Enviro lights

[James666]

Hi ppl,
Anyone use these envirolight things....There compact floro's.....Just after some feed back....I've been considering going for it....Was always going to grow with HPS but the running costs and heat could be a problem.
I'll attach a link incase anyone dosn't know what I'm on about.
Cheers
James.

http://www.3countieshydroponics.co.uk/system/index.htm

 

[GMT]

Ah you're in the UK, great, Argos has 3 compact flouro bulbs for 7 quid. I keep my veg going with one of them. You'd need quite a few all hooked up to flower with them though. If heat is a prob I'd go for a 250 w hps and try to vent well. Personally I just took the back off an old wardrobe and stucke a 400w in there for flower. Doors open and no back combined with the reflector at a 45 degree angle sends a lot of the heat out anyway.

 

[James666]

I was thinking about going for flouro lights for veg and moving to a 250w hps for flowering. The cabnet I've got in mind is a standard size wardrobe. I've got no experance with lights and the heat problem is abit of a worry...not just from the plants health point of view but I'm also abit dodgy that I might come home one day to find my house on fire.

 

[GMT]

You've got guys on here with 1000's of watts going, 250 shouldnt really be a worry, so long as you have ventillation.

 

[Buddy]

Hiya,

A lot of people have called me a fool when i started this grow, but I use envirolights for growth as well as flowering. I started growing the seedlings for some weeks under 6500K, and then switched bulbs to 2700K a week after inducing flowering.

If you use the same wattage as you'd do with HPS, the results shouldn't stay that much behind. But what i see now, doing my first grow, is that it goes perfect.... untill you get in the last weeks of bud stage. Then it'll go a bit slower than with HPS. Anyway i see some nice buds forming in my closet, running on 1 x 200 watt Envirolight, supported by 4 smaller energy savers.

Hint: keep your lights as close to the plants as possible!
A good harvest can be done for sure... A very important advantage is the better controllable temperature: not any higher than about 29 degrees with the lights on. Ï also believe that you get a higher quality photosynthesis, eventhough the process is slower.

Some pics of my buds right now:


Early Misty under Envirolights



Dutch Hope under Envirolights



Durban Poison



The setup!

Greetz,

Bud

 

[James666]

some cool pics there.......looks like you've got a good plant there from the flouros.

 

[GMT]

my flower room 1 400w hps

 

[James666]

cool room...that's the sort of set up I'm looking at getting.......I might be being thick here but do you keep the door shut on that?