LIGHTING QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Roll That Shit]

If im doing ten plants with a MH for veg and a HPS for flower how many watts are my lights gonna have to be. Thank you

 

[BunchOfPiranhas]

how big

how big

depends how big. I'd day at least 600. You will need less for veg than you will for flower. 400W would more than cover you in veg. 600 for flower maybe. Again, depends how big the plants get.

 

[Guest]

i use a 150 watts for veg...and 600 watts for flower..perpetual grow one comes out one gos in

 

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do you think 1000 would be to much they probably would be like 4 to 5 feet im not going to lst just grow them out tall

 

[Hal]

65-70 watts per square foot would be nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Guest]

600w is optimum/most efficient for indoor growing. 1000w = more heat to deal with.

Some will swear by the 1000... the bottom line is... both will work.

I recently dumped a 1000w for two 600w HPS.

Mais~

 

[Roll That Shit]

so one 600 watt hps would do it for flowering 10 plants and a 450 watt mh would do it for vegging 10 plants correct. i just wanna get it right

 

[Guest]

RTS, good luck with your grow!

I recently dumped a 1000w for two 600w HPS.


Mais~

How is this working, Mais? I was thinking of replacing 2 1000w with 4 600w!

 

[Guest]

so one 600 watt hps would do it for flowering 10 plants and a 450 watt mh would do it for vegging 10 plants correct. i just wanna get it right

bro as your canopy gets bigger(wider) you'll need to move around your plants maybe..to make sure they get lower light....but 450w MH should be ok for veg. i prefer more for ten plants because of the width of space it will end up consuming..but you should be fine.

 

[Janis Joplin]

I use 1000 watts Hortilux HPS to flower and four 40 watt floros (Chroma 50's) to veggie. The grow area is 4 x 4. Seems to me that the plants should be allowed to grow toward to light source, not ever turning the pots.

I honestly cannot tell the difference between my 1000 watter an the 600. Great bud either way. I can tell the difference with the light bill comes.

 

[leentu]

Hello all,
Ive always understood that A growers garden needs to have about 50 watts per square foot.

 

[Jam Master Jaco]

I'm not trying to be rude, but with a question like that I doubt you've done adequate research to get a succeful grow going. You can have ten tiny little rooted clones under a 150 watt hps or you can have 10 huge trees under 10,000 watts of light. Here is a chart to let you know how big you can let your plants get under certain hps lights: (click on it to make it bigger)