250w HPS Club And Help Guide

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zechbro

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im doing hempy at the moment mostlycrazy, i dont know if its any better than soil id like to do a side by side next time around... but i havent touched a ph or ppm meter and ive slowly weeened them up to 1/2 nute stregth maybe a lil more and the look good... on my scrog gurl the hairs are jsut starting to brown maybe 5 on each nug how far away do you think she is? end of week 7 this monday.
 
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Wretched420

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zechbro said:
im doing hempy at the moment mostlycrazy, i dont know if its any better than soil id like to do a side by side next time around... but i havent touched a ph or ppm meter and ive slowly weeened them up to 1/2 nute stregth maybe a lil more and the look good... on my scrog gurl the hairs are jsut starting to brown maybe 5 on each nug how far away do you think she is? end of week 7 this monday.
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hows your girls look?
 
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Wretched420

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Ahzweepay said:
Doing 12/12 from clone - currently working off some bag seed mothers.

My first grow was consumed quickly, but got about 1/4oz dried off each of the last plants (also the smallest pants of the batch). This time around I've only harvested 1 strain (very indica leaning), and got about 1oz dried off each of those 5 pants. :weed:
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right on man your close to what you can do on the 250w..
 
buster7467

buster7467

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Skryptz said:
lookin nice buster! debatin on rhino myself, u get from nirvana?
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I get my seeds from here
http://www.marijuana-seeds.nl/white-rhino.html

From the last 10pk of seeds i purchased i got 5 out of 10 females. I found 2 out of the 5 females that i have grown that i wish i would have taken clones off them for vegging into a mother plant. But i have not tried cloning yet. I have been growing for 2 years and my first grow was with cfl bulbs and i really learned alot on my first grow and then i purchased the 250w hps and have been using it for flowering and i veg under the cfls. I usually harvest and not starting another set of seeds for like a month. So i have not tried a perpetual harvest yet. I still have 2 more Hindu Kush seeds that i am going to go ahead and start in the next couple days and take clones off of them and see if i am able to do the cloning thing. Then i will have one Hindu Kush mother and i am going to place an order really soon for some WR fem seeds and get me a good mother and just do a sog grow with the two. I would love to be able to harvest atleast a half ounce every 2 weeks. Right now i have been getting around 3oz on each grow. I usually grow from 3 to 5 plants at a time. I know i can place upto 8 small small plants around my verticle setup and that would give me 2 plants every 2 weeks to harvest. That is what i am going to shoot for on the next grow.
 
cindy99

cindy99

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Thanks for the repiles Wretched420 and MostlyCrazy :clap:, I will transplant them this weekend ill add some pics now so you can see what im working with. The first four plants are sweet and sour diesel bought from the TorontoSeedBank, the other one is just bag seed
 

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drab91

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Hello Everyone, I have been reading and reading and reading and reading lol you know how it is, This site rocks!
I have hollowed out a dresser, I have a 4" Can fan, Can Filter 9000, Cool Tube and a 250 Watt Electronic Ballast on the way, My height is restricted to 20" from the bottom of the light to the floor not including soil. This is a challenge I can see already.
My whole life I have tried to do this indoors but heat has always been a problem, I pray this doesn't happen again, as well as sound... But I am willing to try as hard as I can and this site has more then enough info to help me, so Just thought I would say hello and thanks for all the info on here!
If anyone has any tips or obvious flaws in my design please let me know, Ill post pics asap!



 
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drab91

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Well I have been doing more thinking, and after hooking up my fan to my speedster speed control and realizing how bad it hums and then reading AFTER I bought both things obviously to read that this is a problem lol typical...
Anyways I figure I have 10 Cubic feet in my growing space (Why on earth do I have a 178 CFM fan for a 10 Cubic foot space) , the filter I have recommends 46 CFM for exhaust and the guy at the hydro store said the filters work best when air is moved slowly through them which makes sense, so if I got a duct booster fan that is rated at 40 CFM that would change my air space about 3-4 times a minute, which is way above what is recommended, so does this mean I would be home free? or would heat probably be an issue??
 
tom__420

tom__420

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You should have your intake and exhaust on the opposite sides of the box, not on the same side like it looks like you have it now drab91. You should move the intake to the other lower corner on the other side of the back
 
buster7467

buster7467

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Yes, put the intake and exhaust on opposite sides of the cabinet. And how do you plan on growing? Are you going to do a scrog in there? That cabinet would be really good for doing a screen grow. It would allow you to get the most yield on a harvest.

