Budding need help.

skunk funk

Active Member
Ok so i'm budding my plant and im not sure if i have enough lumens or enough red spectrum or whatever. I'm using cfl's and fluorescent tubes. I have one 24w cfl hanging above with a round reflector. I have a "GE ecolux 20w wide spectrum fluorescent tube" on the side of the plant with a blue wide spectrum bulb that says color temperature 7800k and possibly another couple cfl's. Do plants use blue light at all when in budding stage or only red. Was wondering if should use only cfls with no tubes. The tubes work pretty good for vegging but I've never actually budded a plant before so i don't know how good they'll work when i switch it to 12/12. I'm gonna set up my timer so it can get some sunlight during the day through the window. I'm pretty sure its female, on the 6th node i can see one small round hair coming up behind the stipule. I don't know if its a female preflower or what because its so small. And do females and males grow differently I've heard that males grow taller than females for pollination. Mine's growing very short and bushy with low internode length. I just need some advice about lighting, I want to get a decent sized yield of some good dense indica buds. Any advice is appreciated and ill give you some rep. thanks :bigjoint:
 

TreesAsMedicine

Active Member
Can you get us some pics? If its indoors, ie a closet, keep it there and run 12/12 with your setup. You probably have enough light, but CFLs do produce smaller buds. Ive done it, it just takes a lot of patience. Dont expect any buds to weight and ounce each or anything either.
 

darkdestruction420

Well-Known Member
get some more red spectrum, you can use the tubes if you want, it uses both light spectrums all the time, like in nature, the sun puts out both. mixed spectrum is very important imo. its said males get taller and lankier than gals but its not a airtight judge on sex, females can be just as tall and lanky, especially if dealing with sativa and sativa mixes.
 
we found a male\female in our plants it does look like it opened. what can we do as far as cleaning & the other plants.
 
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