Wonder's Medical Grow: Purple Widow, Wonder Woman, 1000W hps PICS!

will be doing a hydro here in a bit.. got a lil 8 pot system gonna see if i can dial it in and if i can im goin for a rotogro....

If i go with 600ws I will buy a lumatek, dual output. GOing to the Hydrostore this morning. WHo knows what I will come back with. When I said $33 for Roots 707, that is 3 Cu Feet, where FFOF, and typical soil bags are 1.5 cu feet. Still it aint cheap.

DGK- I just about gave my wife a heart attack when I told her we should get a rotogrow. I was looking at Omega Gardens.. Seemed simple and easy. Would be sweet if you could just pull a pound or 2 out of one every 2 monthes....... Whatever, Im just gonna do what I do.

Will update, once I get home from the store. Thanks for all the input. Bud shots today as well.......

wonderblunder said:

If i go with 600ws I will buy a lumatek, dual output. GOing to the Hydrostore this morning. WHo knows what I will come back with. When I said $33 for Roots 707, that is 3 Cu Feet, where FFOF, and typical soil bags are 1.5 cu feet. Still it aint cheap.

DGK- I just about gave my wife a heart attack when I told her we should get a rotogrow. I was looking at Omega Gardens.. Seemed simple and easy. Would be sweet if you could just pull a pound or 2 out of one every 2 monthes....... Whatever, Im just gonna do what I do.

Will update, once I get home from the store. Thanks for all the input. Bud shots today as well.......

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Um, just my $.02 - hydro's easy, and is nothing like the "voodoo" that many people make it out to be.

That being said, I'd definitely start with DWC/E&F/any beginner hydro system before I went to an Omega.

I mean, I'm a pretty confident guy and feel like I can take on anything, but I'd be lying if I said that the Omega wouldn't intimidate me right outta the box.

Also, plant counts that high can get a little........um.............let's just say, your medical card won't matter if you get busted with that.

Be careful, and good luck to you.

I switched to Galaxy ballasts...... much better track record there

Your gonna be harvesting on my birthday! I think a buddy and I are gonna head that way for it... need help trimming? Sad to hear about the other three you chopped. do you think others got pollinated in the process? are you using those tables with the clay in them yet?

StOnEd SoLdIeR said:

Your gonna be harvesting on my birthday! I think a buddy and I are gonna head that way for it... need help trimming? Sad to hear about the other three you chopped. do you think others got pollinated in the process? are you using those tables with the clay in them yet?

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Come on down, The buds harvest so far were decent. The Wonder Woman will be the last of this round to harvest, which will be in 1-2 weeks. Last feeding today! Another round will be ready December 17th. I made some good edibles. Socrates ate a few of them and hurled. Blueberry has a very citrus smell... The rest of the flowering room is fine, I think should have killed the herms earlier, but I have been a little negligent. Just starting to get back rolling. Haven't gotten the flood tables going..... I don't know what I have been doing....... May look for a lower res, so i can shorten the legs of the table. WOuld fit into the room better with a mix of soil/hydro.. Looking forward to seeing you soon. I will call.........

I purchased a few new products to throw into my nutrient line:
-Humboldt Purple MAXXXX
- Fox Farm Tiger Bloom
-Fox Farm Big Bloom
-Fox Farm Beastie Bloomz

Purchased one more extra sun hood and an Sun Agro Bulb. Sticking with the 400w MHs for now.... Full spectrum bulbs should be beneficial.

How should I set all 3 reflectors?
If they are all flat it is not using the space that efficiently it seems. I think I should tilt the 2 xtraSun's in aiming towards eachother on opposite sides of 1000w HPS in parabolic.

Also I would like to add in (2) 48" T8 Flourescent 6 tube fixtures. There dimensions are 2'X4'. Any ideas on positioning. Im thinking side lighting?
Everybody in the flowering room is happy. More pics soon. I have a lot of work to do.

instead of tilting your lights to focus on the plants y dont you just space your plants out a bit... isnt fun buyin new equip? i just spent a g the other day...

