250w HPS Club And Help Guide

RCgrowerman said:

I'm not paranoid just safe.

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Yeah they will never figure it out, its not like you post pictures on the internet telling everyone your growing it....



Just messin of coarse... One can never be too safe.

Guess it depends on where ppl are located and whats going on... Personally I am in an area where you never hear about grows being busted unless its an entire house/apt setup, and even then they stumble upon it because of neighbors complaining.
Densly populated, lots of crime. Even the LEO will tell you str8 up they dont care about someone smoking a J in their own home... Even been to a few BBQ's with off duties, they dont care when we sneak around the corner...

For grows our size I believe there is a very low chance of getting caught.
The only exception would be people telling on you. That being said I still
find it important to practice being safe and minimizing the other risks of
being discovered. (smell, sound, heat....) And I don't worry about
pictures because again these are personal sized grows that very obviously
are not being grown to be sold.

RCgrowerman said:

I'm not paranoid just safe.

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I meant you got my paranoia going , even though I am 100% tthere is no significant heat signs from my small grow, it got my spidey senses tingling

I just found this thread...It's great! I've been growing under 250 watt HPS for about a year. I've just switched to a hydro DWC for this one. It's different. I like growing under 250 watt. I've had pretty good luck. Here is a pic of my first grow under 250. In the pic this plant is about 4 to five weeks into flowering. I ended up getting a little less than two oz. off of her.

Hey GooberGrape, welcome aboard.

Thats a nice looking plant for 250, and a little under 2 oz is pretty good as far as I am concerned.

RCgrowerman said:

For grows our size I believe there is a very low chance of getting caught.
The only exception would be people telling on you. That being said I still
find it important to practice being safe and minimizing the other risks of
being discovered. (smell, sound, heat....) And I don't worry about
pictures because again these are personal sized grows that very obviously
are not being grown to be sold.

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Kinda the same way I feel.

Also understanding your rights and local laws should be encouraged.
I saw a bust on the news the other day. They were coming out one after another, plants, pvc, lights. Big time operation. Peaks my interest of coarse, thinking ok how did they get caught...

Well go figure, the neighbors were suspicious because it seemed nobody lived there. Car & truck would come and go, but rarely over night. One night they thought they heard a gun shot (bulb blew I would assume) so they called the police, who tripped over their own *&^%'s into a big time grow....
Most of the time I see these its the same thing, suspicious activity makes the neighbors keep an eye out. Sometimes its the smell. But I cant say I ever saw a legit case built up where they were watching the place for a long time because of some other outside way like electric or heat. Its 95% always something to do with the neighbors...

So be safe because your the only one who can give it away by being sloppy.

Sup all! Just a pic update on my grow. Day 33 of 12/12.

Blueberry (U1) She is quite yellow and I have burned the fuck out of her trying to fix it. Flushed and I am backing the nutes off alot. She is still building mass though, she should bounce back.






Mystery Clone (U2) Not as yellow as she was and now less than U1 is. She is getting really fat, hope she continues to bulk up.






Peace

Hey guys how is everyone ?

ace720 said:

Hey guys how is everyone ?

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Doing great ace. I think all the leo talk sent people into hiding.

I truly love medical marijuana laws, it's still hard to believe it sometimes. I still find myself paranoid anytime I see a officer when I am driving around carrying. First time I got pulled over since I got my card I found myself automatically trying to crotch my stash. Old habits die hard.

stoneslacker said:

Doing great ace. I think all the leo talk sent people into hiding.

I truly love medical marijuana laws, it's still hard to believe it sometimes. I still find myself paranoid anytime I see a officer when I am driving around carrying. First time I got pulled over since I got my card I found myself automatically trying to crotch my stash. Old habits die hard.

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Old habits die hard?? I still get the jitters when driving with a police car in front or behind...even if i'm doing nothing wrong and not carrying .
I think I have a similar prob with my Blue Mystic....been using weaker doses then reccommended of BioBizz, but think that Mag def has once again stopped them being used, and really worried that if I add epsom salts, they get burnt bad....hmmmmm decisions, decisions

Sup Ace, Slack? It has been very quiet here the last few days, but i've not had much time myself.

Damn stoneslacker, thats looking nice. Love the canopy.

