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Market => Product offers => Topic started by: SpiritualVisions on July 15, 2012, 03:58 am
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Hey everyone! I'm a new seller here on the road and I'm trying to establish myself as a reliable vendor, therefore I've decided to take a hit for the team and set up this contest to get my reputation up to snuff.
Here's the rules, all you have to do is post in this article a short story about what you'd do with this ballast if you were the winner. Keep it under a paragraph and the most creative story gets it!
On a side note, the winner will be expected to pay shipping costs through a custom listing (i.e. through escrow to be safe) of $12 domestic US and $20 international.
Also "uuuh... grow pot?" probably won't win. Good luck!
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I'd use it to grow a batch of seedlings, which will become tall hardy plants; which will produce musty and glistening flowers; which will be harvested, trimmed, dried and cured with love and attention and distributed amongst friends and colleagues in exchange for cash, which can be exchanged for goods and services, all in the name of cannabis proliferation.
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I would grow some nice indoor weed! It would make my growing dream a reality. After it was done I would use my excess weed to open doors for people. I want as many people to experience this wonderful plant as possible. Forget selling it, too much money only gets ya into trouble. I'd have loads of great times with my friends. I'd throw weed smoking house parties and I'd get high every weekend, and then some. Growing weed would be the experience of a lifetime, I think pot is gods gift to us all
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Hello Spiritual Visions. Thanx for this opportunity. Here goes:
Back in 07, I was involved in a debilitating car accident that left me with chronic pain for the rest of my life. My jaw went through my steering wheel, ribs were cracked and broken. My right leg was broken in 3 places along with my orbital bone on my pelvis breaking which resulted in a compound fracture that ripped through my right buttock. I am literally the only person you'll ever meet that has been ripped a new asshole. Above all, somehow I survived, learned how to walk again, and am still on this earth able to write this story for you now. I have struggled through with the pain, been off and on pain meds for years, and now have tried to put all of that behind me and use cannabis and exercise as my relief from my pain. So to tell you what I would do with this ballast if I win, I would setup a small medical garden, to provide me and my grandfather (who has Parkinson's disease) with the medicine we need to deal with our ailments. Something small like this would be enough for us to be able to provide enough medicine for both of us to lead our daily lives as we are very active people. Some days are just harder on us than others. But we always find a way to stay sane and happy. This would give me the opportunity to setup my small garden and give me something to work on and look forward to as I cannot work anymore. Also being in a non medi state has limited our access to proper medication so being able to grow it would be a lifesaver. Thanx again Spiritual Visions for this opportunity.
~ Drksdfmn138
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The song from the sad puppy commercial just started playing in my head. :-\
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The song from the sad puppy commercial just started playing in my head. :-\
Looks like we have a winner...
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There once was a man called Bill,
Who wanted to grow weed at will,
For he could never get his fill.
So he logged onto Silk Road,
his humble abode,
and saw lots of strains before him.
The range was great and the quality top rate.
From frosted buds to oily hash
Bill wanted it all, but lacked the cash.
So he turned to the forum,
and right there before him
was the answer to his problem.
A kind new vendor, giving away a great prize,
A 400W ballast to help make those plants rise,
with nugs of a great size.
With a ballast of that power,
Bill could devour plentiful flower.
So send it his way and end his dismay,
and they shall all say:
"Spiritual Visions is here to stay!"
Written by RightOnion
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I guess the fact that I've got a 400 watt digital HPS sodium ballast, could use the MH counterpart and have a grow thread on a website with around 20,000 views doesn't mean squat when people will write poems and solicit pathos like Sarah Mclachlan.
If you want an honest review from a guy who actually has the components to complete the ballast, i.e, mogul plug and cool tube reflector setup then I'm your guy.
I wasn't aware I needed to write a soliloquy.
Jeeze vinny it was only a light hearted poem. He said be creative so i thought outside the box.
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Onion, kool poem.
I'm not worried in the least Vinny, sorry I depressed you with my story.
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Wow, this is gonna be a tough decision! Also, the mogul base is included, this is a high-bay unit with an attached base, as per in the picture here:
http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/item/a0997ef633
It would need to be modified to use a cool tube with it.
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Onion, kool poem.
I'm not worried in the least Vinny, sorry I depressed you with my story.
Glad you liked it :)
Fingers crossed for that ballast. I want to be producing "Bullet Bill's Bud" ;D
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400w ballast, ESPECIALLY magnetic, is not worth 150. Not even remotely close to that. You can get a full 400w system, ballast, fixture, bulbs, etc. for $80.
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400w ballast, ESPECIALLY magnetic, is not worth 150. Not even remotely close to that. You can get a full 400w system, ballast, fixture, bulbs, etc. for $80.
Yeah I wasn't trying to be a dick about it but high-bay magnetic ballasts go for $40 on Craigslist around here, a guy had a warehouse full.
I've never seen an $80 system before, and if it was that cheap I can guarantee it's a piece of Chinese crap.
The system I used came from Amazon and was a digital HPS/MH combination with cool tube for around $150. The ballast was cheap and I purchased another dimable system with a batwing reflector and used the better ballast with the cool tube.
So if you really want my opinion on the high-bay MH setup you have you're looking at $35-50 on Craigslist and Ebay all day, cheaper if you don't have a reflector.
My bad. I hate being a dick reviewer.
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Yeah that's about what I paid for a bulk order of them, these can be that cheap on Craigslist probably but on warehouse supply sites they go for about $150, I've seen more and less.
Still though, this one's free :-)
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Nothing wrong with free or purchasing one anonymously.
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I'll give this another two days then pick a winner.
