Re: [CH] Lighting

Nels Peterson family (npkp4jp@polarcomm.com)
Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:16:02 -0600

Our County Sheriff took down a large hydroponic marijuana operation last
fall -- I damn near cried at the loss -- of the equipment, lights, pumps,
tanks -- the whole nine yards.  Ended up going to federal court -- it was
that big.  Would have been a great place to grow chiles!

Made sure he knew I hadn't given out any hydroponic information   :-)

Nels in ND
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Love2Troll" <Love2Troll@kc.rr.com>
To: "chile-heads" <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>; "Richard Williams"
<morroleon@comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CH] Lighting


> Ha ha!  Oddly enough the best under lights growing advice available is
from pot-head web sites.
>
> Although a child of the 60/70s I am not a dope head.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Richard Williams
> To: Love2Troll
> Cc: chile-heads
> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 6:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [CH] Lighting
>
>
> Love2Troll wrote:
>
> >I installed two 250 watt fixtures with high pressure sodium bulbs over 2
areas of my basement jungle in place of two 40 watt fluorescent fixtures to
see if could induce blooming.
> >
> Watch out for the police! :-) They tend to get excited by grow
> lights...A few years back, I grew some fatalis under a 1000 watt metal
> halide. I made it a point to invite a county sheriff neighbor over to
> check it out, "See, I am *not*
> growing anything illegal".  He was quite amused...
>
> Richard
>