I would just raise them up slightly that's all.... tilting them will alter your spread focus........ no need to do that as a downward focus encourages strait upward growth ....... if you raise the lights slightly, the spread focus is used more efficiently over your plants, less concentrated in center spots, and more evenly distributed on the plants canopy..... Rather than bath them in light they won't use all of in small areas, spread the love all around to lacking areas

dgk4life said:

instead of tilting your lights to focus on the plants y dont you just space your plants out a bit... isnt fun buyin new equip? i just spent a g the other day...

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I love buyin new stuff. Keep stackin it up. Im gonna keep them flat, and space my plants out a bit, they will be happy! Will post pics today

theloadeddragon said:

I would just raise them up slightly that's all.... tilting them will alter your spread focus........ no need to do that as a downward focus encourages strait upward growth ....... if you raise the lights slightly, the spread focus is used more efficiently over your plants, less concentrated in center spots, and more evenly distributed on the plants canopy..... Rather than bath them in light they won't use all of in small areas, spread the love all around to lacking areas

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I will lift the lights up. 6"? 12"? I will definitely be able to fill my 5-6' X 7' flowering room...... I think? Thanks for all the help.

You guys are awesome.......... helps me from over thinking......... and we all know that is not good.....

i would def just spread them out a bit and only raise em 6" u loose lumens the further away the lights r from your plants

I'm definitely in the Loaddragon's camp on this one - I like my light spread out evenly, and although a lot of people (misinformed, IMHO) say to get them as close as possible, I'd rather an even spread of light (even though I have a massive reflector which spreads light out pretty well even if hung low).

When people are calculating the inverse relationship, I think that they forget to take into account that (most people, anyways) aren't just growing one plant sitting under one light - yes, directly under the light I lose lumens because my 1000 is 2-3 feet away from my plants (although with it being cooled and CO2 enriched, I could have it inches away if I wanted), but I'll take the gain in lumens on the perimeter of the garden all day - never had a plant stretch or looked like it needed more light under one of my 1000s.

Take a look at some serious grow ops for a reference point, and look at where their lights are hung - pretty high in all cases.

Just my $.02.

agreed .

Is it possible that adding all the lights and always moving them around will stress your girls out this late in the game? maybe cause a few to go herm?

nooooo. light during dark cycle yes but not by adding light and rearranging

Everything is good. Spaced the plants out. Lifted the hoods 6". Added 2 Flourescent panels into the flowering room. 384 watts of T8 (12 tubes @ 32w per tube) Flowering room is looking fucking awesome. Will be adding a sub wall of panda tomorrow (hopefully), so the flowering room will be partitioned off from the rest of the room. Buds swelled up last nite after the feeding. I can now access all of my plants much easier, due to spaced out and lifting the hoods. Best suggestions in a while.

Harvested plant is either blueberry or flo (hermie)

Plants in veg are in 3 gallon bags. About to be raped of clones and topped.

that a boy wonder... although i didnt think floros were good during flower.. i could be wrong jus dont want u wasting anything

nice addition bro.. how'd you like the beastie bloomz?

hermies...... and you mentioned partitioning girls in flower from those in veg.... are they sharing the same space?

dgk4life said:

that a boy wonder... although i didnt think floros were good during flower.. i could be wrong jus dont want u wasting anything

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I dont want to waste anything either. In any case, if they are waste, they may stay right there because they have been sitting in the middle of my living room for weeks, storage space is becoming limited.......

ReAVeR said:

nice addition bro.. how'd you like the beastie bloomz?

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Thanks, THe plants all look spectacular after the Beastie..... Im looking forward to watchin it work.

theloadeddragon said:

hermies...... and you mentioned partitioning girls in flower from those in veg.... are they sharing the same space?

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The plants in veg are in a 4 X 4 X 6 DIY tent. The tent is in the same room with the flowering room. I want to partition off the flowering room for max reflectivity, as it is already light sealed from the veg and clone areas.

Right now the flowering room has panda on 3 walls, and the open side faces the sealed veg tent and clone area. I think I may be losing some light by not having Panda there.......

TLD, how do you feel about the flouros? waste of energy? they are 3000k bulbs in the flowering room. and the 6500k in the veg.....