TheStickMan
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Looks like spam to me, classic case.
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315W CMH SIngle Plant DWC SCROG.
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TheStickMan
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I do love this light but must admit it is really heavy and doesn’t half add some extra heat to the grow room with the attatched ballast!I don't like hood and ballast combos myself. Just extra weight for my light rail to have to move around and wear it out faster. My open reflector with a bulb in it likely weighs about 3 pounds.
Wouldn't mind getting some 400W GE CMH bulbs for my 3 magnetic ballasts tho once my Hortilux Super HPS bulbs need replacing.
TheStickMan
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What light you got buddy?I don't like hood and ballast combos myself. Just extra weight for my light rail to have to move around and wear it out faster. My open reflector with a bulb in it likely weighs about 3 pounds.
Wouldn't mind getting some 400W GE CMH bulbs for my 3 magnetic ballasts tho once my Hortilux Super HPS bulbs need replacing.
OldMedUser
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Got a bunch. All magnetic ballasts. 1 - 400wMH, 3 - 400wHPS, 1 - 1000wMH and a 1000wMH/HPS. Various CFL and LED bulb DIY rigs for smaller plants.
In the flowering room right now I'm using a 940w Hortilux conversion bulb running off the MH/HPS ballast on it's MH setting. Near the end I'll switch that out for a 7200K MH bulb to give them some extra UV and hopefully maximize the THC and resin output. Should have grabbed a 10,000K bulb for finishing but didn't think of it at the time.
Just got that ballast used at a hydro store in Kelowna last summer for $70 and at another store in BC picked up a couple Light EnerG 1000w Super HPS bulbs cheap and used one for the stretch as they have lots of blue in them and that helps limit the stretch. Worked too as I only got about 4" extra height during the stretch and was running out of head space.
I mounted the ballast outside the grow room and took the back off it for better cooling. Those puppies get pretty warm so saves a bit of heat from being in the grow room.
I checked out the DimLux gear at their website. Pretty decent stuff. Even if I go ahead with the added 8x4 grow space I'm thinking of building as an addition to my flowering room I still have enough lights and other gear for everything. Wife is bitching about the electric bill now.
Power is expensive here at 23.5¢/kwh. Almost $90/mth to just run a 1000w 12 hours a day.
Anon Emaus
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Good to see you still hanging around calli!Hey Anon!!
good to see you around! (I'm not so myself haha, really busy - but good!- times taking me way offline, plus, yeah, RIU has gone to shit lol)
you sound like me!
I'm starting to really look forward to my photoperiod harvest (Sensi Northern Lights 5xHaze), those rock hard buds are just a whole different category, even despite the fact that the whole (7 month!! lmao) grow was experimental and frought with soil and environment struggles lol
It doesn't help that the last Mephistos I grew were Cosmic Queens, who seem to always make fluffy buds, and did so especially in my untweaked new setup with badly fluctuating humidity. But still a wonderfully uplifting smoke!!! As great as those are, photoperiods just have a much more solid base somehow, also regarding terpene complexity...which won't keep me from growing more Mephistos either though haha (Trident or Sour Stomper up soon here!)
What a nice list, I feel your pain! From the Critical+ 2's I've seen, 3x3 sounds pretty much just right though?
Cheers!
Ahhhh I couldn't help myself and now I am going to run Mephisto's first lol I really wanted the pheno buds but the whole harvest in 70 days thing swayed me towards Mephisto again
I'm gunna try and put my foot down and run phenos on my next run though
.Aw man, I didn't want to hear that about Cosmic Queen, that's one of the strains I got germinating
Hell yeah to Sour Stomper!!! I got one of those germinating too! I LOVE the smell of that strain and the smoke, my only other run of it turned into a runt too so I'm excited to grow a good one.
Here's what I decided on:
Cosmic Queen
Creme De La Chem
4 Assed Monkey
Sour Stomper
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Anon Emaus
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Thanks man, doing good now. Well it was a bad upside down, things were real shit 7 months ago, but going good again now. How have you been?
Yeah I remember that, that sucked, how did you like the bud? Bag appeal, potency?
Yeah they do claim a pretty damn good yield out of her so I think I could push close if not more of a pound out. Yeah, still rocking the 600w, however I might need to dial down to (75%)450w here in the summer depending on temps. I did decide to go with Mephisto again though, I debated waiting 3+ months versus just 70 days and that quicker harvest stole my attention for now.
I know!, I really want to do Golden Lemons, my thought is to run Golden with some smaller strains though because Critical and Golden would really compete for that space I feel. Your Golden was so big I could probably just run her alone in the tent
Haze the maze
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That's awesome Anon. Glad your back!
