SOG growers wanted !!!

lol thanks for the suggestion bro!!!

Ok I have the nextgen 400/600w ballast and love them! They do put off some heavy RF atleast in the room ... I am gonna keep it going until I run out of fund's! The nextgen's I feel are alot nicer than the quantum's or the lumatex. I have 2 400w lumatex sitting here that I replaced with the next gen! My buddy has the quantum's and say's they are ok.

so how does the 400w or 600w work?

you just choose an outlet that is dedicated to 400w or 600w?

and im gonna have to stand up for my lumatek, trouble...lol

dont start nothing wont be nothing

i love my 1000w purple ballast with the 5 year warranties (the newer models are way better than the old silver models)

i heard the brand new models have the dim feature like quantum.

i want to make a third ballast purchase sooner or later.....still debating if i want a 3rd lumatek or should i mix a nextgen in there

LOL! I loved my lumatex at 1 point also.... It is A swich on the side that you flip, and it accepts A bunch of socket end config's also. I feel that it run's cooler than my lumatex and start's faster. But that is only my opinion! I paid 240.00 for each of them so I really couldn't go wrong, but now with work who know's were it will go. The nextgen's also have A 5 yr warr.

see...i've been hearing both sides of the arguments lumatek vs nextgen....and while some say they like their nextgen .....

i've seen majority of votes say they still like their lumatek over the nextgen from personal testing they have done. (they bought both)

shit iono man...im on the fence.... the only thing im not liking is a fan on the ballast. fans can malfunction and they make noise. The best e/digi ballast uses no fan at all....

but hell....couldnt hurt to try them out. could always ebay it if i really didnt like. but i doubt i will hate it so much to get rid of it

I love mine! And yes everybody like's diffrent ones! I love mine and it is working great. If you are happy with the lumatex I would stay with those, mine were humming real bad and it was annoying that is why I had changed over.

im going to take your advice on the 400/600watt

nice for vegging!

and im probably going to try out the 1k nextgen as i already have 2 lumatek 1k anyways. cant hurt to go offbrand one time or another for at least to get my own opinion

thanks for your help and input

one other thing.... how loud is the fan? the ballast period? noisy?

Not A prob! I am gonna get another for my mother's if I can afford it when that time comes

......I dont have any cool gadgets to talk about................Look at what I can do!................cool huh?...............What's that? not cool?!?!?!?!?!..........

Hello Fellow SOG growers

I'm at 8 weeks into my 2nd flowering with 14 plants from 4 different strains of bag seed.

I am a bit concerned about how some of the buds are stretching.

My temps have been peaking around 85-86 during lights on (grrr), and am wondering if that's what's causing the stretch?

I have an air cooled 400 watt that's set about 10" above the tops of the plants.

I just finished harvesting 5 other plants from this batch that didn't stretch at all. Though those were from a very indica leaning mother...

The first 4 attached images show the stretching (upper and lower parts of some plants)
The next 2 images show a couple of plants that don't seem to be stretching much
Then an image of the flower tray as it is now and an image of one of the previously harvested plants showing no stretching.

i've heard heat can cause that....


but i've also heard, if you have a big difference between your night and day time temps, that will cause alot of the stretching as well

by the way, those look like some nice candidates for some nice chunky SOG plants.

wow. stout little 2L coke bottle colas

LoudBlunts said:

by the way, those look like some nice candidates for some nice chunky SOG plants.

wow. stout little 2L coke bottle colas

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Thanks - can't wait till they finish

The day/night temps vary a bit, but are generally ~77 during lights out and up to 86 lights on.

I'm thinking of trying a 250watt in place of the 400 I currently have...

LOL, ohh poor bugs! Yes your icons are kool....

LB.. my sealed digi ballast runs every bit as hot as my magnetic...

But my 2 ballasts with the fan and "open" design run COOL to the touch...

But they are not suitable for high moisture environments like green houses...

They can also get dust inside.. I just pop my case open and blow some air every once in a while...

Since I operate low humidity, I like the "fan cooled" ballasts... they're just "cool"...

How is it going gypsy?

ty gypsy.... im really thinking about trying the unit on the strength of its size.... i just dont wanna hear no buzzing noise


heat isnt a factor as its most universal across the board...i cant remember but i think its like 2.54 or some shit per watt of btu that is given off....so a 1000watter will give off 3500 or so btu of heat... regardless of mag or digi....however mags do tend to get a tad bit hotter