250w HPS Club And Help Guide

GANJAxDUBZ said:

holy shit thats a nice little monster u got there probo! glad to see other 12/12 from seed 250watt users. what strain is that?

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Thanks a lot, not sure what strain this is. I had a few seeds from some pollinated females
a caregiver friend of mine saved for me. Been so long neither one of us can figure it out.

DEZALB said:

Hey guys, i have a cab thats 25"x21"x49". I was originally going to go 150 hps. But i can buy a 250 hps ballast kit from htg and assemble a diy cool tube for the same amount that i wouldve spent on my 150 setup.
These are the things ill be using

4in inline fan
http://www.htgsupply.com/viewproduct.asp?productID=52557

diy cool tube
http://forum.grasscity.com/do-yourself/495256-advanced-diy-no-cut-20-non-bake-round-cooltube-5-parts-3-tools.html

diy carbon scrubber
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=509470

Ill also have some sort of fan inside the cab to push the air around and also strengthen the stems of the plant. Ill have passive intake holes. So would i be able to handle the heat of a 250 hps if im pulling air through the carbon filter, through the cool tube and out the cab through the exhaust?
Id appreciate any advice or comments on this setup.
thanks

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Well I cant really say for sure if that setup would be able to handle the heat as im having heat issues with my 250 watt myself. but with that cooltube and inline as long as u keep it well ventilated you should be fine. also those are some really greay diy links thank you for that im seriously thinking about making that cooltube + rep for u

GANJAxDUBZ said:

Well I cant really say for sure if that setup would be able to handle the heat as im having heat issues with my 250 watt myself. but with that cooltube and inline as long as u keep it well ventilated you should be fine. also those are some really greay diy links thank you for that im seriously thinking about making that cooltube + rep for u

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If you dont mind me asking, what does your setup look like? What extractor fan are you using? Are you currently using a cool tube?
Yeah, those diy are the best ones i could find for the pice, quality, simplicity to put together. Glad you can get use out of them.
If you make the cool tube, my local hobby lobby is having a 50% off sale on the glass, so youll only pay 2 bucks and some change for the hurrican globe. Sale ends at the end of the week i think. Pretty sure all the stores have the same promotion

My setup is "ghetto" for the time being its about 2ft by 2 ft and6 feet high although i only have about 4 feet growing height im growing in an old cabinet my bud gave to me. as far as extractor fan and cooltube i do not have a cooltube which is why i was glad to find that link u previously posted and my fan i just got a normal ocelating fan and a computer fan for exhaust. Im gonna get a inline sooner or later tho and make myself that cooltube maybe even make that carbon filter also to go along with the whole set up. but yeah my setups ghetto and the heat is an issue but i run my air in the room all the time pretty much and keep the temps manageable. temps are high 80s low 90s with the light running so im hoping that cooltube will help out a bunch.

I did the diy cooltube for my 250w hps and have a 6in inline fan running it. I just mounted the 6in inline fan in the roof of my flowering room and run ducting from the fan to one end of the cooltube and the other end of the cooltube is used for the exhaust. I did have ducting on both ends of the cooltube and had a pc fan on each end, one blowing and one sucking. And i just used the 6in inline fan for the rooms exhaust but i have found that running it the way it is now works just as good and i can use the pc fans for intakes and other stuff. Right now my temps run 78f when light is on and 72f when light is off. I grow with the light mounted vertically and my plants placed around the light. I can run 8 small plants at once or i can fit 5 really nice 2ft tall plants around the light. I really need to get the other cooltube made for my other 250w hps so i can grow twice as much. LOL I am going to eventually build a new flowering room so i can run both of my 250s at the same time. I will post pics when i get it built. Probably looking at the middle of Sept when my youngest plant gets done. It has only been flowering for a week now. I also grow 12/12 from seed and love it.

Very cool to hear man, what size is your garden?

heres a few pics of my girls i got sour kush (the smallest) is about 6 days old i also have kings kush shes about 2 in a half weeks and my Ice shes a month and 2 weeks about and is just now starting to flower but they've all been on 12/12 from seed.

nice looking girls.
nice lst job too.

