what kind of bulbs should i use for flowering!?? trying to leave n buy now!!hellp plz

im currently using 3 cfls at 5100K and 2 t-5 tubes at 4200 k for flowering i understand u need a lower K. what kind of bulbs are the bulbs i need? is there cfls that go that low?? or what.
im bored high and trying to go buy them now. can anyone help????

For floros, any massive amount of lumens blasting at 2700 degrees kelvin placed all around your plant will produce a lot of bud. getting over 60000 lumens is kinda hard with floros.. I'd go with HPS if you had the space, wallet, and time.

i do have the space wallet and time. but i was thinking about just waiting till these flower and use a hps throughout the whole grow

throughout my whole NEXT GROW*****

That's not an optimal idea. Get a switchable ballast and use MH and HPS. 6500k for veg and 2700k for flower. The bulbs arent the exact kelvin but you can buy speacialty ones that are, but they're still prtty dang close.

I have a 600w High Pressure Soduim for flowering and 600w Metal Halide for veging and only 1 ballast that i switch the bulb when i wana flower. I suggest you do the same

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trollin im only using cfls with 5100k and 2 t-5 tubes at 4200k. i was just going to buy cfls at 2700k and leave the t-5 tubes hanging. would that be okay!???

It would be perfectly fine. If u like airy buds (depending how many lights u got). The more light u get, the more dense and chronic the buds get. But they will bud at any light really.

i suggest u use atleast 100w 2700k CFLs bulbs How many CFLs u got?

i just baught 4 of them today. but i didnt get the 100 watt i got four 60 watts because i heard they are better then the 100 watt when it comes to the lumes and energy n bullshit.idk if its true??. but yeah i have 4 and the t5s over head. i have more 2700k bulbs but i have nothing to put them in lol. i need to buy more clamps.. ill post some pics for u.. hold up

the lights were off just snapped a quick ppic but heres my setup. theres a fan and thermometer in there you cant see. my fan blows in all fresh air.

well 1 x 105W CFL is only gonna get you 5000 Lumens or there about... HPS runs at 2200K for the standard HPS lamps.... 6 x 54W/T5/High Output lamps is equivilant to 1 400W MH lamp 6 of those T5 HO lamps would put you right around 30000 Lumens... With any lamp though there is Lumen degradation HPS or Fluorescent so def recommend getting new lamps once a year or once every other year to maintain as many lumens as you can... 2700K would be key for flowering with Fluorescents just like justfkngrowit..... has said.

I youz sodium through out .. Always has given me good yields an no arsing about changing over...just give good veg then good flower an boost feeds ...ionics i recemend.any help..

100 wats per plant...sodium... An veg an flower feeds never fails.peat based compost..with added nutrients..church at mo massive yeild..

yeah HPS can definitely be used for vegging, but at that stage of a plants a higher color temperature is beeter 4100K-6500K.. but yeah i've done HPS for vegging and it did work just fine but when i veg under MH it seems to grow a little harder... of course preferences are different and some people just have their own ways of growing...

I love what you have done! Rep for awesomeness

thanks man. alltho i ran into a spider mite problom with my tall plant. it started getting attacked and i sprayed it with the stuff i had baught to kill em and some of the leafs burnt! i think itll be okay tho the spider mites are decreasing alot. the leafs are burnt they prolly donteven want em hahaha

justfkngrowit said:

That's not an optimal idea. Get a switchable ballast and use MH and HPS. 6500k for veg and 2700k for flower. The bulbs arent the exact kelvin but you can buy speacialty ones that are, but they're still prtty dang close.

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Nobody has ever been able to explain to my how this can't be better than the philosophy behind the Son Agro, i.e. having both vital spectrums simultaneously. You need each spectrum at a different time in the life cycle. Why wouldn't emulating that with a switchable ballast be best?

SirTitanium said:

Nobody has ever been able to explain to my how this can't be better than the philosophy behind the Son Agro, i.e. having both vital spectrums simultaneously. You need each spectrum at a different time in the life cycle. Why wouldn't emulating that with a switchable ballast be best?

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Not sure if i understand your question.... A Ballast has nothing to do with the spectrum of light, that is soley on the lamp..... If you have a lamp that will work on both an MH Ballast or HPS Ballast, such as the HPS Digital ballasts perhaps, then yes you can run one light for veg and flower on 1 ballast... but back to spectrum, that has nothing to do with a ballast... just sayin