250 Watt MH Grow with *PICS*

tom__420 said:

Here's a crappy paint drawing with description of how I will exhaust the heat from the grow box I'm building. Do you think that this setup will work well and keep the heat under control?

Tom

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looks good to me since you won't have much heat to remove from the box, cuz you have air cooled hoods, so the passive intake and 4" exhaust should work fine to move air.
Def. get the small osc. fan in there. The more airflow the better.
This girl gets constant airflow in my cabinet.
Intake at bottom,a 12" rectangle air vent angled up. and a double window fan in the top built in to suck air out.
The stalks are thicker than Bic lighters now....LOL!!!!
But, thick stalks and stems=bigg heavy buds

The main stalk on the plant I harvested tonight wasn't too big but pretty nice. Here's some pics

Tom

i have some fatties too i will get some good pics when the lights come on!

tom__420 said:

The main stalk on the plant I harvested tonight wasn't too big but pretty nice. Here's some pics

Tom

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not too big? They the same size as mine!!! They look crazy huh?

Oh yeah man, they really do swell up big once I upped the dosage of fox farms. That and the LST will ensure some big stalks all the way up the plant

Tom

Sorry for the lack of updates everybody between trimming and building the new flowering chamber I have been very busy. I can't update with pics tonight but I can tell you all how everything is going I have moved the harvest into mason jars. The final weight was 24.7 grams so me and my friends and family are happy lol. In the new mylar lined flower chamber I have three plants with only one confirmed female out of the three. I just repotted the two unknown sex bagseed plants about 15 mins ago. The two unknown plants have a clone from each of them rooting in a peat pellet. The clones were dipped in rootech cloning gel before being put in the peat. I still have one plant in the veg box also. The temps in the new box have been fantastic and I'm loving the look of the mylar even though I didn't do the best job haha. I'll try and get some pic updates as soon as I can everyone. Thanks to everyone who has posted here and followed along Have a goon night everybody

Tom

So I just got done mixing up veg and flower nutes.. I mixed up 2 gallons of water with 2 tsp. Grow Big, 2 tsp. Tiger Bloom, and 1 Tbl. of big bloom in my bubbler rez. It uses a dual outlet pump and two long airstones to aerate the nutrient solution. For the veg nutes I mixed up a gallon of water with 1 1/2 tsp. of Grow Big and 1 Tbl. of Big Bloom. For both nute mixes I used the Fox Farm feeding schedule at half strength. I will hit the flowering plants and veg plant with there respective nutes the next time they're thirsty

Tom

tom__420 said:

So I just got done mixing up veg and flower nutes.. I mixed up 2 gallons of water with 2 tsp. Grow Big, 2 tsp. Tiger Bloom, and 1 Tbl. of big bloom in my bubbler rez. It uses a dual outlet pump and two long airstones to aerate the nutrient solution. For the veg nutes I mixed up a gallon of water with 1 1/2 tsp. of Grow Big and 1 Tbl. of Big Bloom. For both nute mixes I used the Fox Farm feeding schedule at half strength. I will hit the flowering plants and veg plant with there respective nutes the next time they're thirsty

Tom

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glad to hear about the harvest, got my harvest pics up for two of my girls. in the journal

Alright guys so I finally got some pics up of my new grow box I'm really happy with this thing and the mylar looks real nice (even though I didn't do the best job hanging it) I have three plants in the flowering box and two are confirmed females. The tall one on the right and the small one in the front are the ladies. I'm hoping that the plant behind the short one will show it's sex soon also. Let me know what you all think about my new flowering chamber, I'm very happy with it

Tom

tom__420 said:

Alright guys so I finally got some pics up of my new grow box I'm really happy with this thing and the mylar looks real nice (even though I didn't do the best job hanging it) I have three plants in the flowering box and two are confirmed females. The tall one on the right and the small one in the front are the ladies. I'm hoping that the plant behind the short one will show it's sex soon also. Let me know what you all think about my new flowering chamber, I'm very happy with it

Tom

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looks awesome man i like how you have the ballast hanging i think??

i have a shitty mylar job too haha

I have the ballast hung by a chain attached to some hooks above it. And the mylar I just stretched and taped over some oaktag paper and that did an okay job. I just put the oak tag covered piece on the main parts of the walls surrounding the plants. The reflection is great though. Thanks for the comments Wretched

Tom

tom__420 said:

I have the ballast hung by a chain attached to some hooks above it. And the mylar I just stretched and taped over some oaktag paper and that did an okay job. I just put the oak tag covered piece on the main parts of the walls surrounding the plants. The reflection is great though. Thanks for the comments Wretched

Tom

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yea ethier i was really stoned or i some shit but i had a hard time putting my mylar in i used glue behind it on the walls just couldn't get it flat. but it works great still.

I used glue sticks on the oak tag and that wasn't enough to hold the mylar flat to the board. I guess glue doesn't work very well on mylar... who woulda thought

Tom

So each plant is going to have a number one through three. The short 12/12 from seed plant will be #1. The tall just confirmed female will be #2 and the short unknown sex plant will be #3. So here's the rundown for the flowering chamber-

Plants age: 45 days from seed. 9 days flower for plant #2 and 4 days flower for plant #3.
Plant Height: Plant #1 is 8 inches tall. Plant #2 is 17 inches tall. And Plant #3 is 10 inches tall.
Temperature: 78 degrees Fahrenheit
Humidity: 29%RH
Nutrients: I mixed up 1 tsp. of Grow Big, 1 tsp. of Tiger Bloom, and 1/2 Tbl. of Big Bloom per one gallon of water. I mixed up two gallons of water with this ratio of nutes in it.
Grow Box Addition: I added some black foam tape to the cracks where the corners meet to ensure a light and air tight seal. I also added some mylar flaps over the passive intake holes to prevent light coming in when the lights and exhaust fans go off. I forgot to say that I bought S hooks for my reflector so I could attach it to the chain better. The bungee cords I were using previously were making it sway a little lol

That's it for now, I'm gonna get some pics up tomorrow around 11 o'clock so come back and check out the plants progress. It should be a big pic update Thanks for stopping by

Tom

Waiting for pics.

ditto......

Okay everybody here is the pic update

Pics #1-3- Plant #1, female sex. 46 days from seed, 12/12 lighting from the get go.
Pics #4-6- Plant #2, female sex. 46 days from seed, 36 days veg (18/6) and 10 days flower.
Pics #7-9- Plant #3, unknown sex. 46 days from seed, 41 days veg (18/6) and 5 days flower
Pic #10- A group shot of all three plants basking under the 250 watt HPS
Hope you enjoy the pics, let me know what you all think. Thanks a lot

Tom

how do you feed with nutrients? daily..once a week? the 250HPS did that work fine in a 4 foot enclosure?

I feed with nutrients once out of every three waterings. And yes the 250 watt HPS works great in this box. 4 1/2 feet tall, 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep.

Tom

call pic 6 twin towers..LOL
Nice plants man!