250w HPS Club And Help Guide

Turtlehermit

Turtlehermit

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Hm would a good brand grow bulb help with the light penetration for the 250 like an Agromax or Gavita Pro. I'd love to finally give my hydrofarm sunburst some attention and I mostly deal with sativas :U
Dense buds are obviously possible with it right? Because I wouldn't think buds would turn out airy and light always otherwise ppl wouldn't be growing with just 250 watts.
 
Turtlehermit

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When I bought my 250 Hydrofarm I was liken the idea of low stress training and keeping the plants a bush, knowing it is a light for small plants and not large. I wanted a micro grow. I've so far made one go with the light that turned into an attempt, because I pulled my only girl early due to circumstance. Had two but one of my indica bagseeds turned herm on me. I do love tossing beans outdoors though. :dunce:

So anyways, I got a AgroMax 250w Metal Halide - 6500K Ultra Blue Daylight Spectrum Lamp

and their HPS bulb as well, from the HTG supply and I'm wondering if this bulb will make the difference come a harvest under it. I was bugging between it and the Philips Master Son-T Pia Plus 250w - Bloom and I went with what HTG had to offer.
 
TheStickMan

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Turtlehermit said:
IMHO and only my opinion I believe it doesn't really make a difference in terms of yield, its seems to be a matter of a bunch of small buds as opposed to fewer larger buds, and lets face it the big ol juicy buds always seem more desirable. Just my .02 :mrgreen:
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https://www.rollitup.org/t/hash-bomb-week-by-week-photos.894928/
Check the link. 250W grow. Metal Halide for veg, HPS for flower. 10 ounce dry. 8 ounce cured. All solid buds, sold the lot straight away after giving a sample, with incredible feedback, one person said it was the best he'd ever vaped. Another said it was the smoothest smoke they'd had. I'm left with about a quart of shake and smaller buds from the jars that I'm keeping to myself.
 
Anon Emaus

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Just thought I'd share, got my first 250w and first scrog going(topped at 5th set of leaves & heavy LST prior to droppin on the scrog net). Dina Fem Original Amnesia, startin week 5, 5 gal dwc, Flora Nova bloom and Hydrogaurd start to end. Everything has gone great, very stable.
 

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TheStickMan

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Anon Emaus said:
Just thought I'd share, got my first 250w and first scrog going(heavy LST prior to droppin on the scrog net). Dina Fem Original Amnesia, startin week 5, 5 gal dwc, Flora Nova bloom and Hydrogaurd start to end. Everything has gone great, very stable.
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Looks great! Whats the flowering time on the Amnesia, 12 week?
 
Anon Emaus

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TheStickMan said:
Looks great! Whats the flowering time on the Amnesia, 12 week?
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Dina Fem lists 65 days, so little over 9 weeks, hopefully thats on par. I think you may be thinking on Amnesia Haze which is a 12 weeker. I actually got this as a freebie, prior to this I lost a baby to some fuckin vigorous unstoppable root rot so I was scared to try one of my paid seeds next so thru in this freebie. After researching her though I'm pretty excited for this strain.
 
TheStickMan

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Anon Emaus said:
Dina Fem lists 65 days, so little over 9 weeks, hopefully thats on par. I think you may be thinking on Amnesia Haze which is a 12 weeker. I actually got this as a freebie, prior to this I lost a baby to some fuckin vigorous unstoppable root rot so I was scared to try one of my paid seeds next so thru in this freebie. After researching her though I'm pretty excited for this strain.
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Yes mate, I was thinking of Amnesia Haze! And I hope I never have any problems with root rot, it is always there in the back of my mind! Do you have a grow journal or thread pal? You should deffo get one up if not.
 
Anon Emaus

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TheStickMan said:
Yes mate, I was thinking of Amnesia Haze! And I hope I never have any problems with root rot, it is always there in the back of my mind! Do you have a grow journal or thread pal? You should deffo get one up if not.
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I hope not either, i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy! I had a little experience with it earlier last year which prompted me to begin Hydroguard and it treated it and hadn't seen it again. But then in November I started a Pineapple Express and i fought that shit for like 2-3 weeks with everything, hydrogen peroxide, sm90, consistent cold water temps and at times it would all be gone and then next day it'd be insane. In the end i realized that my buckets drain tube had gunky shit all in it that i never properly cleaned out and I think that's where it lived and continued to bring it back. Live and learn though, now I know to really clean that tube out, at least it didn't happen halfway thru a grow.

