250w HPS Club And Help Guide

[Grazzmon]

How did you make your tube? i've been contimplating the same

KidStone,
I think if you just google "diy cool tube" you will find the info you need. The hardest part will be finding a Corning Bake-a-round, you can find them on ebay most of the time but look in your local thrift stores first.. it may save you a few $$. I saw one in a thrift store for like $15, I didn't need it at the time but grabbed it up anyway and I'm glad I did. I am going to use it when I get my veg area back up.. switch the 6" store bought cool tube out to the 400MH veg area and put the DIY in the cab.

Grazz

 

[KidneyStoner420]

Yeah, i've seen the write-ups that involve cutting the bottom of the jar off.
Wasn't sure if there was another method.

 

[Broseidon]

How did you make your tube? i've been contimplating the same

like grazzmon said it's with a bake around. Pretty much followed this, but you'll probably have to do some trial and error with the rod brackets to get a good fit with your bulb.

http://forum.grasscity.com/do-yourself/184802-diy-best-cool-tube.html

broseidon what were the temps before the diy cool tube (good job btw). and what are the temps after. heres my ladies still veg'n maybe a few more weeks till flip.

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Thanks hempy. I'm actually not growing in an enclosed space and it's in a basement so I don't have much control over temps. They stay in the acceptable range though. I mostly built it so I could get the light a lot closer which I can. My first grow I had to keep the bare bulb almost a foot or further away or it would cause heat stress, with the tube I can get the plant within 2 or 3 inches. Huge difference and it should help my yield a lot

 

[Grazzmon]

Yeah, i've seen the write-ups that involve cutting the bottom of the jar off.
Wasn't sure if there was another method.

The bake-a-round is a pyrex tube, no bottom to cut and it's pyrex so no chance of breaking because of heat..

 

[Kalebaiden]

This is my Kaya Gold



Here is the images of the Lemon Skunk, something is seriously wrong with them. they've been looking like zombie plants from their germ.



These are my B-52s



This is my set up for the babies, I'm aiming for 2 girls out of all of them.
The B-52s are feminized and their my first feminized seeds ever so I'm not sure on what their going to do.



Thoughts, feelings and every tip you can think of would be appreciated.

 

[georgyboy]

Hey guys it's been awhile. Here's my bag seed at day 30 of 12/12.
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[Matchbox]

This is my Kaya Gold
Here is the images of the Lemon Skunk, something is seriously wrong with them. they've been looking like zombie plants from their germ.

These are my B-52s

This is my set up for the babies, I'm aiming for 2 girls out of all of them.
The B-52s are feminized and their my first feminized seeds ever so I'm not sure on what their going to do.

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Thoughts, feelings and every tip you can think of would be appreciated.

The Lemon Skunks don't look too bad sometimes they start with dodgy first leaves... Are they DNA's version of Lemon Skunk? 'cause I had some of them and they went a bit curly like that to start with, fixed up a few more weeks down the road.

As for those in the troughs, I'd get them replanted into individual pots, leave them much longer and even moving little seedlings will be a bitch 'cause the roots tangle!

And to everyone else, I'm not going to multi-quote everyone , Nice buds great work

Stay Frosty!

 

[Kalebaiden]

The Lemon Skunks don't look too bad sometimes they start with dodgy first leaves... Are they DNA's version of Lemon Skunk? 'cause I had some of them and they went a bit curly like that to start with, fixed up a few more weeks down the road.

As for those in the troughs, I'd get them replanted into individual pots, leave them much longer and even moving little seedlings will be a bitch 'cause the roots tangle!

And to everyone else, I'm not going to multi-quote everyone , Nice buds great work

Stay Frosty!

I don't have the room for splitting them up but I can partition the kids with some cardboard in the soil until sex shows. Then it's chopping time for the boys and transplanting for the three strongest girls, assuming I get three.

 

[Broseidon]

jw why do you think the right 1 is male bro.they look good short node distance.

Hey cbt. I just took a couple pics to show how different the branching is. I think it looked a lot shorter in the first pics because I've been LSTing both of them.

Look at all the branching on the left one, and how stretched out the nodes are on the right!


I switched to 12/12 yesterday so I'll find out soon enough lol

 

[cbtbudz]

^i see.well keep it up. and yeah youl find out soon enough lol.

 

[KidneyStoner420]

The bake-a-round is a pyrex tube, no bottom to cut and it's pyrex so no chance of breaking because of heat..

Bought one last night on eBay!

 

[smokin away]

I've been using a 250 hps full spectrum is the back of my walk in closet. It has a cool tube and fits my requirements for heat and electricity. I use a small fan that runs with it. I guess it's about 3x3.5 ft or so. Three plants work great but there have been as many a six plants under it. I still have limited luck with production compared to my outdoor plants. They flower real nice but the buds just don't get very big. I'd post a pic but I still feel oppressed.

 

[Kalebaiden]

Well there was a surprise the other day.

I tried my best to pop a Jamaican bud bean and it just wouldn't germ. I started it the same time as the B-52s.

So I stuck it in the soil thinking that I just wasted a peat puck and lo and behold the power of nature, wouldn't you know it but the damn thing sprouted



Some of the Lemon Skunks look good, others still seem stunted, withered but growing a tiny bit






My Kaya Gold is doing great


The B-52s are looking well



and the over all scene is nice


I forgot to partition them so i'll get on that before the next update. I may even thin out the scraggly ones. I don't want to waste time and effort on a shit plant.

 

[ActionHanks]

Recently invested in a 250,175,150 dimmable digital ballast.

my lamp cord looks like this though, so i bought a mogul socket that looks like this

(Sorry if these are large photos)
I am by no means electrically inclined, and im poor so i really would rather not short anything. White to white, black to black? What about the neutral ground green cord?

 

[Kalebaiden]

I have no idea, how would you hang the light once everything attached?

 

[cbtbudz]

action be careful man,get some type of pro help.also maybe ask in grow room design?you dont want to be poor and homeless.

 

[Broseidon]

Recently invested in a 250,175,150 dimmable digital ballast.
my lamp cord looks like this though, so i bought a mogul socket that looks like this
(Sorry if these are large photos)
I am by no means electrically inclined, and im poor so i really would rather not short anything. White to white, black to black? What about the neutral ground green cord?

White to white and black to black like you said. The green wire should be grounded to something metal (this is a safety feature in case something goes wrong)

Here's my DIY cooltube. You can see the green wire not attached here but I grounded it to the hood soon after.

 

[georgyboy]

Your ground wire needs to be connected to something that runs into the ground, other wise it won't do anything when the time comes. I don't think grounding it on your hood, which is connected to your ducting, is the best idea. I may be wrong though, it's been a good while since i took electricity 101.

 

[Matchbox]

When you buy one of those euro wing reflector's (the cheap bendy ones) they come grounded to the hood so I don't see why it would be a problem.

 

[cbtbudz]

just some pics,the bluelarry starting to lighten up a little on the leafs.last 2 pics is the platogx