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First Grow/Closet Grow - Need help and tips

That light would work just fine and yest u can definitly mix different lights in ur grow I perconaly use cfls hps and leds in my grow. U wanna aim for 500plus true watts for ur grow as long as ur over 500wats u will be fine
 
I love the bestva lights because they have a more ir red specrum that makes ur plants grow shorter and busherier with closer nodes for more bud sites
 
This might be a dumb questions but im not sure, how do you check how many lumens are in that LED it doesnt say?
 
You got the lights, you got plants growing. First grow will be all learning. The first 2 wks are slow, then plant begins to really take off. I would get them out of the tub. To get rid of heat, must have an exhaust fan to remove heat, or fan in doorway blowing in cooler air. Used the GWE site grow journals to make my self a list of needEd equipment , then seeds ordered. Good luk.
 
That is a question a lot of people ask. Actualy when it comes to light people who use hps/ cfl people use lumens when it comes to LED people use par value/umoles. Parvalue and umoles is the same thing just different term. Parvalue is the most accerent way of determining the power of the light that the plant actualy uses. But for HID and cfls most people can't offord par meters but the manufacture suplys lumens so that's why people use that. LEDS are such new tecnology for light that manufactures are up 2date and use par value for people. Now par value is a whole other thing to figure out but I can help ya. U need to find the par value at what distance ur gunna use if ur gunna use that bestva 800 the par value and distance in my opion should be. Kept at 6inchs above the plant as this is the distance I use my bestva at and is just fine and works great all from seedling to flower now the par would be. 1726 now to figure out ur true par is to take seconds per min times by mins per hour 60x60 equals 3,600 second per hour now times that by how many hours u will run it so I run mine 24/0 then if I grow photos when flower comes I switch to 12/12 but if I grow autos I leave it 24/0 for the full grow. So take 3,600 seconds per hour times by how many hours 3,600x 24 equals 86,400 seconds per day now times that by ur par value 86,400x1,726 equals 149,126,400 now this equals umoles now u need moles of light when dealing with LED so there's 1million umoles to 1mole so u take 149,126,400 and devide into 100,000,0 equals 149.1264 round down 149 moles of light per 24hours now if ur doing photos cut that number In half from 24/0 to 12/12 so ud have 75moles. Now u want around 150-200moles of light per day 200moles would equal a 1000watt hps roughly. But I do not know how to convert lumens to par so that I can't help and if anyone nows how to do it I'd love to learn lol
 
I was saying that because he said his were to hot, I've never used them but I don't think T5s get hot do they? Get fan for them. LEDs get kinda warm. Your plants could be females or they could be males,who knows , and you want know for several more weeks. That's why I was saying I get autos if you want to be smoking Good bud in a couple months, but that's just me plus keep growing those you got.
 
Are the lights I have enough for a full grow? when I first ordered the lights I bought three different kind of bulbs 3000k T5, 6400k T5, and 10000k T5. I originally thought I started with the 3k bulbs and move to the 6400k when they start to veg and 10k at flower but im not so sure anymore. Each bulb only had 2k lumens which is not very much they are also only 24watts each
 
Ive had a heat gage in the closet for a few days now it seems to be at a fine temp for now, I have two small fans in there between the lights and plants. The T5s dont get very hot, im gonna let these plants grow and order seeds when they are done/if they dont end up working out for some reason. although if I ordered seeds now and planted them in there would that be a problem for the older plants when I switch to 12/12 when they start to veg? if they are autos they grow a few weeks faster so I guess it would be ok... kinda answering my own questions here but not 100% sure
 
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Update sense yesterday, the one that fell over a few days ago from to much heat I believed ended up shriveling up and dying. I transplanted two of them into different containers because I thought they were getting bad drainage in the solo cups, hopefully the 1 gal smart pot isnt to big for that little guy
 

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it'll be fine. I put my autos straight into 3.5gal cheap black plastic pots once they germinate in jiffys.
 
I belive with cfl over 30 watts, they put more heat which makes them less efficient, because you need more fan power to remove the heat. If you want a second light, I would find a light to flower with. I use a 4 bulb t8 to start seedlings, then a 48 reflector mars, then flower under a 400 hps. I grow 3 autos at a time.
 
Hello, I got my humidity gage in today and it reads 38% which is low. I tried putting a bowl of water in there but that doesnt seem to work, I dont have a humidifier so im not sure on how I should raise the humidity
 
Like Jibbler says brother , the kind of cfls we're talking about you can get almost any dollar store. You need to do some reading on GWE about lights all you need to know is right there.
 
I would sugest leds there way better than cfl HID is the best in my opion but heat is a major!!!!! Concern with hps/mh as they can raise ur temp a lot! Like 40-60degrees more! So unless u have a big room or an ac dnt use hids leds are the way to go in my opion. I have used cfl leds and HIDs
 
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