AK47. Trainwreck. CFL Grow W/ Pics

Inthesmoke · #1 02-03-2009, 07:17 PM

So I started this grow back on December 1st with a couple of trainwreck bagseeds and a ak47 clone from the club just experimenting with indoor growing. Since then I have started a 24 site aeroponics system and that is doing very well and decided to just leave these under cfls the whole time to see how much I could yield under a cheap cheap cheap system. I germinated the 3 seeds and planted them and sprouts were showing in 2 days. 24-0 lighting.

The original setup was a single fluoro tube light balast with 2 40w t-12 lights.

In the second week I added another balast (Stolen from my Garage) and the AK47 clone making my total light yield 4- 40w t-12 bulbs.

In the 4th week I could sex my plants and had 1 male (Got Lucky) and another one of my plants actually split and is growing 2 stocks of off the main and is getting really bushy especially since I topped it.

I just added 5 more CFL's 27w and have seen a lot of growth this last week. I have been keeping up on my nutes and have a homemade co2 bottle set up in the along with a box fan and also a osclating fan. Thr room maintains 78-80 degrees and the plants are on 18-6 lights this week before flowering in the next week or 2.

This was an extremely cheap way to grow with stuff found around your house. I recommend spending the money and setting up a quality system because your yield and quality will be so much better but this is still a fun experiment similar to what you would find in a college closet.

The pics are in order chrono order from week 3 - Present. The cfl's hang down in between both of the 40w Blasts.

Inthesmoke · #2 02-03-2009, 08:20 PM

Here's a couple more pics of under the balast to see how I have the light positioned.

Top View Of Blasts....

2- 40w Tubes
27w 27w 27w 27w
2- 40w Tubes

Inthesmoke · #3 02-05-2009, 11:07 PM

Does anyone think these will have a chance of flowering decently with another 3 - 27w CFL's Making a total of 8 - 27 watt CFL's and 2-40 Watt t-12 fluro tubes?

Inthesmoke · #4 02-06-2009, 09:11 PM

It's Day 5 Since Adding 5 More CFL's and the plants are starting to have a lot of undergrowth and are extremely bushy. I am going to add 3 more 2700k CFL's and let veg for another 10 days. Does anyone know how big of buds i can expect froma grow like this with proper nutes?

Inthesmoke · #5 02-09-2009, 03:14 PM

Its been a week since the addition of the 5-27w 6500k CFL's and the plants are growing so much since going to 18-6 light. I plan on vegging for another 7 days. Does anyone recommend 0-24 complete darkness for a day prior to flowering? I've been hearing split opinions...I am still going to add 4 more 2700k CFL's in the next week before I flower. Anything I am forgetting?

Boneman · #6 02-10-2009, 04:24 AM

WOW! Its been a week with no replies! That sucks.

When my lights go off for the last time in veg, I leave it dark until the proper time for the start of my flower time which ends up being almost 24 hours.

I have also switched up right away and have not noticed one bit of difference.

kellie420 · #7 02-10-2009, 04:52 AM

nice look plants mann nice and bushy lmao

Inthesmoke · #8 02-10-2009, 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boneman

WOW! Its been a week with no replies! That sucks.

When my lights go off for the last time in veg, I leave it dark until the proper time for the start of my flower time which ends up being almost 24 hours.

I have also switched up right away and have not noticed one bit of difference.

This is my first indoor grow and I was wondering what kinda buds I could expect with this cfl set up?

kellie420 · #9 02-11-2009, 01:29 AM

hmm well i've seen my buddies first plant the other day, and he is flowering his on cfls and his buds loook nice and and frosty but a little on the fluffy side, but look real tasty and sticky, very sticky =D, i'll ask what kinda cfls he used, but i know they looked blue spectrum, cause they had a very white light, and they where very big cfls, there had to be about 6 or more of them and it was all on the one plant. and his plant is a nice little bonsia plant many Bud sites and nice big buds too, i'd say about an oz or so total

Inthesmoke · #10 02-11-2009, 02:09 PM

Yeah thats one of the problems everyone says happens with using cfl's (Fluff Buds) I'm going to start flowering Monday and am going to add a little corn syrup to the water to see if I can get some nice tight buds.

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