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Deusracing

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chiefbootknocker said:
In my case both the ballast and the bulb were from the same company. I hate to say it man, but I went to check out the site you had, but it looks as though it's for sale. Are you sure that's the site? Could it be http://www.virtualsunhydroponics.com? idk?
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i have to say its the best all in one combo on the market.. the mh and HPS they include stand right up there with my eye hortilux super hps no joke man look at all my beginning posts threads and photos..
 
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Deusracing said:
the first pic is the black and white photo of my first plant and if your referring to the big black bucket its my grow commander/ebb and flow controller with my 55gal drum outside the tent
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I think I was talking about the commander/ebb and flow controller. Well I guess my 1 gallon milk jug watering method is a little old right? I know I get tired of measuring and running upstairs to fill them. One of the plants I've got going right now is up to 3 gallons a week.
 
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Oh shits! I just checked out my ballast and I saw I have been running it at 75% from day one. WTF damn digital dimming thing. Well certainly now that I have it running 100% it should toast those bulbs even faster. I never even looked at it before. I knew I would never use that function, and just assumed it was already at 100%.....well it is now. I hope the additional 25% does not screw with my temps too much. I like them right where they are.
 
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chiefbootknocker said:
I think I was talking about the commander/ebb and flow controller. Well I guess my 1 gallon milk jug watering method is a little old right? I know I get tired of measuring and running upstairs to fill them. One of the plants I've got going right now is up to 3 gallons a week.
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DWC that girl its so easy a 5 gallon bucket a top some hydroton or stone an air pump an stone about 30 bucks and grows twice as fast as soil
 
chiefbootknocker

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Deusracing said:
DWC that girl its so easy a 5 gallon bucket a top some hydroton or stone an air pump an stone about 30 bucks and grows twice as fast as soil
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I know what you mean. Many times I've seen the results of that type of setup and it's usually very nice. When I was running my 400 I usually grew (4) 2 footers. Watering was a breeze. I now have (1) 4' (1) 3' and (eight) 2'. My original intention was to grow just my seeds and be done, but someone gifted me 2 cuts. They were given to me just as my seeds popped through the soil so as you can imagine those cuts are the big ones. I told the guy I didn't want them due to space, but they really are looking good. The down side is that I don't have room for all of mine so 3 of mine could not fit into flowering. I had to do a bit of natural selection and pick the strongest looking gals. 2 out of three were free seeds, and one was a strain I've never had so that kind of sucks missing out on trying new stuff.
 
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chiefbootknocker said:
I know what you mean. Many times I've seen the results of that type of setup and it's usually very nice. When I was running my 400 I usually grew (4) 2 footers. Watering was a breeze. I now have (1) 4' (1) 3' and (eight) 2'. My original intention was to grow just my seeds and be done, but someone gifted me 2 cuts. They were given to me just as my seeds popped through the soil so as you can imagine those cuts are the big ones. I told the guy I didn't want them due to space, but they really are looking good. The down side is that I don't have room for all of mine so 3 of mine could not fit into flowering. I had to do a bit of natural selection and pick the strongest looking gals. 2 out of three were free seeds, and one was a strain I've never had so that kind of sucks missing out on trying new stuff.
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right we ended up with 21 all together buddy never came to get his clones so i guess i keep them or they turn into 50.00 clones not free.. LOL
 
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UPDATE:

Well it's looking like it's NOT going to be a ballast (like I said). I'm getting real close to cutting 2 plants down. those are the 2 I had in the tent when all the shit went down.

SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES:

I want to add that these plants were grown with the 3 liquid Fox Farm nutrients and the 3 dry Fox Farm nutrients. I'm only saying this because with the exception of the Big Bloom all of the other nutrients were SIX YEARS OLD. They sat in my shed for most all of that time enduring 90+ degree temps to single digit to possibly negative temperatures. They seem to be doing fine.

Here is a picture of a sample bud I cut from one of them today. The main part of this bud is 3" long and about 1.5" wide at the fattest part...not too bad. Trust me when I say this is a SMALL bud from this plant.

Buds from the original plant on page one are turning out bad. They smell good, have plenty of frost, but they are very airy. I'm not sure why. That plant will be the bummer of the harvest. It's pretty sad because there was SO many bud sites on it.

Once these finish there will be 8 more (the ones I said fuck it, and put them in before I wanted) to finish up. Most of those stretched to 3', and one (Blue Kush) stretched to about 4'....they are all looking good at 4wks in.
 

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kermit2692 said:
Lmao... no dude it's not the bulbs you have multiple people telling you this now that I've read the rest of your thread.. And now another person, as i said above those junky amazon ballasts have a tenancy to blow bulbs..
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no LMAO it was the bulb. Total pull for the grow 29OZ. Didn't lose another bulb along the way. Thanks to all of the newbs for attempting to be knowledgable.
 
chiefbootknocker

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chiefbootknocker said:
UPDATE:

Well it's looking like it's NOT going to be a ballast (like I said). I'm getting real close to cutting 2 plants down. those are the 2 I had in the tent when all the shit went down.

SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES:

I want to add that these plants were grown with the 3 liquid Fox Farm nutrients and the 3 dry Fox Farm nutrients. I'm only saying this because with the exception of the Big Bloom all of the other nutrients were SIX YEARS OLD. They sat in my shed for most all of that time enduring 90+ degree temps to single digit to possibly negative temperatures. They seem to be doing fine.

Here is a picture of a sample bud I cut from one of them today. The main part of this bud is 3" long and about 1.5" wide at the fattest part...not too bad. Trust me when I say this is a SMALL bud from this plant.

Buds from the original plant on page one are turning out bad. They smell good, have plenty of frost, but they are very airy. I'm not sure why. That plant will be the bummer of the harvest. It's pretty sad because there was SO many bud sites on it.

Once these finish there will be 8 more (the ones I said fuck it, and put them in before I wanted) to finish up. Most of those stretched to 3', and one (Blue Kush) stretched to about 4'....they are all looking good at 4wks in.
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I know why they were airy now. It turns out the all of the issues made that plant hermie a bit. Shitty genetics. I wish I would have stuck to my guns when that dude brought his plants over. I didn't get a lot of seeds, but as we know seeds in general are a bad thing.
 
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