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 >