150w HPS Club: Inspirational Resource

nanskies

nanskies

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do you think a 18''W x 18''D x 4ft H with 2 80cfm fans (intake and exhaust) and 4 2'' passive intake holes at the bottom able to handle the heat of a 150w hps with attached ballast?
 
sgr42o

sgr42o

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nanskies said:
do you think a 18''W x 18''D x 4ft H with 2 80cfm fans (intake and exhaust) and 4 2'' passive intake holes at the bottom able to handel the heat of a 150w hps attached ballast?
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I think you'll be fine. I've got a 150HPS in a small closet grow without any exhaust and temps aren't much of a concern until I start adding in a lot of 42w CFL's. My only exhaust is opening up the closet door which I only do if temps get higher than I'd like. These 150HPS lights produce so little heat...

Right now I'm doing a PowerKush and a Blue Cheese under the 150HPS and 5 42w CFL's. They were under the 150HPS since day one but I vegged for 16 days. Here's how my PowerKush is looking at a little over three weeks flowering:



 

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dnitty09

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Hood420 said:
cool man im gonna try it and see what happens
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This is true. I have been using a 150 hps for 2 months, on my 3 plant banana og medical grow, and have been keeping the light about 6 inches above the plants, with no leaf burn (from the light at least!). I think that a 150 hps is great for many reasons.

First off, I like how stealthy it is. I can take it down and put it in my standard filing cabinet, in original box in less than 2 minutes. I haven't cut my walkin closet door, nor have I installed any intake or exhaust fans. I use a heavy duty floor standing fan from Home Depot. This fan owns. My girls are sleeping, or else I'd tell you the name. I just face it toward the closet door. When the doors closed, it is a nice windy environment. I didnt get this fan til about a montha nd a half ago. I was battling powdered mildew in early veg growth, due to poor circulation, high humidity, and low temps. Once I got this fan and kept the door closed to maintained 73-80 degrees in there with awesome air circulation, it was off to the races, and bye bye powdered mildew, with no treatment whatsoever!

I also love my light mounting system on this 150. It allows me to raise or lower the light by literally grabbing the light and pulling it up and down. Its great for getting the light into specific areas, since a 150 doesn't penetrate like a higher wattage hps. 29 days into flowering, I feel like I am maximizing my 150. I still wonder if a 400 would do laps around this 150, but I already got my first power bill from running 24/0 for two months of veg, and It would be almost triple with a 400...Ouch!

I am very curious about cfl, but I really think a 150/cfl combo is great. I am currently running a 68 home depot cfl w 4,000 lumen/300 watt output on one side. I am going to buy two more today, as to really surround these big girls.

I ordered a 10 pack of white dwarf autos, as well as a 10 pack of the new auto strain, mi5, which I have heard excellent things about. I am going to be breeding one of my banana og's with the white dwarf on my first run. I'm hoping to breed the heavy yielding, branchy banana og with the early maturing auto, white dwarf. They are both easy to grow strains (I know this of the banana og, and have heard this about the WD), so I'm hoping to great a real winner here. I think I'll call it the whinana og. Glad to be here after trolling through the threads for months! Might post some 150 watt bud porn later, when the girls wake up. :hump:
 
dingbang

dingbang

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tehbigjiga said:
this my grow I have a thread in the newbie central fourm. No one is replying to help me.
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.....and?

I am qualified to help in areas such as beer drinking, spliff rollin, womanizing and various perverse forms of debauchery. If you need help with any of those things I am the man.

I have an ad in Soldier of Fortune with my contact info.

p.s. nice grow.
 
Enigma

Enigma

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tehbigjiga said:
I don't know how long I should wait to harvest, if I should wait to trim Off bud leaves after a few days of drying.
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Get a magnifying glass, look at the trichromes. When they turn milky (50% or more) then it is a good time to harvest.

Trim the leaves as you work the buds into the dryer. This just makes it easier.

Bring along some rubbing alcohol and some razors to clean your scissors while you work.

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dingbang

dingbang

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Enigma said:
Get a magnifying glass, look at the trichromes. When they turn milky (50% or more) then it is a good time to harvest.

Trim the leaves as you work the buds into the dryer. This just makes it easier.

Bring along some rubbing alcohol and some razors to clean your scissors while you work.

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agreed.

radio shack has a $13 pocket microscope that works great.

use latex gloves. when you are done trimming put your gloves in the freezer for about 10-15 minutes. pull them out of the freezer, scrape off the frozen resin and profit.
 
Shackleford.R

Shackleford.R

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Just became official today!! Grew with various CFL my first grow. Second (and current) grow stepped up to a high wattage CFL 125W (veg and flower spec) but just wasn't getting everything out of my girls (1 1/2 weeks into flower)
SO!! I picked up a 150HPS SunSystem from SunlightSupply (via eBay store)
Bulb and hood w/combined ballast around 95$ (shipped)
I removed the CFL hood from my tent and hung the 150HPS (in my DIY tent link in signature for construction) Anyhow heres the setup!!



Happy to be here!! Oh and grow journal is linked in my signature, marked (current) :lol:

:peace:
Shack
 
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