My plan for vegging...Any thoughts?

[weedlover_89]

Hello to everyone...I have a room that i am using for vegging currently in a 20/4 schedule. I have 1500w of led+600w of HPS for vegging 25 plants and in the tests i did, the room is already hot with all lights on.

For now i don't have all lights on since plants are in seedling stage. But in 2 weeks max i will have to turn all of them on. I was thinking maybe i could add 1-2 HPS/MH and have the led lights on for 12 hours (1500w total) and for the rest 12 hours i could have the 2-3 HPS/MH 600W (1200-1800w total).

That way i would be able to control heat much better since instead of running 2200 W for 20/4, i would be doing 1500w Led for 12 hours and 1200-1800w HPS/MH for the rest 12 hours.

Now i see 2 problems arising.

1)The fact that i started with 20/4 and i don't know if the switch to 24/0 will stress plants.

2)The fact that i have mostly sativa hybrids (Silver Haze #9, Blue Dream, C99, Sex Bud, Panama) and they would stretch more going this way?

What do you think?

 

[Scrappy-doo]

Switching schedules won't hurt your plants.

You can control heat easily with a thermostat controller. Plug one or more lights in, set the temp and they turn off whenever it gets too hot while your other lights stay on to keep everything in on schedule. Kinda like simulating clouds. Cheap and effective way to keep perfect temps in the room.

 

[aridbud]

Increasing light won't stress plants. It's when you dramatically decrease or fluctuate light schedule sets off stress hormone action, as does lower temps.