PiCS! Sweet CFL grow. Please look and please comment!

I am going to flower them starting now, thats why I have all the lights. When I was vegn I had quite a few less.

Oh ok. But still don't need as much light as you're running right now. It would normally flower in the fall time so it would get even less light than in the summer time. And what kind of lights are they? 2700k or 6500k?

all 2700k soft whites.

Ok cool. Yeah you're good with those then. Did you veg on those too?

Na man, I actually used 8 100/26w 6500k bright whites and got those monsters. Now I have a whole mess more of the softies.

Haha nice. Well keep us up to date on the grow

Thanks bro. I was seeing some older post you had put up, Fox Farm Ocean Forrest is amazing. Anything from Fox Farm works well. Organic baby

Yeah so Ive heard. Ill need to switch out my plant to a bigger pot soon and I wanna get it out of the miracle grow. Ill have to search around for that stuff more, but so far, no luck finding anything close by that has it

Nice Lookin plants man!! props. I too am a fan of teh FF lineup. Good stuff, im sure theres better out there but for now this is good for me. Good luck all the way through.

***WARNING***
FIRE HAZARD!!! Buy a large compact cfl. i have a 430 watt cfl with a hood, and it does the trick. 23,400 Lumens, tho i haven't tested it with a light meter. Please dont burn down your house. Flower early with CFL's, and counteract your light penetration problem.

They look really nice tho! 400 and 600 w HIDs are cheap and much more efficient. Good luck!


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What do you mean by light penetration problem? All help and advice is wanted.

Money is tight, and I actually got the bulbs and fixtures for free. So that made my decision to use cfl easy. If i had lute, I would for sure upgrade. This will work for sure tho right?

SEXWAX said:

What do you mean by light penetration problem? All help and advice is wanted.

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CFL light doesn't penetrate as deep into the canopy. as HID lighting does. As someone stated earlier your setup would be more beneficial with the cfl's being around the plant, with a few above the plant. Your setup at the moment would work much better as a sog grow. Also as someone else has mentioned there's a large debate whether adding more lights actually increases lumens. Some say no matter how many cfl's you add your lumens would be equal to the lumens of your brightest bulb while others say lumens add up. Your best bet for maximum yield would be tt place the lights all around the plant.