SS420's new hydro grow - Blueberry, White Shark, ChemDog, OG kush

mygirls said:

im running windows vista and still getting updates..

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simpsonsampson420 said:

i hate microsoft.. i wanted to get a mac.. love linux... just didnt have to loot to drop...

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mygirls said:

i just posted that video but here you go bro....
400wtt mh bulb in a 1000wtt hps ballast

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simpsonsampson420 said:

i checked it out on the other thread.. its cool shit bro.. VERY cool shit for those who need it... but it brings to question.. can a MH ballast preform in the same manner as the HPS does?? i think the initial start up charge on an HPS ballast and less than that of an MH ballast... so i wonder if the MH ballast would fry an HPS bulb?? or maybe im wrong up the start up surge... but that leads me to believe everyone should just buy 1000w hps ballasts to begin with and decide which bulb they want to use when.. start out with the 1000w ballast with a 400w bulb for germing.. a 600w for the first week of veg to get them used to things.. and then blast them with a 1000w to finish up.. it would be the most ultra efficient way to grow both money wise due to electrical cost and bulb life.... good idea huh?

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mygirls said:

for sum reason you can not run a hps bulb in a mh ballast. not sure why not going to try.

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tilemaster said:

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simpsonsampson420 said:

so its really only MH bulbs that work in HPS ballasts?? maybe its opposite of what i think.. maybe it takes more initial fire to get an hps running than an MH.. so maybe the mh ballast doesnt give enough of an initital charge to get the hps fired??




LOL wtf?!? silly bastard

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simpsonsampson420 said:

thats cool shit... i would have been freaking out trying it the first time... a lot of ballasts now work either HPS and MH.. i know the digital ballast can take either... so i only need 1 ballast per HID i use.. and can use either HPS or MH in it... there is a 600w one that uses the conversion bulb.. but other than that i just need to throw whichever bulb i want to use in... all the ballasts come with warrantys so i dont want to fuck with trying a different watt bulb with the ballasts.. i know that would void the warranty.. but its good guys like you bro who show shit for what it really is... really, i wonder why you would need two different ballasts anyways?? if a bulb is 400w, its 400w.. i would think as long as the socket accepted the bulb it wouldnt matter as long as the bulb wattage doesnt exceed the ballast wattage... good shit tho bro.. i thank you for all those who are yet to buy ballasts and were gonna purchase two seperate ones!!



fuck yea ive had some problems... not anything i didnt really expect or think could go wrong.. just sucks... and most everything is depedant on everything else... if i had the water chiller already, tho, i wouldnt have any real worry... oh well.. thanks for the support!! i am confident i will get it together.. had my moment of doubt.. but seedlings die... not every one has 100% growth rate with their girls... SHIT HAPPENS!! glad your all zen'd out with some good opium... havent had anything like that around for a long long time!... oh and i think your praying worked... went in to check things out and temps were down to 80f!! i cant beileve im actually excited about 80 degree temps.. usually that shit would have be freakin!! but never been so happy to see 80 in my grow room before... i have lost 3 of my girls so far.. but i have 6 soma seeds germing to make up for them... just hope things stay steady for a while.. it feels like today is finally gonna be below 90 out.. should help tremendously!



your like mr. wizard with camera in his home... so much good advice and shit... you should start a weekly 10 minute tv show... "growing meds with growingmeds"



hell yea bro.. glad your back around... didnt find out much about the situation.. didnt say anything to the guys either.. didnt want to start a mass freak out.. but you can tell them what happened if you want... i imagine if the local law enforcement or any governement law enforcement would want anything from RIU all they would have to do is soppena it... RIU doesnt have a privacy clause in the contract we "sign" to join... so we are sort of fucked... just gotta be careful what you post and how you post it...

my final dried weight was just over 25 ounces.. ended up with a .43 grams per watt average.. which, given the situation im very happy with.. would have liked to have more.. but cant really complain with what i got..

as you can see from the new pics i pretty much have a soilid conopy of light over the girls.. still keeping numbers low.. just opting for bigger girls.. i just think in the end ill be better off... so for the veg room i have 2480w's.. 1680 of the floros.. and 800w of HPS.. i am only using the HPS bulbs this grow because i have to flower on the same side again.. didnt get to expand like i wanted so... but once they burn out itll be switched to MH...

