Home | Community | Message Board


High Mountain Gold Compost
Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Growery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds, High THC Strains   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   OlympusMyco.com We’re Not Chasing Unicorns—We’re Building Quality (Olympus Myco Grow Bags)

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
InvisibleDr. SiekadellykM
Question Everything!
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/20/09
Posts: 9,366
Loc: Ketamine Flag
Trusted Cultivator
OG Cultivator
Re: When should i switch my lights?? [Re: Yungpunk]
    #227408 - 05/18/09 07:30 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

how much space (in inches/feet) do you have between your light and grow medium (soil/etc...).....


--------------------
The Kratom Report...

Edited by Dr. Siekadellyk (05/18/09 07:35 AM)

Extras: Unfilter Print Post Top
InvisibleDr. SiekadellykM
Question Everything!
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/20/09
Posts: 9,366
Loc: Ketamine Flag
Trusted Cultivator
OG Cultivator
Re: When should i switch my lights?? [Re: Yungpunk]
    #227415 - 05/18/09 08:47 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

well if you have 1 foot total to work with....your light needs to be 6-8 inches away unless you have good ventilation then you could put it about 4 inches away......so that only leaves like 4-8 inches of growth room whch is pretty much impossible to get a harvest unless you flower them as soon as their rooted and even then your electric bill will be multiple times the $$ worth of your harvest so you'd be losing money.... so i suggest going and rolling a fat one...smoke it... and try to figure out how to get more height in your setup!....
:gethigh:


--------------------
The Kratom Report...

Extras: Unfilter Print Post Top
InvisibleDr. SiekadellykM
Question Everything!
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/20/09
Posts: 9,366
Loc: Ketamine Flag
Trusted Cultivator
OG Cultivator
Re: When should i switch my lights?? [Re: Yungpunk]
    #227418 - 05/18/09 09:25 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

?i did read the journal and i just explained why in my last post? 1 foot is not much especially when including light radius....your plant is short, bushy and looks good, but it will most likely elongate more too (depending on the strain)....so there wont be many internodes for buds to grow if its only gonna be 6 or so inches....im just saying around another 6 inches to a 1 foot would be perfect and more worth the work if you know what i mean........it doesnt seem to hard to get a little more height in there.....(add another tote or something)


--------------------
The Kratom Report...

Extras: Unfilter Print Post Top
InvisibleDr. SiekadellykM
Question Everything!
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/20/09
Posts: 9,366
Loc: Ketamine Flag
Trusted Cultivator
OG Cultivator
Re: When should i switch my lights?? [Re: Yungpunk]
    #227426 - 05/18/09 09:57 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

yeah add the tote.....and keep the light like around 6 inches from the plant because the closer you have the light to the plant the more "Lumens" the plant can absorb from the light....but dont put it closer than 4 inches because then heat is a problem and your plant will start to burn......with a 150 watt HID you could put it at a minimum of 4 inches away (only if you have good ventilation)....and i wouldnt put it any further away than 8 inches because then your losing light power.... thats way 6 inches would be a good medium with no risk of heat stress or loss of light power!


--------------------
The Kratom Report...

Extras: Unfilter Print Post Top
InvisibleDr. SiekadellykM
Question Everything!
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/20/09
Posts: 9,366
Loc: Ketamine Flag
Trusted Cultivator
OG Cultivator
Re: When should i switch my lights?? [Re: Yungpunk]
    #227435 - 05/18/09 10:30 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

what kind of light do you have a Metal Halide/ or High Pressure Sodium?....and you said that the plant was under the ballast? so are you saying that the ballast is connected to the reflector???...if so then the heat was most likely the death of your one plant because a ballast can get pretty hot....(i have a 1000watt and i cant even touch mine).....
Quote:

ill work on ventilation and see if i can improve that a little bit first


(yeah do that first)
and always remember the earlier you flower the smaller your plant will be at harvest....but always leave room for it because it grows even during flowering just not as much and as fast.......once you get the other tote up measure it then come back and say how much height you have then it would be easier to determine when to flower so you can take advantage of all the space you can....


