150w HPS Club: Inspirational Resource

if you have that much room for 10 boxes

A. looks a lil funny with a room full of sealed unmarked boxes.
B. why not spend a lil on security and stealth and use the entire room or a sectioned off portion.???

those ideas make alot more sense to me than 10 boxes????

Yeah might look a bit weird, so I'm gonna try my best to make it blend in- maybe with the paint and some nice door handles.
The reason why I'm putting them in the box (instead of a grow room), and limiting the size of the box to 4ft is to make it easy to "evacuate" or move. In case of a "security" emergency, at least I know I can carry the boxes even when I am alone. I can also fit the boxes in my car- ofcourse not all at once. So I guess that's security & stealthiness in a different light.
I really appreciate all your comments and help. Nothing is final yet so I'm open to all suggestions for my biggest grow ever! Thanks brothers!

Started a journal for my new grow with the 150w.. check it out

SC3Stoner's 150w HPS Circular LST

hmmmm well i can see what you are trying to accomplish but keep this in mind....

i grow in my closet which is 4x2x7 and i run 2 150 hps's with ballasts and reflectors, the walls are covered in mylar there is a pair of fans suspended from the ceiling along with the lights. there is an 8inch vent fan running directly into an interior wall exhausting hot air all my gadgets are in there and i have 2 girls in there aswell..... i can dismantle and pu everything away out of site in a locked chest and have no trace that the closet was even usable in about....10 minutes at the most.....yes i have practiced taking it down with a stop watch. yes my toilet can handle big loads (lol) ive tried flushing very big things down just to see if i can if needed. so dude its up to you.....i like rooms(i guess my bias is showing)

Hps 150w lights fucking rock i a grow box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does anyone know of a place that carries a good size hurricane glass or candle chimney to make the cooltubes that I might find locally in the NW USA? So far today I was out running around and checked the big craft store near me (forgot the name), target, dollar store, goodwill, Fred Meyers... Came up empty.

Has anyone found them at like Wallmart, Home Depot, Lowes, ?

Right now I just have this crappy setup with two of the 150's I remote ballasted. I just tossed them on the shelf to see what they could do for this one plant, and they made her grow like mad! She outgrew my space pretty quick and this is only ~3 weeks into flowering. Already it has 3 huge colas each bigger than your forearms.

Not bad for obviously putting zero effort into my grow... But I need to fix it.

Try looking for a baking tube on ebay. they can be picked up for under $20

Yea I've seen the bake -a -round things on ebay. I was just trying to be cheap and avoid shipping, and the delay of shipping. Plus I wanted to buy a few of them if I could get the candle chimneys cheaper. I have two 250w halides and two 150 hps's... That'd be a lot of money in bake-a-rounds.

OregonMeds said:

Yea I've seen the bake -a -round things on ebay. I was just trying to be cheap and avoid shipping, and the delay of shipping. Plus I wanted to buy a few of them if I could get the candle chimneys cheaper. I have two 250w halides and two 150 hps's... That'd be a lot of money in bake-a-rounds.

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try like a hobby lobby, Micheal's, or any craft shop

OregonMeds said:

Yea I've seen the bake -a -round things on ebay. I was just trying to be cheap and avoid shipping, and the delay of shipping. Plus I wanted to buy a few of them if I could get the candle chimneys cheaper. I have two 250w halides and two 150 hps's... That'd be a lot of money in bake-a-rounds.

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try michaels, or any craft store...maybe a dept store in a mall too

Fellow 150w growers, I present to you, my pre-harvest nuggies



and another


and another



Hope this gives inspiration to those just starting out or aspiring to grow their own stash 3-5 days from the chop waiting on 80% amber

jonnynobody said:

Fellow 150w growers, I present to you, my pre-harvest nuggies

and another

and another

Hope this gives inspiration to those just starting out or aspiring to grow their own stash 3-5 days from the chop waiting on 80% amber

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Those things look sick and unhealthy,
whats the humidity in the room during budding.

