12/12 cycle?

I'm a first time grower and i haven't been using any lightbulbs, i've been growing them in my room off sunlight. The oldest is 9 weeks old because i germinated seeds at different times and i want to flower some of them a little early. What are the cheapest good working florescent lightbulb/s
And how many watts is good for flowering 2 or 3 plants?

That sounds strange, could you upload some pics of the setup and everything, don't see how you're doing it honestly. For your question, Get High pressure sodium lamps for flowering and i'd say you power 250

id say those plants look pretty bad if u been going 9 weeks with light threw a window..but any way what he said ^ but then comes heat and other problems your going to have to address bro..good luck

Buy HID.. Itll be alot better in the longrun.. You need alot of CFLs to get a good yeild.. Like 50 watts per square foot..

xubiety said:

Here are a few pictures of them, they don't look that great but i'm not going for the best stuff in the world

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those are cute houseplants and houseplants don't have flowers because they don't get enough light

really stretched....so you are gonna get popcorn bud, unless get yourself a 250 or 400watt HID for 2-3 plants.

buy a 250w cfl off ebay for $80 and see what you can get out of it.
If youve been just keeping it in the window, where do you plan on putting them for the 12/12?

id buy 2 250w cfl's or 2 125w and a few little ones

What you need is to do some real planning and reading.

yea .. cant do this half .. do the research .. do it right ..

just keep em as house plants .. for funn in the window .. who know .. might get 1 gram of top bud smoke in the end
if you want to do a littel extra .. get a littel lamp hanging down over it with a 23W CLF warm white (2700 kelvin) from your local "walmart" 8$ or so ..
will do a littel for it ..

either that or do it right and get a tent with ventilation/filter and a good light source ..

I'm going to do 12/12 in my basement so they'll have enough room for anything i just need to figure out the light situation. Does using a lot of 30-40w lights work the same

work the same as what?

As if i had a 250w or 400w light

No, not even close.
In fact I just read that whether you have one 40w cfl, or fifteen 40w cfl's, the actual intensity will still be no higher than 40w. Makes sense when you think about. You are just simply adding more bulbs at 40w, yet the intensity of the light is still 40w.
Better off with at least a 250 cfl

I tried a window sill grow. They all Hermed once I put them under light. Good luck

Would the sun god komee 200w work for flowering one or two of the plants?

xubiety said:

Would the sun god komee 200w work for flowering one or two of the plants?

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Yes, but I'd say go with this 200 watt CFL/reflector combo: http://www.ebay.com/itm/200W-CFL-Fluorescent-Bulb-Grow-Light-Hood-Reflector-Hydroponics-Kit-200-Watt-/200776312485?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ebf3366a5#ht_3672wt_1344 I feel like it'd be better for the price. However, I'm still new at this so yeah.

-rufus

Would it be better to buy a 250w cfl or 200w cfl with a reflector??

Why not just make your own reflector. I made a pretty damn usefull one with 2 disposable turkey pans.
Also, the one in the link is a 6500k bulb. You want the 2700 if you are simply going to use just one bulb through the whole grow