fried at 420
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anyone know where i can get sum cheap grow lamps
within the $100 price range?
within the $100 price range?
cheap [not online]grow lamps
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full of purple
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htg supply 150hps is like 80 dollers just get a visa gift card
fried at 420
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nubbynubbs
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I use a Black Light bulb with a $10.00 light fixture from like lowes and a small 15 watt fluroecent desk lamp on my plants just make sure they are not too close to the plant and dont let them dry up and it works its an old trick from the 70's spread the word man...
OregonMeds
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If you have $100 to spend on lights you could buy a used 1kw hid off craiglist for that. Why anyone would choose to use the same amount of money to set up a inferior grow with cfl's is beyond me.
I've bought 1000w halide wharehouse lights off craiglist for $50 and less, that still leaves $50 to get ductwork and a fan to take care of the heat and maybe diy a cooltube if you wanted.
Sure maybe you can't run 1000w but you could run some kind of real HID for that price.
I've bought 1000w halide wharehouse lights off craiglist for $50 and less, that still leaves $50 to get ductwork and a fan to take care of the heat and maybe diy a cooltube if you wanted.
Sure maybe you can't run 1000w but you could run some kind of real HID for that price.
ChicoGranjero
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dude just scour your local classifieds for some MH warehouse lighting ballasts n fixtures. They sell em super dirt cheap... but be careful... and always have a reason why you are so interested in em.
maybe i'm just paranoid!
maybe i'm just paranoid!
OregonMeds
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If you want cfl's that's fine I heard wallmart has some on sale for $1. (actually I think 97 cents or so for 27w actual) but that doesn't mean it would be wise to invest $100 in them and all the splitters and cords and sockets you need but it would sure be fine on a budget if the grow is small to grab a handfull or two.
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Wal-Mart Aims To Sell 100 Million Compact Fluorescents In One Year
by Justin Thomas, Virginia
on 08.29.06
Business & Politics (news)
Buzz up!
Fast Company reports that, in the next 12 months, starting with a major push this month, Wal-Mart wants to sell every one of its regular customers--100 million in all--one compact fluorescent bulb. In the process, it may change energy consumption in the United States, and energy consciousness, too. Teaming up with General Electric, which owns about 60% of the residential lightbulb market in the United States, Wal-Mart wants to single-handedly double U.S. sales for CFLs in a year, and it wants demand to surge forward after that.
Diane Lindsley, the hardware buyer who decides what goes in the lightbulb aisles at Wal-Mart, thinks 100 million swirls is perfectly reasonable. "Yes," she says, "it's rational, I think." Before she started buying bulbs for Wal-Mart just three years ago, Lindsley didn't even know what CFLs were. Now she pauses in a way that suggests the kind of determination Wal-Mart can bring to bear when its buyers decide they are going to sell Americans something. "We have plans in place to where it may not take that long."
Which presents a daunting challenge: Wal-Mart's push into swirls won't just help consumers and the environment; it will shatter a business--its own lightbulb business, and that of every lightbulb manufacturer. Because swirls last so long, every one that's sold represents the loss of 6 or 8 or 10 incandescent bulb sales. Swirls will remake the lightbulb industry--dominated by familiar names GE, Philips, Sylvania--the way digital-music downloads have remade selling albums on CD, the way digital cameras revolutionized selling film and envelopes of snapshots. CFLs are a classic example of creative destruction.
GE, facing the prospect of mothballing a centurylong franchise in lightbulbs--well, GE is smiling and swallowing hard. "CFLs are taking off," says Robert Stuart, who heads consumer marketing at GE for lightbulbs. "No one has been as vocal about this recently as Wal-Mart. One hundred million bulbs in a year? It's an aggressive goal. GE will find a way to make sure they are able to do that."
GE, too, has launched a green business initiative: ecomagination, an effort to make environmentally sustainable technologies an ever-larger part of GE's business. Swirls fit well, despite the inevitable cannibalization. "The real issue is, if we don't do it, someone else will," says GE's ecomagination vice president, Lorraine Bolsinger, of Wal-Mart's effort to push CFLs. "It's old thinking to imagine that you can hold on to a business model and outsmart the consumer. You can't."
The impact of compact fluorescents cascades outward. Since every CFL has the life span of 6, or 8, or 10 equivalent incandescent bulbs, if Wal-Mart alone sells 100 million swirls in the next year, it does away with the need for 100 million old-fashioned bulbs to be manufactured, packaged, shipped, bought, and discarded next year--and every year until 2012 or beyond.
Sounds like a loss leader to me, which is good for you.
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Wal-Mart Aims To Sell 100 Million Compact Fluorescents In One Year
by Justin Thomas, Virginia
on 08.29.06Business & Politics (news)
Buzz up!
Fast Company reports that, in the next 12 months, starting with a major push this month, Wal-Mart wants to sell every one of its regular customers--100 million in all--one compact fluorescent bulb. In the process, it may change energy consumption in the United States, and energy consciousness, too. Teaming up with General Electric, which owns about 60% of the residential lightbulb market in the United States, Wal-Mart wants to single-handedly double U.S. sales for CFLs in a year, and it wants demand to surge forward after that.
Diane Lindsley, the hardware buyer who decides what goes in the lightbulb aisles at Wal-Mart, thinks 100 million swirls is perfectly reasonable. "Yes," she says, "it's rational, I think." Before she started buying bulbs for Wal-Mart just three years ago, Lindsley didn't even know what CFLs were. Now she pauses in a way that suggests the kind of determination Wal-Mart can bring to bear when its buyers decide they are going to sell Americans something. "We have plans in place to where it may not take that long."
Which presents a daunting challenge: Wal-Mart's push into swirls won't just help consumers and the environment; it will shatter a business--its own lightbulb business, and that of every lightbulb manufacturer. Because swirls last so long, every one that's sold represents the loss of 6 or 8 or 10 incandescent bulb sales. Swirls will remake the lightbulb industry--dominated by familiar names GE, Philips, Sylvania--the way digital-music downloads have remade selling albums on CD, the way digital cameras revolutionized selling film and envelopes of snapshots. CFLs are a classic example of creative destruction.
GE, facing the prospect of mothballing a centurylong franchise in lightbulbs--well, GE is smiling and swallowing hard. "CFLs are taking off," says Robert Stuart, who heads consumer marketing at GE for lightbulbs. "No one has been as vocal about this recently as Wal-Mart. One hundred million bulbs in a year? It's an aggressive goal. GE will find a way to make sure they are able to do that."
GE, too, has launched a green business initiative: ecomagination, an effort to make environmentally sustainable technologies an ever-larger part of GE's business. Swirls fit well, despite the inevitable cannibalization. "The real issue is, if we don't do it, someone else will," says GE's ecomagination vice president, Lorraine Bolsinger, of Wal-Mart's effort to push CFLs. "It's old thinking to imagine that you can hold on to a business model and outsmart the consumer. You can't."
The impact of compact fluorescents cascades outward. Since every CFL has the life span of 6, or 8, or 10 equivalent incandescent bulbs, if Wal-Mart alone sells 100 million swirls in the next year, it does away with the need for 100 million old-fashioned bulbs to be manufactured, packaged, shipped, bought, and discarded next year--and every year until 2012 or beyond.
Sounds like a loss leader to me, which is good for you.