150w HPS Club: Inspirational Resource

never read much about low wattage HIDs, do the 150 watt HPS not need a transformer like the higher wattage bulbs?

Nah, they're pretty much the same as the big ones just shrunk down for the personal grower.

Lovin the hps

150 watt hps and some flouros
6 weeks in!

How is she looking?

Nice buddy here my GHS WW 2 weeks 12/12

Hi there, I was checking the thread and there are some very nice grows with 150w. I'm getting ready a box with 150w myself and I wanted to ask you guys what do you think about growing 8 autos and 1 regular in my box. The autos are regular so I'll probably end up having a 2-3 males which I'll get rid of.

About the regular, I want to grow it and then either make some clones out of it or put it somewhere else to flower.

150w ftw.. Loving it. Couple of cfls also

my little 150 setup. running gumtree x c99, great white shark x c99, and gumtree.

What kind of yields are we getting nowadays off 150w hps per plant?

i will be pulling around 3/4 oz per plant harvesting 2-3 per month on rotation.

hy everyone, i am planning to upgrade my tiny cfl with an hps 150, i want to find out if is necessary 100% to exchange the light from 6400k to 2000 k when i turn the vegetative to flowering or is optional ( just recomanded) (i have lacks of funds), because i read allot of pages from this thread and i didn't see anything like this , srry for my english, is not my foreign language THX

silouan said:

i will be pulling around 3/4 oz per plant harvesting 2-3 per month on rotation.

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Is this about the average for everyone else too?

wich type of light did you used ? ~6000k or ~2000k? or diffrent lights for the 2 period? i planning to buy an hps lamp but i dont know sure what i'm need exactly thx

Hey guys, joining the club. Grew with twin e-cono 150's a few years ago when I was clueless and just now getting back into it with a DIY tent setup with the same lights, but a lot more knowledge and willingness to do things right.

Ten Top44's going in the tent 12/12 once they hit veg state. Some more Top 44, and a few white rhinos and mazar-i-shariffs (All Nirvana) being worked to become mothers.

Only problem I have is trying not to spend every last dime I have making constant improvements and my impatience!

Edit: Wow, both lights push it towards 90F. Definitely need a not-cheap inline "booster" fan for this set up.

spike91 said:

wich type of light did you used ? ~6000k or ~2000k? or diffrent lights for the 2 period? i planning to buy an hps lamp but i dont know sure what i'm need exactly thx

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If you can only afford one light then get a HPS. They usually all come somewhere in the 2100k ish area. I grew my 8 plants with a 600hps and they all turned out great.

Hood420 said:

so here is my ghetto setup. lol i know she porally can be a little bit closer to the hps and im working on that im gotta find something to raise the pot up i have some bricks outisde ill clean them off and use them but here it is lol first grow nothing special if i like it im gonna upgrade after this.

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IM sorry bro but that is the worst fuckin design i have ever seen on a setup. I mean really, just one of those cfl's that you have placed off in outer space, placed close to the top with a decent reflector would give your plant more light than its getting now. also, that bitch is stretched farther than betty whites tits. you gotta look into training and set that shit up completely differently so your not wasting so much electricicty and the plant is actually getting light. cfl's should be within and inch or 2 of the top of the plant and they need reflectors. also, even though the 150w hps is small, if your plant was closer and you trained it like LST OR SCROG, or had a bunch of real small plants for SOG you will have the best possible yield you can with the equiment you have.

Just lower the hps to about 6-10 inches above the plant and keep the cfl on the sides. Also i would suggest blowing air over your cfls maybe a fan on the floor blowing up it will keep that hps at ambient temp. Emergency blankets and double sided tape work great for the walls you can also mount it on cardboard and use thumb tacs to place on the walls if the tape wont stick to them just make sure there no bulbs close to it or that your blowing enough air it does not get hot to the touch. Shes not that stretched and i have seen way way worse on this site. You should get 6500k cfls for the side and use the hps for your flowering spectrum. Other then that nice looking plant buddy for your first grow.

150 hps 3 300 wat cfls i pulled 2-3 oz dry per plant

Last grow I got 3 oz from two in a scrog just wish I had a bit more space to work with. Using a 150 cmh not hps. Thinking the cmh has a bit of an edge over the hps but can't say for sure as I've never grown with a hps.