Originally Posted by
bootsy
thanks. Really wish I had the option to keep going longer, but unfortunately this is a big imposition on my wife and each week less will help. I will only be home every three to four weeks for a weekend at a time. Next try I will have better control and to be ready, so I consider this grow a success even if it stops now - i can see this being addictive. Incidentally, I got new photos in my gallery if there's any chance you might look, but havent figured out how to add them to a post yet. Note that they were just tied back to keep em from spreading too much. It is getting tight - one thing I would do is to have a different size tent if I could (but the deal was too good). 3 by 3 is inconvenient to get at back plants. I am using LED now, and just remembered the switch it has for flowering - what a difference in colour! I will at least wait till the branches all turn up and then plan on the HID. Regarding cost- I have a 350W heater in the tent basically on all the time day and night, and a 750w heater in the adjacent room, which seems to be working pretty hard most of the time. With this and the 300W light, I now get 25C in the day and 19to 20 at night. As suggested above, it seems worthwhile to use the better growing bulbs, and possibly using less energy overall. I did get the digital that are dimmable for possible less energy consumption. Interesting that in all my research before starting, it seemed cooling would be the problem, not heating
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