Green Cross
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If you're on a budget why not go with a magnetic ballast and one bulb. Philips Retro White Ceramic Metal Halide (4k) in veg and flower?
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400w Club-Show Off Your 400w Pride And Joy
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greenearth5
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I got a 150HPS from HTG Supply and it worked pretty good.. if your short on money then go thru htg supply ... but you get what you pay for ... if you got enough money for a digilat 400 hps/mh then go for it.. i recently upgraded to a 400 digital ballast and got a hps and mh bulb for it.. also got a cool tube.. its deff worth the investment if ur growing a few plants or 1 really big plant
Stgeneziz
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Hello all, I'm considering buying a 400 hps with a cooltube reflector. I currently have about 450w worh of cfls for flowering and it seems to be ok, but maybe slow? IDK. My question is, if I get this light and duct a 4" hose from an ac duct right into the cooltube, would the cold air be sufficient to keep the temps under control?
Integra21
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yes. it would. the only thing I wouldnt like about that it the bulb would constantly get hot and cold. If the air was on all the time, it would be steady, but your room would probly get too cold. And on a thermostat, it would be cooled untill temps are reached, and then cooling would cease. Making it warm up and potentially damaging plants since you'd have your light closer to the plant when aircooled. Better off running its own fan on it and just circulating air from your room through it or running its own duct. Just what I would do.
Integra21
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Yeah, you never know if you might want to air cool in the future or have to for that matter. Thats why I suggested that set over the one you were looking at, and it was only $70 more to upgrade to a name brand ballast with a 5 year warranty, and air cooled reflector with mid grade bulbs. The link I gave you is the actuall seller I got mine from as well, and they ship discretly and quickly.
Stgeneziz
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thats def. a good point, I forgot to take that into account. I think I might just use a fan and vent it up through my dryer exhaust in the attic..
Good thinking + rep
Integra21
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Like I said though, If your looking for simple, you can just attach a fan to one side of the reflector to circulate air from your room through it and it will cool the light down enough to move it closer to your girls with no ducting required. The ac should handle no problem the extra slight heat that would put into your room, unless it's struggling already.
Stgeneziz
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well, I am in da souf, so heat has been an issue all along. the ac finally got it under control, and now that i'm thinking about HPS, I was considering switching my light cycle so that the lights would be on at night, rather than during the blazing daytime temps down here. I'm thinking this would help deal with the heat as well... ( i keep my house AC at 68 at night, 78 during day )
Left Canopy
Right Canopy
Buds are starting to thicken up. These are close ups of Train Wreck.
White Widow didn't focus but doesn't matter they are all wispy anyway, these are nice.
Gettin fat man.
Heres a shot from below so you can see what I am talking about.
This is a 400 watt Ceramic Metal Halide.
Phillips new bulb that runs off a HPS ballast.
with a couple 26 watt CFL's on the side.
Girls are at 6 weeks here.
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Integra21
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some people put their plants into a 36 hour dark period at the begenning of the 12/12 to make surre the plants know they are flowering. I did this with my first set, and it seemed to work fine, but al since were just thrown in the room with the rest of them strait into a regular 12/12 cucle and that has also worked just fine. So it's really about personal prefrence. Either of these ways works fine, but gradual changes and other methods like them just seem like a waste of time with no benifical results.
Infamous313
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This is my tent switchable 400 watt. 4x4x6.5. single pictures are trainwreck clones at 5 weeks veg, just flipped it to 12/12 and put in the HPS. I hope my trainwreck comes out anything like Cruzers^ those hookers are beautiful. Im gonna do ebb n flow scrog on my next run.
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greenfirekilla420
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Decent man it looks good. Thats one plant right?
(Butters)
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Yep. One highly uneven canopied plant.Decent man it looks good. Thats one plant right?
rubberguard
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Here is my tent with 400 watt in it and some side CFL's
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grow4joe
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Hello once again! Some recent pics of my special lady 
, 4/5 weeks flowering now, still not sure of the strain but she smells amazing! looks furry cuz thers so much cystals! The buds are getting really compact and dense so i bought anova fan incase of mold! Im getting impatient now but must wait!! 
When i gently squeeze the nugs it leaves a glistening trail on my finger and thumb (kinda like a snail trail!) and smells fukin intense! really does stink my place out! NOT GOOD!! lol when i roll my thumb and finger together all the resin rolls up, thers loads of it oozing out! as a first time grower i am so impressed at this bud, ive never managed to get 'erb of this quality wer i live so im propa buzzin!
Anyway thats enuf rambling or i'll be goin on for page after page! Heres the pics of her.
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lonleysmoka
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Good looking plant! Nice for not even knowing what it is keep it up.
When i gently squeeze the nugs it leaves a glistening trail on my finger and thumb (kinda like a snail trail!) and smells fukin intense! really does stink my place out! NOT GOOD!! lol when i roll my thumb and finger together all the resin rolls up, thers loads of it oozing out! as a first time grower i am so impressed at this bud, ive never managed to get 'erb of this quality wer i live so im propa buzzin!
Anyway thats enuf rambling or i'll be goin on for page after page! Heres the pics of her.