Kakashi420
New member
I recently bought a 250 watt MH bulb off ebay and a ballast replacement kit also off ebay. The kit contained a ballast and a capacitor, but no ignitor, socket, or cables. I looked into the problem by asking a lighting design expert and automotive lighting expert about the problem. He said that there was no reason why I should be using a 250 watt MH bulb on 7 plants, that any kind of HID lighting was excessive for plant growth. He is not familiar with growing however, so I took his suggestion under light advisement. I looked all over the net and asked other growers and looked on posts on here; many talk about using HID lighting on their plants and pictorials showing the plants thriving under close growth. I asked another film and lighting expert about powering the bulb in order to gauge the brightness. He's just a little stupid and socially inept sometimes so I'm not sure to believe him. He at first though that there were two ballasts in the kit, and then said that I needed a socket and etc. Then he proceeded to tell me that it was crazy to use that light and that I was going to burn down the house/melt the wiring/electricute myself. I had touched the bulb and he insisted that there was no way of using it since there were oils on the glass. The other lighting expert refuted that I could use an alcohol swab to clean it off. Here's what I can verify: I cannot power the bulb at present, my plants should be doing a lot better at 3 weeks from seed, I have already spent about $70 on the bulb and ballast kit alone. I'm not anxious to buy much more just for growing 7 plants for medicinal use. I also have access to a south facing sundeck that is less than a mile from the beach, in Long Beach, Ca. It gets pretty cold at night so I wouldn't really want to leave them out all the time, but I could give them sunlight through a sliding glass door. Not sure what to do on a lot of settings and I'm unable to access the chat for some reason. I would like very much to find used lighting products locally for cheap/free. Also, if you are in the Long Beach area, or L.A./O.C. and have experience growing please contact me via yahoo msgr [email protected] or PM this account. For legal purposes I would like to state that I am a verifiable medicinal marijuana patient.
