Kalebaiden
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To all former 250ers. If you use this site anymore, and enjoy the 250. Stop in the thread for a visit.
250w HPS Club And Help Guide
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Hettyman
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Morning Bitches!! How are we all today??
Just gave my plants their first ever sun burn, (owned HPS for 3 days) fortunately they had only been in position for a couple of hours, and it only affected 2 leaves on one of the 4 plants.
This has confused me a little, as I always use my hand to measure the heat/lamp distance (if it's not too uncomfortable to hold your hand there fro prolonged periods of time), and it seemed fine.
On the plus side I did buy 2 Strawberry Cough seeds today, which put in to germ straight away, that'll be my third strain, and looking forward to more learning...oh and more smoking
Just gave my plants their first ever sun burn, (owned HPS for 3 days) fortunately they had only been in position for a couple of hours, and it only affected 2 leaves on one of the 4 plants.
This has confused me a little, as I always use my hand to measure the heat/lamp distance (if it's not too uncomfortable to hold your hand there fro prolonged periods of time), and it seemed fine.
On the plus side I did buy 2 Strawberry Cough seeds today, which put in to germ straight away, that'll be my third strain, and looking forward to more learning...oh and more smoking
RCgrowerman
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Looking good man!
My Mazar Kush are the first ever successful clones!!! (3 failed attempts with other plants)
I know its probably not that cool but its my first time
My Mazar Kush are the first ever successful clones!!! (3 failed attempts with other plants) I know its probably not that cool but its my first time
Hettyman
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That Iced Grapefruit a single plant?? Either way, very nice looking canopy!!got a THC BOMB in veg 6weeks% perilite, and my ICED GRAPEFRUIT almost done in rockwool maybe just another week
brettsog
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congrats man, ive just taken my first clones
hopefully they root and i can get rid of them lol if not i might be growing white widow for a while lol
brettsog
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also can anyone uk based recommend a good 250w tubular mh bulb. i have a dual ballast (only paid £27 for ballast and hps bulb). i dont really wanna spend more than £25 if i can get away with it. and do they burn much hotter than the hps temps cos i have got them steady but high and cant really do much more to eliminate heat.
ive been looking at osram http://www.lampspecs.co.uk/Light-Bulbs-Tubes/Tubular-MH-Osram
and phillips http://www.lampspecs.co.uk/Light-Bulbs-Tubes/Tubular-MH-Philips
and venture as thats the brand my hps is http://www.lampspecs.co.uk/Light-Bulbs-Tubes/Tubular-MH-Venture
ive been looking at osram http://www.lampspecs.co.uk/Light-Bulbs-Tubes/Tubular-MH-Osram
and phillips http://www.lampspecs.co.uk/Light-Bulbs-Tubes/Tubular-MH-Philips
and venture as thats the brand my hps is http://www.lampspecs.co.uk/Light-Bulbs-Tubes/Tubular-MH-Venture
10acjed
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Its a nice looking 1 if it is... I like the way he has the glass between the tops and light...
Forgot to mention yesterday as I was removing my plants my Sativa snapped. I had used a string to bend them over early on, and removed them within a couple days but must have missed one, so you know what happened.. So its drying lol, smells like str8 leaf and has almost no crystals...
I still have 2 smaller branches alive, so I let her be...
Hettyman
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I'm no expert and new to this, but Sunmaster seem to be pretty well respected, and also have higher lumens then a lot of equivalent bulbs. I have a 250 HPS dual spectrum Sunmaster, but never tried a MH. What I can say is my bulb certainly does the job, and both blue and red spectrum's are visible to the naked eye, so it gets a thumbs up from me
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=sunmaster+metal+halide+250&_sacat=0&_odkw=sunmaster+metal+halide&_osacat=0
Hettyman
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I dried some sativa I had early, cos they grew to 3 feet, in 3 litre pots, and were not suited at all to the CFL set up i had... they got thrown away and never smoked, cos they only had tiny little starty calyxs, like you get at the base of stems... hope you have more luck tho
ace720
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Yup just one plant. It's crazy cuz I only veg for 4 weeks. It was my first time doing the GF and my firdt time using rock wool so I don't know why it got that big. I usually veg for like 7weeks for my plants to look like that. But the rock wool give me the best roots I ever had
so that's a plus
10acjed
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schwag bagseed... Nothing I was excited about to begin with. Will take a toke or two and see tho just for the heck of itI dried some sativa I had early, cos they grew to 3 feet, in 3 litre pots, and were not suited at all to the CFL set up i had... they got thrown away and never smoked, cos they only had tiny little starty calyxs, like you get at the base of stems... hope you have more luck tho
Hettyman
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Just found out why the blue sprectrum light appeared more prominent when looking at my reflector...I had left the blue protective sheet on it...It is currently cooling and will be removed... SCHOOL BOY ERROR!!!
Also should my HPS bulb make a very quiet metalic tinkle noise when running??? I'm guessing that this is just the filament moving with heat, or is it bad connection or something?? Don't want to come home to a charcoaled house!!!
Also should my HPS bulb make a very quiet metalic tinkle noise when running??? I'm guessing that this is just the filament moving with heat, or is it bad connection or something?? Don't want to come home to a charcoaled house!!!
Hettyman
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....touche!
Hettyman
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Similarly, mine were "freebies" from nirvana at xmas, and sold as lucky dip, but were really, all the seeds that weren't good enough to sell, lol. All but 3 of 20 were male, and the seeds did look poor....not that I'm dissing Nirvana seeds, they always have really good service, wicked packaging, and never had any problems with seeds that I have bought...95% pop, and were all female when bought as feminized.
RCgrowerman
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That little noise you are describing is completely normal with hps bulbs so no worries
10acjed
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Thats good to know. I have 10 regular wonder woman from them..