Cfl Proximity To Foliage

upinchronic1

upinchronic1

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Garden Knowm said:
WHAT gets you the most HIGH.. the highest.. HIGHER?

CFL bud or HID bud.. is this the question?

I don't know :( :confused:

You know Chronic... when I smoke I enjoy all the HERB pretty much the same... I like to smoke.. put on some sunglasses and play frisbee for hours with an occasional dip in the ocean to snap me outta the fog.. i like to stay away from food and BE WARM in the suns rays...

I must admit that I am not very critical about herb.. OTHER THAN AESTHETIC and TASTE....
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Ok so your not critical, so you must be an expert cfler who can make buds that are so good you dont need to compare them to hps buds..? I have read your advice on other threads of how to maximize growth and buddage development, so you must use cfls yourself and the info sounds right on so you must be a pro yourself. Just curious man...:roll::blsmoke:
 
Garden Knowm

Garden Knowm

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upinchronic1 said:
Ok so your not critical, so you must be an expert cfler who can make buds that are so good you dont need to compare them to hps buds..? I have read your advice on other threads of how to maximize growth and buddage development, so you must use cfls yourself and the info sounds right on so you must be a pro yourself. Just curious man...:roll::blsmoke:
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CHRONIC... i am soooo fooking sorry that we are having a disconnect brother.. I am really trying to answer you question... I just am not sure what you are asking.. it is totally my bad.. I am not trying to play mr. cool or blow you off.. or avoid the question.. I just don't get it...


I will try again.....

Using 8 CFLs it was possible to get 8 ounces+ some change from 3 planst and the weed was pretty fooking GOOD... all of it. there were no shitty nugs on the entire harvest...

but when using 7000 watts of 600 and 1000 watt HPS bulbs the GROW was an entire different story... HID bulbs made huge baseball batt size nugs.. and the smell was out of control.. and even the smaller colas were 10 grams a piece...

AS FAR AS THE POTENCY AND HOW STONED I GOT.. I NOTICED NO DIFFERENCE..

Tonight I had dinner with SUBCOOL and ED and a few other AMAZING cats... and SUBCOOL was saying that he does NOT smoke HYDROPONIC or and CHEMICALLY enhanced BUD... and I am pretty sure he can tell just from puffing the shit.. I have not cultivated that type of scrutiny or that type of sensitivity.

if this did not answer your question.. I am more than happy to try again, if you will continue to be patient with me..

iloveyou
 
Garden Knowm

Garden Knowm

The Love Doctor
jolly8541 said:
I've been growing with cfl's for almost a year now. I went that route for cost, b/c I'm just getting into growing. I've harvested 5 separate crops of plants numbering from 3 to 6 plants. My first plants were pathetic like 17 grams of wet bud per plant. Two days ago I harvested 3 plants and got about 150gr per plant. I had one cola from an 15 inch tall plant that weighed 57 grams by itself!

As far as potency, its some of the stoniest bud around. I'm still growing bag seed and the bud has been killer. After I hone my skills with the cfl's I'm ordering some Ak-47 seeds and investing in hps lights.
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fooking A impressive... I too would like to see pictures

iloveyou
 
jolly8541

jolly8541

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Yeah I've got pics of my set up and pics from 3 of my 5 harvests. I've also got pics of the scale with that fat ass cola. I will try to get the pics up tonight, I've got class in like 30 min and I've got to get my mind right be-fo class....
 
jolly8541

jolly8541

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The first 3 are from the plant with the fat ass, and the last is my very-first plant. Both are from bag seed.
 
upinchronic1

upinchronic1

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Garden Knowm said:
CHRONIC... i am soooo fooking sorry that we are having a disconnect brother.. I am really trying to answer you question... I just am not sure what you are asking.. it is totally my bad.. I am not trying to play mr. cool or blow you off.. or avoid the question.. I just don't get it...


I will try again.....

