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So its been a while, figured its time to have fun again, I have 4 plants, (3 that matter). Under 4x overdriven (2bulb ballast wired into 1 bulb ) t12 48inch 3000k 2900lumens, and have 6x 23w 2700k cfls spread around the sides, did lst from the very beginning, also did hack off mostly all fan...

we wont be able to help without details, but sounds like a PH problem

yes, red spectrum is what it expect during flowering, so when u switch, it will be happy. topping and LST will make you yeild more. on the main fourm page theres a ton of info on it. CHeck it out! I LST and top every time.. lol

in other words, would you want 2700 lum's ( 42 watters ) all around your plant? 2700 everywhere compaired to 16000 on top<< + cfl's lose lum's after like 4-5 inches. keep that in mind.

but watts = lum's, 42 watt cfl's = 2700 lum's 26 watt cfl = 1600 lum's

Check this out, this is how you want to have it. multiple Cfl's covering a decent amount of the plants, + a couple on the sides... so with that being said, you would want to go with a bunch of 42 watters, they sell em everywhere, wal-mart , home depo, ect... use a bunch of 42 watters and a few...

lol np, its always nice to put the extra time in curing too, if your having a taste problem, then it sounds like you need to cure longer? but curing + drying + flushing all mainly focus on taste, get all thoes going at 100% you're asking for some mighty tasty buds :P

im flushing at 3 weeks because i want the best taste, most people do 2 because they want big ass buds, well if there allready big, and u want more taste over a few grams, go 4 it.

BUMP, people used to be all over this shit.

Looking great man, CFL"s work pretty fkin good .

no opinion on how much longer?

thanks :D there they are, side by side :)

the two, what we think is jack herer. they smells SUPER sweet. theres 12x 26 watt 2700k cfl's, 1 x 65 watt 6500k cfl, 2 x 42 watt 2700k, and a 15 watt T5. temp stays at 78 - 80 F, RH is 40% ( always has been ) used superthrive in the veg state, vegged about 3 weeks, switched to 12 / 12 and am...

its odd.. they seem to grow better with 2700k bulbs in veg... tried 6500k.... 2700k seemed to keep it more compact, close nodes

umm i thought a Hps would put out around 50,000lums so how is 20,000 more than enough?

so , using a rubbermaid bin as a light fixture painted flat white , it runs about 78-80 F have 10 x 24watt 2700k and 1 x 65w 6500k cfl ... 1 cfl puts out 1600 lum , the 65w puts out 4500 lums, thats just over 20,000 lum's , LSTing and have 2 plants ... is the cfl output enough? give that the...

prolly even better.

thats another thing about CFL's that i like, No ballast, just a 110v socket and some light sockets :P, used a power strip and 3 Y splitters, that gives you 6 lights just on 1 strip, hang the strip over your plants and it works great, just remember to add side lighting, side lighting is a major...

thats a bummer, id save up for a HPS, a 250w is like 150 bucks on ebay. CFL's are for small grows, id like to do HPS, but need to keep it small which means that HPS will produce too much heat to monitor in a small box. CFL's are cool as long as you have a couple fans. used Computer fans to keep...

i wouldn't say CFL's are better than MH or HPS, you will always get better results with HPS or MH, but these results arn't bad at all. 1600 lum's a bulb with 5 bulbs. 8000 lum's entire time.