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Beer would also make C02 as it uses yeast to ferment if I remember correctly. We(my wife and I) have been fairly successful growing food under the lights, and starting plants like brocolli under the lights and then moving them outside to the garden. Something kinda neat about eating a salad...

Instead of having the one way check valve(water bong essentially) on the jug, I will use a length of food grade hose to pipe the c02 into the checkvalve that would be located in the grow area. This would keep my wine away from direct light and heat.

Last time I used a 4L milk jug with yeast+water and there was a noticeable increase in growth with my super cheap DIY C02 gen. Seeing as I want to make some blackberry wine this year I'll use the wine to supplement my C02 for the plants. Yes you are correct, there is still so much more for...

The information you are providing is not correct to the best of my knowledge, a quick google search netted me this explaination. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Color+Rendering+Index Also, have you ever noticed that different environmental conditions will effect the light that...

I'm still in the experimental phase, and learning growing as I go. So by no means can I be used as a gauge to the effectiveness of this lamp, but I am trying to offer my observations of how much happier all of my indoor plants are under the CMH. There is no point showing my lettuce, tomatoes...

So that was my first "real and thought out" plant to be completed... a little early possibly though... So now I will add a C02 generator and upgrade my cabinet later this year...

Supreme Skunk? Under 400w Philips MasterColor HPS-RetroWhite, cabinet grow.

Today I chopped down my first fully flowered CMH plant. I love this lamp! Pictures will be posted in my CMH thread later today or tomorrow.

I am completely hooked on philips CMH lamps in the 400w size. I have a cabinet grow, that will be upgraded to the same area but 2x 400w CMH's. Following is the spectrum comparison between the two. Lumins is method of measuring light intensity as humans see it, and it is not an accurate means...

If you're going to use a CMH, use a real one!!! Buy Philips or GE, I use Philips PN: CDM400s51/HOR(horizontal) or V(vertical)/4k/Alto. I'm not going to get into the long and short of it, but no other brand has the R&D and safety standards of Philips (though I imagine GE is along the same...

I agree with that!

I know a lot more about lighting than I do growing, that is for sure.

CMH walks all over LEDs. Besides mass lighting isn't what the LED design was intended for. High Intensity Discharge and the newer technologies of the same concept (sulfur plasma as an example) will continue to be more cost effictive and efficent than LEDs for growing. Like this isn't rock...

Yeah mine are crossing into 5 weeks with some red/orange. One plant did hermi on me and nailed itself... though I don't know yet if it nailed any of the other plants... at least the other plants still have some white pistoles where as the hermi was all red/orange with leaves loosing color.

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Well the wife and I will forgive you this time! I still need to get off my ass and get a journal going but now I kind of want to wait until i build the next cabinet to replace the current unit. I`m really liking the 4 cola though, because while I can only go 2 plants deep instead of 4, I get 8...

Hey UB! You don't remember that I'm into all that high tech stuff? I'm using 400w Phillips MasterColor HPS-Retro Whites (cdm400s51/hor/alto/4k). It is mounted in a 1.25m tall enclosure with white plastic walls... in fact there is an interior picture of the setup somewhere in this...

Yes, I'm doing it right now. Though I'm using promix and not "real" soil. Strain is Supreme Skunk and it has no issues staying nice and short if you give it the right environment. I'm having decent success, other than I need to find a better way to keep the plants close to the light while...

It's about, not "bowt", please stop abusing the English language. How much area is the light covering? Do you have a light meter to check the amount of light coming down? I'm running a 400 w CMH over a 2'x3' area and it is on the underpowered side once my cabinet is full of plants. My next...