624 watt cfl grow


veg chamber is like 15"deep x 28" wide x 20" tall. i had 10 26 watt cfls in there for a total of around 16k lumens or around 5k lumens per square foot.
my lights are not movable because im only able to be home on the weekends cause i have to work out of town, but i figure if i put extra light in there
i should be alright and not have alot of stretching. i had the plants in 5 inch square pots and in the veg chamber for only the first 2 weeks, after that i
transplanted them and moved em all into my flower chamber for a little longer vegging and then on to flowering.


my flowering chamber is 22" deep x 35" wide and around 26" of vertical growth room. in there i have 24 cfl lights all rated at 26 watts.
for a total of 624 actual watts. for vegging i had 9 6500k lights, 5 5500k lights and 12 2700k lights. for flowering ill have 6 of the daylight bulbs
and 18 of the 2700k bulbs. i got around 7300 lumens per square foot.i installed a thin plexiglass sheet just below the lights with a gap in the middle
for air to go up, past all the lights and out each end which i have 4" ducting running to my 6" inline fan and filter. temps stay around 75 with the lights
on and 60-65 with the lights off.


i started 10 seeds but only 8 made it. i have super silver haze, lemon skunk, hawaiian snow and big bang. 2 of each and all were feminized seeds.
my 2 white rhino seeds didnt pop out of their shells before i had to leave for the week. after that is was just growing and watering. i did set up an
automatic watering system for the second week of growth cause i thought that they might dry out before i got back again on friday.
after 2 weeks in the veg chamber i transplanted and moved to my bigger grow box. they have been in there for another 2 weeks so far.
they havnt been drying out too fast yet so i havnt set up the watering system again yet. i think my ph was a bit off and a bit of nute burn from the
damn slow release ferts that were already in the soil. they seem to be doing better now that i got the ph fixed hopefully.


well they are 4 weeks in as i write this. heres a few pictures of the boxes and the pretty girls.

pic 1 small veg box
pic 2 and 3 large flower box
pic 4 seeds popped and planted. right before i left for the week. white widow on the far right never broke soil.
pic 5 end of 2nd week. you can see some of the watering lines. some have been moved already. this is right before i transplanted.
pic 6 end of 3rd week.
pic 7 end of 4th week. right side. big bang on the left. super silver haze on the right
pic 8 end of 4th week. left side. hawaiian snow on the left. lemon skunk on the right


i changed em to 12/12 lights a day after the last 2 pics. about 28 days since planting the seeds into dirt.

questions, comments, anything i need to know? feel free to speak up.

thanks for checking it out

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d00d thats a fuck load of cfls, i like. did u ever think tho that with all the money spent on those cfls u could have got a mh or hps. never the less sick set up tho!

daylight bulbs ran me a buck each and the warm white ones were 4 for like $6.50. so like 51 bucks for the lights total. walmart rules

haha ya i was just at walmart today looking for bulbs, kinda got confused tho cause i saw packages lables daylight but couldnt find any warm white/2700k bulbs, what color is the package for the warm whites?? and im talking about the GE ones if that what you have

the daylight ones were individually packaged and were not with the other cfl's. they were on an endcap of one of the isles. 98c each. the 2700's were light the cheap brand. doesnt say 2700k on the box but it does say warm white. they were 4 to a box and the box was mostly green on the outside. hope that helps

heres an update on how they did over the week without me. a couple of em have stretched a bit but not too bad imo. they are filling up
about half of the vertical space that i have, so im thinking as they get closer to the lights up top they will stop stretching.
my plexiglass sheet is just above where you can see in the third picture. and i dont know why the first picture doesnt have the red tint
to it like the others. took em all one after another. just something funky with my camera i guess. thanks for looking

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its been like 7 days flowering and i am pretty much sure that 5 of the 8 plants are females. not much else has changed. i think 8 plants in this
area might of been a bit too much, it seems like ill end up with a mass of green inside there. but ill ride it out and see how things go. laters.

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sucks that cfls put out the least amount of lights from the tips like than...

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day 10 flowering, day 38 from breaking the soil. hairs have shown on all of em. so far the feminized seeds have worked out well. here you go. laters

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very nice and organized. subscribed..