150w HPS Club: Inspirational Resource

MuntantLizzard said:

It sees in a past grow i had leaves 4" from the light. i guess the scrog thing threw my mind to do something diffrent
Really can t move the plants in the screen .
How low can you go? well see later.

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Everyone seeks truth, just trying to feed my birds some truth.

But ok, sorry for busting your nuts. Now more worries

MisterMicro said:

Everyone seeks truth, just trying to feed my birds some truth.

But ok, sorry for busting your nuts. Now more worries

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no nuts busted

"The chart is good" Lizzard not gonna go 4 to allow growth buffer

yea that is a good chart im running a diy cooltube and put my plants about 4 to
5 inches away from it

MisterMicro said:

PRetty damn close. i have good air flow so like to get my girls up to 3 inches from the bulb. The closer the more intensity and the bigger your bud will florish.

Hoods are a different story, they create an aura of heat around the bulb so just go by hand. IF your hand is comfortable here, not Hot but just a bit warm, then your good.

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Yeah im using a reflector...i hadnt raised the light in a couple days and pushed it a little too far...
Lesson learned, im happy to say 1 of the 2 plants recovered nicely. The fan leaves seem OK, little dry spots but they seem healthy enough....pic.2 is the top at 2 weeks flowering

I moved my intake to blow up at the light and push hot air away from the tops and into my cloning chamber thats above.
Pic 1.

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Hey guys. This is my first post in here but i have a 150W hps set up going also Ill post my set up later but to go back to ur topic about the chart for a moment. My 150Hps Is about 12 inchs from my main cola... From that chart it says its to far.. But i have my hps is a reclector. Like a circle one that some guys use for cfls except mines a hps haha.. ANyways if i go closer then like 10-12" my hard starts to burn.. So should i just go by the chart? or stay with moi hand test?

One word for you. Fan.

hey fellas, just picked myself a 150 watt sunsystem fixture...now lookin to join in the 150 fun. got it yesterday to replace my cfl setup . plants already look happier. i'll post pics when i get a chance, just wanted to say......hey.

my cfl experiment had a bad outcome, way to much wattage for the amount of lumens. way too hot as well. no heat isues anymore, im steady at 77.3 now..... i was at 88~93 with cfl.

figtree said:

hey fellas, just picked myself a 150 watt sunsystem fixture...now lookin to join in the 150 fun. got it yesterday to replace my cfl setup . plants already look happier. i'll post pics when i get a chance, just wanted to say......hey.

my cfl experiment had a bad outcome, way to much wattage for the amount of lumens. way too hot as well. no heat isues anymore, im steady at 77.3 now..... i was at 88~93 with cfl.

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Welcome fig...good to see a fellow 150'er new to the scene...I'm about a week and a half into a 150 watt 12/12 from seed grow as an experiment...if the outcome is to my liking, I will expand on it. Keep us posted.

I do have multiple fans running in my box lol.. does anyone have a better solution? Should my plant be closer?

Nugglet said:

I do have multiple fans running in my box lol.. does anyone have a better solution? Should my plant be closer?

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i would look in to a diy cooltube. that's your best bet to get the light closer and keep the temps under control. they aren't expensive to make.

i was looking around and its like 40$ or so to make one? I do believe.. anyways i dunno man the way i think of it is the sun is wayy far away right? and it does okay, and i relise that when i put my hps like 12" away from my plant it feels like the same heat on my hand as the sun does just walking outside on a hot day... i can feel a nice temp so it must be getting enough light into my plants? If i move my hand at like 10 inches it already starts to get hot..

Nugglet said:

i was looking around and its like 40$ or so to make one? I do believe.. anyways i dunno man the way i think of it is the sun is wayy far away right? and it does okay, and i relise that when i put my hps like 12" away from my plant it feels like the same heat on my hand as the sun does just walking outside on a hot day... i can feel a nice temp so it must be getting enough light into my plants? If i move my hand at like 10 inches it already starts to get hot..

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I think the problem lies in the reflector. Is it one of those you use for reptiles? in my setup I have my light in the original fixture that i bought at H.D. and it sits about four to five inches away from my plant and no burning. So you may want to check your reflector. but Deff get back to us on that.

I'm using (2)150 watt sunsystem lights. I was using 1 with cfls on the side for 12/12, but bought another one for lower young plants so they don't have to stretch. Here is a pic from last night, been in 12/12 about a month now, plant is around 9 weeks total from bag seed. I only have one large plant, I also have a young plant I just stuck into 12/12. Is my first ever attempt at growing. I broke off the main cola when it just went into 12/12, all the other sites grew to the same height, so now I have 8 main buds nice size and 2 others almost as large, and a bunch of lower sites not looking too bad.

rotwiler said:

I'm using (2)150 watt sunsystem lights. I was using 1 with cfls on the side for 12/12, but bought another one for lower young plants so they don't have to stretch. Here is a pic from last night, been in 12/12 about a month now, plant is around 9 weeks total from bad seed. I only have one large plant, I also have a young plant I just stuck into 12/12. Is my first ever attempt at growing. I broke off the main cola when it just went into 12/12, all the other sites grew to the same height, so now I have 8 main buds nice size and 2 others almost as large, and a bunch of lower sites not looking too bad.

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Nice looking plants man. Did your top that you broke make two little tinny colas? Thats what happened to me the first time i topped (didnt know what i was doing) Cause i topped my plant when it was budding, and i got these two colas that probably were a bowl each. LOL.

Do you have any pictures of your setup? IDea of the strain? Details details..... This thread is just as much about your setup as it is the plants, its for inspiring others to learn what stealth and 150w is all about. IF your not going stealth, i hold my case, this thread is all about your setup, like how far your light is from the canopy, how big your pots are, hydro or soil. A pic is worth 1000 words so pics often explain most of it.