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If I win the ballast, I would use it to learn more about the grow process. I followed through with my first grow using CFLs this past year and got a modest yield of about a half ounce. Before starting my grow, I actually bought a MH bulb which I later discovered needs a special ballast to operate. The bulb is currently buried in my closet still in its original box. It would be cool to do a MH grow as I've heard it produces a much larger yield and healthier plants throughout as long as one watches the heat generated from it. I'll be moving into a new apartment with a large, walk-in closet this next month, and I would love to put this ballast, my MH bulb, and a couple of feminized seeds I've been saving in there to continue my learning of growing cannabis.
I wouldn't limit myself to just cannabis, however, as I also have interest in learning how to hydroponically grow vegetables. This has been an interest of mine for the past few years since I started considering working in Antarctica. In Antarctica, you can ONLY grow vegetables hydroponically since using soil could introduce soil-born bacteria and contaminants into the pristine Antarctic environment. Having this skill would greatly improve my chances of being able to get a job there. Hopefully I'll win and get a shot at learning how to use more advanced growing lights! :)
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I withdraw from the contest on the grounds that I have no purpose for a high-bay light.
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If i won, i would use my fascination of cannabis to motivate me to become an expert grower, to entirely honest, my pops was a hippy, and growing up i grew pot before even knowing what it was, till 1 day my dad calls me outside and is like "Come Here" ! and right away i think im in trouble, i get to the back yard and he's like "What's This" "? and im like i dont know dad, i got this from the vegetable drawer in da fridge, after learning about the lima bean and how to grow it, i wanted to see how seeds sprout and all that so i went threw all the vegetables looking for "seeds" flash foward about 4 years later in 7 grade, they introduce us to dare, and low and behold the same plant i grew up with is introduced to me as "the war on drugs"...
So time has passed and i've stopped growing because my parents divorced and custody battle made me stay with my mom, so when i moved on my own to this new apartment , i started saving seeds from strains i been collecting for a while now, and ive been studying ,organics, aerorponics and hydropronics, i know of MH that other spectrum of light.. i forgot as im just writing and letting this come to me as i think, but i know there like red and blue, and you can use both to create optimum "sun-light" i been using this walmart eco friendly lights and it just makes no use of all these wires and timers, i also created my own hydro tank from a fish tank and air pump, kinda works better than the "aero-garden"... hopefully i get get a job in botany, because college sucks, and i already have a misdmeanor for 2 joints. so i think my life calling is to go to California or something... idk
hopefully i can see the LIGHT !
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Also "uuuh... grow pot?" probably won't win. Good luck!
Lol, you people need to read. ::)
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Also "uuuh... grow pot?" probably won't win. Good luck!
Lol, you people need to read. ::)
I think he meant just putting something stupid, short, and sarcastic like that. Unless one intends to light up their driveway or work-room with the ballast, which is highly unlikely considering which website this contest is taking place on, there really is no other use than to grow some sort of drugs (cannabis, poppies, DMT-containing plants, etc). Maybe I'm wrong, though, and I've cursed myself by mentioning cannabis. Hopefully not though :'(
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I think he meant just putting something stupid, short, and sarcastic like that. Unless one intends to light up their driveway or work-room with the ballast, which is highly unlikely considering which website this contest is taking place on, there really is no other use than to grow some sort of drugs (cannabis, poppies, DMT-containing plants, etc). Maybe I'm wrong, though, and I've cursed myself by mentioning cannabis. Hopefully not though :'(
Sure, but I think its hard for him to decide when everyone's saying the same thing.
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I think he meant just putting something stupid, short, and sarcastic like that. Unless one intends to light up their driveway or work-room with the ballast, which is highly unlikely considering which website this contest is taking place on, there really is no other use than to grow some sort of drugs (cannabis, poppies, DMT-containing plants, etc). Maybe I'm wrong, though, and I've cursed myself by mentioning cannabis. Hopefully not though :'(
Sure, but I think its hard for him to decide when everyone's saying the same thing.
Nobody else mentioned learning how to hydroponically grow vegetables, so they can work in Antarctica ;) My fingers are crossed lol.
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Hey SV... You still around? Any word on the winner?
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So did SV disappear... maybe go on a DMT bender and forget he had a contest running? The DMT looks to be the only thing listed on his vendor page. Anyone heard from him lately?
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Dunno. As for the ballast you can have it, none of us seem to want it anymore.
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Well because I'd feel bad not giving it to Drksdfmn138 and since he reminded me that I gave this two more days, well, 9 days later, we have a winner!
I'll make a custom listing for you to pay shipping, make sure you encrypt your address with privnote.
Also the guy I bought these ballasts from supplied me with Mercury Vapor bulbs and not Metal Halide even though the ballasts clearly state metal halide on the side. Therefore, I'm going to re-list these for $45 a piece and make my money back and get more vendor reviews on my page.
...and yes, I have kinda been on a DMT bender.
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Hey SV...Thanx for offering this contest. I saw your link to the listing. I've also looked into Mercury vapor lights. And since theyre in the green spectrum, Its unusable for me. Plus I don't have the coinage to ship it atm. So thanx anyways brother... Just hold onto it and make your money back selling them on your vendor account. I'd rather you get something back on your purchase then just have to send one out for free and lose money. Hope you don't have hard feelings. I appreciate your time and consideration.
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Where in the hell did he get Mercury vapor bulbs? Those are banned I believe.. I'm not sure if they have a very green spectrum but I know they put off radiation which is why the bulbs are coated. I've read High Times from the early 90's that said the radiation was good for plants, but that's some serious speculation. I haven't heard of a mercury vapor grow in years.
I did some research... Looks like they're banned but people still make ballasts and bulbs and ship them out.