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Ok im back yet agin and over the past few days ive been noticing the pistils browing. More towards the top than the bottom. Is this normal or a sign of light burn or something else. All pictures are from same branch just diffrent heights Oh and white widow feminized im 5 gal pots with 2 4...

Ok guys and gals i am just curious what you are using for lighting in flower. I have 12 plants in soil under 2 4' 4 bulb 54 watt ho t5s as well as one 8 bulb HO t5 ( total of 16 bulbs) i have heard that t5 are bad for flower but i cant afford to get any hsp or any diffrent lights. So im just...

hey I do not have much space in my tent so I'm considering moving out a plant or 2 to another tent but I have limited light lying around right now so what I am wonder is a CFL 200W growth bulb enough for two auto plants in week 6. or is it critical that I acquire a flower bulb that has a more...

So ive setup an indoor using a 250 hps bulb. Long story short, i tried sticking it to the wall with masking tape and scotch but they melted, the bulb fell, burnt the floor and almost lit my whole house on fire. What do you guys use? Any way to prevent this from happening again?

Hello, I have 600w kit (dimmable ballast, cooltube and hps gib lighting 600w). It has been set on 250w all the way. Today I removed dust from the bulb and inner side of the cooltube. First I unscrewed the bulb then, after I finished the cooltube, I screwed it back in. It is running for...

My 400 watt lighting system uses an hps bulb at the moment. The manual says it can use a mh conversion bulb. When I look online not all mh bulbs say conversion. Does it have to say conversion or will any 400 watt mh bulb work? Provided of course that its has the right base. Ty

So I added a second 600 watt light the other day, but used a metal halide bulb as my new bulb hadn't been delivered yet.. mistakenly I put the new light on full whack with the boost option turned on the ballast so the halide bulb was pushing out 660 watts I didn't get round to changing the bulb...

Cfl dual spectrum bulb for my grow from start to finish or do I need to change before flower stage

someone said One reason why CFLs sometimes look bad is because unlike incandescent lamps CFLs can't produce all of the colors in the light spectrum evenly. If you look at sunlight or an ordinary light bulb through a prism, you will get a perfect rainbow. If you look at a florescent lamp though...

Good day growers! Today i wanted to get my Journal started for my first Autoflowering grow. The two strains for this auto grow is going to be from Fast Buds breeders, Girl Scout Cookies Auto's & From Advanced Seeds Afghan Skunk Auto's. The Autoflowering Grow Materials will Consist of: 1...

So it's my first day, be gentle. Lol So I'm trying to use items all ready around my house. I have a 150 watt led bulb. This is the bulb that home owners went to after the cfl craze. Not a led grow light. It puts off hardly any heat. And I'm only going to be trying one feminized seed in a small...

Hi everyone fed up reading everyone elses threads about grows so started my own ! First timer using as follows : T5 4 bulb 2 foot for veg 96w total 400w hps dual spectrum for flower possibly considering getting another t5 with the red bulbs instead to hide heat etc. Tent is a 1mx1mx1.8m with...

Hey guys, First grow here. I went with: Sunsystem 315w lec 4x4 Apollo grow tent Tower oscillating fan 440cfm inline exhaust, 6 in 6 in air intake with a rigged window screen as an impromptu filter without losing intake I'm running the 3 part base from cutting edge solutions...

Will a new bulb help at all? It seems like every other time the ballast is to fire my hps that the it fails and I have no idea why. When it does I just unplug my ballast, unplug my fan, them plug the ballast back in and it starts up. I think it has something to do with the fan running at the...

Between CFL bulbs and LED bulbs?? led bulb im talking about There are two key terms pertaining to light bulbs: watts and lumens. A watt refers to the amount of energy required to power a bulb. With incandescent bulbs, the number of watts has become synonymous with the level of brightness, even...

I have never grown before well I started these 2 out in a tray but yesterday I transferred them to solo cups I should have waited as the roots wasn't even close to bound. The 3rd just waiting for it to sprout. Light is a T5 HO 4 bulb 216 watts. but I also got a 600watt mh bulb will switch to...

Upgrading my op. Looking for opinions on mid range priced bulbs. I've used the baddass bulbs and love them, but since they don't make them anymore I need an alternative. I noticed there were no bulb sponsors. I'm leaning toward Ushio, about $30-60 max. I can't justify more on a bulb, unless...

Ok, so I'm wasting a ton of nutes. I keep having a sludge build up. I'm running a 20 gal. Rdwc with two 5 gal buckets, one airstone in each bucket, submersable pump, and a tote for the main res. I have no light leakes, water temps between 60 and 73 lights off and on. Ph well within range. After...

New to me set up, ballast can set to super , 1000w , 750w and 600w. ( was set on 600w) 2 bulbs m/h and a hps. But I have no clue on what watts the bulbs are one has a 6 b marking on the inside .. any suggestions ?

So I got a 400w HPS ballast and a 400 MH bulb. I was wondering if I could power the MH bulb with it, or if there's any danger if I do it? Great forum by the way. I'm happy to be part of it