Second Grow 150w HPS

stoneyluv

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man, what are you doing with my sticky nugs?!?!?!!? hahahahaha they do look great man, tight nodes make huge buds!!!!
 

KawiZZR

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man, what are you doing with my sticky nugs?!?!?!!? hahahahaha they do look great man, tight nodes make huge buds!!!!
I wish i had some of your nugs right now, everywhere around me as dry, gotta drive least a half hour to find any halfway decent bud. Any guess on how much I'll be able to get off her? The nodes are closely grouped but pretty short.
 

stoneyluv

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I wish i had some of your nugs right now, everywhere around me as dry, gotta drive least a half hour to find any halfway decent bud. Any guess on how much I'll be able to get off her? The nodes are closely grouped but pretty short.
I'm terrible at guessing weight, but i do know when the nodes are that tight, they like to swell up and grow into big long buds.... sitting at 3 weeks like you are, you could get 7 grams or more from each branch. but then again, I'm always more hopeful than what i actually pull.
 

KawiZZR

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I'm terrible at guessing weight, but i do know when the nodes are that tight, they like to swell up and grow into big long buds.... sitting at 3 weeks like you are, you could get 7 grams or more from each branch. but then again, I'm always more hopeful than what i actually pull.
Even if 7g per branch is hopeful by a bit that'd still be a pretty good harvest.

looks good hope you get good yield if you do im getting a 150
im subd
It really depends how much you consider to be a good yield. If you're looking for over 4 oz then you'll probably want a bigger light or to add some CFLs around the edges. I got 2 oz last time and my goal is to at least match that. With a full nutrient line up and going with a better soil mix or coco/hydro, 4oz would probably be a fairly realistic number. If that's more along the lines of what you want then you should go for it. I got mine for about $60 delivered, you can find them for even less if you wait and look around a bit though.
 

massah

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You seem to be doing pretty good man...Love those pictures, just think if you had more girls to begin with :D

Definately going to watch this as I <3 small grows...screw those 1000+ HPS folks who can burn money like no tomorrow...do it on the cheap man :D I got my 150watt HPS floodlights for $35 each from a local shop :D
 

KawiZZR

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You seem to be doing pretty good man...Love those pictures, just think if you had more girls to begin with :D

Definately going to watch this as I <3 small grows...screw those 1000+ HPS folks who can burn money like no tomorrow...do it on the cheap man :D I got my 150watt HPS floodlights for $35 each from a local shop :D
Thanks, I like to think I'm doing pretty good on the budget I've got. Little grows are definitely some of the most interesting, one of my favs is Gumballs PC grow. I respect the guys who use those huge lights and pull massive yields, it's just not something I'm into. Granted I just dropped over 250 on an LED but still, most things I do for as cheap as I can without sacrificing quality. I'll stop by and check out your thread in a min, I'd thought about doing a diy remote ballast to a floodlight but I'm just a bit overly cautious with HID lights so went with the commercial one.
 

theoldmerchant

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Thanks for the kind words, yeah I'm hoping the LED is a good choice on my part. I'm really hoping she yields well, any guess how much I'll pull off her?
I'm doing my first flower with a 150w so after this grow I'll be a little better at guessing the yield off 'er. But that plant looks trained to all hell, and with that canopy I'm hoping you get a couple zips or more. I'm rooting for you haha.
 

KawiZZR

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I'm doing my first flower with a 150w so after this grow I'll be a little better at guessing the yield off 'er. But that plant looks trained to all hell, and with that canopy I'm hoping you get a couple zips or more. I'm rooting for you haha.
Yeah, I went a lil crazy with the pipe cleaners and tape... Plus cutting 6 clones off her effectively topped all those branches making her super bushy. Just looked in on my veg ones for the first time in a couple days, kinda burnt a few of them from growing into the bulbs, oops. So might have to top them to get rid of the damaged areas, depends if they recover well in the next day or two.
 

KawiZZR

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A friend was gonna take an old PC to the dump today so I decided to rescue it. Gonna gut it today and see how much space there is to work with inside, thinking about putting in a couple CFLs and using it for my clones instead of them taking up space in my cabinet. The outer dimensions are 21.75"x10.25"x17" (lwh). Once it's been torn down I'll put up a few pics before transforming it into a useable grow area.
 

KawiZZR

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So far it looks like I'll need one more PCI slot cover, two disc drive covers, a 3.5" drive cover, and need to disassemble the inside a bit more. Once all that's done I should end up with about 20x9.5x16 of useable space.

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