Club 600

saw what you said but didnt understand.....what do you mean "out the ends"???????? are you literally talking about the 6" round ends of the tubes????? you need to hang it long ways top to bottom...ditch the reflector inside....and get you a vertical mount bulb!!!

ENDLSCYCLE said:

Nah bud....come on in

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Nice one,

I've got 10x White Widows

6 weeks old on a 18/6 cycle with a dual spectrum HPS.

One's been topped an I'm not sure if there are gona be 2 or 4 colas.

They were meant to be sleeping when I took the pics :/

What you think? Put them in flower real soon so they're ready for Xmas?

Welcome scopes. What size pots you using, how close are your internodes and what kind of nutes you giving them? At six weeks you should be able or just about able to determine their sex?

Bare with me,

I'm not entirely sure on the pot sizes, for some reason in the UK they seem to be measured in width an height and not volume. I think they're something like 35cm wide by 40cm heigh if someone's a maths buff and can work out the volume?

There is an inch of space between nodes if that carries any significance?

And I'm only using a 'Foliage Houseplant Food' NPK of 15-5-9, nothing glamorous but it works.

and yes, sorry, on the first plant which I haven't topped, it's covered in little pistils with hairs which I'm happy about.

DGT, glad to hear all you have to replace is a ballast. I am concerned about fire hazard and had already planned on building an extinguisher system for my grow. Now I think I will add some fire retardant material underneath my ballast as well. My biggest concern is that my new hobby would burn down my house.

DGT, hey mate i think thos briks saved every thing. just glad nothing bad happened, all this hase given me a massive scare!! im going to get some briks tomorow and do the same

a few pics of the gals...............
NY PURPLE DIESEL

shes
is looking and smelling good!!!

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the last run on this cut...............
nice cola has some nice tint comeing in...
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grapegod

starting to go!!!cola......


keep it green..........genuity

Heads Up said:

Damn, damn, damn. The seed fairy stomped all over my romulan x timwarp. So it looks like Casey Jones is going to have a new room-mate, casey, meet headband.

DST, my puppy puff is sick and I don't know what's wrong. I think this batch of plants is just not going so well due to the caterpillars in the beginning. No big thing this was just an 'in between' thing while I waited for my mothers to mature enough to take clones. I'm taking seven more cuttings tonight and then putting the mothers to rest. I already have casey and headband soaking in 25ppm water. Hope to pop a tap root out tomorrow by the time I get home from golfing, 8:05 tee time. This germination method, just letting them sit in water until a tap root pops is great. There is no guessing you just look in the cup to see if a root has started. No paper towels, moisture boxes, or planting them and wondering if they are going to pop. Let the tap root pop out a bit and plant the baby in a peat pellet and let er' rip. I'm saving the other dogs for a full blown grow. They are getting the full treatment, big containers, good veg time, good light, good temps, good humidity, good air circulation and plenty of tender loving care from their daddy. I'm growin' me some great danes.

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What? How did i miss this. Well that really sucks Headsup. Fucking anti posties.

mr west said:

the Alaskan Ice x bb i have under my 600 all on its own lol eleven weeks 12 today.

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She look like a lonely old cougar westy

shnkrmn said:

I'm surprised it didn't come with a starter pack of solutions. I have three of them (actually I have the dual readout model so you can see both ph and ppm at the same time without having to toggle the display.) and they come with a foil sachet of pH 4.0 calibration solution, another of pH 7, and the 1500 ppm solution and a probe cleanser too. and directions for how to use them. At any rate, you'll need a bottle of each and a couple of short test tubes. You can get the solutions here or from a lot of other hydro dealers. They are pretty important for using meters!

http://www.thehydrosource.com/PH_EC_TDS_Meters_Solutions/Hanna_Instruments

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Ahh Shnkrmn you gem you. Thankyou for that bit of advice. Im a total newb at hydro so i may be pullen your coat tail when im stuck.

Scopse said:

Is this club by invite only?

If not I'd like to get involved

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Hey Scopse your invited to the club 600. The club of clubs. Welcome.

Countryfarmer said:

DGT, glad to hear all you have to replace is a ballast. I am concerned about fire hazard and had already planned on building an extinguisher system for my grow. Now I think I will add some fire retardant material underneath my ballast as well. My biggest concern is that my new hobby would burn down my house.

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That is a scary thing to happen. I often wonder how much my old wiring can take. It makes me nervous aswell. Good thing for those bricks for real. Those magnetic BZZZZ balast are scary period.

1BMM

Genuity alright my man. Looking massive and elegant all at once. Beautiful plants bro.

