250w HPS Club And Help Guide

check your local www.Craigslist.com i found my 250w HPS for $50

brendon420 said:

i have a 250 watt i have been using for around a week.

i will throw my flowering pictures into this journal since noone check mine.

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show us some pix

well here's sum pics of my white widow buds under 250watt hps.
they look nice but as u will see the buds at the bottom are very airy and nothing like the top ones, its in its 7th week of flowering now and just started flush

nice looking buds!!!
yea i had the same problem those buds arent gonna get anymore dense if there more than 12" away from the light..those a great looking plants though...

yea on my plants i cut off all lower buds to focus the plant on the bigger ones but im in ScrOG so it works great..

ye there really fluffy n light, i was thinking of choppin the goos buds off when ready then dropping the light down on the rest of them to see if they thicken up?
either that or im thinking of getting a 400 or 600watt hps but then the heat will increase so i dunno? ill let u know wot i decide on lol

the plant in the pic should be ready in 2 week so im very excited

yea 250w dont yield as much as i would like but little power consumption and decent lumen output ill be fine.. better than a mess of CFL's.. but if your looking for fatter denser buds i would prolly get a bigger light next grow..

lookin alright ishy3
how tall are they?

heres my little bud

250w.. increase your yields

I find that most expierenced 250w users seem to lean towards LST, SCROG and SOG to increase there yield..

With a 250w you should be keeping your plants short for better light penetration. If your not doing any of the methods mentioned above you should be doing so.

250w penetration is not very intense anything below 12" of the light is not worth a bud site. This is where LST and SCROG come in with that in mind you should be leaning towards a even canopy of buds so that light penetration is equal.

250w puts off less heat with proper ventilation you should be putting your plants at 5-7 inches from the tops of your plants.another plus is with less heat you can run a 250w in smaller space such as grow cab..If your not already a Hydroponic setup will also aid in increasing your yield.


All this with good nutes, balanced ph and perfect temps you should be yielding the max with your light!

please feel free to correct me or add anything i left out!

paddy510 said:

lookin alright ishy3
how tall are they?

heres my little bud

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thanks man! its just 1 plant and its about 6.5 foot now, it was taller but i had to bend it in a few places or it was gonna grow past the light haha.
im hoping it will be readyy to harvest soon as the 4 ive got vegging are already nearly 3ft so they need to go in sharpish

p.s. nice lookin hairs on ur bud

Wretched420 everything u say there makes so much sense,mine is a prime example of the buds not forming properly coz there too far from the light.
im defo gonna have to start puttin em in for flowering when there just over a foot i guess

mines at almost 2ft now, started flowering at 8".
came home last night just after the lights turned on and the top was touching the lampholder, it grew about 4" overnight.
bent the tops and tied em down today.
13 days flowering and its got hairs sprouting everywhere now.

What are people yielding with the 250w? I have one right now and my plants are still in veg, but I'm thinking about getting a 1000w depending on yields with the 250.

if your looking for more yield and your able to run a 1000w i would go with that..but if you want a stealth or small grow go with the 250w. 250w can yield decent 1/2 oz to 1 1/2 off a 2 foot plant .depends on strain too.

any 250w users out there??? show us some pix

hello wretched, hows it hangin bro. Just hooked my 250w hps/mh up today This is my 3rd indoor grow theyre 2 weeks from seed and just loving the hps, ill start a journal soon ill keep u posted

AnonGrower420 said:

hello wretched, hows it hangin bro. Just hooked my 250w hps/mh up today This is my 3rd indoor grow theyre 2 weeks from seed and just loving the hps, ill start a journal soon ill keep u posted

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sounds great man!! are you vegging under the hps or mh? yea post some pix up

vegging under mh as of today, they are continuing on their 18/6 and in the next week or 2 theyll get 24h of darkness and out comes the hps

well well! i chopped down my big ass plant lastnight and let me tell u its no fun trimming buds lol took about 3 hours to get the job done.
after trimming it all i weighed it and it was just under 1kg! however the buds are still on the stems tho i chopped as much as i could off but just left enuf on so i could hang them up. im guessing when it all dry ill prob and up with around 250g but hey this is my first grow so im only goin off wot ppl hve told me?
if i do actually get that much ill be over the moon
anyway ill post a pic and accurate weight when its all dry.
this just shows that a 250watt hps can still kick ass on a 6-7 ft plant lol

show some pix of harvest!!! yea trimming isone of the hardest parts i think haha toook me about 3-4 hour to trim four small plants..lol

Thought I'd join up, as I'm currently using a 250 hps and about 3 1/2 weeks in with one and almost 3 weeks on the other.

Here's some pictures, the rest are in my Bloom Journal, click on the signature if you want to check it out, comments are welcome =).



Edit: First 2 pics are of one plant's main cola and another top, the other 2 pics are of the other plant.