400 watt Mh/Hps: Grow on a Budget: A Beginner's Reference

Hey everyone...good to see everyone's doin' well...
Here's my 11 day old unknown strain from bag seed growing under HTGSupply.com 150 watt Hps on a 12/12 from seed lighting schedule. Not sure if it will be male or female, but sit on in if you'd like to see an up-to-date 12/12 seed grow.
MG potting soil, planted seed into soil without germing it prior. Sprouted in 3 days and is currently 11 days old.
Sorry for the low quality pics, the Mrs. needed my camera for work today and all I had was my iPhone.

No worries bout the cam,the pics look good,which,btw,so does the plant.Nice to see a 12/12 from seed grow.

Nice. You know about the club ya?

forgot to say that I have two 4' 6500k fluorescent tubes as supplement lighting...

MisterMicro said:

Nice. You know about the club ya?

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ya bro...just wanted to start a seperate thread for the 12/12 part...
I pop into the club every now and again...
Thanks for stoppin' by to say hello!

Ok just saw your post in it, i thought you were in the crew. REpresent! SOG is the way to go!!

i saw u are using a reflector just like mine except im growing under my house with a 400w hps and four dank plants havent started yet waiting on ballast to come...

i saw u are using a reflector just like mine except im growing under my house with a 400w hps and four dank plants. havent started yet waiting on ballast to come...

If this experiment works well, I have a shit load of awesome strains that I'm going to grow with this technique
1) G-13 Labs Poison Dwarf
2) V.I.S.C. Midnight
3) Ministry of Cannabis Big Bud Feminized
4) Top 44
This is all for personal use, so the yield doesn't have to be significant at all...looking to grow 1 gm per watt...somewhere around that area

Just checked on my 12/12 bag seed and it's displaying some hybrid vigor...fast growth, nice internodal spacing and side growth shoots already! It has the typical 3 finger set of leaves, then the next set has 6 fingers with 2 more sets of leaves sprouting quickly.
On another note, I just transplanted my "Seed run Girl" (Shortstuff #1) from my Aerogarden set to 12/12 from seed....she's only like 6" tall, but she's bearing seeds, so I don't care how big she gets. I transplanted her into a 4" square pot under my 150 HTGsupply watt Hps on 12/12.
I also planted another bag seed into a 4" pot under the 150 watt'r. I'd like a cycle every two weeks if possible. I know there will be some gaps in between because of culling males, but this is just a whole experiment to see how well it goes...Looks like it'll start becoming my first SOG grow....
I'll post pics somepoint today from my camera phone...wifey's still using my nice camera for her work...oh well, I hope some peeps dig this grow attempt and would care to sit in for the ride...Any comments/questions are always highly welcomed +rep to good suggestions!
Thanks!

Here they are

I finally came across a ballast that supposedly will accept both a 150 Hps and 175 MH...although it doesnt have any details and is quite expensive, I may look into this investment...check out the link...
http://greenmilehydro.com/products.php?cat=36

added 2 100 watt 6500k cfl's to my indoor grow op totalling 3200 more lumens to my already 16000 Hps, totaling 19200 lumens...
Also, I topped the unknown bagseed today...

Looking good. are those pistils already?!? how many you got and what kind

Here they are...enjoy
pics arent posting...sorry...

southernsmoke23 said:

Looking good. are those pistils already?!? how many you got and what kind

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the one with the bud is my automatic short stuff #1...she's pregnant...doin' a seed run with her. I vegged her for like 5 weeks in my aerogarden and just planted her into soil about 2 days ago under my 12/12 hps setup.

WHY would you go 12/12 from seed???

Your plant isn't even sexually mature yet and you're already flowering!?

Until you have ALTERNATING NODES, the plant isn't sexually mature and isn't ready to be flowered, unless you want to short sell the plant's genetics...

I just don't get it...

bigjesse1922 said:

WHY would you go 12/12 from seed???

Your plant isn't even sexually mature yet and you're already flowering!?

Until you have ALTERNATING NODES, the plant isn't sexually mature and isn't ready to be flowered, unless you want to short sell the plant's genetics...

I just don't get it...

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I appreciate your cristism jesse...this has long been a debated topic, and I posted this thread along with my experiment to show growers the potential outcome of this style grow. I'm not insisting that this is the best way to grow, nor the worst.
As a cultivator, I like discovering different ways to grow herb...that's what fascinates me soooo much about marijuana...you can grow it in a variety of different methods.
This is entirely for experimental purposes and discovery only...nothing more, nothing less...

jonboy30 said:

I appreciate your cristism jesse...this has long been a debated topic, and I posted this thread along with my experiment to show growers the potential outcome of this style grow. I'm not insisting that this is the best way to grow, nor the worst.
As a cultivator, I like discovering different ways to grow herb...that's what fascinates me soooo much about marijuana...you can grow it in a variety of different methods.
This is entirely for experimental purposes and discovery only...nothing more, nothing less...

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Good enough for me.

Rep + and grow on! Life Long Ganja Learner !