150w HPS Club and Resource Guide......

[Keif]

I dont know how I have never posted in here, but heres my setup-

Custom IKEA Cab, link to build in my sig,
150w Digital Ballast HPS
Cool Tube
Hempy Buckets

Here is the last run- Yielded about 3-4oz


I also just converted it to run vert and I am in the process of that now.


I love my 150.

 

[Bueno Time]

Thanks Bueno. I'm hoping it performs as well. Being the first time running a scrog, this should make for an interesting learning experience.

The containers I use are homemade 5 gallon self irrigated buckets. All I do is pour water into the pvc pipe which runs down into the bottom bucket. The bottom bucket has a hole about 3.75" from it's base. I pour until I get a little run off from the res and that's pretty much it. I used some spare 6" netpots I had sitting around and packed them full of perlite to use as the wick between the bottom and top bucket.

I mix all my fertilizers into my soil so it's pretty much a water only grow. I'm using a fairly large container to be sure the plants will have enough food for the entire cycle. So far, my first run with them went GREAT so I'm thinking this one will be better now that I'm implementing some canopy management.

Here's some info on them for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-irrigated_planter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE8OrdUZQKk&list=PL1B565A57322A5457

As for the growing media, I decided to go the organic route and I have to say, I love it! I got it from a member in the Organic Soil section.

The mix consists of:

1 part Home Made Leaf Mold
1 part Peat
1 part Perlite
1 part Vermiculite
1 part Home Made Worm Castings
1 part Home Made Compost

For each 7.5 Gallons (1 cuft) of mix
I mixed all ingredients for each mix together in equal volume and used

2 Cups of Food Mix:
Blood Meal (wanted to finish the bag but discontinuing its use)
Bone Meal (wanted to finish the bag but discontinuing its use)
Alfalfa Meal
Cotton Seed Meal

1.5 Cups of Fix It Mix:
Crab Meal
Kelp Meal

1 Cup of Mineral Mix:
Green Sand
Azomite
Oyster Shell
Gypsum
Dolomite (wanted to finish the bag but discontinuing its use)

This mix has been sitting in a huge container for months now. I've almost finished it up so hopefully warmer weather will come so I can sift the leaf mold and compost bins so I can make a new batch.

In the future, I plan on tweeking the mix and seeing what all I can get out of it. So far, the 5 gals seem to have more than enough for a grow so we'll see what happens.

Thanks for the suggestions BlueGrassToker. I'm pretty sure I have a pack of those hooks somewhere on my workbench. I also have some larger fans, just need to see if they'll fit in the cab. Going to play around with the cab this weekend and see what I come up with.

Thanks for explaining all that for me. Thats a pretty cool setup. I might have to try that out with smaller buckets.

Organic is the way to grow!

I dont know how I have never posted in here, but heres my setup-

Custom IKEA Cab, link to build in my sig,
150w Digital Ballast HPS
Cool Tube
Hempy Buckets

Here is the last run- Yielded about 3-4oz
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I also just converted it to run vert and I am in the process of that now.
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I love my 150.

Nice cab setup. Vertical is going to be fun.

 

[Keif]

Hey guys, any recommendations on specific bulbs you guys like? I know many of the big companies dont support HPS but is there a couple brands that you are using or prefer over generic bulbs?

 

[dddaver]

Most people just buy what's cheapest and available. No big differences I don't think. I bought Phillips this go around. Had pretty good lumen numbers. Seems to be doing well. I usually only use the HPS for flower and LED in veg. I've have gone usually three go arounds before changing. Haven't counted so closely with my last three bulbs. I think I should, this time I will. Yield suffers after too many uses.

 

[Keif]

Good info, I appreciate that.

Thanks.

 

[dudin]

I think it might work nice. Auto SOG seed grow 15 1L pots with perlite, big tray.

 

[Cobra420]

Looking great Keif and Dudin!! That SOG, Dudin, looks like it's going to be nice!!

Anytime Bueno. Since switching to this method of growing, I have a LOT more time to do other things lol. I just let the plants do their thing.