--------------------
The Kratom Report...

Extras: Unfilter Print Post Top
InvisibleDr. SiekadellykM
Question Everything!
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/20/09
Posts: 9,366
Loc: Ketamine Flag
Trusted Cultivator
OG Cultivator
Re: When should i switch my lights?? [Re: Yungpunk]
    #227449 - 05/18/09 11:15 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

oh o.k. you have a flourescent! those dont put off much heat at all!.... you can definately put it closer!


--------------------
The Kratom Report...

Extras: Unfilter Print Post Top
InvisibleDr. SiekadellykM
Question Everything!
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/20/09
Posts: 9,366
Loc: Ketamine Flag
Trusted Cultivator
OG Cultivator
Re: When should i switch my lights?? [Re: Yungpunk]
    #227460 - 05/18/09 11:43 AM (15 years, 9 months ago)

the one pic in your journal that you said "i pulled the lil' guy"....the plant looks a little nutrient deficient which would cause slowed growth but beside that it still looked very much alive!


--------------------
The Kratom Report...

Extras: Unfilter Print Post Top
InvisibleDr. SiekadellykM
Question Everything!
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/20/09
Posts: 9,366
Loc: Ketamine Flag
Trusted Cultivator
OG Cultivator
Re: When should i switch my lights?? [Re: Yungpunk]
    #227466 - 05/18/09 12:16 PM (15 years, 9 months ago)

i mostley do hydro but i have grown in soil many times also......that mix seems like it should be good for a few weeks.....what week of veg are you on?


--------------------
The Kratom Report...

Edited by Dr. Siekadellyk (05/18/09 12:18 PM)

Extras: Unfilter Print Post Top
InvisibleDr. SiekadellykM
Question Everything!
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/20/09
Posts: 9,366
Loc: Ketamine Flag
Trusted Cultivator
OG Cultivator
Re: When should i switch my lights?? [Re: Yungpunk]
    #227471 - 05/18/09 12:33 PM (15 years, 9 months ago)

alright so do what i said above and then wait and update every now and then...
:bigweed:


--------------------
The Kratom Report...

Extras: Unfilter Print Post Top
InvisibleDr. SiekadellykM
Question Everything!
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/20/09
Posts: 9,366
Loc: Ketamine Flag
Trusted Cultivator
OG Cultivator
Re: When should i switch my lights?? [Re: Yungpunk]
    #228723 - 05/20/09 08:04 PM (15 years, 9 months ago)

lookin good!:thumbup:...if you use tap water then just let it set out in an open container for a day or two to let most of the chlorine evaporate before you use it...


--------------------
The Kratom Report...

Extras: Unfilter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds, High THC Strains   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   OlympusMyco.com We’re Not Chasing Unicorns—We’re Building Quality (Olympus Myco Grow Bags)


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Escaping Light
( 1 2 all )
Laysthepipe 9,634 31 05/22/08 05:30 PM
by Laysthepipe
* Switching the light cycle Harry_Ba11sachM 3,650 8 01/07/09 09:45 AM
by Sirius
* About Lights Picklez 5,457 1 07/04/09 12:30 AM
by captainmurphie
* Lighting Idea ezKiel 1,298 2 06/26/08 07:02 PM
by wowitch420
* UVB Lights
( 1 2 3 all )
coda 58,041 57 06/02/13 12:23 PM
by Hawksresurrection
* 18 vs 24 Hours of Light in the Vegative Cycle
( 1 2 3 all )
erb 23,138 51 05/12/09 04:33 PM
by Yrat
* Can a Seedling get too much light?
( 1 2 3 all )
DataM 39,991 45 06/21/09 07:31 AM
by Data
* are 2700 k lights suitable for floweing? peterpan 4,847 11 02/17/09 07:33 AM
by Harry_Ba11sach

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: FurrowedBrow, Magash, Data, Dr. Siekadellyk, phychotron
8,363 topic views. 0 members, 24 guests and 114 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:
Royal Queen Seeds Cannabis Seeds
Please support our sponsors.

Copyright 1997-2025 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.036 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 15 queries.