can i flower under flouros?

i have 2 four foot 40 watt flouros. its been growing great so far its been 24 hrs. are they strong enough to flower?

Ah im growing with 2 40watt flouros also.
however its not enough light power to flower, buy 2 cheap cfls from your local wal mart its only about 10 dollars for 2 of them or something, the flouros +the cfls will be enough to flower but it wont be the best yield.

do you have any pics?

square footage of your grow space and how many plants would come into play too, sure that could flower like 1 plant in a 1ftx1ft area

as i said you could do that but it would be a small yield, if its sunny outside your best bet would be to put it out there..

pictures would really help

I've done this many, MANY times. Obviously not ideal, but will work. Buds won't get huge but can be nice sized. Bottom buds will be airy and small (popcorn).
This round, my wife found some 6$ gro-lux type regular fluros somewhere. Not sure they helped, but might have. I use 3 two-tube fixtures . . . 6 tubes, but have done similar with just two fixtures, four tubes.
Pics below grown totally under regular 40W fluro (12$ @ W-Mart w/tubes)
WRhino . . . cured harvest 100 gms.
If you only have one 2-tube fixture, springing for another will perhaps double your harvest w/plain fluro.

There's plenty on training, etc. in the FAQ's maybe under increasing yield?

Better yet. Get some t5's with reflectors in there and flower usng the warm whites. I just bought a 4bulb fixture for $140. And if you want to flower just switch the bulbe from cool whites to warm whites. And dont forget that a fixture like that can always be used in a clone/seedling room when you upgrade. Have 4-8 t5's for veg a 250-400 watt HPS and you have a perpetual harvest.

i have 2 ,4 foot long 40 watt fluoros in a grow box 2 feet tall 5 foot in length, its light sealed and inside is all white paint so its very bright.
i have 1 plant in there how much will it yield by the time its done?

mainly asking you "MrFishy" you seem to know alot about growing with fluros

or anyone else who has great growing experiences with flouros

Depends on what you do with it. I mean, obviously I LST'd (trained) the one in the pics, and it'd been topped, I'm sure. Strain also comes into play. Up to an ounce, cured, per plant is not unreasonable.
As you grow, you'll learn how to suck the most out of each plant. If it's growing straight up, you might wanna tie it down, so the side branches will grow and reach for the light. This will increase your top yield. That's enough space for at least another plant, IMO. There's lots of things you can do to increase the size of your canopy. If the plant gets over about a foot tall, you can remove the bottom third branches, cuz' they won't flourish anyway from lack of enough light. This will also direct more growth above.

ah great.
i see your plant has lots of tops on it, how did you do that?

30 years of practice. Purdy, weren't she? Tasty, yes indeed!
Basically tied down the stalks after the stretch. Actually, that plant is one I revegetated after realizing it was an exotic strain from a medbag seed. First harvest I got about 8 buds half the size of a pinky. Pretty sure it's WRhino.
Strain alive and well.

i want to put it outside but i cant. its in my closet, the most resent pics i have are from 8/13 its grown alot since then.

he topped his plants. When it gets big and healthy enough to top (should be about 3 weeks), just go like 2 nodes down from the top, where you have 2 offshoots from the main stem coming out, and cut right above the two branches that are shooting out. Those two offshoots will become tops, and their branches will get beefy and fat like the rest of the main stem. I heard you can do this something like 3 or 4 times, to end up with up to 8 tops, but dont quote me on that, i dont know the exact number. Good luck!

These were harvest at just over 1ft, flowered under 2 4ft 40w fluorescent tubes. The final buds:

That harvest is ridiculous in a negative way.

whulkamania said:

That harvest is ridiculous in a negative way.

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i agree ow much was that that was like a waste of time u were better of buying your exotic if ur gonna grow like that

W33D said:

These were harvest at just over 1ft, flowered under 2 4ft 40w fluorescent tubes. The final buds:

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You could have quadrupled your take by simply bending those plants down and to the side, then tying them down there. Moving the plants to the light instead of the light to the plants (as close as possible, even touching now and then) allows each plant to grow at it's own rate, rather than all of them reaching for light because one is excelling. With the long, flat fixture, it's near impossible to light a 12" plant along side a 8" plant, thus the above suggestion.
24/0 seems much better than 18/6 when using these cheap fluros. The plants stretch/reach during darkness.
Two 2-tube fixtures make a load of difference with these (4tubes)

K1Ng5p4d3 said:

he topped his plants. When it gets big and healthy enough to top (should be about 3 weeks), just go like 2 nodes down from the top, where you have 2 offshoots from the main stem coming out, and cut right above the two branches that are shooting out. Those two offshoots will become tops, and their branches will get beefy and fat like the rest of the main stem. I heard you can do this something like 3 or 4 times, to end up with up to 8 tops, but dont quote me on that, i dont know the exact number. Good luck!

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I've always topped to ensure my plants don't outgrow the fluros' abilities, plus it promotes so much more canopy growth than a "stick" plant. Those can do alright (up to an ounce) under fluros, but ya gotta do 24/0 and allow the plants to grow at their own rate. (see above)
No real need to go down a node or two. Just remove the top cluster for the same result.
You CAN do this as many times as you want, but each topping results in retarded plant growth in overall vegetative size, and smaller budz.
BTW, I should've denoted the dimensions of the plant in the pic. It was 11"-12" tall, 30"+ circumference, 7"-8" thick canopy.

well that was a beautiful harvest if i may say so. All im usin is a couple lamps with some good cfl bulbs , and one lower wattage cfl in the fixture in my closet ceiling, just so theres no shadows anywhere. I gotta start talkin to some of you guys who aint usin HPS or MH bulbs and are getting nice yields, cuz my next grow is probably gonna be similar to what you got fishy. Either that or im gonna go aeroponic depending on my financial situation in a couple months. Hope u dont mind me pickiin at your brain sometime soon man

n W33D, was that your first attempt? either way, even though you didnt get much, the nuggets look pretty nice IMO. Whatd u get from each plant, like a quarter oz? even with that, its a good learning experience, and you got some nice smoke out of it. Still win/win in my book.

Sure, I'd TRY and answer any fluro growing concerns. A couple 4 foot fixtures can keep a guy/gal smokin'. It all boils down to ones stash needs. I've been growin' since the 60's and am just now awaiting my first HPS (600Wdigital). If you haven't, check out the deal at HTG.
I was under the impression HPS were expensive. They're really not all that much and I look forward to harvesting the big colas, not the measly 5-6 incher's I got off my last fluro grow. I did get LOTS of silver dollar sized nugs, tho.
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