 light or 1000 for a much better price then u would get from anyone else .......it is that little floating box as u scroll down looking at the info
light does 3 modes or u can program your own

i have 2 i like the results

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