HEy i was bored and had some cfls and an aquarium hood laying around so i decided to gut it...and the bulbs....haha, i wired it all up, put a bunch of electrical tape on it, a glossy white bottom from a box i recieved a sweater in for christmas, some duct tape to hold it in, i drilled two holes in either end of the aquarium hood, strung a piece of clothesline through the bulbs, hid the wiring behind the piece of box, and then pulled the clothesline taught. To seal the deal i tied a neat little knot in the rope...its pretty sturdy, seems to be really bright...really i was just bored and high but for those of you out there who grow with cfls there ya go...i'll probably use that light for additional lighting in my clone/seedling box

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I think the only thing that i would worry about would be it catching on fire. Dry rope and cardboard touching the light is not good. I have just added 3 more cfls to my little grow room and it raised the temps in my room a little. I will check temps tomorrow. But i would change how yours is put together to be safe. But good job.

Nice one!

I made a CFL reflector from a length of 2x1 timber and some white card. I have 2x 175w Daylight CFLs in there, and it gives out great light for vegging.

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yea i made this little thing cheap as hell, i was worried about them getting hott so i threw in my floro tube and plugged the cfls into a timer and left em on for a couple hours then off for 15 mins 24/7, seems to work great but i havent gotten a chance to really use them since my clones arent old enough to go into flowering yet (4 days old, little babies lol) and i got one pic of my mommies arent they pretty?

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no offence but that looks like hell. youll be a lot happier growing in that space if youd clean it up. I find that when my room is cluttered accidents happen and they are usually worse than anything i can do to my plants.

actually you can flower seedlings, they just wont get big. look into 12/12 from seed. cloneing is much much easier though, and takes out all the pain of males.

yeah, dannyboy, i would reccommend cleaning up some of that wiring with some zip ties, mounting your cfls in a horizontal position, and i dont think the saran wrap is necessary, imo it would be a burden when watering. DO you have any kind of ventilation in that room? or an oscilating fan? ANd i think having your cfl bulbs on that on for a few hours off 15 min isn't helping you out very much if anything it is harder on your bulbs and timer...as long as the temps in the room are sufficient, you can keep the cfls a safe distance from the plants w/o worry of burning them

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danny boy....... You seem like you have a good hand @ growing....please please please. ignore assholes on this website and use the grow faqs. they will teach you SO many things that will help you on your first grow.
i learned by planting crappy schwag/beasters seeds and growing em out. took about 6 fucking grows to learn half of what was on RIU. I found the site and was like Sonvabitch! where was this shit when i started?
fuck..........i just lost my lighter for 20 fucking minutes till i realized i put it back in my rolling tray when i got my weed out.... stupid, stupid stupid

oh yeah if that is a mirror in ht e left of that closet.... take it out! they eat light really bad instead of reflecting the part that plants can use the most.

i just dont have a whole lot of room for what i need to do, plus im really cheap, i dont find it hard to navigate around the little bit of crap i have, ive been slowly but surely replacing things as i get money, right now im just kinda working out the kinks, and im trying to get things done quick cause i may be moving. anyways it was cheap and easy and it pretty much fullfills what i need to do with the space i got, im running out of room though!!!

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