desant89

I have someone telling me that with a AeroFlo 36, he recommends 6 1000w HPS lights. I am newbie and do not know much, but have been reading a lot. He is telling me the more light, the more you the yield. Is this true?

afterburner

This is true... You could have the perfect garden setup, but without proper lighting you will yield nothing.

What is also true is if you had 6 1000 HPS lights you would be capable of yielding more than 6 pounds... Technically 12 pounds would be possible... Provided ample space and cooling. Note; This is also CRAZY and may land you sitting in prison for the rest of your days depending on where you live, and how careful you are. Also, not a good setup for a newbie...

Depending on where you buy it or if you build it yourself each of those lights could cost anywhere between $150 ~ $400. Each.

But I really reccomend you start out with ONE HPS light... Whatever wattage you decide, they range from 70 ~ 1000 so take your pick ;-)

I started with 400 watts, but I wished I'd bought 600... I now have 800 watts...

Hint: Read the grow guide if you havn't already. And the search option on these forums is veerry useful as hundreds of the questions you're already thinking about asking have probably already been answered on these boards :-)

Have fun w/ your new hobby & be safe!

Peace

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desant89

I hear you with the electricity consumption. I know some people get around that. I really asked it more just to find out if the more light mad more of a yield. Apparentyl it does......Thanks a lot for the information. I will be sure to read the guide. The part that is really confusing me is that I am trying to find instructions that are pretty specific if you were to use the aeroflo 36. Is it the same no matterwhat kind of system you use as long as it is aero?

afterburner

Sort of, If i were you, I would start out with soil at first. Stuff happens slower and your much more likly to be successful with your first grow. After you've learned some stuff then jump into hydroponics.


You dont want to spend a $h*tload of money and then have a failed crop now do ya?

Peace

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marknliz

Speaking as a fellow newbie I have to agree that there's enough to buy and have go wrong on your 1st grow that throwing hydro in there would really make it tricky. We carefully read and plan and strategize before every step, and we still have had a number of mis-steps just growing in soil. Nothing that's been fatal or that expensive, but shtuff happens.

OTOH if you have a hydroponics grow store near you that is an excellent place to buy equipment and get advice, and they cater to soil growers, too.

You'll do fine -- just keep reading and researching and posting.

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cecil_b

Start small and learn. You've got your whole life to go big.

With 6+ 1kw lights, plus the cooling, ventilation, etc. you'd be looking at nearly 10kw per month - thats more than some use per year. Definitely reason to hit the watch list.

"Getting around" electrical consumption does not sound on the up and up - this isn't the place for discussion of hacking your utility hookup or cheating the utility. Although if you're hooking up a solar or wind farm or fuel cell I'm sure people would love to learn about it.

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In this case the answer would be no it doesn't. The more light the more plants will produce up to their saturation point. After that it's a waste of money and if you go way overboard the light will actually start to bleach out the chlorophyl and reduce the plants growth. "The AeroFlo 36 is designed to fit an indoor grow light footprint of 3' x 3'." That's about 0.85 square meters. Each 1000W HPS generates about 150K lumens. Plants saturate at about 70 to 100k lumens/sq meter. Six 1000W lamps in 0.85sq meters is 10 to 15 times more light than the plants can use. Now, all that extra light that doesn't go into plant growth turns into burning heat (imagine the heat from fifty 100W incandescent bulbs). The plants probably couldn't survive it.

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desant89

So how much light is slightly more than enough for the aeroflo 36?