for you to state that a cola from 1 of your plants in an isolated incident that was closer to the light source with 100 watts per sq ft and "double" the size of the other nugs on the same plant or even plants next to it , is as flawed and biased a statement as I`ve ever read on a weedsite that MANY new members read and rely on , so please....
Let`s keep advanced and intermediate experimental attempts at growin dope to a minimum cuz MOST folks don`t ever get close to 50 watts per sq ft until they pass the "hobby grower" status.....IOW....
Why on God`s green earth didn`t you expose ALL your plants the VERY next following run to the EXACT same light so THEY would all be "double the size" of all your previous plant setups....I`m just sayin.....
I build custom light hanger bars for all my tents and it works like nothing else, a few yoyo's and your off to the races. The skeleton of the tent is just to flimsy to hang to much from it without screwin shit up.
I am about to swith out to a single cooltube with two mogul bases in it so I can run 1200w in a single hood over the bigfoot, like my 3x3 is. I run (2) 600watters in my 3x3 in a single super spectrum hood, works great.
I found the 3x3 setup to be much better and more effeciant than the 4x4 setups. I can pull as much wieght from the 3x3's much easier than the 4x4's, especially in a tent.
Tex
Regardless of what ya think, one 600w HPS doesn't not even remotely give you the same results as two, been there done that in as many combinations as you could imagine, 600/400, 400/400, 600/600, standard bulbs Philips, Sylvania, GE, eye hortilux, eye hortilux blue, Eye hortilux Super HPS, Hilux, and now we are playing with specific color spectrum CMH that are available in 3000k, 4000k, 4200k, 6400k, and 10000k lamps from Sun Pulse in order to really tune the usable spectrum for the plants.
I shoot for 3.5-4 lbs per 3x3 table
For the last year i have been using a 1000 watt agrosun inside my 4 foot tall 7.5 sq. ft flowering cab.
Thats roughly 133 watts per sq. ft.
I run a 300+cfm elicent fan which always keeps temps below 80.
I would like to run a cool tube so i could "overgrow" when needed.
I usually pull around 3 ounces per sq. ft. with my greatest yeild almost pushing 3.5 ounces per sq. ft. Which is way more than i ever could pull with my 400 watter in my given space.
Now i know using my 1000 watter isn't the most effiecent use of power or light but it is the most effienct use of my given flowering space.
BH......This is about increasing yields with 100 watts per sq ft according to the above posts , or did you miss that cuz you`re in attack mode.....
When I upped my watts per sq ft to 50 , my plants looked completely different from the PRONOUNCED trichome production increase , bud density , and overall "quality" compared to the EXACT same plant I ran almost a decade @ 34 watts per sq ft......
Go back and read instead of scanning over shit.....but...I said my last post was the last , so I`ll stay outta this 1 as stated earlier and maybe since you know NOTHING of 100 watts per sq ft , maybe YOU can chime in with some of YOUR experience ...oh...I forgot....
You have none in this respect , now do you.....
Sheesh....
As stated earlier since once again you "scan" over the thread , but "hone in" on my posts poised to jump in and start an argument , your assumption that I`ve only run at 50 watts per is again , an assumption....and....Only density and quality will increase. Please expand on this dhf.
If by quality you mean a higher bud to leaf ratio, then the trimmed yield would be increased. Are we talking increased potency? You get a better price.
I'm only using 45wpsqft and I got a 25% lab score. I'm happy with that. I might bump it up to 50-55wpsqft.
It wasn't an attack, I want to know what the difference is in quality between 50 and 100wpsqft. I've seen the difference between 35 and 50wpsqft. The increase in quality could be beneficial enough to justify the extra light, or not.