Nah I've been thinkin about it for awhile, I'm extremely excited about this grow so I think I'll get one up here soon. I'll def let you know, your hash bomb thread made me so excited to grow with my new 250w since we both run dwc setup, i was previously just using CFL's with no plant training. Had pulled a consistent 3 oz in approx 3 months on my first two grows, hoping to at least double that yeild now!
 
Anon Emaus

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TheStickMan said:
Yes mate, I was thinking of Amnesia Haze! And I hope I never have any problems with root rot, it is always there in the back of my mind! Do you have a grow journal or thread pal? You should deffo get one up if not.
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Finally did it, journal is up! http://rollitup.org/t/1-plant-dwc-scrog.897377/
Jump on in and let me know what you think, even if you have negative feedback I'd love to know and improve.
 
TheStickMan

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Anon Emaus said:
I hope not either, i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy! I had a little experience with it earlier last year which prompted me to begin Hydroguard and it treated it and hadn't seen it again. But then in November I started a Pineapple Express and i fought that shit for like 2-3 weeks with everything, hydrogen peroxide, sm90, consistent cold water temps and at times it would all be gone and then next day it'd be insane. In the end i realized that my buckets drain tube had gunky shit all in it that i never properly cleaned out and I think that's where it lived and continued to bring it back. Live and learn though, now I know to really clean that tube out, at least it didn't happen halfway thru a grow.

Nah I've been thinkin about it for awhile, I'm extremely excited about this grow so I think I'll get one up here soon. I'll def let you know, your hash bomb thread made me so excited to grow with my new 250w since we both run dwc setup, i was previously just using CFL's with no plant training. Had pulled a consistent 3 oz in approx 3 months on my first two grows, hoping to at least double that yeild now!
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Glad my grow excited you, I was really pleased with it! I'm still using the 250w metal halide for veg, but flowering with a 400w this time in a bigger tent, I'm posting pics on the same Hash Bomb thread if you wanna see it. You will easily double yields and more! Good luck!
 
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KAPTNKUSH

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My first time/experiment ghetto closet grow(and yes that's tin foil) :mrgreen::mrgreen: started Jan 1st, just switched to 12/12 last night, using 2 150w hps so I figured I'd post on here since it's close to 250, seeing a lot of nice results from people, giving me more hope on my babies :hump:
 

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jensen71

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Started off with 400w mh ultra blue 10000K and it was just too hot for my small space and brown slime algae ran rampant until I lowered the temp with a 250w mh ultra blue 7500K. The gorilla glue FLOURISHED in vege and when I switched over to blooming with a 250hps, the gorilla glue budded up really nice and so quick that it had me fooled on the color of the trichromes. They're still oozing out clear trichomes so itll probably be another few weeks until flush and harvest for the gorilla glue. The training day strain, I should have LSTd early in flower because it just clustered up on 4 main branches. So now its layered at the low level with new popcorn nug flowers. They're developing into solid hard nugs, so I tied down the large colas to the exterior ring of the dwc bucket and moved some of the branches that were stretching to the middle so that they could soak up more light. I dunno, i'm tempted to switch over to my 600w hps but figure I may as well be cautious since both strains have similar flowering times. Party on!
 
jensen71

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Anon Emaus said:
Finally did it, journal is up! http://rollitup.org/t/1-plant-dwc-scrog.897377/
Jump on in and let me know what you think, even if you have negative feedback I'd love to know and improve.
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I used Heisenberg Tea to get rid of brown slime algae that causes root rot and replace with recharge in bloom. Recharge is a lot easier to handle and mix compared to having to use 5 ingredients and RO water compared to 1 ingredient and RO water and my roots turned out so white and clean.
 
jensen71

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Got both 250w MH and HPS via EBAY best offer (18 and 12 plus free shipping) from http://www.ebay.com/usr/thehydrosource?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
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Oh and I'm operating in a 2x3x7 foot grow space, DWC, 3 gorilla glues in 2 gallon pots, and 1 training day in a 7 gallon bucket. The Glue is about 5 ft tall and the training day is about 4.5 feet tall. 2 more weeks of overdrive and monitoring trichromes and then 1 week to flush I'm hoping.
 
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