Prepping for my next grow-need advice

my current grow is now entering the last month of flowering, and i have begun to plan my next grow that will begin the day of this harvest, or within the week at latest.

i will have plenty of seeds from my current grow, plus 4 amsterdam seeds that a friend says are "awsome", as well as a single feminized sacra fresca seed (amazing sativa)


I currently have an underpowered 6-bulb 150w cfl grow (25*6) which produced underwhelming results for 4 plants, needless to say.

i therefore have set my mind to getting a 600w hps setup so i can flower up to 10 girls at a time, and will use the cfls for seedlings and mothers in another room.

does this sound ok? i will be using cheap garden soils and will use proper ferts and molassas (no specific brands yet)

looking for hps bulbs, im finding that hydro shops are gona charge me an arm and a leg, as well as 300-400$ for the bulb, ballast, reflectr kit.

owever, i have found em on ebay for approx 150-200 cheaper. are these still good quality?

and i also found this: Lithonia High Bay 400 Watt High Pressure Sodium Lights - Mississauga Buy & Sell Items - Kijiji Mississauga

its a bit of a drive, and the ballasts are 347volts (:wtf:) however the price is worth it. how easily would i wire a 347v into a statndard 110-120v socket?

ps: what does a ballast do? regular lightbulbs dont need em for thier specific wattages....

there are many on ebay, but i dont know what i want. should i go digital? what kind of reflector (def. horizontal, but batwing or angulated)

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Originally Posted by klondike_bar

my current grow is now entering the last month of flowering, and i have begun to plan my next grow that will begin the day of this harvest, or within the week at latest.

i will have plenty of seeds from my current grow, plus 4 amsterdam seeds that a friend says are "awsome", as well as a single feminized sacra fresca seed (amazing sativa)


I currently have an underpowered 6-bulb 150w cfl grow (25*6) which produced underwhelming results for 4 plants, needless to say.

i therefore have set my mind to getting a 600w hps setup so i can flower up to 10 girls at a time, and will use the cfls for seedlings and mothers in another room.

does this sound ok? i will be using cheap garden soils and will use proper ferts and molassas (no specific brands yet)

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That sounds great, it's almost what I do, except for the molasses thing. However I highly recommend getting a 400W MH to complement that 600W HPS, and doing SOG or SCROG grows. Also hydro grows are way easier than dirt and give larger yields. And 600W could handle 10 plants, but realistically it's more like 6 or 8.

How far from the plants did you have the lights klondike bar? How long did you veg for? And finally, how much did you yield off those 4 plants?

Oh Klondike, a ban is a ban. You're not special and you should have followed the rules and advice in the first place. Had you done that you would still be posting. You lost that right because you refused to listen to Her Dankness, Queen Stinky. Consider not being able to ask questions in your time of need part of your punishment. Now you have added more time to your original ban for trying to sneak back in.

Have a Good One! :jointsmile:

sigh....ok im back. personally, i feel that punishment cruel, seeing as how in the forum rules when igning up i found nothing against multiple accounts...but im not here to argue.

ok, my 4 girls (3 of which are 99% certified dead b/c i overwatered) are under 6 lousy cfls hovering about 3 inches abouve them. i vegged about 3 weeks (until preflowers), and at its current state (5 weeks flower) id approximate that id get under a 2oz harvest if all 4 survived.


molasas also caused a slight surface mould, any preventions/is it normal? i soaped it a little, so it should dissapear.

my concern w/ the 600 is ventilation. i have a small fan unit that i will place near the bulb blowing directly on it, but i have no cooltube or professional exhaust system. will i overheat and how high will th bulb be from the plants?

you know if you using cheap soil go to orchard supply and get this soil called super soil, its really cheap but i been using it and no problems
where are you gonna get ur 600 hps from??
:rastasmoke:

got it for 310$ on ebay. whole setup w/ timer bonus. its a digital presumably.

im definitely gonna check out some kinda good garden store for my new soils and some flowering nutes for sure.