Hey man good luck with your garden. I am also a CFL'er and am on my 7th garden since this time last year. Regular, Femmed, and auto seeds, I have had really great success with this set up of 14 23 watt bulbs that I only turn on when the plants need them and switch from 6500k to 2400k or whatever they are when I start to flower. Keep em close as possible to your canopy and have a fan blowing across the top of the plants to help keep temps down. Im adveraging just over an ounce per plant with reg and femmed seeds and pinch every plant that I grow. If you have any ? Ill try to help the best I can. I live in a little town northern ontario Canada and have been told that I have the best bud in town so it is the best setup for my personal needs. J
Thank you for the support. And my light schedule is set at 18/6 for veg (planning to veg for about 4-5 weeks) and the lights are 2.5 inches away from the top of the plants.
At the moment, I don't have any fans set up (but I do have them from my previous grow), only because i only have 2 cfls and heat is not much of an issue.
I'm planning to top them both and do a little LST as they grow. I'll definitely take up your offer and ask any questions if I encounter any problems I can not diagnose. Thank you once again.
sub,d im doing a organic dinafem amnesia auto grow with cfls.
Thanks! Organic you say?
I've always had an interest in organics but never got around to it, do you have a link to your grow? I'd like to see!
good luck Cranky...I just started my first CFL but I still prefer the sunlight, got one sun tanning right now...I'm using the sun/CFL tag team approach during the winter months.
cheers
Thanks and good luck to you as well!
I've always been quite fond of the outdoors, but probably the main reason for that is because it's familiar territory for me. I've always wanted to grow indoors, but I kind of gave up on it for a while after my dog made my lady into a chew toy.
And using the sun and CFL's... hmm... That sounds like an interesting approach... I might actually just try that with Condom