growman3666
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So I'm looking into lights online, our plan has somehow just turned upside down so I've no clue what's happening now, but I'm looking online at lights and the cfls are cheap but I didn't think you could use them for flowering; can you get them in the different spectrum things? I thought I knew what I wanted, then I went on ebay....
Happens everytime I shop online! You can flower with cfls. The problems with them for flowering is they do not penetrate canopy well and for the 11 plants you have you will need a serious amount of them . There is a big difference in yield between CFL and HPS CFL buds tend to be very light and airy. Although it is entirely possible to finish a plant out with Cfls and end with amazing product cola size lack greatly compared to flowering with HID lighting. In the vegitative stage a plant will use more of a range in the high spectrum. Simulating summertime when the sun in high in the sky. The daylight cfls come in the 6500k spectrum and are great for vegitative growth. In flower a plant will use more of the lower end of the spectrum simulating fall and th sun at more of an angle to the earth throwing down different spectrums of light. For flowering you would want to swith most of your cfls to the 2700k bulbs but I do agree with keeping a couple 6500k bulbs mixed in. Like I said for your 11 plants hypothetically speaking if you had all females you would need in the end about 6 cfls per plant to really make it worth the effort.