Im sure most of you know that the days of purchasing a $20 econo light are long gone. Vapor tight has done away with the so called in-effiecient hps system. After searching I discovered an alternative to buying an expensive pre made light from a grow shop. Here is what im considering. Please give me some feed back ASAP, also leave some info on creating my own thread. Thanks, hope this helps someone.
http://www.ballastkit.com/highpressuresodiumhpshidballastkit-p-333.html

ghostsamurai25 said:

Im sure most of you know that the days of purchasing a $20 econo light are long gone. Vapor tight has done away with the so called in-effiecient hps system. After searching I discovered an alternative to buying an expensive pre made light from a grow shop. Here is what im considering. Please give me some feed back ASAP, also leave some info on creating my own thread. Thanks, hope this helps someone.
http://www.ballastkit.com/highpressuresodiumhpshidballastkit-p-333.html

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Personally I feel the e-conolight 400w MH system WITH LAMP is a better deal. $72 + $10 shipping.....



thats approximately the same value as the 150w vapor light they were selling. All you need is a mh to hps conversion bulb & you've got a mean setup on the cheap. If I hadn't already purchased my 150's I would have gotten the 400mh & just picked up a 360w mh to hps conversion lamp:



(they're not cheap....only eye makes them at about $95). 150w isn't bad but I use 2 of them in a dresser cab & I wish I had a little more which I think a 400w would satisfy.

I wouldn't suggest a halide ballast and conversion hps bulb though, I'd suggest a PSMH like this:
http://www.e-conolight.com/Product/EProductDetail.asp?ProductFamilyID=8&FGNumber=E-HB5P40Q

It's bound to be just as good as a halide ballast and conversion bulb, and is what just a few dollars more.

Either that or just look on ebay and craigslist at the used lights, there are far better deals than that ballastkit.com or whatever stuff.
If you search wisely you can find 400w hps's for $45 used and 1kw for under $100.


By the time
you add up a 150w ballast, bulb, socket, reflector, ballast box, wire nuts, wire you're spending way way more than a 150w light is worth. (Even if you have lots of the parts I still wouldn't do it.)


You wouldn't be able to be part of this cool 150w club, but that's about the only downside.

ghostsamurai25 said:

Im sure most of you know that the days of purchasing a $20 econo light are long gone. Vapor tight has done away with the so called in-effiecient hps system. After searching I discovered an alternative to buying an expensive pre made light from a grow shop. Here is what im considering. Please give me some feed back ASAP, also leave some info on creating my own thread. Thanks, hope this helps someone.
http://www.ballastkit.com/highpressuresodiumhpshidballastkit-p-333.html

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Econlight still has a hps system for like 46 bucks and with the whole system you would have to order from that website you have it would be just about as much...

MileHIGHclub101 said:

Econlight still has a hps system for like 46 bucks and with the whole system you would have to order from that website you have it would be just about as much...

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Where are you seeing this one you refer to? I don't see any hps's at econolight any more, they've been phased out by the psmh lights.

jonnynobody said:

Personally I feel the e-conolight 400w MH system WITH LAMP is a better deal. $72 + $10 shipping.....

thats approximately the same value as the 150w vapor light they were selling. All you need is a mh to hps conversion bulb & you've got a mean setup on the cheap. If I hadn't already purchased my 150's I would have gotten the 400mh & just picked up a 360w mh to hps conversion lamp:



(they're not cheap....only eye makes them at about $95). 150w isn't bad but I use 2 of them in a dresser cab & I wish I had a little more which I think a 400w would satisfy.

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Thanks, however thats too big for my setup. I just sold my dual 400 mh/hps thats been sitting around for over a year now, due to heat issues. Ive been running cfls and am over that stage.
After searching some more I decided on this system.
http://www.htgsupply.com/viewproduct.asp?productID=53025

What do you think?

OregonMeds said:

Where are you seeing this one you refer to? I don't see any hps's at econolight any more, they've been phased out by the psmh lights.

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You just have to look in the other light set ups its one in a black box set up...

Alright 150 club ive got a serious question for you...I want to get more light on my babies and will either get the 150hps at the ecnolights listed above or i found 400 and 600watt complete set ups for 90 bucks now what do you think i should do...heat could be an issuse

ghostsamurai25 said:

http://www.htgsupply.com/viewproduct.asp?productID=53025

What do you think?

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looks like a good light, get it. i lucked out and got the econ-light.

i have proven in a small space, 150w of cfls is HOTTER than a 150W HPS, by about 5-7 degrees more in my 2x3x3H stealth cab