Sorry for the rant on the legal side, dont want to freak people out..

Im going to be putting my next one on hold for a while. My co-grower is having some medical problems, chemo damaged her lungs so she needs to be on o2. Alot of unknowns at this point, so going to play it safe for a while. She is going to be fine, just has something new to adjust to. Once she is home for a bit and things get "normal" we have everything we need to start back up..

Just dont feel like getting into another grow and need to cut it abruptly.

I will still be around here tho, commenting, repping and liking... And smoking/eating the fine mj ya'll helped us grow...

I ran into a deal I couldn't pass up.. I picked up two 48" 6 Lamp T5HO fixtures with Bulbs (54 watt 3500k) for $90 each on CL.



Just wondering if anyone here has T5 experience.. I know 3500k is at the top end of bloom so if I use them as-is what should I expect? I may start picking up a few lower k bulbs to mix in but just wondering what you guys/gals think about blooming with 3500k..

Grazz

After losing a little bit of outdoor buds to bud rot due to the insane humidity and rain I decided to check closer on my indoor.
Low and behold my biggest and most healthy cola had a case of bud rot. Needless to say ventilation will be staying on
24/7 from now on until I can figure out how to deal with this problem.


I just cut the infected area off but unfortunately it was just way to fucked up to salvage anything. Should be another 2-3 weeks
until the chop hopefully I don't have to deal with this again.

10acjed said:

Damn stoneslacker, thats looking nice. Love the canopy.

Sorry for the rant on the legal side, dont want to freak people out..

Im going to be putting my next one on hold for a while. My co-grower is having some medical problems, chemo damaged her lungs so she needs to be on o2. Alot of unknowns at this point, so going to play it safe for a while. She is going to be fine, just has something new to adjust to. Once she is home for a bit and things get "normal" we have everything we need to start back up..

Just dont feel like getting into another grow and need to cut it abruptly.

I will still be around here tho, commenting, repping and liking... And smoking/eating the fine mj ya'll helped us grow...

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Ya ultimately the mj can wait on your friends health to return. Wish I could donate some to her cause for you man, hope that things work out for her definitely.

Hello friends and neighbors. Been out of town a couple days and came back to gloom, dispare and agony....damn, a couple weeks ago I removed the last male, and had plenty of time before the 2 would have dropped pollen....so did a flush, cleaned out and wiped my tent with alcohol and lysol, then put the plants back in...it was all good. Last Wed, I began watering and inspecting the plants. They seemed to have slowed developing buds at about 40 days flowering...so I'm checking toward the back plants and I see this skinny female that went Herman, and my beautuful girls are developing seeds. #%W$%&^@. I cut them all off at the dirt and slipped garbage bags over them, in an effort to not contaminate the 250 HPS grow just a few feet away. So far, it looks ok. I may have gotten lucky in the HPS tent. I have a couple more weeks on that grow. I lost at least a third of my grow and was getting depressed until I fired up a bowl and had to laugh at myself. After all, my cup is still 2/3 full. It is good to be back and catch up on the bud porn you guys are posting. Seems a few of us have had a bit of bad luck recently.

Thanks for the compliment on the plant. That was my first time growing under 250 watt. The last one was much nicer. I got 58 grams off of it. Both times I couldn't even afford good soil. I was using Miraclegro with the time released fertilizers. Now I've switched to a DWC and am expermenting with that. More work but it's fun!

stoneslacker said:

Ya ultimately the mj can wait on your friends health to return. Wish I could donate some to her cause for you man, hope that things work out for her definitely.

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Thanks. Its tough, she was at the end. Last chemo, all tests good, then bam she gets hit with this..
Not life ending, just life changing tho so we just move forward.

Has anyone ever germinated a seed in rockwool and put that in hydroton over the reservoir and sprouted that way? Maybe put a humidity dome right over the DWC bucket? I was thinking of trying it that way next time I grew.

10acjed said:

Thanks. Its tough, she was at the end. Last chemo, all tests good, then bam she gets hit with this..
Not life ending, just life changing tho so we just move forward.

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Hope things turn around for your friend.. be cool and take care of the important stuff..

Grazz

What's up guys. I haven't been on much because my phone keep kicking me off. I think it's this new
iOS 6. I'm starting to not like apple. Lol looking good RC