250w HPS Club And Help Guide

10acjed said:

PS: I just love your sig.... LOL

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Thank you, after recently spending a little more time giving back to the community, and hunting around to offer advice, I noticed just how many snidey comments get posted, with no advice at all. It's obviously an insecurity thing, and I hoped that at least one dick head may read it and have clearer thinking as a result.

How's it going everyone
Got my brew going

Dr. Kundilini said:

Very nice job there, 10acjed. I would be very pleased if I have a couple of buds turn out like yours. I am at 46 days flowering, with lots of white hairs, but not much trichs yet. My target date is 10/20, but if it isn't ready, I will be patient and wait until it peaks. That would put then at 11 weeks of flower. (Sativa/Indica strain of bag seed).

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Be patient and wait for the calyxs to plump up. Best advice I ever got, and as usual right here on the 250w thread.. My first cut looked ready to me, trichs were clear/cloudy. But should have left it another week or 2 like the one I just cut, trichs were still cloudy/clear only a couple amber, but the calyxs swelled the final 2 weeks..

Bagseed is funny, have to keep an eye on it. Mine is looking like at least 12 weeks of flower, maybe more. Started showing sex at least 10 weeks ago, still all white hairs. She really likes the liquid koolbloom, buds are FAT...

Hettyman said:

Thank you, after recently spending a little more time giving back to the community, and hunting around to offer advice, I noticed just how many snidey comments get posted, with no advice at all. It's obviously an insecurity thing, and I hoped that at least one dick head may read it and have clearer thinking as a result.

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Everywhere... you get about 1/3 stupid obnoxious responses or just a link to another thread, another 1/3 offers misinformation, then the other 1/3 usually know what they are talking about, unfortunately they end up arguing with the other 2/3 idiots...

Still wont forget the great advice I got out there (meaning outisde of this thread) that the soil is a Ph buffer and I didnt need to adjust my nutes or water... Yeah, turned out great... Guy probably never even grew in soil...

This thread and the others like it are the spots. Same ppl, same advice, no arguing.

Main difference is the 250w growers are the smartest, low watt big yeild...

Deadbody OG under the 250w found it's seed in a bag of some funk called Deadbody that tasted just like OG, Skunk and Diesel. This plant smells a lot fruitier than its mom, more like fruity, diesel and hard to describe kind of smell to it. Very strong smelling though, can't wait to smoke some of it

Nice looking noob187. Nothing like finding some seeds in a bag of kind, thats where my bruce banner came from...

Man what a pain in the a.. the little popcorn buds are... Clip clip clip... But adds up fast, each plant has filled a small mason jar with it so I am not complaining really...

Jar-O-Popcorn

I hear ya man, that's where Sour Diesel and Chemdawg came from to... I been leaving the popcorn on my plants this time around because outdoors I figured out you can harvest sections of the plant as they ripen, just take down everything except the pop-corns and let them finish up for another two weeks, I do it because I hate the paranoia off of immature stuff. I don't how practical it'll be indoors but its only 2 weeks and they don't take up too much space. I guess you can make medibles out of the pop corns or extracts.

I also been leaving the sugar trim on my plants so they dry out slower, seems to retain most of the flavor and smell of the growing plant even without a full cure the stuff I trimmed up when it was dried tastes better than the stuff I trimmed up good while it was wet. I think the sugar leafs trap in some of the flavor and oils in the buds and make it smellier.

Hey 250 brotherhood. I finally gave up on patching my old computer back together and picked up a new laptop so I can finally update and catch up on here. Looks like I missed some good stuff.

Nice to see Doobieus back in the 250. As the good Dr. said your reputation proceeds you. I at least owe you thanks for your 250 sig post, it was extremely helpful!

A little update on my hempy scrog grow. For those who might not have seen my earlier posts, a little background on these two. Both are unknown as to what kind they are. The first clone I call "U1" was an unmarked clone from a friends house. The second "U2" is a clone from a cutting my friend took from an outdoor grow he stumbled upon early this year. Both are grown in hempy buckets of 100% perlite. Using the GH 3 part with Liquid Koolbloom, Florablend and Floranectar supps.

Edit: They are at day 22 since 12/12 photo change. First solid budset at around day 10-11.
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Noob187 said:

Deadbody OG under the 250w found it's seed in a bag of some funk called Deadbody that tasted just like OG, Skunk and Diesel. This plant smells a lot fruitier than its mom, more like fruity, diesel and hard to describe kind of smell to it. Very strong smelling though, can't wait to smoke some of it

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Forgive, this is not a criticism, and that is a very attractive lady, but as an exercise in testing my own knowledge, but does that plant look to have a slight Nitrogen excess??

stoneslacker said:

Hey 250 brotherhood. I finally gave up on patching my old computer back together and picked up a new laptop so I can finally update and catch up on here. Looks like I missed some good stuff.

Nice to see Doobieus back in the 250. As the good Dr. said your reputation proceeds you. I at least owe you thanks for your 250 sig post, it was extremely helpful!

A little update on my hempy scrog grow. For those who might not have seen my earlier posts, a little background on these two. Both are unknown as to what kind they are. The first clone I call "U1" was an unmarked clone from a friends house. The second "U2" is a clone from a cutting my friend took from an outdoor grow he stumbled upon early this year. Both are grown in hempy buckets of 100% perlite. Using the GH 3 part with Liquid Koolbloom, Florablend and Floranectar supps.

Edit: They are at day 22 since 12/12 photo change. First solid budset at around day 10-11.
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Nice looking plants, but why is my my laptop in the back ground?? Did you really buy a new one or just steal mine??

Noob187 said:

I also been leaving the sugar trim on my plants so they dry out slower, seems to retain most of the flavor and smell of the growing plant even without a full cure the stuff I trimmed up when it was dried tastes better than the stuff I trimmed up good while it was wet. I think the sugar leafs trap in some of the flavor and oils in the buds and make it smellier.