An update. It's been a little while and things are going better than ever. The plants have branched out really well and are starting to fill the screen. It's amazing how quick these plants grow!!

Now to the cab.

The left side

The right side

They are both coming along great! I'm excited to see how this thing turns out. The next pics I take, I'll make sure to get them with the HPS off.

 

[Keif]

Bro those are looking killer. Maybe I could get away with stacked 150s, you got me thinking.

 

[Bueno Time]

Very nice scrogs so far Cobra super bushy healthy plants.

One more question for you, how tall is the inside of your flowering sections from floor to ceiling?

 

[Cobra420]

Kief, Thank you for the compliments. I'm quite impressed with the way these bulbs can grow plants. The more the merrier I say haha.

Thank Bueno. The inside of each flowering chamber is 23”L x 20”D x 48”H.

Much needed update for today, I decided to finally weigh the 12 plant sog I pulled a few weeks ago from the left side of the cab. It weighed out to 114.08g or 4 ounces. So, 4 ounces from the left side and 5 ounces from the right side...

9 ounces total!! I'm quite impressed with these 150w bulbs! Over half a pound was WAY more than I was ever expecting lol. I was thinking less than half that... These 150's definitely proved me wrong in a great way.

 

[Bueno Time]

Heres a couple pics for the 150w club thread from my current grow at 14 days 12/12.

 

[darkvade420]

Looking like its gonna be some nice stinky indica plants :

 

[Bueno Time]

I think I failed to mention the genetics this round. They are all from seeds that I made a couple runs ago using clone only females from a buddy and the male used was from some Connoisseur Genetics Chemmy Jones regular seeds I popped.

Started 15 seeds this run, 5 different crosses, 3 of each and ended up with 6 females and 9 males.

For females I ended up with: 1 GDP x Chemmy Jones, 1 Sugar Kush x Chemmy Jones, 1 The White x Chemmy Jones, 1 Platinum Kush x Chemmy Jones, and 2 Purple Kush x Chemmy Jones.

Day 20 12/12

 

[Bueno Time]

Also I know there are more people visiting this thread with 150 HPS grows going. Post some pics and keep the club going!

 

[darkvade420]

Here is what i got left over from my last Preptual 150w harvest PK i got lazy on some of the trim.got a few nice plants veggin now.im not sure if im going to do them indoor or wait and grow some outdoor monsters ill post some pics if i get around to taking some photos.Peace

 

[darkvade420]

here is a picture of my 150w grow op as promised i have two larger plants in the back.just started my first time attempt at hydro today and its up front wish me luck i have no clue what im doing there but my friend gave me a free hydro bucket so there it is.and i have afew more rooted clones on the left.idk if ill flower any of these indoor my landscaping season is about to start and it might be easier to let them ride out door but who knows?

 

[Keif]

Theres some from my current grow. I dont know if I want to keep vertical next round. its not as clean as I would like. The light coverage needs to be worked out running horizontally though.

 

[dudin]

Changed one HPS to a MH. A little side by side-ish.

 

[Keif]

To those guys running side by side MH and HPS lights-

Is there an issue that the plants on the outside get more of one type of light? I can see the middle looks pretty nicely blended..

I am considering running one of my big 125w CFLs next to my cool tube for some more lumen output but dont want the plants right under the blue spectrum light to grow different than those under the HPS.

Maybe it doesnt matter when they are bigger and start absorbing both light spectrums from different parts of the same plant?

Let me know what you all think.

 

[dudin]

To those guys running side by side MH and HPS lights-

Is there an issue that the plants on the outside get more of one type of light? I can see the middle looks pretty nicely blended..

I am considering running one of my big 125w CFLs next to my cool tube for some more lumen output but dont want the plants right under the blue spectrum light to grow different than those under the HPS.

Maybe it doesnt matter when they are bigger and start absorbing both light spectrums from different parts of the same plant?

Let me know what you all think.

I really don't know changed today so any differences are due to genetics.
My plan is to run a perpetual sog. I will let em begin in a minitent under 6500k PLL (6 plants 20cm high) then move em to sex and stretch under the MH and finish under the warm HPS glow.

I imagine that more is more when it comes to light.