ENDLSCYCLE said:

saw what you said but didnt understand.....what do you mean "out the ends"???????? are you literally talking about the 6" round ends of the tubes????? you need to hang it long ways top to bottom...ditch the reflector inside....and get you a vertical mount bulb!!!

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Sorry. Let me try explaining it differently. I'll get a couple pics of what I mean when I get home if it both ways and put them up.

The package has arrived.

So my 600 showed up today so I thought I'd grab some product shots for you guys and show you what I got. I think if your Canadian this might interest you.

I purchased a 600W magnetic HPS ballast kit from this place on eBay. http://myworld.ebay.ca/hobbylighting/ For bulbs I originally ordered an Super HPS and a standard HPS, so 88000 vs 80000 lumens. The guy said he was out of Supers and offered a dual arc instead, so I said OK. Thought it might be nice to have one. All together, bulbs were 15 and 25, and ballast kit was 130. $190 shipped.

I gotta tell ya, it was a bit intimidating handling and firing it up for the first time. Anyway, just threw it in make shift to check it and will get to work on getting things ready for the seeds I planted a week ago. I just got 1 clone going right now that I got from my last (and first) grow and just the few hours under this lamp is pretty impressive.

The Canadian connection? The one lamp was an Artemis, and no matter how much I looked, I could not find much on them. When the ordered arrived and I saw the dual arc package I recognized the XBrite logo and noticed britemore.ca on the bottom. I then noticed that the Artemis was also from Britemore Lighting Inc, a company out of Mississauga, Ontario. I tried to check out the Britemore site and it's posted Under Construction. I read in a thread on another site that a guy thought this company wasn't around anymore so I don't know what the deal is.

Your in there like swimwear duchieman. You got a pretty good price on that setup to boot. You are now official duchie

geese the 600 is exploding! looks amazing there who dat! that sour d is looking like it will be some killer stuff. always love the classic smell of the d.

also good looking plants there genuity! i would like to get my hands on some of that NY purple diesel!

heres my update for the end of week 7-PM but ok!

Countryfarmer said:

DGT, glad to hear all you have to replace is a ballast. I am concerned about fire hazard and had already planned on building an extinguisher system for my grow. Now I think I will add some fire retardant material underneath my ballast as well. My biggest concern is that my new hobby would burn down my house.

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I was looking at those extinguishers too...but then I thought...."It's not the grow room that's gonna burn...It's the wiring in the wall".....IDK if it would be 100% insurance against a problem. It would keep a little piece of mind tho!

Ok....here's the pic update.......


Made some gumby method hash for the first time...def. the way to go....used the work bag then let gravity do the rest...my biggest hash per trim run.....34 grms of trim....2.8 grms of hash.


Here's the hanging closet... so far...three plants down and at 9ozs and about a qtr.

Rock hard nuggies....Seedism Seeds BLZ BUD(Trainwreck X G13 X Silver Haze)

Last plant....looking lonely Adjusted the light to be more over her and no so much in the center of the tent....last couple days!!!! Prob. bout 3ozs from her too!!!!


Yummy!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys, nice pics as usual. Bloody hell Don, that is scary stuff....makes me want to replace all my ballasts. ffs. Glad you and said house are all good. (and the girls of course) Looks like you have had to put up with aload of shit recently pal. Stay strong.

Welcome to all the new posters on the 600, great place to show of your lovelies whenever you want....we are all MJ pervs here, haha.

Peace and have an excellent Saturday. Off for the morning feed and water at the zoo. Will pop back later with some pic updates of some of the girls you haven't seen yet.

DST

EDIT: OH, meant to say re HeadsUp well water post. I have only used tap water on two feeds this grow, the rest has been rain water I collect from my greenhouse roof. I think it is doing the business, my girls are def looking happier for it imo. But then some growers around here are shocked when I have mentioned using rain water in the past. I have NEVER ph'd anything that I feed them. I have ph'd the soil/coco in past grows and that always sits between 6.8 and 7.0, i no longer bother...but then its a doff story for hydro.

1badmasonman said:

Your in there like swimwear duchieman. You got a pretty good price on that setup to boot. You are now official duchie

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Thanks 1badmasonman but now I have to wonder. After posting, and out of respect for everyone, I went back some to catch up and say Dons magnetic all fired up like that. I think I need to find a stronger box for my box! I am looking forward to some nice, firm, sticky and sweet bud, that I don't have to painstakingly hunt down and take a loan out when I find it. All the corn weed is out right now and I just picked up some tonight. I'll swear that there's 3 different kinds in here. Well, today the first day...

From what I understand plants love rain water... good ph and clean, usually