Here is a few more pics from lastnight when the light came on. I am going to start another batch of seeds tonight and start them vegging so i can switch up my setup for the next grow. I am going to try my hand at scrog. But it will be a verticle scrog with my light hanging verticle in the middle of the room and i am going to make a verticle screen that will be placed around the light and i will weave the plants in the screen just like a regular scrog but this will allow me to double the square footage of the screen and all the buds will get the same amount of light. I am going to put alot more time in vegging on the next grow so i can fill the screen as much as possible. I will be doing a complete grow journal on that grow. I have not been updating as much as i used to on here. I have done so many grows in the past year that i just got bored with it some and only spent about 15 minutes a night when the light came on and then i would shut the door and just let them do there thing. But now that it is getting closer to the end of summer i want to try to do my best grow to date on my next one. Wish me luck..
 

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drab91

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Thanks guys, My intake is actually on the other side of the box, I have my carbon filter then my fan then my cool tube and then it exhausts out the right hand side, and my intake is also on the right hand side but ends right on that side unlike the intake that is actually from the other side... Did that make any sense
Yes I plan to do a SCROG grow but will it still be possible with 20 inches from the bottom of the light to the floor. Also does the dirt have to be deep or is it just pure volume of soil like if I get 1 gallon per food of growth does it really matter how deep it is if I have 1 gallon of soil in there
 
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Wretched420

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drab91 said:
Hello Everyone, I have been reading and reading and reading and reading lol you know how it is, This site rocks!
I have hollowed out a dresser, I have a 4" Can fan, Can Filter 9000, Cool Tube and a 250 Watt Electronic Ballast on the way, My height is restricted to 20" from the bottom of the light to the floor not including soil. This is a challenge I can see already.
My whole life I have tried to do this indoors but heat has always been a problem, I pray this doesn't happen again, as well as sound... But I am willing to try as hard as I can and this site has more then enough info to help me, so Just thought I would say hello and thanks for all the info on here!
If anyone has any tips or obvious flaws in my design please let me know, Ill post pics asap!



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that looks good man i like the stealth boxes people make looks awesome..
heat is always gonna be an issue but from the sounds of your ventilation you should be fine man only way is to hook it up and see whats going on
 
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Wretched420

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buster7467 said:
Yes, put the intake and exhaust on opposite sides of the cabinet. And how do you plan on growing? Are you going to do a scrog in there? That cabinet would be really good for doing a screen grow. It would allow you to get the most yield on a harvest.

Here is a few more pics from lastnight when the light came on. I am going to start another batch of seeds tonight and start them vegging so i can switch up my setup for the next grow. I am going to try my hand at scrog. But it will be a verticle scrog with my light hanging verticle in the middle of the room and i am going to make a verticle screen that will be placed around the light and i will weave the plants in the screen just like a regular scrog but this will allow me to double the square footage of the screen and all the buds will get the same amount of light. I am going to put alot more time in vegging on the next grow so i can fill the screen as much as possible. I will be doing a complete grow journal on that grow. I have not been updating as much as i used to on here. I have done so many grows in the past year that i just got bored with it some and only spent about 15 minutes a night when the light came on and then i would shut the door and just let them do there thing. But now that it is getting closer to the end of summer i want to try to do my best grow to date on my next one. Wish me luck..
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sounds good man ill will be waiting for your next grow did you get the idea from Heath's Grow on here? that grow is incredible i know he isnt the first to do that be he did a damn good job:-P i would love to see how a 250w does in that method ill be watching and your girls looks good man:weed: any shots without the HPS light on?
 
TechnoMage

TechnoMage

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Add me to the 250w crowd, well 270w in my case. I've been growing this way since 2006. My flower cab is a 32x20x78 home depot special that I've modified. I go Carbon Filter to air cooled hood to 4" Vortex fan. Temps run about 4 degrees above ambient.

I've currently got two Hashberry/Lockdown crosses flowering.
 

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buster7467

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No, i have never opened the door when the lights was off. And i have never takin them out and got a good pic of them with a suitable light. I will post better pics of them the day i chop them down. Should be in a couple weeks. But here is a couple more pics from tonight. They are at day 45 of flowering. Right now i only have a total of 3 plants placed around the light. I wanted to see if having two different strains would work but the difference in height between the White Rhino and the Hindu Kush is alot and would make getting the Kush up high enough i would have plants at all different levels. I have figured out just how tall to get the Rhinos while vegging that they stretch up to where i want them. I topped the Rhino but left the Kush alone to see how tall or bushy it gets in it's natural form. The way this one is doing in the verticle setup i could probably get 12 of these size plants around my light in a two tier stadium style grow. But i want to try 6 Rhino placed around the light and have them fill a tube shaped screen placed 11in from the light all the way around it. I seen a pic one time and got the idea from it but i cant remember where i seen the pic at or who the author was.
 

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