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Hello all, I am a new grower and here to learn

Quick question guys: which lights do you prefer? Im looking at a light for my first proper indoor grow. I was going to use LED, but got told some good info from from someone at one of the grow shops. He recomended THE HPS setup. Cause its tried and tested always gets good results, is is the best bang for buck. I was looking at an LED but only have max 4500 to spend and that's pushing my budget. So the led i found was small, and the guy selling the HPS SETUP made a good point that those wont have guarentee and will probably break, because its cheap. He does not sell cheap LEDS and and other reputable grow shops follow the same lead they only sell LEDS above 6K Then comes to the CMH light which is in the middle at 4500 which they say gets much better results because of the ligth range. Using a more white light than orange like the HPS. Which iv heard the hps works better for flowering, than growing. So your choice 1. HPS SETUP- R2000 with a warrenty thats with a ballast and its 600W 2. CMH setup R4450 globe alone is 1400 of that 4450 so if i break a globe its expensive unlike HPS WHICH IS LIKE 600 3. Cheap FULL spectrum Led with flower spectrum for R3000 and no warrenty https://www.somhydro.co.uk/blog/cdm-quality-over-hps-quantity. Good info on that site

PHello Canna Fam. Here looking for advice, 1st time indoor grower. Have experience with outdoors. I want to set up a grow room that is 2m by 2m. With about 6 to 8 plants in there or can I put more. Not too small. The question is , how much do I need? Looking at buying HPS 600W. Would one cover for all stages of growing? Also I want to feed organically? What experience has those who have tried it, gotten? How does one generate CO2 ,cheaply?

Greetings 420sa Long time lurker , thought i would post my latest grow. 4 plant perpetual Environment: 80x60cm micro cabs x 2 - Early veg\Clone 1x1m Tent - Veg 2x1m Cab - Flower Genetics: 3x Dutchpassion Jorges Diamonds no1 1X Dinafem Remo Chemo Medium Organic soil, own mix based on rev 2.0 base mix Coco coir Perlite Worm castings Compost Potting soil dolomite lime Bone Meal mycoroot This was mixed let sit, then watered with a compost tea and let sit for another month or so, not pushing for full nute free grow, rather a slightly fortified light soil. Nutes: Biobizz fishmix in veg, grow bloom for flower Kelpak foliar Epsom foliar Compost teas, humic fulvic amino etc Lighting: 5x20w cool white cfl - seedling\early veg Micro 3x20w mixed - Clone Micro '360w' apollo 8 spot led - veg(currently in for repairs on my desk hence hps) 2x 400w HPS - flower Ventilation: Micros, 12v pc fans various Veg ,6" extractor, no filter - to move to flower once flower cab is completed flower, 6" extractor with 150mm-500mm carbon filter The Jorges came to me from another grower in rockwool prisons, i nervously hacked them free and transplanted to soil at i would guess 3 weeks from seed judging by nodes and development. they battled initially with transplant shock and root damage causing some cal/mag issues early on, once transplanted to 10l bags the offset of soil to rockwool seems to have balanced ph better and are now starting to take off nicely. Transplanted to 10l Moved to veg tent Still looked quite pissed off with me at this point and where we stand today Remo was a clone gifted to me, sadly came with signs of mites so she went into quarantine and pyrol torture for a week or two. she has recovered nicely and is starting to show some good growth. Below pic on arrival after first pyrol treatment Remo a substantially happier plant