315W CFL

Jeanpaulsastre said:

I'm going to follow your advice when I run out of wool, as far as I can tell it's worked fine.
I chopped the last autos and got a little crop, it'll last for a little while, there is a feminized white widow on veg and an auto gum that's entering flowering (I will germinate a feminized OG KUSH from dinafem and I will transplant the two feminized plants into 5-7L round white pots).
It's supposed to be 240w of R + B Led 3:1 smd 5050 plus 3x 23w 2700K CFL, but I'm going to make a 300w MR16 12v Cree COB led panel with 12x 15w 3000-3500K and 8x 15w 4000-4500K (also I ordered 4 e27 15w Cree 2x 3000-3500K and 2x 4000-4500K to replace the cfl's).
I went on a vacation for 4 days so the ladies got a little dry but nothing a little water can't fix.
Here are some pics:
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DANfour20 said:

What are the last 2 pics? If that's a harvest.. I'd say your wasting your time.

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DANfour20 said:

Here is mine BTW.. 200 actual watts cfl dual spectrum.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/200-w-cfl-grow-by-danfour20.894039/page-3#post-12321328

Try get a flat canopy with several tops rather then 1 or 2 our CFL's don't have enough intensity to grow tall plants full of buds.

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Jeanpaulsastre said:

Thank you for taking interest in my post, I know it seems like a waste of time, but I think of it as a way of testing different kind of lights and learning how to work with my hands. I've had better harvests in the past with CFL's but I wanted to try different approaches. I'll show you a pic of my first grow with 315w CFL
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Wow your plants look healthy and it seems like you know what you're doing, I hope I can catch up with you some day.

I want to write a summary of what I've learned with my last attempts to grow under cfl and leds.

1. USE CFL'S HORIZONTALLY
2. DON'T TRY TO DO YOUR OWN REFLECTOR WITH FOIL, IT CREATES HOT SPOTS.
3. DON'T USE NESTLE PURE LIFE WATER.
4. DON'T TRANSPLANT AUTOS.
5. DON'T MAKE A R+B LED PANEL WITH SMD, STICK WITH FULL SPECTRUM COBS OR CFL (4000K-4500K + 3000-3500K IF YOU CAN). RED AND BLUE MADE MY STEMS THIN AND LEAD TO IRON DEFFICIENCY, LOW AMOUNTS OF TRICHOMES AND POOR YIELD.
6. ALWAYS WIPE THE EXCESS OF WATER AFTER WATERING.

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blowincherrypie said:

You should look into the 315 cmh/lec. Good luck but your lighting seems to be limiting you some my friend.

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