I'm joining the club, this will be my first indoor grow, though not my first grow I've got a 3x3x6 tent mylar lining, the light is on order and I've obtained some white widow seeds from a friend. Last years grow was essentially a green house grown. Started with 4 and ended up with 1 girl, which yielded 35g dried and cured. Went all natural with only two treatments of P during flower, used fox farm soil. I'm a little concerned about heat, I'm not sure which fans to get, tent has 4" duct openings. I've already got my humidity/temp gauge, I'm a little tentative about this, I've always had good luck with the Sun...

Also would switching from soil to hydro be a good option for a better yield? I still have plenty of time to decide, this seasons green house grow seems to be going well enough though had to use bag seed and am not sure what I will get.

kinetic said:

Also would switching from soil to hydro be a good option for a better yield? I still have plenty of time to decide, this seasons green house grow seems to be going well enough though had to use bag seed and am not sure what I will get.

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Organic is the way to go. If it aint broke don't fix it.

I'm running two 150's. Does that count..??

Specs are something like this:

Lumens - 16,000/per light x 2 = 32,000 lumens total when both lights are running.

Wattage - 150 watts/per light x 2 = 300 watts total combined.

I'm just 50watts over the required 250... hehe.

Also, I've got two 42watt (150watt output using 42watts).. but yeah I use two of the 42watt cfl bulbs per plant for good side lighting.

just thought i'd share my current setup... a little bit of it anyhow.

have a high, but safe holiday weekend and 4th celebration everyone.

peace..

Pazzo said:

Here is my current cabinet, exactly half the size of my old cabinet at 24"x15", the only premade cabinet that I could find that works. Although now that i'm using the SOG technique and have gotten better over the years i'm pulling the same as I was when I first started with my old cabinet.

Here are a few pics of my white widow and power plant i've done so far with ths cab. With the power plant I was able to fit 8 plants in there, but i'm sure i'll be able to fit more, theres only 7 in that pic cause I cut 1 early.

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Gah damn those PPP plants are fucking FAT! Look at how dense and fat those babies are.... making my mouth water.. no jive buddy. That's one fat fucking harvest.. that's for sure.

I'm not a jealous type of person.. but right now I envy you. lol.

Just amazing.. great job buddy. Enjoy!

Have a great high, but safe holiday weekend.

hempstead said:

Organic is the way to go. If it aint broke don't fix it.

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I love soil, but from the reading I've done, which has been at times mind numbing lol, the yield with 250w is greatly reduced. I'm not trying to feed the world just me and my immediate fam. The local hydro shop is doing a good job at slowly convincing me to go that way....

kinetic said:

I love soil, but from the reading I've done, which has been at times mind numbing lol, the yield with 250w is greatly reduced. I'm not trying to feed the world just me and my immediate fam. The local hydro shop is doing a good job at slowly convincing me to go that way....

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I started in an aerogarden and it was a pain in the ass with the daily maintenance. I ordered a waterfarm bucket system while that was going and already had a couple in soil. I can leave the soil alone for 4 or 5 days and not worry but with hydro there is daily maintenance and checks. I still haven't used the waterfarm. And the taste of organic is much better.

hempstead said:

I started in an aerogarden and it was a pain in the ass with the daily maintenance. I ordered a waterfarm bucket system while that was going and already had a couple in soil. I can leave the soil alone for 4 or 5 days and not worry but with hydro there is daily maintenance and checks. I still haven't used the waterfarm. And the taste of organic is much better.

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You just solved it for me, I can't do daily maintenance. I travel a bit and am sometimes gone for a weekend. +1 rep. for you my friend. Thanks again.

this my baby under a 250w hps in my closet =)

HOw many of you guys have used a Ceramic Metal Halide bulb during your grow? Im really interested in anyone that has used it from the beginning to the end of their grow.
Possibly thinking of going that route so i dont have to worry about making a cfl setup for vegging.

Any normal Metal Halides will do the full grow i think..

So long that the colour and lumens are good,,

yo thats a beutiful setup there punky!!!