Hanks First set-up

Hank's Hooter

Hank's Hooter

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Main house panel had a 100amp breaker that controlled the driveway heater. We don't use this, so that 100 amps is now being sent down to a sub panel in the grow area.




 
Hank's Hooter

Hank's Hooter

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Sorry for the delay guys. Of my shipment of six 1000w set-ups, four ballasts got "lost in transit". So I had to try and make do with two lights. I hooked everything up and put a Hortalux 1000w Blue MH bulb in. Turned on the power and only got a flash of light followed by nothing! This made me shut down and scratch my head while I retraced the work I had did for an error.

No error. Tried again- same result.

Took MH bulb out and put in 1000w Super HPS Hortalux bulb. Fired right up! LET THERE BE LIGHT!!!

 
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So I fugured my other four ballasts would show up within the next couple of days, but I was wrong. So I ended up calling the company I bought from and their records show that I had received all six ballasts, and it was the three HPS bulbs that I was missing. I spent about two weeks trying to tell them that they were wrong. I finally had to track down all the evidence myself and write a scathing email to the companies managment. She was able to follow my reasoning and agreed to finlly ship me four more ballasts.

In all of my tracking down of the problems, I also was working to figure out why the two ballasts would not fire the MH bulbs. Lumatek said it was the ballasts, so I had to make sure the company sent me four ballasts that they knew would fire up the MH Blue bulbs.
 
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My original plan was to have three MH bulbs in the veg room and three HPS in the bud room. With two ballasts, I was going to go with one in each room. Then with the MH bulbs not working, I just put all the plants under the HPS on a 12/12.

I really wanted to veg some of the plants bigger, plus have the opportunity to clone them a bunch. This plan flew out the window. Basicall all plants started budding, so I am just running with it.

 
FoxCompany426

FoxCompany426

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You could have vegged them under the HPS. An HPS has a very broad color spectrum, suitable for all phases of growth.
 
Hank's Hooter

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Several clones have developed nice roots, so I planted them.

I am real close to trying to put a little hydro into the action. I am lagging because I am not excited to have the extra maintanence. I damn near pulled the trigger and bought one a couple of days ago. Now I have halfway talked myself out of it.
 
Hank's Hooter

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It sure feels good to see that I am doing something right! This plant lived in my shady yard all summer. I have finally made it happy enought to reward me.
 
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I have been trying to keep these two Sativa plants outdoors behind my friends house. His house has been for sale, and finally has a contract pending. Then we had a NASTY ice storm for a few days. One day the temps stayed in the 20's and thick ice covered everything. I looked at the plants and figured they were gonners and just left them. I went back a few days later after the ice thawed. All of the shade leaves got toasted, but amazingly, it looked like they could pull through. I grabbed them by the base and pulled them out of the ground and brought them home. I pulled a bunch of clones off each one and was prepared to compost the rest. My buddy told me to repot them to see if they might pull through. A couple of days later they seem to still be alive and kicking!



 
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