TriWingGirl
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If you want 1000 watt flowers you have to use 1000 watt lights.
I would have normally used 1000 watt lights during flowering. this time i used 600 watt lights for a couple reasons. My 1000 watt lights were old and needed to be replaced and i could not afford new ones. also i had discovered that the 1000 watt lights in my small room fried the plants to a nice brown crisp. However they were still 1000 watt big, just fried. You need a real high ceiling to use 1000 watt lights mine is not high enough and the lights end up to close to the plants.
this time i used the 600 watt bulbs for a total of 1200 watts in the room. I had to group the plants closer to the lights. i had way less light penetration. And much smaller flowers, about half the size of the 1000 watt lights. Still very nice just small, not as dense.
I am hoping to get new ballasts that will power 750 watt lights for next time. i figured why spend money on lights i know will burn my crop. save the money and buy something that will work as well and not burn the crop.
It is amazing how things grow under smaller lights. if you have a flat SOG canopy all the fruit close to the lights will be fine. If you try to flower full grown 7-8 ft tall plants under smaller lights the tops are fine everything else is small. You end up with a lot of shading because everything is put so close to the lights.
I am also discovering that moving the smaller lights can help with the light penetrating through the whole crop and allow you to spread them out for better air circulation. I you are using large or small lights leaving them stationary will eventually burn the plants directly under the lights.
I would have normally used 1000 watt lights during flowering. this time i used 600 watt lights for a couple reasons. My 1000 watt lights were old and needed to be replaced and i could not afford new ones. also i had discovered that the 1000 watt lights in my small room fried the plants to a nice brown crisp. However they were still 1000 watt big, just fried. You need a real high ceiling to use 1000 watt lights mine is not high enough and the lights end up to close to the plants.
this time i used the 600 watt bulbs for a total of 1200 watts in the room. I had to group the plants closer to the lights. i had way less light penetration. And much smaller flowers, about half the size of the 1000 watt lights. Still very nice just small, not as dense.
I am hoping to get new ballasts that will power 750 watt lights for next time. i figured why spend money on lights i know will burn my crop. save the money and buy something that will work as well and not burn the crop.
It is amazing how things grow under smaller lights. if you have a flat SOG canopy all the fruit close to the lights will be fine. If you try to flower full grown 7-8 ft tall plants under smaller lights the tops are fine everything else is small. You end up with a lot of shading because everything is put so close to the lights.
I am also discovering that moving the smaller lights can help with the light penetrating through the whole crop and allow you to spread them out for better air circulation. I you are using large or small lights leaving them stationary will eventually burn the plants directly under the lights.
