Hello, I've been reading these forums for quite a while and this is my first post =)
I have some specific questions about growing that I need answered.
Right now I have a grow area of about 1 meter by 1 meter by 1.8 meters (3.33 feet by 3.33 feet by 6 feet), and I was wondering if I should use a 250W HPS light or a 400 HPS light. Im going to grow some plants from seeds to maturity using exclusively HPS lights as getting MH+ballast for it cost too much money, and I don't know if I should get a 250W light or a 400W.
I read that the 250 light is perfect for my grow area, but I've seen some people on the forums who grow in a similar area use a 400 wat bulb and they had great success growing.
Also, I will be growing most of these from seeds and not as clones. What I want to do is to fit in as much as plants as possible and just mature like 1 little branch on each plant early to see if it's a female, so I can get rid of the males. I need to know what's the max amount of plants I can fit into my box.
for example, lets say theoretically the box can sustain 10 plants from veg to flowering at a time. What I want to do is put 20 little pots with seeds in, and then after I early sex them and find out which ones are male, Ill get rid of 50% of them and then I will be left with the max amount of plants the box is capable of growing.
Thanks in advance for the help
I have some specific questions about growing that I need answered.
Right now I have a grow area of about 1 meter by 1 meter by 1.8 meters (3.33 feet by 3.33 feet by 6 feet), and I was wondering if I should use a 250W HPS light or a 400 HPS light. Im going to grow some plants from seeds to maturity using exclusively HPS lights as getting MH+ballast for it cost too much money, and I don't know if I should get a 250W light or a 400W.
I read that the 250 light is perfect for my grow area, but I've seen some people on the forums who grow in a similar area use a 400 wat bulb and they had great success growing.
Also, I will be growing most of these from seeds and not as clones. What I want to do is to fit in as much as plants as possible and just mature like 1 little branch on each plant early to see if it's a female, so I can get rid of the males. I need to know what's the max amount of plants I can fit into my box.
for example, lets say theoretically the box can sustain 10 plants from veg to flowering at a time. What I want to do is put 20 little pots with seeds in, and then after I early sex them and find out which ones are male, Ill get rid of 50% of them and then I will be left with the max amount of plants the box is capable of growing.
Thanks in advance for the help
