150w HPS Club: Inspirational Resource

are any of you running 150w's without hoods? obviously the hoods help concentrate the light to the plant, but are they really necessary?
 
Well it's not necessary if you hang the bulbs in between the plants for side lighting. But if you are going to hang them above the canopy you would waste probably 40% of light, which isn't reflected downwards.
 
i just thought of something. what are the hoods made out of? couldnt i just get a piece of metal and line it with mylar or something of that ilk? any suggestions on diy?
 
You can make your own. I've built reflectors from all sorts of shit.

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Here I rigged one from the frame of a 4ft fluorescent fixture. It was mainly just to hold the lights in place and reflect a little bit of light, very inefficient design.

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The ones I am using now are just PC side panels that I bent into shape.
 
I would suggest painting metal with some titanium white Rustoleum. Mylar won't hold up to the heat being that close to the light. I didn't paint mine, guess I should sometime.
 
thats what i was kind of thinking. i just went over to my moms and got half of a speed limit sign. im going to bend that up and paint it. thanks for the tips man! cant wait to order that ballast later on today.
 
i just ordered my ballast! i feel like i accomplished something haha. i think im actually going to use a bent cooking sheet for the hood. i measured one up and it actually seemed almost perfect for my setup. ill be sure to post pics when everythings up
 
Here is my $12 reflector that I made a few evenings ago. It only took a few hours to make and my temps only went up 1 degree from the cool tube I was using.

It was made from a 6" vent pipe, a 4" female vent coupler, some pop rivets and a can of flat white spray paint.

I think the pics pretty much explain how it was made.
 

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Hey Guys, looking good. Just trying to gain some experience in here. I have a 150 HPS from HTG. My first grow and things are picking up daily on my two girls! I am 3.5 weeks into flowering and I have an Indica dom and Sativa dom. Going to add some CFL's for grow number 2! I am going to try and regen these after i pick the buds. Anybody have any experience with that? I heard it can be done, just going to do some experimenting. Learned a ton so far!
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geddylee.2112 said:
Hey Guys, looking good. Just trying to gain some experience in here. I have a 150 HPS from HTG. My first grow and things are picking up daily on my two girls! I am 3.5 weeks into flowering and I have an Indica dom and Sativa dom. Going to add some CFL's for grow number 2! I am going to try and regen these after i pick the buds. Anybody have any experience with that? I heard it can be done, just going to do some experimenting. Learned a ton so far!
:peace:
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Every strain responds differently but in my opinion it usually takes way too long. I could see doing it if you absolutely wanted to keep the genetics you just flowered and didn't have a mother plant.

All you do is leave about 1 node of veg growth, throw it back into 20/4 or 24/0 and use nothing but water and occasionally some superthrive and wait..........and wait......... and well, you get the idea.

I did this with JHerer and NL #5 and if I remember correctly it took almost 6-7 weeks to see new growth.

I did it just to learn how and afterwords I thought "What a waste of 6 weeks." I respect your approach to learning but some things you don't have to experience to know.

Good Luck!
 
hey guys i plan on growing 7 small plants under a 150w hps,veg for about 2 weeks then flower.do you think i can get at least 10 grams a plant??
 
Sorry dude, you gotta get a bigger light for 7 plants unless you're growing bonsai trees, which you're not with 2 weeks vegging. You would be better off growing 4 plants with 1 week vegging.
 
ReelFiles said:
Sorry dude, you gotta get a bigger light for 7 plants unless you're growing bonsai trees, which you're not with 2 weeks vegging. You would be better off growing 4 plants with 1 week vegging.
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thanks for the reply.should i just go 12/12 from seed then? or that 1 week makes a difference.this would be my first regular strain as ive only done autos with success
 
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