OK - I have screwed up and wasted so much money the last few days...hopefully, I can take some of my lights back, but for most, it is too late. I bought a butt load of Daylight CFLs that I had thought were 100 watts as the way the box is (you can see the box in some of my pics) marketed it looks like "100 watt cfls"...HOWEVER, I'm so pissed...They are actually 26 watt cfls. Man.........I thought I had a good thing going and noticed the plants were growing much slower than they had been with GE Sylvania Spot-Gro Lights. UG. Updating pics now btw....so pissed.

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CFL's aren't that expensive so you can simply add those to what you had before. Just get more sockets and do at least 3 26w CFL's per plant and you will be fine.

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yea... yopu musta been mad stoned to miss the big 26 right below it. haha. i've noticed at my local homedepot lowes walmart etc they usually only carry 45 watters max. there are a couple of 100 watt grow lights there ut they use a special base not mogul or standard. so i said eff it an just grabbed an HPS

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Yea, I have a 150 watt hps...I'm really new to growing ANYTHING and I'm trying to figure out how I am going to pull this off. As of now I have 10 plants and for all I know they are hermie or males...I almost hope some are (not really) because I am on a budget and I really can't afford to get more HPS lights. I have wasted so much money buying things that I didn't need, like cfls etc. I am still trying to figure out how to hang lights. I'm doing fairly well for someone as "green" as I am, I think...Anyways, any advice on how to light 10 plants using a 150 watt hps would be great...I am thinking I need to somehow flower 2-3 while letting the others veg. I realize 150 watt hps sucks...but, I'm making do..or trying.

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The home depot was closing in like 10 minutes and all the employees were all up in my biz while I was looking..I saw "100 watts" and grabbed them...sucks.

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Lemme ask you this man...I had GE Spot-Gro Incandescents (150 watts) and GE Plant Grow 60 watts and 30 watts that are incandescents...they put out so much heat which is why I thought I would replace them with the "100 watt cfls"...do you think I hsould switch back to them?

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Buy the right kind of CFL's. Daylight 6500K for vegging and 2700k for flowering. Incandescents are NFG.How many plants do you want to grow and how big is your space?

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ur plants look kinda stretched as well you might wanna lower ur lights a bit

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those cfl's will work just fine. get some cheap sockets and use them ALL... keep em 2-3 inches away from the canopy and space the lights as even as possible. a reason why you may ne noticing 'slowed' growth is that the plants recieve a better does of light from a cfl than the spot-gros and now there no longer stretching for thelight they desperatly need...
this was grown using nothing but cfl's:

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no man those cfls are prefect, u said u bought a "butt" load of them then ur fine put all of them hoes up there and ull be all good

good luck happy grows
-whiterhyno

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