right now i got 42w and 36w for each.. tomorrow im adding another 42w to each of them. How bout if i grow it to 1ft and then veg it?
You will need A LOT more CFL's if you veg to 1 ft or if you want to get anything close to 1 zip per plant, much less 2.
This will bring out the cries from the faithful...but here we go:
CFL's are great...I use them in my veg box....HOWEVER! they absolutely are not the wonder they are made out to be. Garden Knowm/SeeMoreBuds is a very gifted gardener who grew a heavy yielding strain with basically 8 42w bulbs on one plant. Even if you duplicated what he did, yo would not come close.
CFL's are NOT cooler. Yes they are cooler in the sense that with very few watts...we can see pretty good...but whether you consider watts, lumens, or just intensity...plants like a lot. So could you use 8+ 42 watt cfl's and grow killer bud ABSOLUTELY! But be very prepared to manage the heat...what they do not put out in lumens/intensity per watt...they put off as radiated HEAT!
THEREFORE! it is actually more expensive to run cfl's. Small HPS can be had for much less than $100 and you can get 400w new for only 20 bucks more.
If you doubt what a single 150w HPS with no real exhausted heat can produce...Check out Stoney Mcfried's diary of a level 2 plant slayer. She has a big indica girl that looks like 2 zippers.
I only say this, so before you blow a hundred bucks on a bunch of hot ass cfl's...and I speak from pure experience on this...I ran 10 42watters with some straight from clone (another bad idea) to yield squat (of course I screwed up on lots of other stuff on that grow)
As for your hopes on the yield...Strain matters, but I get between 30-54g's dry and cured with a 400w air cooled HPS...I got 60 off Red Diesel, but it is not strong enough for me if I have something else...the people I give it away to don't think it is too weak though
So unless you are flat ass broke...you will save money, energy, and most of all HEAT by stepping up to a light made for lighting shit up rather than one meant for reading.