On a sidenote, those girls are looking FAT

MisterMicro said:

Nice looking plants man. Did your top that you broke make two little tinny colas? Thats what happened to me the first time i topped (didnt know what i was doing) Cause i topped my plant when it was budding, and i got these two colas that probably were a bowl each. LOL.

Do you have any pictures of your setup? IDea of the strain? Details details..... This thread is just as much about your setup as it is the plants, its for inspiring others to learn what stealth and 150w is all about. IF your not going stealth, i hold my case, this thread is all about your setup, like how far your light is from the canopy, how big your pots are, hydro or soil. A pic is worth 1000 words so pics often explain most of it.

On a sidenote, those girls are looking FAT

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Thanks, I only have the 1 girl, started with 3 and 2 were male, I do have a female purple buddha in there now and has about 7 weeks to go. The broken top happened right after it flowered, The buds on there are really nice size. Somehow after that happened all the side branches grew up and now I have 9 main colas, so all are almost the exact same size about 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 wide and some are over 5 inches long, most are connected and all the buds are nice and hard.

I grow my seeds/clones in a aerogarden until they get about 11 inches tall.

I have a 4x4 grow tent, the (2) 150 watt hps and a T5 cfl I use to hit the sides. I have a 90 watt ufo too, but mainly use it with the aerogarden. 4 inch vortex fan, airscrubber, uv light hepa aircleaner that does the ion. Small fan and I grow in buckets(4 gallon filled to about 3 1/2 gallon, deep water, a 4 out airpump with airstones in each bucket.
Using Gen Hydro flora nutes. Using the Lucas method now. Botainicare Sweet, and in past few days started using the humbolt gravity. Hydrogen peroxide as needed for root isses and cannazyme/hygrozyme.

I keep the 150 watt hps about 5 inches from the tops, I run my fan to hit just below the hps and blows the heat away.

The girl is a mix of blueberry and g13 pretty sure. The bag it came from was good stuff and had a nice blueberry/spice smell. first plant I ever attempted to grow, think there are about 3 weeks to go.

With all the lights, I use 1 150 watt light for the main plant, then I have a single T5 2 footer, 4 light fixture. I use the T5 to get to the areas on the side. I was using CFL's, but was a hasle and the T5 is HO. The other 150 watt hps I use on the upcoming plants. Would be nice to have multiple tents, but working with what I have now and the space.

Pictures show the double top where it broke. First one is about 4 days ago and others are from today.

Well put, i love those tents, i have to get my hands on one. Looks like you definatly know what your doing so glad to have you here

WTF happened to Frostythesnowthug? He was on here like every day..?? His activity level is at 0%, im wondering if he got fucked over......

rotwiler said:

Thanks, I only have the 1 girl, started with 3 and 2 were male, I do have a female purple buddha in there now and has about 7 weeks to go. The broken top happened right after it flowered, The buds on there are really nice size. Somehow after that happened all the side branches grew up and now I have 9 main colas, so all are almost the exact same size about 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 wide and some are over 5 inches long, most are connected and all the buds are nice and hard.

I grow my seeds/clones in a aerogarden until they get about 11 inches tal.

I have a 4x4 grow tent, the (2) 150 watt hps and a T5 cfl I use to hit the sides. I have a 90 watt ufo too, but mainly use it with the aerogarden. 4 inch vortex fan, airscrubber, uv light hepa aircleaner that does the ion. Small fan and I grow in buckets(4 gallon filled to about 3 1/2 gallon, deep water, a 4 out airpump with airstones in each bucket.
Using Gen Hydro flora nutes. Using the Lucas method now. Botainicare Sweet, and in past few days started using the humbolt gravity. Hydrogen peroxide as needed for root isses and cannazyme/hygrozyme.

I keep the 150 watt hps about 5 inches from the tops, I run my fan to hit just below the hps and blows the heat away.

The girl is a mix of blueberry and g13 pretty sure. The bag it came from was good stuff and had a nice blueberry/spice smell. first plant I ever attempted to grow, think there are about 3 weeks to go.

Pictures show the double top where it broke. First one is about 4 days ago and others are from today.

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Damn man that bunch of lights! but your buds are cool looking

Is more now, for the frst 5 weeks a aerogarden and 2 23 watt CFL's on the side is all I used and the 150 watt hps and a couple cfls were in there for another 3 week, the other lights just went in there. The girl was so large and bushy it overdid it's stay in the aerogarden. So I found a tent on ebay for $99 and bought a 150 watt hps and some buckets. The only reason I have the T5 light on the sides is due to I don't have a small tent for veg. In the future I will make my own setup with a rubber maid tub and airstones and use the 100 watt T5 over that to veg, then the 2 150 watt hps in the tent, 1 for the older plants and 1 for the young ones. I found I needed 2 since the younger plants were so low compared to the older one and I needed to get the light closer since the low one wanted to stretch. I have alot of lower buds that are looking really good, so I don't want to get the t5 out just yet. I have to say, the 150 watt hps is the way to go in a small setup, I noticed a huge difference when I added it in, the plant loved it. I just want to be able to have a harvest a month. Hoping for 3 oz off the one in the picture maybe more. I can grow 30 plants legal in my state(have 2 licenses). I wont ever get to that much, but 6 in flower at a time would be nice. learning every day, never atrempted to ever even sprout a seed until 2 months ago, was kind of a last second thing, had a aerogarden, put some bag seed in and they took off, so here I am.


There is a small purple buddha in there too, just can't see it in the pic under the first hps, just checked it today and is 14 inches tall It was 5 inches tall about 8 days ago.