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Yeah that's about right. I can't remember the exact science, but after doing some research heard that leaving the sugar leaves for drying slows the drying and improves the taste/quality. Whether this was because the leaves themselves added something, or merely the slower drying i'm not sure.

I have decided that there is rarely enough supar leaf trim on my budds to bother trimming it off. It's usually so covered in Trichs, and at low budd to leaf ratio that it just disappears in the grinder

hey folks. just to let you guys know i have started my next grow. im growing 1 ak48 fem and 1 amnesia fem. 130w cfl for veg and 250w hps for flower. this time im growing in coco. using lucas formula. 6ml micro 9ml bloom per gallon for coco with a teaspoon of epsom salts to help with mg probs.

ak48 is already under the lights and the amnesia is almost to the surface. will post pics once the actually show some progress.

i have germinated them in rockwool cubes and put straight into final 2gl or 8ltr pots. will be vegging to 12-14" in height. im probably gonna top them both at the second node as well to get 4 tops each. wanna try and keep these low. although i am almost tempted to scrog, not sure. will decide in the next few days. id also like to have a moan as i have lost over an oz of my white widow crop to mould. really not happy. but you live and you learn. the rest of it is a pretty good smoke already. been curing for 10 days. smell is a lot nicer, taste isnt so great. tastes very green.

Noob187 said:

I hear ya man, that's where Sour Diesel and Chemdawg came from to... I been leaving the popcorn on my plants this time around because outdoors I figured out you can harvest sections of the plant as they ripen, just take down everything except the pop-corns and let them finish up for another two weeks, I do it because I hate the paranoia off of immature stuff. I don't how practical it'll be indoors but its only 2 weeks and they don't take up too much space. I guess you can make medibles out of the pop corns or extracts.

I also been leaving the sugar trim on my plants so they dry out slower, seems to retain most of the flavor and smell of the growing plant even without a full cure the stuff I trimmed up when it was dried tastes better than the stuff I trimmed up good while it was wet. I think the sugar leafs trap in some of the flavor and oils in the buds and make it smellier.

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Yeah I have no tried and true concept just yet as its my first grow, but the first chop i trimmed and hung, it was up too long, not total darkness and too hot so it ended up crispy and tastes like plant. Puts the dome out tho, so i can deal with the smell and taste.

This time I dried in a box with minor airflow, temp is around 75f so it only takes a couple days before I trim and jar. I took it down after 3 days, felt damp and gooey on the inside so I smoked a little to be sure, burned nice and clean. Jarred closed for 24 in darkness, then left jars open last night. This am they were a bit too dry for my liking, but still nice and sticky, closed them up and left them in the dark.

I leave my popcorn growth an extra 1 - 2 weeks after cutting the top kolas and 3 - 4 nodes down. Lets them fill in a little more. I pulled about 10g of popcorn per plant so far. Thats alot of butter lol...

Speaking of which any special butter making techniques? I found some online, but figured I would ask here as we all know how accurate the www is....


From left to right:
Jar 1: Popcorn from 2nd plant cut.
Jar 2: Popcorn from 1st plant cut.
Jar 3: Main Kolas from 2nd plant cut.
Jar 4: Nodes just below Kolas 2nd plant cut.

the whole growing process seems to be easier than drying and curing. i think this time im gonna chop the whole plant and let it dry for a fortnight before i trim. been reading up loads and it seems to work well

Hettyman said:

Nice looking plants, but why is my my laptop in the back ground?? Did you really buy a new one or just steal mine??

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The guy I bought it from swore you wouldn't realize it was gone. He said he replaced it with an atari 2600. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/modded-atari-2600-runs-22-000-times-processing-005208442.html

Thanks for the link, but I know the 2600, it was my first console, followed by the Commodore +4 and the C64...happy days!!!

My cousin still has his, and all of my games that survived in a storage box. I played street racer the other week and the movement made me feel sick, I was much more at home with "Tank".

Ah we must be around the same age then. I was at my parents a while back and actually found my old commodore 64 in the basement storage. No power cords or I would have loved to fire it up and see that awesome, ancient technology.

The link actually is to a mod atari case a guy did for his computer. Looks pretty cool.

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Ah we must be around the same age then. I was at my parents a while back and actually found my old commodore 64 in the basement storage. No power cords or I would have loved to fire it up and see that awesome, ancient technology.

The link actually is to a mod atari case a guy did for his computer. Looks pretty cool.

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About the same age, but I recon I'm a bit younger...and better looking

I'm glad you weren't a Spectrum or Amstrad man

I presume you have heard of the PC game emulators, that have all the old C64, Atari, Amiga games etc?? Never tried them, but they are supposed to be pretty good.

OK, here we go... Did you ever have (on C64) Conan barbarian? That and Ghostbusters are the ones I remember playing most, along with some Samurai Rabbit game

i had a c64 and a spectrum zx. i know the guy the guy that owns the rights to dizzy as well. classic gaming.

Defender on C64 was so much better than any other system. Conan: Halls of Volta was a great game, I can't remember what the sequel was called but the first one was definitely better. Played alot of Blasteroids too I remember. 10 Yard Fight was a great game too.

I had the SNES emulator on my old computer to play some classic RPG's like Chrono Trigger and FF and it worked really well. Going to download it again and relive my gaming past, also the N64 emulator and replay Ocarina of Time. It is really enjoyable to fire up a fatty and listen to those sweet 8-bit soundtracks. FPS and MMO? Please, side-scrolling and 2-d rule!

Finished this round of trimming and jarring everything. 55g dry weight. Makes my total around 77g, and still have some more coming.

Pretty decent for a noob with a 250w.....