250w HPS Club And Help Guide

past times

past times

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if you are really concerned about light you can get a piece of glass cut and hang it just below your light. make the dimensions the width x length minus 2 inches for air to pass...put the exhaust fans above the glass piece and it will act like a cool tube
 
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Wretched420

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past times said:
i harvested 6 plants for 220 cured grams of weed with my 250...my closet is 4x2 but the functional grow space i used was about 3x2 ft.

i keep the bud right up almost touching the light...this gets maximum intensity...but also heat, so i have a lot of fans (some on base of plant and some across top and over light).

i only veg for 4-6 weeks...topping 1 week prior to flowering. this usually gives me 5-10 good shoots. also i lollipop like a mother. again this keeps the areas that are growing actual bud in a light region with optimum intensity
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sounds like youve got your 250 skills down.GOT any PIX???. nice man keep growing..
 
Mountainman86

Mountainman86

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Interesting idea Past Times. Thank you!

A few questions of course:

Would I hang the cut glass from the reflector so it would move with it?

If so, whats the best way you think I can hang the glass from it?

I like this idea because it will save me some cash. I guess I could have 2 exhaust holes at the top on the same side, each with their own computer fan and filter. One would have ducting that would somehow wrap around between the bulb and glass plate and the other wouldn't.
 
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Wretched420

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did you check to see if heat was a problem?? you might not need the cool tube.. like past time im about 5 inches from the light with good air flow no cool tube and im fine. maybe a fan venting out of the box would be good enough to get the air cirrculating...
 
paddy510

paddy510

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i havent got a cooltube and ive found that its ok at 5-6" but at 4" it burns the plants.
forgot to raise the lights the other day when i went out and came back to find the plants had grown an inch and there was some burn marks on a few leaves, nothing major tho.
 
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Wretched420

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yea you gotta watch the new growth she will sneak up on you . yea i keep mine about 5 inches from tops with one floor fan
 
past times

past times

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hey, sorry for the long absence. when i did the glass thing i fixed it to the cabinet not the bulb. i was also growing in a 1x1x3.5 box with a 150hps...from what i remember you said you had something .ike 1.5x1.5 right. if so you can do something as simple as put a few nails into the walls and rest the glass on top of it. looks janky but it works.

you really might not need it though if you get enough airflow. and honestly it is a bit of a pain in the ass so if you dont have to use it don't.

as far as strain goes i have done different ones with same setup. cali orange, blueberry, and aurora indica, g13haze, and now i have something called medi feminized and skunk fem. in any event, you can count on indicas doubling in size and sativas tripling in size (from when you flower...most of which will occur in the first 2 weeks or so of the flowering)
 
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graniteman420

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Help I think i fried my baby. never changed water till yesterday so that means water has been the same . Been adding water to them every other day and one is good but other one is dying HELP
 
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graniteman420

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past times said:
are you using nutrients? where does the water come from? how old are they?
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Yes used 1/2 what they said. BUT I FOUND OUT threw looking I Changed The ph Before i added Nuets then never checked Ph after so Fried them they fell apatr when touched QQ Boo Who. they where in like 4 week flowering But the other Ones are doing great i changed the ph after i added the Nuets never again i will do that!!!!
 
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