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[Dr. Green Fang]

Glad you asked that. I didn't have a clue either.

Glad you said that, cause I'm glad you asked, and glad this is being spoken about..

I'm just glad!

(Rose! )

 

[NorCalHal]

The Dual Ended HPS bulbs. Phillips makes the ones I am running. They run on Gavita or Galaxy ballasts, Bulb specific ballasts. I think other companies are starting to make DE ballasts too. I have been growing a long time, and I have never seen such an impact on a garden like these lights have done for me. Need a pretty high ceiling to run these though.

 

[Dr. Green Fang]

Ahhh yeah, that's the new bizness with HID .. my store guy mentioned that to me as I was going LED's. Nifty you got that in a large environment Hal :aok:

 

[Dr. Green Fang]

. Need a pretty high ceiling to run these though.

Yeah, only time I've even seen these in pics, the lights were wayyyyy up there!! It was interesting.

 

[NorCalHal]

My bad, I went with the Phantom DE Ballast, not the Galaxy. Galaxy doesn't have DE specific ballasts yet. The bulb runs a diff freq then normal HPS and even tho some digi ballasts will fire the bulb, it is not fired up fully, giving the max light.

 

[umbra]

some of my outdoor that started to flower...the purple tangies

 

[NorCalHal]

I have had a couple of runs with these lights now, and it took me a bit to get used to them. At first, I was running them too close, and it actually lessened the yield. I ran the last click with them at a constant 48" above the canopy and hit huge.
What these lights do is enable you to light up a bigger square footage then a traditional HPS. On a 4' x 20' table, I would normally run 6 traditional 1000w hps lights over the table, where now I light it with 4 DE 1000w and increased in yield with lower power.

I do have 1 row of AC/DE, the Aircooled Dual Ended hoods, so 4 of them also covering a 20' x 4' table, and they hit just as hard as the non air cooled too, I was impressed. I was able to run them a little closer, about 30"-36" above the canopy, but had a little light bleaching on some of the tops. So, for a guy with height restraints and cooling issues, the AC/DE hoods worked well for me.

 

[NorCalHal]

Nice Umbra! Those look great! Love that color!

 

[Keef]

Hippie - break up a pack of your brand - boil in water - filter and reduce to about a quarter or less of original volume - your making a concentrate !- more U reduce it the less U use !--add to your base - either V.G. or P.G. or a mixture of the two - add concentrate dropwise until U find your sweet spot ! Stir or shake - flavor will develop better if aged a few days ! If only it was that easy to make THC e-cig liquid ! -- I'm jealous again NCH -- I feel tapped out on power consumption - I've got to find a way to cut power usage to expand - Power company got no problem dropping a dime on me if my power usage is suspicious !

 

[Keef]

20 E.R. visits by people having a reaction to that " Spice"- synthetic weed stuff in a major Texas city last weekend !- I don't understand !-- Another thing I don't understand is how I'm gonna run the checkpoints next year hauling a load of clones to the woods of east Texas !- Make it to the Trinity river and I know what to do !-

 

[WeedHopper]

Hey Keef,,,,,Woods of East Texas is where i was Born and raised most my life. RED RIVER COUNTY in the Piney Woods. Clarksville Texas was where i was born.
Went to School in Paris Texas before i joined the Army.
Fished Red River ever since i was a little boy.
Now i be in Dallas.

 

[giggy]

Morning ofc. Hopper I grew up in the woods of new caney till I went in the navy. Know all about them piney woods and so does keef. Bad part is all the water in the woods so you was always wet.

 

[bozzo420]

good morning all .got my bottle of em-1 going last night...clones should be showing some roots anytime. Spring has sprung for sure. Got the front yard cleaned up.
second cup m of coffee up. dubbie time. :vap-Bong_smoker:

 

[WeedHopper]

Nice plants Umbra,,,love the purple hairs. Yummy

 

[Keef]

Morning O.F.C. !-- Umbra Nice plants !-- All these boys from East Texas !-- When they put in lake Conroe the local fire dept .need divers for rescue &recovery !-- I volunteered and they sent me to dive school -- Black water diving ain't for the faint of heart ! I was 17 when I made my first recovery !- Found a lady on the side of a road 30ft down ! The second was a man who had been in the water for two weeks ! The fish and turtles had been at him ! Never got to scuba in clear water ! Pitch black in the middle of a sucken forest was all I knew about diving !

 

[WeedHopper]

Yeah you guys are SE Texas. I Was NE Texas on the Red River. My trees were bigger then your trees.:chuck::bolt::smoke1:

 

[Keef]

Spent several year's up in the Lufkin - Tyler- it is different kind of piney woods !-- Diving was the only thing that got me thru high school cause we watched the news and saw the body count and I had assumed that would be my fate so after high school it was off to Ft Polk for basic training ! -- Then the M.P. school where I discovered weed !- Knew the first time I had found a life time friend !- Came back to the woods with a plan and a sack of seed !

 

[Keef]

Hey Giggy - what happened after my last post at the farm ?-- They didn't ban me - I banned them !

 

[WeedHopper]

I was in Fort Leonard Wood For Basic and AIT.
yeah i work in Tyler all the time. Love the Piney Woods around The Red River.