400w HPS Day 30 Flowering, Any advise?

dusty82

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First grow I've had go this far, and I have no idea how I'm doing. Grown from seed (F6:MS-17/596 x MS-17/338 Clone) 8 week veg under 1000w MH.
 

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Dr.Azura

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Lookin real good for one month of flower. Actually, very well done.
So you vegged under a 1000watt, and then flowered under a 400watt?
If so, never start with a higher lumen output light, and finish with lower.
Kinda like showin them this wonderful environment and then cutting back the light more than a half.
If you veg with 400wt Mh then flower with 1000wtHps, you'd have a much bigger harvest.
 

dusty82

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I've got a 400w HPS and a 400w MH for the rest of my indoor garden, they share the room but the MH has a shield on it to keep the light concentrated on my veggies the HPS is unshielded and directly over my girls. If I can get my hands on a 1000w hps for the next grow I'll try that.
 

Dr.Azura

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Oh okay, I see. Well thats only 800, sorry I saw the title and got a lil confused.
You actually have a nice setup then. How do you keep them temps down? It would be a damn sauna for me if i had two of those babies.'
 

LadyZandra

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Yeah- getting only 400w after vegging in 1000w is not a good idea-- IMO- you are better off next grow switching out your 1000w for some T5's or CFL's so that when you switch the girls to the 400w they are getting a sudden increase in light intensity.
 

dusty82

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I've got my setup in the back corner of my garage which stays cool all day and I've got a 4" inline fan bringing cold air in the bottom, a 9" super volume straight fan forcing that cold air up in the ceiling and a oscilating fan moving air around the room. Temp stays around 26deg in the day and 13deg at night. Could I Veg and flower them under the 400w MH/400w HPS combo? Thus eliminating the need for the 1000w MH, it's big and gets really hot.
 
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