1 week from planting (look at pics)

How come they seem so small. Its been a week and theyre around 3 inches tall or 8 cm. Should they be bigger??

what kind of light you have....

I have one 32w compact flourescent

LOL , 32w ??

Im new 2 this but im sure that a 32w fluro is a load of shat ??!
I went for a HPS 250w , and after 7 days they were alot bigger than that.

The little fella is growing too tall for its age. It's starved of light, so you need to beef up the lighting. How close is the light? I suspect you need to move it closer (but not so close as to burn it).

you need more lite

Sounds like what's happening, is you don't have enough lumens reaching your plants. A 32w is more than enough for two seedlings, but you may have your light to far away. You want that type of light one inch away from them at all times.

However. alot of strains strecth to 3-4 inches at the same stage, it just happens. That's why you plant in a party cup filled 3/4ths the way so you can bury the stem at a later time

P.S.- As long as you have 25w per square foot for veg you'll be fine. For flower, you really wanna get yourself an HPS with 50w per square foot, but if not then shoot for around 75-100w flourescents per squarefoot.

Here man take a look at his , then take a look at mine , a 32w fluro is a fakin joke !!

rhinogrowuk said:

LOL , 32w ??

Im new 2 this but im sure that a 32w fluro is a load of shat ??!
I went for a HPS 250w , and after 7 days they were alot bigger than that.

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rhinogrowuk said:

Here man take a look at his , then take a look at mine , a 32w fluro is a fakin joke !!

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Hey man you can vegg some decent plants with cfl's. They have their place. I can't find any pics at earlier stage but here are pics of my plant at 20 days using only 1 23w cfl per plant.(Those are 6 inch pots!!!) HPS is the shit for flowering though...

Holy space cows. I stand corrected on needing more lights.

Damn nice job, Toke! How close did you keep the CFLs?

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Holy space cows. I stand corrected on needing more lights.

Damn nice job, Toke! How close did you keep the CFLs?

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1 inch or less from the tops.

MajoR_TokE said:

1 inch or less from the tops.

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Just as I thought. Even still, I'm astonished at the tight veg growth. I knew CFLs were good, but not that good.

Well there you go, nicbelliz. Fill up the soil around your baby and bring that light down really close. Probably around four inches until she (well, hopefully a she) has more foliage.

You need "daylight" cfls or longtubes, not cool white,

and they need to be close almost touching works according to my gallery

lol you need more lighttt your veg is looks like bean in the cotton but more watts and put

so I bought a 250 w metal halide over at the store but dont have a ballast.......................so now i have to get a ballast

Very nice major toke , especially for a light bulb ,

But surely thats not enough lumens to vegg to that stage in 20 days ?!?!?!?!

Nicebelliz why didnt you go for a hanging reflector with a hard wired ballast and free bulb, it seems to work out cheaper , depends what you want tho eh !?

rhinogrowuk said:

Very nice major toke , especially for a light bulb ,

But surely thats not enough lumens to vegg to that stage in 20 days ?!?!?!?!

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What are you trying to say?

Damn, good job toke, +rep

I'm growing with CFL's right now too, and I hope that they look as good as yours. How about writing a tutorial on growing with CFL's as to what to expect, exactly what to buy, where to place them, how your grow room is set up, etc... I know something like that would help me a TON, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.