Hey Ghost, tell me somthing will ya.
Do u use a HID light for the first month or so of Veg.?
I personally use 4x40 watt flouro tubes, cool white. I mount them into a hood I make that has sides that poject at about 30 degrees from the flat roof I screw the light fixtures to.
One complete side is hinged so I can access the plants easily, and the sides extend down around 30 cm, so the plants get close light reflection by painting the inside of the unit with flat white paint.
The whole turn out is hung on a couple chains fom the roof, and the plants sit on an old desk, currently just in big saucers, and I hand water them every day, and allow them to soak up the nutes from the bottom up.
I'm not staying here, so I am not making anything more elaborate for the plants to drink from until I move.
Then {after I move} I reckon I'll get the cutings going in the aerocloner that get's talked about here so much, and after they come out of that; I'll drip irrigate them in baskets of clay rocks in a gutter or something. Then they can just drop into DWC with no probs.{that's all later though}
In the first month, I let the 4 tubes go around the clock on the plants, although when they are fresh cuttings I just have 1 tube powering up.
By the time the plants are around 30 cm. the internodes are in huge numbers, although I haven't ever bothered to count them; they almost touch from one node to the next.
Nearly always they have burnt tips on the shade leaves, as I don't raise the lights until the tips of the newest leaves touch the tubes.
Hence the burnt tips.
It doesn't slow them up at all, so that's sweet.
What I wanted to ask u was if u always use HID for the first month, and how does the internodeing compare to what I just described.
I wish I had a digital camera, I would show ya.
Also, I gather at present u have similar amount of plants in DWC and flood and drain.
I'm still unsure weather to flower these in DWC or flood and drain, as I said at the outset; the plants are in 4 inch rockwool cubes, and I'm worried about stem rot.
What are your DWC plants in for medium? If anything at all that is.
But let us know what the growth rates compare between the two regimes will ya, and what sort of final weight analasys turns out from the experiment.
But anyways, the main point is, are u happy with the results from vegieing under a HID, and if so, I gather it's a SonTAgro or are u useing MH for this?
I'm just qurious what other gardeners are doing, and how successsfull it is for them.
I'd hate to be doing something when there is a better way.
rob
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