California Dream Grow (Skywalker Og)
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323cheezy
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Does this mean your replacing your light? or just changing the hood and bulb?
Or does this mean your putting a inline fan in your hood? im confused
lordjin
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There is a large suction fan sucking through the ducting attached to the light hood. The suction fan is pulling air conditioned air over the bulb assisted by a computer fan installed on the hood's open flange.
I would be removing the socket from the old hood and replacing the hood only with this:
It comes with a socket, but I'll just be using my native socket and bulbs in this thing instead of the fan cooled hood I'm running now. I would then remove the ducting and let the suction fan suck directly off the box for even greater air movement with little or no actual use of the ac compressor. It requires a huge external res of 50 gallons (if you're gonna roll without a chiller) with a 500gph pump constantly circulating that 50 gallons of cold water through that tube. Crazy, huh?
In addition to the power consumption savings, I'll be able to keep this light as close as 6" to my tops.
Edit:
There's a little loss of light intensity with this thing, but in a space as tiny as mine, it doesn't make a difference... and since the cool-to-the-touch 1000w hid can be placed as close as 6" from the plants... it'll be an overall improvement on my insane light to space ratio.
If you got one of these, you could run a 1000w light even closer to your plants since they're not trapped in a metal box. You'd probably close to double your yield if you did that.
lordjin
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Just an example: I see a lot of beginners running out and getting the 1000w straight off the bat thinking bigger light equals bigger yield. While this is essentially true, many noobs don't take into consideration that a 1000w hid light quickly transforms any small space into an oven if you don't account for heat extraction. The intensity of the 1000w bulb without proper heat control will only act as a plant killer.
I don't know the space of what you're growing in, but if you can manage a 1000w light without it getting too hot, your grows will kick ass considerably more. And if it does get too hot, you can get a co2 injection system and your grow would explode that way also... and you would never get pm. Of course if you got the water cooled and ran a big tub of water through it, you wouldn't have to worry about heat at all, and your plants would safely soak up all that light.
I don't know the space of what you're growing in, but if you can manage a 1000w light without it getting too hot, your grows will kick ass considerably more. And if it does get too hot, you can get a co2 injection system and your grow would explode that way also... and you would never get pm. Of course if you got the water cooled and ran a big tub of water through it, you wouldn't have to worry about heat at all, and your plants would safely soak up all that light.
lordjin
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DST
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I run 600's (of course) and with my cool tubes plants are easy 6 inches away from the light (some actually are suppoorted by the tube, lol).
What sort of cost is the water cooled hood Jin? My mate was talking about water cooling systems the other day but he puts lighting systems into supermakrets, not grow rooms, lol.
What sort of cost is the water cooled hood Jin? My mate was talking about water cooling systems the other day but he puts lighting systems into supermakrets, not grow rooms, lol.
lordjin
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Just showin' off my glass screen. My weed smoking efficiency has been improved. I'm so excited.
323cheezy
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High octane
sour dubbs
sour tahoe
These pics are from a couple days back ....
Now its about day 20...Im about 10 days behind jin...
They are gonna start triching up pretty soon id imagine...
Its gonna be a battle from here on out..
The sour tahoe wont stop vegging either almost a 4 footer now...
High octane
sour dubbs
sour tahoe
These pics are from a couple days back ....
Now its about day 20...Im about 10 days behind jin...
They are gonna start triching up pretty soon id imagine...
Its gonna be a battle from here on out..
The sour tahoe wont stop vegging either almost a 4 footer now...
wyteberrywidow
Global
Looks like some fire right there...Is this the raskal white fire? either way im sure the seeds will produce something worth the growsome whitefire og i got...
I guess ill add it to the list of future grows...
Found a gang of seeds in just one nug...
323cheezy
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hahaahahhaahhahaha.....
I think its gonna be a seed run next time ...
Should make my life much easier... damn old og cuts are prone to problems...
will have to do an low degree of difficulty seed grow this time...(white bubba, sour tahoe, and whitefire)...
You guessed it b... that rascals mix....
He vends through my club now exclusively mostly...
I think its gonna be a seed run next time ...
Should make my life much easier... damn old og cuts are prone to problems...
will have to do an low degree of difficulty seed grow this time...(white bubba, sour tahoe, and whitefire)...
You guessed it b... that rascals mix....
He vends through my club now exclusively mostly...
wyteberrywidow
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Sounds likE u got some fire in line.
. I'm Still trying to grab a couple cuts of the Louie VIII and abusive og
. I'm Still trying to grab a couple cuts of the Louie VIII and abusive og
Don Gin and Ton
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still keeping it on lock down i see cheeze lad. some fine nugs there fella!