A friend and I are researching our grow room style.
We are definitely going hydro. Either hempy style or straight coco.
This is our first grow but we have been researching extensively and do not want to do soil, so please spare the recommendations to that.
These are the pictures that got me thinking about possibly getting 600 watt HPS instead of 1000.
It seems most people that grow and want big, go 1000. When I say "big" I mean people who grow for more then just for themselves and friends.
We want to grow big. But I am trying to explain to him what I have learned are benefits to using a larger amount of smaller watt lamps.
Here's what I think:
In the beginning it might cost more to buy 3-600 W HPS instead of 2-1000 W HPS but ultimately, it will be more cost efficient in other ways.
You can start right out doing a SOG style. I mean we can just buy the clones and they have little to no time required in veg. We can fit a lot more plants in the same area. Faster harvest. More efficient use of electricity.
I do see a down side that using system that requires us to water by hand causes even more work. But ultimately when we finish with this, we will have money to invest in an automated system and also precious experience.
And we will need many clones. At first we can buy them. We also will be setting up a veg room and mothers so we can supply our own soon.
There is a budget, but it's not super tight. We also have money to live off of so there will be plenty of time to do all the manual labor since we won't have real jobs.
So what do you all think?
Is there sometimes a case that can be made for using 600 w HPS instead of 1000?
We are definitely going hydro. Either hempy style or straight coco.
This is our first grow but we have been researching extensively and do not want to do soil, so please spare the recommendations to that.
These are the pictures that got me thinking about possibly getting 600 watt HPS instead of 1000.
It seems most people that grow and want big, go 1000. When I say "big" I mean people who grow for more then just for themselves and friends.
We want to grow big. But I am trying to explain to him what I have learned are benefits to using a larger amount of smaller watt lamps.
Here's what I think:
In the beginning it might cost more to buy 3-600 W HPS instead of 2-1000 W HPS but ultimately, it will be more cost efficient in other ways.
You can start right out doing a SOG style. I mean we can just buy the clones and they have little to no time required in veg. We can fit a lot more plants in the same area. Faster harvest. More efficient use of electricity.
I do see a down side that using system that requires us to water by hand causes even more work. But ultimately when we finish with this, we will have money to invest in an automated system and also precious experience.
And we will need many clones. At first we can buy them. We also will be setting up a veg room and mothers so we can supply our own soon.
There is a budget, but it's not super tight. We also have money to live off of so there will be plenty of time to do all the manual labor since we won't have real jobs.
So what do you all think?
Is there sometimes a case that can be made for using 600 w HPS instead of 1000?