I just have 2 Critical 2.0's as seedlings and two Dinachems as seedlings growing 2 weeks now.
The Critical' are jumping out of the ground.
They also have a very short flower time of 45-50 days!
Something to think about when choosing a neighboring plant.
Haze the maze
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I remember that.
Haze the maze
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Did not know that 315CMH were dim-able I've got these cheep things.
https://www.rollitup.org/attachments/img_0826-jpg.3918161/
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XirumBuds
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They are but they loose the light spectrum by 10%,20%,40%. Something like that.
Anon Emaus
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Thanks man!
Well how about that! Yeah that's right it does have a hell of a quick flowering time, I think that's why I was gunna go with her. Def gunna get that running next, should be around August I'll get those popping. If you've grown it before throw up some pics I'd love to see the buds!
TheStickMan
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Good luck with your first grow!!
TheStickMan
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Man you’ve got a fucking arsenal of lights at your disposal, i’d wish you luck but you don’t need it!!Got a bunch. All magnetic ballasts. 1 - 400wMH, 3 - 400wHPS, 1 - 1000wMH and a 1000wMH/HPS. Various CFL and LED bulb DIY rigs for smaller plants.
In the flowering room right now I'm using a 940w Hortilux conversion bulb running off the MH/HPS ballast on it's MH setting. Near the end I'll switch that out for a 7200K MH bulb to give them some extra UV and hopefully maximize the THC and resin output. Should have grabbed a 10,000K bulb for finishing but didn't think of it at the time.
Just got that ballast used at a hydro store in Kelowna last summer for $70 and at another store in BC picked up a couple Light EnerG 1000w Super HPS bulbs cheap and used one for the stretch as they have lots of blue in them and that helps limit the stretch. Worked too as I only got about 4" extra height during the stretch and was running out of head space.
I mounted the ballast outside the grow room and took the back off it for better cooling. Those puppies get pretty warm so saves a bit of heat from being in the grow room.
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I checked out the DimLux gear at their website. Pretty decent stuff. Even if I go ahead with the added 8x4 grow space I'm thinking of building as an addition to my flowering room I still have enough lights and other gear for everything. Wife is bitching about the electric bill now.
TheStickMan
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Sound mate, thanks for asking! Its been a long time since I grew anything. I’ll dig those Critical 2.0 photos out, she was a beauty. And she sold like hot cakes.
Farmer.J
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Took a couple years but I think it will happen soon.lmao this thread is going to be 100 pages in no time knowing us
Haze the maze
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That's great to hear now I'm super excited
calliandra
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ooo very nice mix!Good to see you still hanging around calli!
Ahhhh I couldn't help myself and now I am going to run Mephisto's first lol I really wanted the pheno buds but the whole harvest in 70 days thing swayed me towards Mephisto again
Aw man, I didn't want to hear that about Cosmic Queen, that's one of the strains I got germinating
Hell yeah to Sour Stomper!!! I got one of those germinating too! I LOVE the smell of that strain and the smoke, my only other run of it turned into a runt too so I'm excited to grow a good one.
Here's what I decided on:
Cosmic Queen
Creme De La Chem
4 Assed Monkey
Sour Stomper
I have creme de la chem seeds too, really looking forward to the lovely coloring of her leaves!!!
But since things are bound to get very hot over the summer, I'm sticking to sativas for the next round. Giving starting a photoperiod on 12/12 some thought too, as it would be less light time=less extra heat.
But we'll see, time to chop the NLH first, and a few odd jobs on the setup need doing too before the next run. Gives me a bit of time to ponder it more
hahaLots of good vibes over to your babes, may they make you very happy!!
Anon Emaus
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Oh yes Creme De La Chem is actually the most impressive girl so far! I'm only like 2 weeks in so she's only a little thing but boy is she vigorous, way ahead of the rest, roots are great and since the first showing of leaves she's been showing dark purplish colors! And Cosmic Queen who also has that Chemdogg gene in her is the next most vigorous one, it's pretty interesting. I've never grown a Chem strain before but clearly its a great gene.ooo very nice mix!
I have creme de la chem seeds too, really looking forward to the lovely coloring of her leaves!!!
But since things are bound to get very hot over the summer, I'm sticking to sativas for the next round. Giving starting a photoperiod on 12/12 some thought too, as it would be less light time=less extra heat.
But we'll see, time to chop the NLH first, and a few odd jobs on the setup need doing too before the next run. Gives me a bit of time to ponder it more
Lots of good vibes over to your babes, may they make you very happy!!
Yeah that was my debate too with summer here, I was thinking 12/12 for less heat as well but with me only running 1 operational tent right now I don't think heat is too much of an issue.
Oh they sure do, nothing better than coming home to see them each day