250w HPS Club And Help Guide

kinetic

kinetic

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Yor vegging with just a regular MH? I did like the full spectrum for veg but it def. Lacked for flower vs HPS. I would def. Get the hortilux blue MH if you can.

There maybe some old photos on my profile of long ago grows when I ran my 250.
 
Herb Man

Herb Man

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Kalebaiden said:
Good Evening RIU
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Todays update, brought to you by a dog that won't leave me alone....drooling bastard.

There's not alot of news to be had. Not alot of upward growth but I expected that when I pop'd the screen on top.

The new growth looks good, there's a bit of mite damage on a leaf so tomorrow (tonight at lights out) it gets the Kontos.

It was suggested that I change the screen out for trellis netting that's been woven to have smaller holes. Not a bad idea and one I think I'll try.

I need to keep reminding myself this is a seed grow but damn do I ever want to grow for some sweet Sensi.
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What is the capacity of those white buckets? I grew in bags the last time out but I like those buckets.
 
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cjguy48

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2-gushers and 2-Zookies started as clones
under old school 250 HPS ..5 gallon grow bags.
Soil: Mother Earth Groundswell,
organic nutes Biothrive grow and bloom.
they did veg a bit under a 400hps but not for long.

30"x30"x60" tent

At about 50 days of flower..
 

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Kalebaiden

Kalebaiden

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cjguy48 said:
2-gushers and 2-Zookies started as clones
under old school 250 HPS ..5 gallon grow bags.
Soil: Mother Earth Groundswell,
organic nutes Biothrive grow and bloom.
they did veg a bit under a 400hps but not for long.

30"x30"x60" tent

At about 50 days of flower..
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Beautiful
 
Kalebaiden

Kalebaiden

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Good Morning RIU
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Today's update brought to by snow.

It's October 1st and we got snow here. If it was slightly warmer it would be a misty rain but it was snow.

The plants are doing great. They are 27 days into the 12/12 flip and the heater I added outside the tent is keeping the ambient temperature really well. I'm getting a nice day/night temperature swing so hopefully it will pull the blue/grey out of the plant.

I gave them a haircut so I can get more light to some bud sites and cut down on the larf above the screen.

Some of the buds are 6 inches from the open light and there's no issues yet, one cola is touching the glass of the light hood with zero issues so I might get lucky.

I don't have anymore twine or string to tie anything down so it is what it is.

I have a couple candidates for cloning from the lower branches that never made it to the screen but I might not do a winter run considering I can't get any foam board insulation right now.

I have been watering every two days, sometimes with the Technaflora line, sometimes with the General Organics line and sometimes with straight spring water.

I am loving the Technaflora line up. Zero pH-ing needed and the plants love it. I still check the pH of the nutrients but never have to adjust it.

I had added a security camera to the grow so I could peek in on it but I had read that even IR lights that allow for night photos can trigger a light leak herm response so I took the camera offline.

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Thanks for watching.
 
87swampthing

87swampthing

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Does any body buy their light as a kit or just buy everything individually? Thinking of running a hid instead of my qb. The only 250 kit I see is at htg, didn't know if it would be worth while or not. Right now I'm 320w qb in a 2x4x5 tent.
 
Kalebaiden

Kalebaiden

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87swampthing said:
Does any body buy their light as a kit or just buy everything individually? Thinking of running a hid instead of my qb. The only 250 kit I see is at htg, didn't know if it would be worth while or not. Right now I'm 320w qb in a 2x4x5 tent.
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My first one (a decade ago) was an all in one kit. My second time buying was the hood first (as a replacement for my Gullwing reflector) to find out it has a horticulture plug end so I bought a 250 ballast that fit that plug, then upgraded my HPS lights to eye hortilux supers and now run a double lamp set up.
 
Herb Man

Herb Man

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Kalebaiden said:
Good Morning RIU
​
Today's update brought to by snow.

It's October 1st and we got snow here. If it was slightly warmer it would be a misty rain but it was snow.

The plants are doing great. They are 27 days into the 12/12 flip and the heater I added outside the tent is keeping the ambient temperature really well. I'm getting a nice day/night temperature swing so hopefully it will pull the blue/grey out of the plant.

I gave them a haircut so I can get more light to some bud sites and cut down on the larf above the screen.

Some of the buds are 6 inches from the open light and there's no issues yet, one cola is touching the glass of the light hood with zero issues so I might get lucky.

I don't have anymore twine or string to tie anything down so it is what it is.

I have a couple candidates for cloning from the lower branches that never made it to the screen but I might not do a winter run considering I can't get any foam board insulation right now.

I have been watering every two days, sometimes with the Technaflora line, sometimes with the General Organics line and sometimes with straight spring water.

I am loving the Technaflora line up. Zero pH-ing needed and the plants love it. I still check the pH of the nutrients but never have to adjust it.

I had added a security camera to the grow so I could peek in on it but I had read that even IR lights that allow for night photos can trigger a light leak herm response so I took the camera offline.

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Thanks for watching.
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Cool, what's the distance from your screen to your light?
 
nl5xsk1

nl5xsk1

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cjguy48 said:
2-gushers and 2-Zookies started as clones
under old school 250 HPS ..5 gallon grow bags.
Soil: Mother Earth Groundswell,
organic nutes Biothrive grow and bloom.
they did veg a bit under a 400hps but not for long.

30"x30"x60" tent

At about 50 days of flower..
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This photo shows major Powdery Mildew
 
Kalebaiden

Kalebaiden

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Sadness.

Mom's needs are becoming more intense so I may not be able to finish this run.

It's going well but mom does come first.

Here's hoping for zero fuck ups because I don't have time to deal with shit right now.
 
Kalebaiden

Kalebaiden

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I love my plant so much.

I came into the plant room and what normally smells like a neutral scent room is overflowing with the good good cheeba scent of well grown herb.

My trichs are forming, the buds are bulking up and everything looks amazing.

I hope I get to finish it.
 
Kalebaiden

Kalebaiden

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I've been neglecting the shit out of my plant.

Throw water at it and walk away.

Today I went to water it and the lower growth is dying. I think it's turning into a heavy feeder so I'm going to up the nutrient water schedule and see what kind of reaction I get.

I just fed and watered today so I'll feed her another gallon the day after tomorrow.

She has 3-5 weeks and hopefully not 7 weeks but 12 week strains are possible too. It all depends on the phenotype it turns into.

She'll be done when she's done.
 

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Kalebaiden

Kalebaiden

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So everything below the screen is suffering from N deficiency. I threw the regular flowering nites at it and added in some organic fish emulsion to the mix.

I don't plan on stopping the N def, just hold it off for another month. If the fish emulsion works, yay. If not them meh.

I'm over this season of growing. My life is too busy with mom to try to give a plant my attention.

I'm still hoping that the plant does alright but I really don't care. I can't Pheno hunt, I can't get the genetics I really want and I really don't smoke enough weed to justify growing on a massive scale.

Added a trellis net to flatten out all the plants.

Why? I don't know.

Having impulse control issues kind of sucks sometimes.
 

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