I guess putting that light together took longer than I thought, I did learn all I need to know about ballasts in the process. The next one won't take more than a couple of days. In the meantime we are making some progress with filling up the production line.
Here is the mother/ clone/ seedling side. The clones on the left were just taken Wednesday, the seedlings are four weeks old today, I retired 5 mother plants and have replacements on the table.
Tables 1 and 2. Table one is all clones taken on 9/2, not quite the size we want yet, they went into flowering on 9/12 and 9/13 and yes, I know I rushed them a little, they are in 3" rockwool cubes placed in pots with coco-coir, seem to be doing ok for a week. Table 2 has some room on it which will be filled today with 24 of the widow/cindy seedlings, some of those will be male. I did save 10 of those to let them veg a little, take clones and sex the clones, which I have been told for the last two years is the correct way to sex your plants, old people are just slow to learn, gotta luv old people.
Table 3 and 4. Now these tables have been in flowering under the t-5's from 4 to 6 weeks, average length of flowering has been close to 12 weeks which is the reason I made the change (well that and someone gave me a 1000watt ballast) By the time I figured out the 'free ballast' didn't work, I already had about $400.00 invested in the air handling, bulb and cooltube, and Batwing Reflector. The new ballast with the baasr was $170.00. I routed the air handling over the top of the other two tables so all I have to do when I put the next one together is cut out the section for the cool tube, install a couple of clamps and plug it in. I used 6" ducting and bought the 200cfm in-line duct fan (axial) you could use 4" flexible aluminum dryer type ducting for a little less than I spent, in the case of keeping the light cool more is better. I put the fan on a timer, it comes on when the light does and runs for 15 minutes after the light shuts off. VV
