ok guys no matter where you go all over the forums you have people bashin the cfl. in the interest of fairness i would like to ask all the hardcore super stealth cfl growers show what can be got from these lil babies. i have seen some people here pull 4 oz from a rubbermaid tub using cfls. everyone says you cant get a dense bud from a cfl, i believe different so if you have a cfl grown bud and you think its worthy of showing off please post it. also if your using a small stealth cabinet lets see it too so people can see what you can get from such small spaces.

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what one wont do, another one will. check out my current grow.
http://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/...ay-better.html

come on people are we really gonna let the hid people shame us and let them think they are right?

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what one wont do, another one will. check out my current grow.
http://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/...ay-better.html

Good thread I have been growing for over 13 years. I grow with CFL's because they give me everything I need, simple as that. Bud density is as good as HPS, I know because I used HPS for almost 11 years before changing over when I moved house. We keep hearing this 'get yourself a HPS' line don't we?

What I will say is that CFL's work best with small heavily trained plants becasue they wont penetrate a canopy the way HPS will BUT you can get them MUCH closer couple of inches from the buds with no issues at all. I'd never go back to be honest, I'm happy with CFL's and what they can do and I have been smoking herb for over 30 years!

You can see my small 3 pot cabinet in my thread link below, thats ALL I grow in my house and it keeps me smoking happily every day of the year with those CFL's. I'll dig up a close of my CFL grown buds later to show the density you can achieve.

Come on you CFL growers!

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I'd like to see this too as I'm in the middle of fixing up a small cfl grow setup and can't wait!

nice grow cerebralvibrator + rep those buds look scrumptous

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what one wont do, another one will. check out my current grow.
http://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/...ay-better.html

I'll admit my personal experience is limited, but I have already noticed a very strong tendency for my plants to lean towards a specific set of cfl's I have and basically seems to ignore the other set of lights, even though they are all the same wattage.
I can't say I understand the reason for this but they've shown the preference from early seedling stage when they all started leaning heavily to the side those lights were on. Unfortunately I can't tell you exactly what they are as they were already present in the house and were basically scavenged from the sockets they already inhabited.
I don't know if this is really on topic or not, but I thought I would throw the ideal out there that the plants seem to respond in a rather drastic way, to various cfl's.

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ok mystic do the lights have different shades like some look orange and some look white?

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what one wont do, another one will. check out my current grow.
http://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/...ay-better.html

Thanks nitroman, I appreciate the comment.

I just don't understand why so many growers are against the modern flouros, they are greatly improved over the old strip flouros that everyone used to grow with back in the day, but its rare to read a CFL grow thread without someone posting "get yourself a HPS" .

For small cabinet grows the CFL's are perfect. Personally I think its better to use lots of smaller bulbs rather than a couple of big 'envirolite' type bulbs, they are easier to position where you want them around the bud sights.

The 2700k's are very easy to find, every supermarket and hardware store carry them. The 6400k 'blues' can be got online, they are slightly more expensive but not by much.

Anyway, a 'bump' for this thread, anyone else want to contribute? I'd also love to see your CFL grown buds

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In the new (February) Skunk Magazine there was a question in the "Ask Ed" section that just made my night last night when reading it...
The question was...

Tiny Grow Space

I intend to grow a single cannabis plant in a space 1' x 2'. What light would you recommend? I was think of using four 30-watt compact fluorescent lamps. Will this be enough? Cost isn't an issue but I am deterred from getting a high pressure sodium [light] because of the amount of heat the bulb produces.
Barry, Internet

As you mentioned, you have several lighting systems to choose from, including compact fluorescents and high pressure sodium (HPS) lamps. Among HPS lamps you have a choice between a single 100-watt lamp which uses a total of about 120-watts and emits about 8,800 lumens(73 lumens per watt) or a 150-watt lamp, which uses about 180 watts and emits almost double that-15,800 lumens (87 lumens per watt).

A 42-watt compact fluorescent (CFL) emits about 2700 lumens(64 lumens per watt). Four CFLs use 168 watts and emit 10,800 lumens. Other size CFLs have a similar efficiency.

However, that is only part of the story. Plants use mostly red and blue light. Yellow and green light is of little use to them, so light that is emitted in these spectrums is wasted energy. Most of the light emitted by HPS lamps is in the yellow spectrum. Only a small amount of the emitted light is is in the orange or red spectrums, which plants use efficiently. Warm white fluorescents (2700 Kelvin) emit a greater portion in the red and orange sectors.
Although fluorescents produce only about 75% of the light per watt that the HPS does, the amount of light usable by the plant is equal or probably higher with the fluorescents. You may wish to experiment to see if adding a single cool white CFL to replace one warm white results in shorter, stouter stems and more vigorous growth. The reasoning is that warm whites don't emit much blue light, which the plants use for photosynthesis and to regulate their growth. The cool white bulb supplies the blue light.

My call for your unit would be to use several (three to five) CFLs with a total input of between 120-160 watts. Although the 150 watt HPS is a bit more efficient that the CFLs in total output, watt for watt the fluorescents provide as much useful light as the HPS lamp. Heat is another consideration. The HPS runs much hotter and emits more heat than the fluoescents.

Make sure to use reflective material around the garden so that any light escaping the garden is reflected back to the plants. Any light that doesn't get to the plant leaves is wasted.

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im still in the process of doin my first cfl grow but man your cabinet looks like something straight out of a star wars movie l0l

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what one wont do, another one will. check out my current grow.
http://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/...ay-better.html