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Dez, so basically that sunmaster warm deluxe doesn't put out many more lumens than some six hundreds if I'm reading what you're saying correctly. I understand the difference between par and lumens, so where does the sunmaster lamp stack up as far as par is concerned with a six hundred is the question my mind asks. If you're not going to get much more benefit from that 1k than you would a six hundred, then I would opt for a regular mh lamp to go with your mh ballast, might as well get as many lumens and as much par radiation as possible. Why, in my humble opinion, waste the electric to run a 1k, not to mention the heat produced if you are not going to get much more benefit to your plants than a six hundred would provide...am I making sense?
 
DST

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Whats going on guys, 1 1/2 pages and two pics of pr0n.........sheesh, if you want something doing.....

brb
 
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I have a new batch of beans in dirt and three colombian gold clones that are about to be transplanted into party cups after nine days from being cut. As mentioned before I took my last sour cream bean out of the coco and put it back between some paper towels in the hopes it will sprout a tap root. My other seed babies should they decide to poke their heads out of the dirt and grow are another critical+kali mist, my second go at growing another shackzilla, good yielder and lovely smoke and lastly there is an og18. My last attempt with an og18 ended up with seeds somehow, I think it got splooged from a hermie I had pop up on me that I didn't see until my grow had beans all in it. Has anyone grown reserva privada's og18?
 
Dezracer

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I hear you guys and am thinking I'll pick up another HPS ballast and sell this MH. I opted to run a single 1K as opposed to two 600s in here mainly for the reason of having a single heat source and since I have the mover I figured, why not?
In hindsight, it wouldv'e been less pain in the arse to just hang the second 6 in there and call it a day. Might get hot in there when spring comes though with two bulbs burning.
 
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DST, I'm agreeing with you guys, dump the 1k, don't spend the money on that sunmaster bulb, get a real six hundred ballast that will burn both lamps. Do your plants really need more than 50k lumens when in veg? I'm more interested in getting all the lumens out of the hps lamp much more than the mh. I veg my plants under t-5's for weeks before putting them under my big lights and rarely do I run my mh's for more than a week.
 
Dezracer

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Heads Up said:
DST, I'm agreeing with you guys, dump the 1k, don't spend the money on that sunmaster bulb, get a real six hundred ballast that will burn both lamps. Do your plants really need more than 50k lumens when in veg? I'm more interested in getting all the lumens out of the hps lamp much more than the mh. I veg my plants under t-5's for weeks before putting them under my big lights and rarely do I run my mh's for more than a week.
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I also use Flouros for veg. What I'm trying to do here is to properly light my flower tent by putting a 1K on my mover because a single 600 will not cover a 40x80 space. Even on a mover it would be marginal at best IMO. I have two 600s right now but am only using one because only half the tent is full at the moment. I have stuff in veg and in the humidity dome that needs to get rotated soon in order to achieve a harvest once a month which is the goal here.
 
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Not much new from two days ago but here's a few pics for the club.

The chocolopes even though they have given me nothing but head scratching as to what they like are really starting to put on the weight. I'm starting to think they may give the super skunk a run for total weight when finished.
 

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Dez, please refresh my memory if you will. Are you using the whole 40x80 space for flower and if so how many plants do you have per half of your space? If you are striving for a once a month harvest I would opt for two six hundreds instead of a thousand on a mover. Can you put both six hundreds on your mover? How are you spacing out your plantings? Meaning how many new plants do you put in your tent at a time and how often? Is half the tent entering its fifth week when you put in your new batch of girls?
 
DoobieBrother

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I'm with HU.
I still have my original 600 mH bulb (Sunmaster Cool Deluxe mH conversion bulb) from almost 3 years ago.
Used it for one full veg cycle, and fought heat the entire time.
In an open room, would have been easier to handle, but my 4x4x5 tall grow box was overwhelmed and needed AC to make it livable for the plants.
I now veg under standard FL tubes (a mix of 6k and 2.7k colors), and think they do as good as the mH, or better.
I keep my mH around only as an emergency bulb, and to zap the girls for a week or so near the end to stimulate resin production, but only because I already have it.
I usually just wish I hadn't spent $100 on it and bought nutes & supplements, or a spare HPS bulb.
 
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When I veg I too use a combination of lamps in my tent. I use two 6500k for blue light and then 4100k which emits both red and blue light. I also agree that my t-5's do a better job of vegging a plant than a six hundred. Not this grow but my last one I used only my mh's for vegging to see the difference. The fluros kept the plants much more compact than the mh's, so now I don't waste my electricity using them to veg.

Edit, thanks genuity.
 
DST

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Gotcha HeadsUp. And wow, nice and quick on the photos guys. Here's mine, wife just got back from a long day at work so might not be around too long....anyhoo, some jar pr0n.


premature outdoor.


Casey Jones

Exo cheds.


peace.
 
DoobieBrother

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I'm about out.
Just a few bowls of kief, some crumbles, and some hash.
My back problems put me about a month behind schedule for a seamless overlap in grows.
But not this time.
The new girls are popping buds like mad now, and in about a week I'll be starting a new batch of babies.
If the Ganja gods & FSM will it, I will be perpetual from here on.
 
DoobieBrother

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In a PM, The Honey Drippers came up in the conversation.
Was doing a youtube search for vids to snag, and came across this gem:

[video=youtube;j0tAOIQiz-8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0tAOIQiz-8[/video]
 
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