Ok...i like the direction you are headed...
understand...this is not Domino's Pizza...
these will take a while...
from Anti:
i will make this a sticky.
when you are ready to do a comparison grow, please start a new thread.
this one is just for suggestions/ideas to get the juices flowing.
understand...this is not Domino's Pizza...
these will take a while...
from Anti:
I noticed that we can't find posts helpful in this thread. Is this by design or an oversight? Seems to me that "helpful" posts would be of benefit in a situation such as this one.
PS - I'd love to see a 400w CMH vs 400w HPS side by side.
I am planning to upgrade my current CFL cab before spring. I will be building a bigger, taller cabinet housing a 400w CMH buttressed by 4 vertical 55w PLLs. Once this is built it will take over for my headstash production and my CFL cab will just be languishing.
I like the idea of someone doing side-by-sides for the community so much that I'm thinking that I'll volunteer my cabinet for whatever we can dream up.
My cab has two small chambers (2.01 sq feet each, 17"x17"x23", each with 252w of CFL behind glass.
Since both chambers share the same intakes and exhaust and are as close to identical as we're likely to find outside of a lab, it seems like they'd be handy at doing controlled side-by-side grows.
For instance, the subject of defoliation. Defoliating one plant and leaving it in a room with a non-defoliated plant and comparing the results side by side would likely be weighted heavily to the non-defol plant. However, defoliating 5-10 plants in one chamber and NOT defoliating 5-10 identical clones in the other chamber would allow us to see more realistic results, because the plants will not be competing for light or space.
Here are some pics:
It'll be a couple of months before I can devote the time (or cabs) to this project, but if people want to propose the experiments that we ought to do (defoliation being one) and begin to define our criteria, maybe we could create a poll based on those suggestions and by the time it's built I could run the experiment that had the most votes.
I would prefer to setup the conditions of each experiment in advance so that people don't chime in after 3 months and say "well, you forgot x,y,z, so your results are invalid."
Sleepy - If you think this discussion is a side-track from the thread could you perhaps create a "discussion thread" within this sub-forum and move my posts there?
i will make this a sticky.
when you are ready to do a comparison grow, please start a new thread.
this one is just for suggestions/ideas to get the juices flowing.