Using Cfl's for Sog.

[igrwdro]

Cfl Sog
If i bought a storage bin, filled it up with soil and put about 20 clones in it. Would i have to put drain holes in the bottom. I'm planing on vegging for 14 days then start flowering. I currently have 4 plants with about 10 23 watt cfl's and 3 42 watt cfls's. Do you believe this would work.

 

[SyNiK4L]

what color spectrum are they? daylight is good for veg 5500-6500k on the color spectrum and soft, warm or cool white are good for flowering these are 2700-3k on the color spectrum and i would be careful about throwin those all in one big pot cus the roots might tangle and either kill 1 another or steal nutes from one other. or get tangled and will be hard to get apart

 

[Budweaver]

Some kinda dividers might do the trick to keep the roots separate until you transplant. Try your seedlings in ice cube trays next time...the deeper the better.

 

[igrwdro]

Yeah they are 10 daylight bulbs for veg. I just bought a box of 6 23 watt 2700k. To add to the 3 42 watt cfl for flowering. Pictures will be up soon. So i can start a journal. But i wanna try the Sog methiod.
How many plants do you think i could fit in a 2 by 3 by 6 portable closet i converted into a grow room.

Pictures will be up by the end of the week.
(Hopefully)

 

[SyNiK4L]

probably not enuf for sog method. i mean thats not alot of space. width and length wise. if ur gonna have multiple plants and keep a mother then i dn how ur gonna have that many plants in that many different stages in such a small area.

Good call on the bulbs tho that sounds good to me

 

[igrwdro]

probably not enuf for sog method. i mean thats not alot of space. width and length wise. if ur gonna have multiple plants and keep a mother then i dn how ur gonna have that many plants in that many different stages in such a small area.

Good call on the bulbs tho that sounds good to me

Thanks man i can fit 4 3 gallon pots in there i just wanted to put more plants in there. Should i get more pots. I only veg for about 3 weeks then veg. This seems to work the best with the CFLs. The bud can get just as big using and HID. Just not as many of them. I love Big BUDS.

 

[SyNiK4L]

yes deff get more pots so that the roots dont get tangled and either kill each other or steal nutes from one another

 

[vh13]

"Would i have to put drain holes in the bottom."

No matter what your pottage solution, drainage is essential. Adequate drainage and watering overflow prevents salt build-up, which is lethal to plants.

 

[igrwdro]

"Would i have to put drain holes in the bottom."

No matter what your pottage solution, drainage is essential. Adequate drainage and watering overflow prevents salt build-up, which is lethal to plants.

Let's say i get all female clones and spaced them out about 6 square inches and put them in a big rubber container and drilled holes in the bottom. I would have like 13 23 watt cfl's. All 2700k. Would that work. I wouldn't even veg. The clones i would be taking is from a mother plant that i have in another room.

 

[SyNiK4L]

Let's say i get all female clones and spaced them out about 6 square inches and put them in a big rubber container and drilled holes in the bottom. I would have like 13 23 watt cfl's. All 2700k. Would that work. I wouldn't even veg. The clones i would be taking is from a mother plant that i have in another room.

unless ur just gonna sprout them in those containers and then immediately move them to their own pots ull b okay....but i wouldnt try to sprout them and grow them in 1 container....my friend brought my 3 of his plants he had in 1 huge pot that were all bout 4 -6 inches apart from each other....and 1 was significantly hurt by the fact there was 3 of them in there....1 of them was doing awesome another was doing okay and the third was bout to die.....its really a bad idea to try to grow multiple plants in 1 pot or tub....even if they are spaced out....a root system becomes HUGE very fast and then they get tangled with each other and take nutes from 1 another. and it isnt good for ur plants....i wouldnt recommend doing this unless ur gonna move them within 3 weeks.....basically the 2 weeks it takes them 2 sprout roots and then uve got about a week or 2 before their root system get to big to be able to move them.

 

[SyNiK4L]

if u want to put clones in the same container get some of those seedling starter pucks and put each clone in its individual puck. that way once the roots are big u can just throw the puck and the clone right into another pot or something