So im in the pre stages of planning a new grow room (or rooms) and I want to do a continuous cycle grow and try to harvest every 6 weeks so I plan on haveing three rooms or more so one room but sectioned off into three so light won't affect other rooms..to just kinda explain my question further I first need to say I plan on having a clone/mother space with prob a few t8 posably even t5 halogens to keep 2-4 mothers in constant veg state to make clones from (during week 3 of flowering to insure all my rooms are always being used) in my flowering room (will be the biggest with 12 pot hydroponic bubbler buckets system) I'll be using 2 1000w hids (air cooled) I kinda want to run 3 of them but being you should only really hook two togeather for air cooling and cost on electricity and the light itself im going to stck with two for now unless I add 4 or so more pots down the line and test to see if another light could just be overkill....in my bf room is where I'm running into lighting questions..I know t5s seem to cause the plants to be fuller while young in veg and hps seem to make them grow taller but less full (most of the time anyway) but to acheave a 6 week cycle grow I need to have my veg room do 2 weeks of (pre)flowering and I plan to top them ether in week one or week 2 when I move them into the main flower room..anyway before I end up on more of a tangent..
My main question is what kind (wattage) light should I use for my veg room? I'm thinking use t5s or 8ts posably for the first couple weeks or maybe even till its time to start flowering them..or (im told once they get to a certain hight 18" or so the t5s and 8s don't really penetrate enough to get the bottom layers) so I might switch them over to mh bulb but I'm not sure if I could get away with one 600w or if I should use two or if I could even get away with using a 1000w demmable ballest with a wider shade and once I hit the 4 week Mark switch it to an hps bulb..so my question is is guess would it be ok to start them on the flower schedule with just a 600w hps or should I get a 1000w hps that's ddemmable down to 600w during flowering orrr if I should just use a 1000w during the veg and flowering..my main concern is starting them into flowering with less light than they will have in the main flowering room after 2 weeks of getting use to the new light cycle and prepair in them to bud..but I feel like 2 1000w hps for veg and prefliwering (two weeks) is kinda oberkill what would you sujest if anyone has there own continues 6week cycle set up or knows if I should be able to get away with just one 1000w demable ballest and a 600w mh bulb (or even maybe just a 1000w mh) after they get 18" or bigger and swap over to a 1000w hps for the two weeks preflowring and later move them into my flower room with two 1000w hps ballests...also note in my veg/preflower room I plan on using a closer togeather hydroponic method of growin the (so one light should be able to cover all of them)than when I transfer them to the man flower room they will each be in there own pot and more spreed out (the main reasion im swirling to two lights...
Also off topic has anyone used virtualsun lights or there fan/carbon filter setups..im mostly curious how well there carbon filters work for smell reduction and how loud there fans are..thank you in advance with any advise
My main question is what kind (wattage) light should I use for my veg room? I'm thinking use t5s or 8ts posably for the first couple weeks or maybe even till its time to start flowering them..or (im told once they get to a certain hight 18" or so the t5s and 8s don't really penetrate enough to get the bottom layers) so I might switch them over to mh bulb but I'm not sure if I could get away with one 600w or if I should use two or if I could even get away with using a 1000w demmable ballest with a wider shade and once I hit the 4 week Mark switch it to an hps bulb..so my question is is guess would it be ok to start them on the flower schedule with just a 600w hps or should I get a 1000w hps that's ddemmable down to 600w during flowering orrr if I should just use a 1000w during the veg and flowering..my main concern is starting them into flowering with less light than they will have in the main flowering room after 2 weeks of getting use to the new light cycle and prepair in them to bud..but I feel like 2 1000w hps for veg and prefliwering (two weeks) is kinda oberkill what would you sujest if anyone has there own continues 6week cycle set up or knows if I should be able to get away with just one 1000w demable ballest and a 600w mh bulb (or even maybe just a 1000w mh) after they get 18" or bigger and swap over to a 1000w hps for the two weeks preflowring and later move them into my flower room with two 1000w hps ballests...also note in my veg/preflower room I plan on using a closer togeather hydroponic method of growin the (so one light should be able to cover all of them)than when I transfer them to the man flower room they will each be in there own pot and more spreed out (the main reasion im swirling to two lights...
Also off topic has anyone used virtualsun lights or there fan/carbon filter setups..im mostly curious how well there carbon filters work for smell reduction and how loud there fans are..thank you in advance with any advise