First Grow using CFL's

eliasson420

eliasson420

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reef, did you veg this plant with a blue spec light? i noticed a much greater internode length on yours as opposed to mine. i was wondering if the height of your plant is due to the fact you vegged with red spec light. i veg with only blue and when i switch to red spec to flower my plants stretch like CRAZY. i looked and looked at home depot and other store and the biggest 6500k i found was a 26 (true watt) cfl. i bought four of these bulbs from walmart (8.98 per two pack) and fixed them with y connectors to come out of one fixture. this puts out aprox. 7000 lumens of blue spec light with a proper reflector. not bad for twenty bucks!! ill get some pics up of my new baby, i topped her and she turned into an f-n bush! later bro
 
beanolynx

beanolynx

Member
really like the diary and info man, im 10 days into mine and if anybody could help with an info about my setup would appreciate it.
autoflowering ak47
18hrs light 6 hrs darkness
biobizz soil
200watt cfl
no fan(how important??)
watering and spraying with water everday(good drainage though)
Also the leaves on 1 are lil green blotches any reason i can fix?? can get little warm in there..
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beanolynx

beanolynx

Member
really like the diary and info man, im 10 days into mine and if anybody could help with an info about my setup would appreciate it.
autoflowering ak47
18hrs light 6 hrs darkness
biobizz soil
200watt cfl
no fan(how important??)
watering and spraying with water everday(good drainage though)
Also the leaves on 1 are lil green blotches any reason i can fix?? can get little warm in there..
Any help on how2improve the grow setup would be kind 4 i am a noob but loving the buzz!
its at the end of my bed so cant have noisyness or id die from no sleep
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spex420

spex420

Well-Known Member
is that a legos raising your plants up? thats cool as shit +rep for the creativity and just pure awsomeness
 
beanolynx

beanolynx

Member
it is actually man, all i had2hand that i can easily lower :) thanks ma for them little did she know what they would be used for in a few years time haha, im 2weeks into my afghan kush ryder grow now.... exciting times!!!
 
ML75

ML75

Active Member
as soon as those nanners open up and drop pollen , you will see a million seeds. or at least thats how my first one went. my 2nd hermie I manage to pluck all the nanners off and I dont see any seeds yet. so good luck. what Im doing now is instead of transplanting my plant, (cus now im pranoid about stressing my plant out) I take a rockwool cube or peatmoss starter plug. and I soak it over night in water and I put the seed in it, and I plant it in a 3gal pot. ... this way the seed, the plant, never moves its home. its start to finish in the same home. puts less stress on the plant. plants growing indoors are already under enough stress already, may as well minimize it... too much stress or light leaks of any kind can cause hermies. :(
good luck, hopefully its not a hermie.
 
ML75

ML75

Active Member
oh and those peat moss plug things are3 awesome, Ill send you some. it keeps the seedling confined like a solo cup or beer can would. but it grows out of the cube into the 3gal pot so it never has to be transplanted.
 
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