Alex801's New Scrog - Pepper Jack + Super Lemon Haze - 600 Watt HPS

[Jaga]

Good weed fine sirs
Il be around a little more often soon enough. My working hours reduce to 2pm-8pm next week so iv got a few more hours in the mornings to 420ittt
Thanks jaga. And ur girl looks super mate
So iv got a couple days off now with the boy and my girls. Planning tomorrows day out at the moment but we have no idea were to go or what to do. Saturday morning will probably arrive.... Still I decision.... Then weel be sat in car twiddling our thumbs thing hmmmmm were to go. And weel end up at the beech spending a fortune

Bet you,ll have a great day out though
JUST DONT FORGET THE WEED

 

[Hoddog]

Hay alex, ya i know im always MIA, been very hectic lately and im about to start a new job with longer hours. All good though i still try to get on hear as often as possible problem is im usaly baked and cant be bothered writing.
Your girls are looking great

 

[ChopBro]

looking very nice

 

[alex801]

Hey j yea had a good day dude nothing special tho... No weed on days out with family it's one of her rules lol
We've been to the cinema this morning watched "epic" with the kids and what a good film it was

Good weed hodog.... It is tricky sometimes to juggle life + 420 lol iv just popped by ur grow and reped u for ur good work

Chop bruvaaaaa thankyou sir I try my best



So been looking at these girls. Thinking I may of dropped a bolloc with the "v" iv found plants grow a lot quicker when there bent downwards. Now the pepper jack can start training tomoro tied down but the slh on the sides growing up will have a lot lighter training as there screen leans upwards. I think il be vegging forever lol 30 days last time. 22 days now and I estimate il flip in 14 days time so these will of had 5 weeks

 

[fish cake]

Happy Skunkday Alex

 

[alex801]

Fishcake
good weed sir and the other sirs

A little insight into my latest diy mission
My hps below is a unit is a all in one built in unit.
My job is to make it into a ballast a wire and a bulb hanger to suit my "v Scrog"

As u can see in pik the bulb holder is visible. I'm expecting to open it up and there be the internal ballast with two wires leading to the bulb holder.... These are the wires il be extending by I think 3-4 meters

Reason 1... If the ballasts outside room temps be lower
Reason 2... I want the bulb hanging in middle of the "v" for best all around coverage
Reason 3... I don't want to spend $100 dollars+ on another setup


It will hang like this lol

 

[Richard Richardson]

I think you need a cooltube, alex

 

[alex801]

Surely it can't run hotter this way than as it is already. Iv ran this light in this cupboard before

 

[fish cake]

the only thing I can see wrong with this and I am sure you wont understand my analogy is picture trying to sink a ship. If its bow is pointed straight at you there is less to aim at. now if the ship is broad side the chances are much greater of hitting the boat.
so if Prince didn't change his name like Snoop did would the bagels still have cream cheese? Or would this question be considered by folks less depressed than I?

 

[Richard Richardson]

I didn't even know that snoop's bagels had cream cheese, so that's how much of an opinion I'm entitled to.

None.

 

[alex801]

Amazing mind you have fish

But I'm not trying to sink the 400watt hps
Infact with electric the idea is to keep it well away from water or torpedoes lol

 

[miwa]

what Fish is saying..Good Skunkday Alex..while i stumble thru here...what Fish mean is..more light comes from the side of the bulb than the end..and my .02 is with no reflector on your bulb..you got escaping light...light going to the walls instead of your plants..just something to ponder on this beautiful day...focus

 

[Light Addict]

Hey Alex, if I get ur design right id just be a little concerned with the heat from ur bulb is going straight up to ur starter. This might over heat your wiring Etc. Is there no way you could bracket against back of wardrobe? Have the bulb pointing out at you giving the broard side of the bulb to your girls more evenly. Just a thought hope you dont mind.

Oops just read previous 2 posts (great minds and all that)

 

[fish cake]

Amazing mind you have fish

But I'm not trying to sink the 400watt hps
Infact with electric the idea is to keep it well away from water or torpedoes lol

OH!
What miwa said

 

[alex801]

Ahhh I see fish n miwa I see what y'all saying hmmmmmmm

Light addict booooom now ur talking sir.... I don't want anything touching though so that rules out mounting on the back wall.
Maybe I should do what I said..... Extend the wires to light holder and mount the bulb in a cheap barn reflector that would fit front to back of the cupboard instead of hanging vertically

 

[Light Addict]

Mate its the old wardrobe trick suspend your light by rope attached by screw hook fixing or your clothes rail. Other end go for mini quick release carabenas linking to a simple wing that you can bend back to suit your V. There are simple ways to bracket against the rear, just holla if you want any more input but me thinks your all sorted. Nice set up, you have me a plannin!

 

[miwa]

yeah...now your on the right track...

 

[alex801]

Light addict consider this my "hollah" lol

In guna try do my wire extending after work tonight. Il then pm u some piks n sizes of what I'm working with and see if we can knock something up from there

 

[Light Addict]

Ok sounds like a plan

 

[Jaga]

The whole dam ting gone over my head but im sure the thing will work well,will you be using the cfl,s all the way through the grow ? or will that put the temp,s up a little to much