DrnkMonkey - Thanks for the info in my thread bro I just did a trans plant last nite and rip some roots but did my best to keep them think I need to!!! damn I wish I would've waited till this morning now that I read what you posted...
I am really glad that this thread is here because I tend to agree on the point of needing to reveg in a micro grow environment.CaptainStoner said:I think revegging is possibly more important to us micro growers, for many reasons. If we don't have a large mother/clone area, it helps to cut down the amount of clones we need, therefore enabling us to keep mothers smaller. Furthermore, We may not have a large space, but we may have a few little spaces around the place. If one was growing drbud style, one could put revegging plants in an old subwoofer box or similar. It also cuts down on the amount of soil/perlite we have to keep around the place - our local hydro store sells perlite in ENORMOUS sacks, but not in small sacks. However, the local exotic pet (lizards, tropical fish) sell it in smaller sacks. Didn't look at perlite when I last went to the conventional garden centre but i do remember seeing small bags of vermiculite.. useful.
Keeping plants small, cuts down on space used, and power used to grow them. Which brings me onto a question for all you reveggers out there.
I've seen evidence that LEDs are useful for veg (crap for flower i know) growth, and thinking about a tiny reveg box to hold 4-8 reveggers in small soda bottles, just till they're fit to go to 18/6 then back into flower... Do any of you think that maybe a LED panel like all those ripoff merchants on ebay sell fairly cheaply would be useful for this? or would one be better off looking for an 11-13w CFL? I'm not one of these 'LEDs are the bizzle' guys but i like the idea of using them wherever possible in a grow..
EDIT: Hmm. just re-reading the other reveg threads i can find.. People are saying any veg light cycle would do? If so i could just put em back in 18/6 with the mamas.. Hurm... I need some smoke so i can read this shit thoroughly and think it through
CaptainStoner said:MH/daylight bulbs are better than HPS for veg growth. It's all about the colour temperature of the light.
This is calculated based upon how hot one would have to make a carbon element to make it glow that colour. HPS good for flowering is 2700k (kelvin) which is more towards red colour. The same is true for 'warm/soft white' CFL.
MH good for vegging tends to be 3500-4100k which is mostly blue - cool white CFL are 4000k.
6400/6500k Daylight CFL are full spectrum, the same as the summer sun - a lot of blue in them though. Ideally i would guess these are the best CFL to use. The MH should work too, being a vegging spectrum. I'd say use the daylight CFL if you can get enough light from them. - my micro veg box uses 2x25w daylight cfl, and i'm going to try revegging in it.
I'll leave the other questions for people more experienced than me to answer. Hope this helps.
EDIT: Quazi, I will try doing this under LED eventually, unless someone else does before me or convinces me it wont work. At the moment I dont want my grow getting too complex, too many boxes etc but it is my plan to, over the next year or so, try and get the grow to support my needs under the absolute barest minimum wattage. At the moment, i'm around the 220w mark with lights, fans, airpump etc.. I'm thinking around the 150-175w mark.. Solar powering parts of the system is also something i am looking at.
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