250w HPS Club And Help Guide

MadeInHell666 said:
My first grow. Grown with Miricle Grow ( I know it sucks, got some Fox Farm coming in the mail) and Alaskan Fish Emulsion

5HX3WX1.5D feet grow tent
250 watt MH/ HPS bulbs
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Well technically (and apparently looking at those lovelies) Miracle grow doesn't suck lol I pretty much use it solely for veg 'cause its so straight forward, just don't dose too high that's the only situation its bad but that's the same with most nutes.
 
Here my primitive closet :) because of the heat problem the plants grew up very tall, searching the light. I have one fan at the top (output) and one in the midle (input, which was down but wasn't efective and I puted it in the midle were is now blowing just under the bulb) What do you thing?

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What is your temps at? I at first had problems with heat with my 250W in my small tent, even with my fans going. My tent was hitting the low-mid 90s. So, I changed it so my plants are on during the night and goes off during the morning. Now, my temps stay in the high 70s and low-mid 80s.

This was the only way I could think of without spend more money somehow. Well, see if that works? I did mine in veg stage, left the lights on for 24 hrs, then let them switch over the next cycle.
 
MadeInHell666 said:
What is your temps at? I at first had problems with heat with my 250W in my small tent, even with my fans going. My tent was hitting the low-mid 90s. So, I changed it so my plants are on during the night and goes off during the morning. Now, my temps stay in the high 70s and low-mid 80s.

This was the only way I could think of without spend more money somehow. Well, see if that works? I did mine in veg stage, left the lights on for 24 hrs, then let them switch over the next cycle.
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That was the first thing I did, for the same reason "spending money", but wasnt good enaught. Now I am on the road to club 150W HPS .... :)
 
Hows it going everybody been awhile since ive stopped by,

well im happy to report that she is doing great gonna give her another feeding tomorrow since her stems are turning a little purple. Shes 25 days in right now cant wait for her to be finished, She smells really skunky and thats really the best way to describe it, but it smells amazing. I wanted to take a pic of the right side main branch damn thing looks like a whole plant all in itself haha.

Enjoy the pics i got up pretty close this time.


GG
 
GreenGrower14 said:
Hows it going everybody been awhile since ive stopped by,

well im happy to report that she is doing great gonna give her another feeding tomorrow since her stems are turning a little purple. Shes 25 days in right now cant wait for her to be finished, She smells really skunky and thats really the best way to describe it, but it smells amazing. I wanted to take a pic of the right side main branch damn thing looks like a whole plant all in itself haha.

Enjoy the pics i got up pretty close this time.


GG
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Buds are looking outstanding!!
 
HuckleberryFinn said:
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I cant man, its to match hot there :( I cant handle whit that fckn heat ....... I dont know whether will be able to finish my crops :( there are 3-4 weeks more I need ...
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That looks like it has more like 6-8 weeks left at the least, to me personally. Figure out your CFM and then add like 100 to it, that should give you enough air exchange to keep temps down with a carbon filter. It'd be better to figure it out, than go back to a 150 imho. To each is their own though.

GreenGrower14 said:
Hows it going everybody been awhile since ive stopped by,

well im happy to report that she is doing great gonna give her another feeding tomorrow since her stems are turning a little purple. Shes 25 days in right now cant wait for her to be finished, She smells really skunky and thats really the best way to describe it, but it smells amazing. I wanted to take a pic of the right side main branch damn thing looks like a whole plant all in itself haha.

Enjoy the pics i got up pretty close this time.


GG
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Damn GG looks good n' healthy!! Meaty stalks man, love it. Looks like she's gonna chunk up nice, given the spacing, yummy!!
 
hello fellow 250ers:-P im new here to the club so ya might be seeing me around from time to time. coming from the 600s do to temp problems in the summer:-( but no prob i just keep it moving. got some humblot in a 2x2 tent and its really looking good, seccond week of flower
 
Greengrower those are looking great.and only 25 days in, those are going to be some nice colas.

huckleberry why go to 150?the temp between the 2 isnt going to be much.like doobieous was saying try and bump up those cfms a little or just experiment with fan placement dont give up though.
 
