Pretty much with a 250 you want to keep your light penetration solid, which means keeping your plants under 3-4 feet. Other than that, good nutes, good medium, good environment and don't over love or under love it and you're good.
heres a psycosis im currently growing in my journal , i did some simple early LST on her , she is being grown under my 250w and was taken this past sunday day 21 of 12/12. 
(using one of the seeds from the last grow and a Blue Mystic fem). Been putting a little more planning and prep into this next grow..
Oh I'll be around NFinest, as I have a Dinafem Blue Widow and DNA Genetics Kush Berry grow going at the moment. They're still young and not in bloom so I won't post pics until things start getting interesting lol.
Lol the golf ball is genius Grazz, I got a good giggle from that, very clever. Wow man you've been planning and working this new cab thing out huh? Lol you weren't kidding when you said you were cleaning it down and upgrading some. Cool this should be an interesting grow, good job Grazz can't wait to see how this grow goes. Keep us updated for sure.Just about ready, since the pics I cut some holes in the cab top for my new CF and ventilation for the CoolTube that will be here tomorrow, got some beans about ready to pop
(Finally found something to do with those old golf balls..lol)
Graz
Very helpful! I was just wondering because I've read a lot about cool tubes having that certain spot that magnifies the light, if that makes sense, but as u said all that may have been talkn bout 600 & 1k. I'm excited to c ur grow when the time comes. I would like to try the kushberry someday there's just so many stains and so little time/space lol. Thanks for that informative write up. Ill leave some budsites further down on a few plants and c if I notice a gain. Thanks again
lotta good info in this thread
Cool tubes yeah, but on bigger lights usually. Yeah I'm excited to see my grow when the time comes too lol. Kushberry is a good strain heavy hitting potency from the OGK and the long lasting from the Blueberry. I'm more excited about the Blue Widow honestly, I hope I get the fruity gum plant.
Yeah the taste on that QWISO is probably mighty fine as well, man I'm drooling over that lol. Glad that process worked out well for you dude, yeah the yield sucks but a little bit goes a mighty long way. Bet you're one happy Frank right about now lol, good job.
Lol you can join now if you want, I mean it is for 250 users mostly but everyone is definitely welcome here. Welcome to the club Stone.ill be joining the 250w hps club in a few weeks when im done vegging my ak48, blue cheese clone and a bagseed plant
It's not really myth honestly, well some of it I should say. The reason you give it darkness is when the plant is in dark the water goes back down to the roots. Then you harvest in the dark or when the lights kick back on but within the first couple of hours. Less water equals less dry time, it does help with the trichomes some but the main benefit would be to get as much of that water back into the soil before chopping the plant. The trichome thing isn't really a myth but it isn't something to go bonkers over either. Other than those two things I personally don't notice a swell or whatever other claims.
Thanks Doob, yeah I am all about going "Green"..lolo. But honestly, I like to reuse things that are just taking up space. I came up with something when thinking of how to hang my new CoolTube. I had a track for shelving, added some spacers and I wanted something strong but movable to hang lights and fans.. I just happened to look at the hook when I was hanging up my keys and thought "Key Rings!!" yeah.. lol. They seem to just multiply you know.. so I gathered a bunch up and...
Brenseid you can upload pics through the advanced editor. When you scroll down almost all the way to the bottom of the 250 thread, there is a box you type words in. There is a button that says "Go Advanced" click that, and it will bring you to a new page with the advanced editor. On this page scroll down a little bit until you see a button that says "Manage Attachments" this is where you can upload through the site. I suggest using the sites uploader versus photobucket etc. Most people don't have the proper security to not take that as a security risk, and unless you're pretty tech savvy it's more often than not a security risk to upload to photo sites like that.
Nice lol!! You can take the s hooks and keyrings out and get a 2 pack of carabiners from Walmart for like 2-5 bucks or something. I had the same chain with my old setup lol and the same s hooks lol. Good idea for sure, but the carabiners add extra security because they are closed over the chain and bar so there is no chance of slip. We all know that the last thing we want is our lights to fall on our plants accidentally lol. I don't think you'd have a problem seeing as you seem pretty careful and smarter than the average bear.
I will let you know what it looks like to me. Just a heads up though, HPS is the wrong spectrum for Veg. It'll still grow no doubt, however the blue side of the spectrum is what you want like from a MH. Like I said it will still grow and there's nothing wrong with using a HPS for Veg, but you will get better Veg results with a blue spectrum light.
