Master Kush- CFL , First Time.. Help (pics)

does that container that you have them germinating have any holes in it. can the seeds get air. that may be your problem with the germination. the lights need to be really close and ide also look for something to directionalize the lighe towards the plant. your losing alot of energy/light to the surroundings because you dont have any kind of reflector. make one out of a foil pie plate or something. anything is better than no reflector.

Originally Posted by DarkSarcasm420

does that container that you have them germinating have any holes in it. can the seeds get air. that may be your problem with the germination. the lights need to be really close and ide also look for something to directionalize the lighe towards the plant. your losing alot of energy/light to the surroundings because you dont have any kind of reflector. make one out of a foil pie plate or something. anything is better than no reflector.

Is this good for reflection? i been looking at many other posts and my plant is doing fairly slow compared to others.. its 2 weeks tmrw.. and the bananas in there because i hear from that it produces a gas called ethylene that promotes females.

Originally Posted by kingc

Is this good for reflection? i been looking at many other posts and my plant is doing fairly slow compared to others.. its 2 weeks tmrw.. and the bananas in there because i hear from that it produces a gas called ethylene that promotes females.

its not bad, next time u eat a bag of chips save the bag split it open and wash it off. Ul have a good 2sq ft of mylar from that bag! Where did u hear that about the bananna? Ive never heard such a thing but would love to know if there is any r4esearch backing it up..

Try emergency blankets there alittle bit better than chip bags!!

Originally Posted by cnymoeman

Try emergency blankets there alittle bit better than chip bags!!

lol.....i live the ghetto life....

What kind of soil are you using?

sooo if you wanna make your CFL a little more sucessfull i have found a proper lightshade is pretty important. i went to a hydrostore in town and bought a 1 1/2 foot square parabolic shade for like 50 bucks... you then go to home depot and buy one light fixture its like just a fixture with 2 wires comming out thats insulated.. cut a hole in the to of that shade to fit this fixture.. it has a rim so you can jsut set it on ther and attach a hose clamp to on the other side to keep it thier and then buy 3 light splitters so it gives you kind of a X shape when finished.. this will hold 4 42 watt soft white (2600)K bulbs perfect or i have 2 42 watt and 2 23 watt daylights... bam no lost light and get it like 2 inch awahy from the plant... then for fans.. i found this pretty simple.. i bought 2 of the biggewst computer chassis 80mm i think fans i could buy.. now the dc power supply for these is quite simple.. use a super nintendo adapter and hack off the end.. this addaptor supplys pretty much the rihgt power.. i run 2 fans off of one adaptor wired in paralell this moves quite a bit of air when one used as in and one as out...

oh and i forgot polarity is important when wiring these things note the nintendo adaptor at the back of the bulky black thing.. lol thiers a small diagram that has a line wiht a c and a line wiht a dot and that fits inside the c . at the end of each line thiers a positive or negitive.. on the adaptor i used the dot in the middle was negitive.. this mean that the middle insulated wire is going to be your negitive output..wich you wouild conect to the black and white wires to the fan.. and the outer wire white surrounds the inner insulated wire is going to be your positive output.. also the rating of the adaptor is also on the back of these adaptors ... and any DC adaptor can be used as long as the AMPRAGE stated is LOWER or = what is needed to run the fans.. the voltage can vary up or down by a few a few volts best to get one as close as possible as long as the amprage is not to high.. this will resule in burnt up fans .. possible fires and bad news.. always solder all joints and tape well individulay and then together. and if your not comfortable wiht anything i jsut said i wouldent recomend you wiring anyhting by yourself..