Lighting help

ok so my babys are like 2weeks old and im sad to say doing bad. there about 2-4inch long. some are doing bad and sum are doin ok. I was wondering i have 2x 3feet long florescent lights on them right now. i have a MH 400watt light ready to use. some one told me not to use the MH light yet but idk. i think the florescent isnt enought and that is why there doing so bad. So should i turn that on or what?

put that mh on them.....i personally use cfls for veg but having that mh on there might speed things up,,,,just wondering, how far are the flourescents from the plant?

i have 12 plants under 2 floresent tubes they are 4' and the tallest i have is 2" the shortest is 1" most are around "11/2 so its not the lights what kind of soil are you useing? how often are you watering i think your watering to much

don't use tubes , I got a few half month old clones and mine are bigger then his clones that he made at the same time as mine and I was using 1 10w CFL Cool White bulb and now I am using a 42w CFL (150w imataion) and 1 13w (60w imataion) bulbs and they are rocking, try getting 1 Cool White 10w CFL light almost right up to your plants to pervent from streching and help to make bushier

Edit - I am thinking about trying to do a Greenhouse clone tryout 12 greenhouse retangle pots, 2cm by 2cm by 6cm deep and I'm gona try some thing soo nuts that I'm gona try to root Three Hundred and Thirty Six clones in one batch

What's so bad about them?

Tubes are great!!! As long as they are not T12 bulbs....those suck. I have T5 HO bulbs, 10,000 lumens per bulb! it's awesome!

smokingbot said:

What's so bad about them?

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there's nothing bad with them I just find CFL lights are better then TFL lights

Sorry, I was talking about dudes plants. Look ok to me?

they're 2 weeks old, but look like they are 3-4 days old. my plants are a few days further along and are way bigger. i know one reason mine are bigger is because they are in a dwc, but they should still be alot bigger. i'm not in any way trying to be a jerk, i just think that you definitely need more light. i agree with sunnyd, since you have the mh you should use it if you can. if not i agree that yu should try cfl's. good luck.

check out my grow...
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/51756-lowryder-2-cfl-s-my.html

The 400 watter is to much for those little plants sunny is dead wrong on his suggestion. Over the past 10 or so years I have done side by sides and cfls fail on every thing but side lighting. The florescent tubes are much better give better coverage and a lot less heat..Here are some clones in dirt at day 12 from the day they were cut at 2 inches big and then at day 12