Estimated yield for my 3 plants?

This is my first grow and I'm curious how much I can expect without getting my hopes up from my 3 plants. All are female and have began flowering in the past week. I can't take very good pics with my camera, but they're each roughly 14" in diameter, and 12" tall (under LST, 1 was topped). A nice even canopy, but not very big plants themselves.

I have them each under their "own" 125w CFL and there is 1 125w CFL in the middle of all three (500watts totally, all 2700k)

Here's a pic of the plants, with a hangar at canopy height for comparison. And a picture that, well isn't very good but kind of shows my set up.

A rough estimate is good, just something really, I know it's hard to say. Thanks

Not for nothing..... but you need to take better Pics.... Maybe rotate them too

100Lbs easy ..lol

well the low quality of the pictures makes it nearly impossible to tell if there are any buds at all!!!!!

ohmy said:

100Lbs easy ..lol

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ok dont listen to this guy... you are obviously within the 500lbs range lol! No JK it all depends on the strain.. nutrients.. atmosphere conditions.. and love lol! Mine were about 5 feet tall and had a about 1oz off each wet. Shitty harvest had to redo my whole set up. But i was running 2 105w 5500k and 1 65w 4100k and 1 12w. But dont expect more than 5oz per plant on cfls. Get a 450w HPS and some fans and you wont regret it. Your spending that much electricity as it is. Might as well get some more BONG for your BUCK!

RollMeOne420 said:

ok dont listen to this guy... you are obviously within the 500lbs range lol! No JK it all depends on the strain.. nutrients.. atmosphere conditions.. and love lol! Mine were about 5 feet tall and had a about 1oz off each wet. Shitty harvest had to redo my whole set up. But i was running 2 105w 5500k and 1 65w 4100k and 1 12w. But dont expect more than 5oz per plant on cfls. Get a 450w HPS and some fans and you wont regret it. Your spending that much electricity as it is. Might as well get some more BONG for your BUCK!

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I plan on bumping up my lighting in a few months, gotta get some other stuff first though (fan, ducting, etc) so I'm just rolling with what I got for now. Eventually I'll use the CFLs for side lighting, but either way, I was just curious how much I should be looking forward to.

I don't know how many plants you had, and like I said this is my first grow, but a 5ft plant (none the less 2 or 3) with that many CFLs doesn't seem like an ideal situation. Although, I would be happy to get an oz off each my plants, or even 1/2 each this first harvest, I don't think your grow sounds like a good one to base my expectations on (no offense).


EDIT: Yeah, the pics suck, can't wait to get an actual camera.

You can expect to yeild not enough.

Milovan said:

You can expect to yeild not enough.

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That goes without saying.

Cfl's for side lighting? Very smart and great looking grow!
Keep up the good work and keep us updated if you will.
Can't answer your question though as I always guesstimate
on the lower end that way I am never disappointed.

Alright, I tried to take some better pics.

Each of these is a different plant.



These are to try and give you an idea how big they are.

1 to 1 1/2 zips per plant might be a very good goal for ur first time

oz, a plant?

Milovan said:

Cfl's for side lighting? Very smart and great looking grow!
Keep up the good work and keep us updated if you will.
Can't answer your question though as I always guesstimate
on the lower end that way I am never disappointed.

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Thanks. I figure I have the CFLs so I might as well use them. Getting out of this apt in a few months so I'll be able to expand my grow significantly, get it nice and proper like with fans and all that shit. I went with the CFLs for this grow cause I didn't want to deal with the heat.

ohmy said:

1 to 1 1/2 zips per plant might be a very good goal for ur first time

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209 Cali closet grower said:

oz, a plant?

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Thanks. Had to google what a zip was, but, way to be.

Keep us posted, I want to hear your yield with those CFLs..i'm Sub'd!!!

Im sub'd too.. And get a better camera after your crop is done lol.. gL bro

28 gs a plant bro. id agree with them.

BUT, if at all possible! Get a couple more lights in there bro trust me if you got like another like 20 something watt 2700k on those sides where theres not a light you could expect like maybe another 20 grams. Thats a high number but its gonna do nothing but increase for ya good luck!

If you can keep your temps under 80 and good air circulation with reasonable medium you could yield quite well if you have a good spectrum (some impressive T5 grows on here).

Fuck, I just wrote this lengthy reply talking about how I think my plants are sativa-dom, and how I think I probably have 6-8 weeks left of flowering.

Either way, yeah, I'll update with a better camera when I harvest. Thanks for the interest.