as far as the a/c... here are the things you have to weight... a window a/c you dont have to worry about exhausting.. since it is in the window it exhausts itself out side.. which means no heat... but you are at the mercy of where the window is... a portable a/c can be moved into the tent, which means you can run it a little cooler and not so hard, since the area its cooling is where the a/c is... but you have to exhaust the heat from it... i personally would try to use the portable and keep the window as an exhaust window.... but it just depends on where you would exhaust the heat from the tent if you had the window unit and if how you would exhaust the heat from a portable....






so like i said temps got down to the low 80s.. and are still there this morning... its a LOT cooler today than its been.. not waking up to 85+ degrees outside is great... ive lost 3 girls so far.. pretty sure its 2 chemdog and 1 og kush... the BB and WS are fuckin fighters for sure.. the WS corrected the unintended super crop she got yesterday.. so i know they are still responding a little... but growth is stalled almost... ill take stalled growth over death knowing that in a few days growth will increase 10 fold with the addition of the chiller and a second exhaust fan... so things are starting to look up... slightly.. but you cant really go anywhere but up when your at the bottom right?!

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Dank's said:

ya im glad im back too! i was miserable without riu!!! i think i wrote u a email yesterday!!
anyway ya the whole situation was fucked up, if anyone asks ill tell them but other than that ill keep it on the downlow but ya everyone should know that ROLLITUP.ORG CAN and WILL give the dea, fbi, cops, narc, net 5 or any agents your info (ip address, forums, emails) if they get ur ip address they can track where your computer is sitting!!! i know this cuz it just recnetly happened to me! so just be careful everyone!!!!!!!
well i was thinking about getting a portable but which model do u think would best fit for my needs??? i was thinking a 10,000 or 12,000 btu. But theres so many different models to choose from, i need to find the one that best fits for a grower, ill be doing some research today and then probally get it tonight! for the heat issue i will buy some more ducting and just cut a 6 inch hole in the cardboard on my window and exhaust it out the window like my hood is exhasuting!!! it was so hot last night

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simpsonsampson420 said:

start a thread about what happened to you if you... it would be worth people knowing a first hand story... i just didnt want to post because it would have been damn near impossible to give your story to them through me.. know what i mean?/

as far as BTU goes.. i would suggest a 10000 to 12000 btu... even if it is a little bigger than what you need, that just means it wont have to run as hard.. i burned up the a/c i had going because it was only a 7500 btu a/c and couldnt keep up...

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tilemaster said:

11,000btu is keeping my 12x7.5' grow room with 2600w at 72-80 tops.. make sure to get 1 with manual controls so it can be hooked to a standard timer or a environmental controller..word of caution the digital 1's have 24 hour digital timers, that only work for 24 hours, then u have to simply hit the timer button again, once a day, 60days st8...think about it Dank...

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Dank's said:

i know if i make a thread about it ill get banned! riu wont want everyone knowing because then everyone will start leaving! Then they wont make as much money cuz there wont be as many advertisments on this website cuz theres not a lot of traffic anymore! so i guess ill just let people read this and then they can pm me if they want more info u know wat i mean! riu is over crowded and servers arnt running right so they have been banning people like crazy! follow fbbs posts and you'll notcie people saying "damn fbb you banned another one" so i think ill just pm everyone i know and let them know, wat u think?????? people def should know wat happened so they can be aware of riu and wat they do behind out backs!!!!

as for the ac i have a few links, which one u prefer??





arnt almost all of them digital controlled?? im asking cuz i dont know anything about ac's! damn TM im jealous i wish my tent stayed that cool, now that summer is here i def need a ac! heres a few links of what i plan on getting tonight, tell me what u think

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simpsonsampson420 said:

i dont think they would banned your for that.. as long as you dont completely trash them.. just make everyone aware that if the officials want information that RIU will give them it... and to be cautious with posts... just dont go in saying fucking RIU are a buncha of narcs blah blah blah...

personally for your set up a portable 10,000 BTU would be fine... it only needs to cool your room and will passively cool your tent just fine..

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slipperyP said:

I only read the last couple pages for now...how hydro life...is it better then soil yet? Subscribed...

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mygirls said:

alright what the hell did i miss, any thing..

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