I took the fan that is inside the box,
you can see it in a pic or two, and I relocated it to blow the air around the inside of the box, but not directly on the plants any more as they are stalk strong now, and the smell seriously tapered off. I opened the box this morning , and could barely notice it. I know Skunk will do that. If you leave Skunk alone it will smell, but not real bad untill you rustle the leaves , or start handling the plant, then it's like, all you know what, breaks out as far as smell, and I mean pee-u, but it is a good smell just super strong. So since no more rustling of my plant from the fan, very little smell. Yayyyyyy , I feel stealthy again.
yeah the tubes are 40 Watt each X 6 plus ballast X 3 two tubes per unit. From a monetary point of view, yeah I save a little, but compared to what ?
A 250 Watt Hps would draw almost the identical amount of electricity and would serve me even better for it's light penetration. So it's all relative.
I'm going for a 400 Watt HPS inhanced with the blue and the red. I figuere that should do me very well . I might even find a good way to use them all in combo.
I think that the stuff on the leaves is a reaction by the plant to a bit too much in the way of ferts since the MG soil is the 3 month feed stuff. I'm also watching for nute lockout as I heard that this can happen when you over treat for fungus gnats. The very end of some of the leaves are slightly burnt so I'm leaning towards over fert, and the need to flush occasionally to keep the salts washed out as best I can. It should all be ok when I move into flowering and the plants start demanding more nutes. It's all good.
smoke in peace
KingKahuuna