Club 600

soooo. Guess now i am officially up to speed and running a 6.

There was a recent article in the Daily Mail that said they were using the abandoned underground tubes for growing plants with led's. They have reached the commercial market....and they are the blue and red ones.


cof

Thanks Jig. I didn't even think of the cost of replacement bulbs with HID's and the savings that way alone. So what kind of wattage would one need to replace the 600? Will one unit in my square meter do?

whodatnation said:

Hey Duchie great to see you back around brotha!


Doobs that wild, so it dripped on there from you melting the ends? Good thing you were around, glad it turned out fine.


Damn 3 pages since last night started a multi reply but soon became aware it would be a mess lol.

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No, I'd wrapped the rope twice, loosely, around the rope that suspends the fixture to keep the bulb centered and still when the fans are blowing (so it doesn't swing around like the one in my American Buddly vid), and when I lifted up the light to work on getting it more perpendicular to the ground the rope used as a cross brace loosened and slid down into the light, cutting it in half and leaving a chunk of rope to melt on the glass.

Thanks for that too cof.

Hey whodat! Good to see you too. I've been checking out your journal and your work is stellar as always.

I've been wondering how many 6'ers are in Colorado or Washington and able to speak a little free'r here these days?

The new 600w is looking good in the tent there, Urban

Cheers jig il be back reminding on when the stuff comes.and iv got the trim as god knows how.many pages will have been past until march

@ DoobieBrother; i dont want to think what would have happened if you hadn't gotten that rope out, ehhhh. are those T12 shop lights you've got your teenagers under? i used to use those but was eventually convinced that a T5 panel was the way to go. Not saying theres anything wrong with T12's.. they run so cool that my plants used to grow right up through them and push them apart! never so much as a scorched leaf.. I love my T5 panel with HO 54's, but they get warm enough to cause some damage if they get too close.

thanks doob, I was pretty pleased with the install for sure..Had to cut out the extra vert with no extra fans for cooling but the 6 is running full and temps are right at 77 so Im happy with that.

I see most of the strains I want from BB are out of stock....What new releases are going to come out? And when?

LockedOutOfHeaven said:

I see most of the strains I want from BB are out of stock....What new releases are going to come out? And when?

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id stay lurking in this place>>>>>> https://www.rollitup.org/breeders-paradise/392046-club-600-breeding-showcase.html

I was wanting to order some seeds myself but BB is out of alot of stock. Has anyone used sea of seeds? or are they another place that is good to order from that some of you all use and have had good luck with.

sipaman123 said:

I was wanting to order some seeds myself but BB is out of alot of stock. Has anyone used sea of seeds? or are they another place that is good to order from that some of you all use and have had good luck with.

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its alot of'em out their,you really just got to look around for the one you feel the safest with.

@genuity- so berry bubble and dog treats is what you are saying will be new BB strains? Kind of confused there bud...

LockedOutOfHeaven said:

@genuity- so berry bubble and dog treats is what you are saying will be new BB strains? Kind of confused there bud...

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all im saying is,that would be the place to see what may or may not be in the works......

TheGreenHornet said:

@ DoobieBrother; i dont want to think what would have happened if you hadn't gotten that rope out, ehhhh. are those T12 shop lights you've got your teenagers under? i used to use those but was eventually convinced that a T5 panel was the way to go. Not saying theres anything wrong with T12's.. they run so cool that my plants used to grow right up through them and push them apart! never so much as a scorched leaf.. I love my T5 panel with HO 54's, but they get warm enough to cause some damage if they get too close.

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Yeppers: T-12 bulbs running 40watts per bulb.
Wouldn't mind running HO T-5's, but I have 6 of these fixtures (only 5 in use, as one needs a new ballast) and am a cheap bastard when it comes to upgrading some things.
But, really, 480 watts is more than enough for my own early-vegging needs, and the lack of heat stress and subsequent ability to grow up to the bulbs without damage before adjusting light height is a bonus.
This run, I am using a GE Lucolux(?) 600w HPS for vegging half of the plants, and 400w of 6500k T-12 for the other half, and the T-12's are kicking the GE HPS bulbs ass by 2:1.
Nodes are tighter, and the plants are more advanced regarding secondary growth, and the plants are overall almost twice as big vegging under the tubes compared to the GE bulb.
Flowering will be different story, naturally, but this GE bulb sucks for vegging.

noice. i didnt know GE made a MH bulb, but i will stay away from it now that I know!
been using a lot of iPower products recently.. hate talking to the people on the phone, most seem to have an attitude (east coast maybe?)
but the products have surprised me. bought some electronic ballasts to replace my old magnetics, and they run super cool and are adjustable(even though i never take it off 100%). the HPS's i have bought from them put out a really cool color too, more pinkish than yellow like the old hortilux. i havent used them long enough to form an opinion one way or another, but like i say, the color they put out is pretty cool. hopefully its not a defect causing the color, lol.

6er's, hoping someone knows the answer to this?

I have to move some plants around. Can I use a 400 watt MH bulb in my 600 watt digi ballest turned down to 300 watts?

Not worried about decreasing the life of the bulb, just worried about safety.

Thanx

amgprb said:

6er's, hoping someone knows the answer to this?

I have to move some plants around. Can I use a 400 watt MH bulb in my 600 watt digi ballest turned down to 300 watts?

Not worried about decreasing the life of the bulb, just worried about safety.

Thanx

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not sure.....
i have ran big bulbs on smaller ballast,never smaller bulbs on bigger ballast

sorry not much help.

genuity said:

not sure.....
i have ran big bulbs on smaller ballast,never smaller bulbs on bigger ballast

sorry not much help.

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Np brother. I just dont want to burn the house down and if it does fire up, dont want to stay up all night baby sitting it to make sure that i dont burn the house down!

I have 25 plus bulbs sitting here, and not a damn 600 mh! This sux!