I just harvested the top buds on my WW. The plant was too flimsy for my liking, and too big. I think the problem was the first 4 weeks I was using 6 2100K 40 watt CFL's. The plant got up to almost 6 feet with those little lights, but each branch was like a straw. I topped it to the point of 9 colas, but it just kept growing up. The last 2 weeks I switched to a 250 watt MH SunMaster Warm Soft Deluxe, but as I have limited space in my closet, I felt it would be better to just chop this girl down and free up some room for my clones (2 WW and 1 Purple Kush).

Anyway, heres a few pics of what I chopped down (the top 1/3 of the plant). Now I need to buy a scale I think lol.
 

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ace720 said:
hello fellow 250ers:-P im new here to the club so ya might be seeing me around from time to time. coming from the 600s do to temp problems in the summer:-( but no prob i just keep it moving. got some humblot in a 2x2 tent and its really looking good, seccond week of flower
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Welcome to the club, hopefully you will contribute some bud porn pics too.

surgat316 said:
I just harvested the top buds on my WW. The plant was too flimsy for my liking, and too big. I think the problem was the first 4 weeks I was using 6 2100K 40 watt CFL's. The plant got up to almost 6 feet with those little lights, but each branch was like a straw. I topped it to the point of 9 colas, but it just kept growing up. The last 2 weeks I switched to a 250 watt MH SunMaster Warm Soft Deluxe, but as I have limited space in my closet, I felt it would be better to just chop this girl down and free up some room for my clones (2 WW and 1 Purple Kush).

Anyway, heres a few pics of what I chopped down (the top 1/3 of the plant). Now I need to buy a scale I think lol.
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How long has it been in flower? CFL's will work well, you just have to reposition them every day. That bulb I thought 400w was the lowest they went, cool that they go lower. The spectrum on that light should be good, because it's built to be more versatile. Really sucks the pheno you got of WW was slinky. That's one of my top smokes as cliche as it is, but true WW/BW you can't deny still is a good quality old school smoke (Well old school to me lol).

Is you space so limited you can't do LST or bend the tops over some?

Hoping the 250 helps with density, WW also really bulks up in it's final weeks and the extra space can't hurt. So all of that put together, you should be golden. Welcome to the club.
 
Im sorry. It's a 400 watt bulb in a 250 watt ballast. And I gotta learn how to LST and was thinking of trying scrog, if I can figure out exactly what all the details are. I've been getting confused trying to read the scrog tutorials.
 
surgat316 said:
Im sorry. It's a 400 watt bulb in a 250 watt ballast. And I gotta learn how to LST and was thinking of trying scrog, if I can figure out exactly what all the details are. I've been getting confused trying to read the scrog tutorials.
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400w in a 250w ballast does not sound healthy mate get the proper bulb, I think you'll find you'll be better off.

ScrOG is a piece of piss man XD if your interested look at my previous grows and or my current grow (could use some followers lol)

OR just look at these pics and read this link! https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/172536-good-scrog-bible.html long read, extremely useful about growing in general too, but if your not willing to read you shouldn't be here sorry to say XD

My previous scrog grow:

Filling up the screen in veg.
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First week of flower.
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The rest of the history!
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Basically you let the plant grow through the screen once its a few inches above you just pull it under to the next square along, rinse and repeat, and job done.

Good work everyone else GG nice looking buds man! I see Doob's is filling in with my slacking lol :)

AND for all you new comers, welcome and all that jazz keep visiting, this is a great useful thread with lots of good minds to pick at if you get stuck :) Right off to check on my clones now!

Stay Frosty!
 
Doobieus said:
That looks like it has more like 6-8 weeks left at the least, to me personally. Figure out your CFM and then add like 100 to it, that should give you enough air exchange to keep temps down with a carbon filter. It'd be better to figure it out, than go back to a 150 imho. To each is their own though.


Damn GG looks good n' healthy!! Meaty stalks man, love it. Looks like she's gonna chunk up nice, given the spacing, yummy!!
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Yea im in love with this GO line. ive never had a plant look like this, i mean she just looks like shes loving life right now, how your grow coming with the GO line are you as happy with it as i am??
 
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