Read this thread, it will explain alot
Tutorial to Growing with Cfl's

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this is what to do, put the 10 plants under the 150 hps and what ever cfls u can then switch to the 12\12 light cycle after a week give or take the plants should be sexed take the males out and any that u want to revert back to veg, then take the cfls and revert back to vegging i would get a bigger cfl to veg though, then keep what u started flowering under the hps. u can veg under ur hps i just did for about a month with my 150hps it worked fine good luck!!! oh yeah throw away the incandesents they are worthless

Cool man. Much appreciation for that bit of advice. Some people on this and other grow sites can be harsh. I had also forgotten that I have a 150 watt hps that I need to make use of...I am thinking rather than save it for flowering I should probably fire it up along with my cfls. Makes sense? Thanks again my friend.

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Kick ass...I think I will do that. I hear from others by reading on here that doing the 12/12 thing like you said is bad, but then, I hear it isn't from others. What you say makes sense and it is logical for me to do. Awesome. btw, are incandesents really that bad? Thanks again my man.

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Ok man I gotta help you before you totally mess up.

Dont use ANY of your Incadecent lights. They are worthless and are more useful for baking brownies in your Easy Bake Oven. The cfls you bought are great! They are 26 watt but are the light equivlent of 100w. You did good buying them. Now get rid of those useless bullshit GE Plant lights (which are a big joke) and put your cfls about 2 to 3 inches away from your plant, just because you plant doesnt grow "tall" quick doesnt mean its growing slow. Read up on stretching, node distance, lighting and other things available on this site before you go on, and I'm sure you will have some really great buds in no time.

P.s: confidence is the key to growing, but dont over do it. You should do fine if you read up a bit.

well i can hijack your thread an post a link from youtube but i am growing 4 plants total with one 150 watt compact sunsystem, 2 23 watt cfl's and 2 4' t8 (uber slack i know) 2700k bulbs... i swapped my germ/seedling bulbs out to give my flowering plants any extra light i could. not to mention my mom accidentaly bought these 2700k t8 bulbs thinking she couls replace a single t5 with 2 t8's.... (well its true everyone and their mother tokes tha herb an it just so happens that mine is a bit behind the usual... mind you nothing but good intentions)
any ways i am not putting much more light than you are so its really not that big of an issue well here it is. in the id i dont even have the 4' t8 supplementing the Wonder Woman

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12/12 lighting schedules are used to force the plant into flowering. It usually takes 2 weeks (sometimes more, but is commonly takes 2 weeks depending on your strain, can take less) to show sex. I dont know who the heck said 12/12 schedule is bad for the plants. Just know that once you start 12/12 YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK! Lmao, just kidding, you can. Anyways once you start 12/12 you leave them in that cycle until you see the sex of each one. Take out the males (kill em, you can dry the leaves, they contain abit of thc. I crush them up and use them as "spice" for cooking, gives a decent high if you got nothing else to smoke) and if you are happy with their size just let them flower, or revert them back to 16/8 vegative light cycle (16 on, 8 off) I dont do 24 hours light for vegative growth anymore because I noticed that they took longer to flower switching from 24/0 to 12/12. Also, dont stress yourself out, I noticed that the more stressed I was growing, the more stressed my girls got. Now I grow on autopilot and its EASY to grow, clone, harvest and cure. A very fun hobby with HUGE rewards if you stick with it.

Big huge tip: Do not follow the advice of novice (or noobie) growers, alot of the time they dont know what they are saying, and their information may cost you all your work and plants. Read a little on this site, and remember kids: Knowledge is POWWWWEEEERRRR!!!

its now six weeks deep and the few smaller buds that i got a semi clear pic of are now twice that size... what wasnt in that vid was the three fattest colas all three look as if they are going to be a 1/4 a piece (not big for you urban growin trolls out there but good for me.)

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Kick ass man. Thank you very much for that. I was JUST about to change them back to the spot-gro and GE Plant Lights. I started thinking to myself that they are way more powerful (wattage wise) but...thank god I didn't and read this first. That junk is a pain in the butt when you have a temp rig like I got going...ie - knocking over things etc. I'm going to invest in more CFLs first thing tomorrow. My big thing now is trying to figure out a better way to hang my lights. I am thinking I am also going to put to work my 150 watt hps a little early. Had just planned on using it for flowering but a fella in here gave me a tip on what to do. Thanks again man.

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Nice stand man...love it.

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