Using 8 CFLs it was possible to get 8 ounces+ some change from 3 planst and the weed was pretty fooking GOOD... all of it. there were no shitty nugs on the entire harvest...

but when using 7000 watts of 600 and 1000 watt HPS bulbs the GROW was an entire different story... HID bulbs made huge baseball batt size nugs.. and the smell was out of control.. and even the smaller colas were 10 grams a piece...

AS FAR AS THE POTENCY AND HOW STONED I GOT.. I NOTICED NO DIFFERENCE..

Tonight I had dinner with SUBCOOL and ED and a few other AMAZING cats... and SUBCOOL was saying that he does NOT smoke HYDROPONIC or and CHEMICALLY enhanced BUD... and I am pretty sure he can tell just from puffing the shit.. I have not cultivated that type of scrutiny or that type of sensitivity.

if this did not answer your question.. I am more than happy to try again, if you will continue to be patient with me..

iloveyou
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Listen you fooking boosterd eh!j/k ? Cool man good info coverage, so hps just makes fatter, denser, more smelly(Related to potency?) Sorry if expect you to be the all knowing but shit your username is garden KNOWM and your a moderator of a marijuana forum so you must know some statistics of it. cool i just wanted to get any idea of what the obvious differences was because i havent heard to much on the subject, just wanted an experts advice like yourself. I go chemicall, its fucking amazing what the concentration of chemicalls does for marijuana. I have made amazing recoveries with my greedily hungary my bitches were.

I hear you just have to flush the soil two weeks in advance, and it washes all the chemicalls out the plant. Its all good, :joint:This ones for you.
 
mockingbird131313

mockingbird131313

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Dear Knowm,
We sometimes joke around, but I will be real straight with you here. I think this is a great post, but I have a couple questions.

Last night at Lowes I saw a supersize CFL. I think it said 65 watts and output range of 300 watts. This monster was the size of a football. It was huge. They had a price of $17 on it. I was wondering about hanging it in the center of my grow closet and circling 5 gal pots around it. Then supplimenting with lights from above. Or perhaps stack two of the monsters end-to-end, in the center of the closet. So have you ever used these bug bulbs? What do you think of the idea?

Second question: What do you think of T5 grow tubes?

Thanks, MB.
 
McKush

McKush

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does 8 42 watt cfls on a 5 plant DWC setup seem like too much light in early veg (about 2 weeks)? Two lights per plant and only 1 on the smallest/least mature. all were 1" inch away and adjusted regularly. I made a mistake of allowing it to get too hot on the first day of the set up. A few leaves were burned and the plants responded terribly.

pH is 5.9, ppm was put to 685 last night and has dropped to around 650 in just over a day
 
whatapothead

whatapothead

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jolly nice pics of that big ol bud there.

yeah i think scrog or sog would work best with CFLs. i believe i am going to try sog with some BIGBUD and blue mystic with all CFLs i got two mothers just dieing to be cloned.

WHATAPOTHEAD journal will be up as soon as i start.
 
mockingbird131313

mockingbird131313

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Hey anybody order the Bubba Whopper at Lowes? These monsters are about the size of a football. They consume 65 watts and put out about 300 watts of light. They have a red-warm color of about 3000K. New price is $17.
 
jolly8541

jolly8541

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I thing the sog would work well with cfls. I got my garden set up in the window(west facing) of my apt and get direct sun from about 1pm till sundown(about 5pm now). I need to get a journal up too, I got pics from 5 different harvests from the last year. I'm still learning how to resize pics etc.. when I'm done I'll get some pics of my set up posted.
 
Gamberro

Gamberro

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mockingbird131313 said:
Hey anybody order the Bubba Whopper at Lowes? These monsters are about the size of a football. They consume 65 watts and put out about 300 watts of light. They have a red-warm color of about 3000K. New price is $17.
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I'm just a beginner, but based on my research, fluoro light degrades rapidly over the space of a foot, so putting all your power into one monster CFL seems like it would really be sort of a waste. It seems more a cat-and-mouse game of playing with lower-watt CFL's to maximize coverage of the plant.

Also, I'd be interested in anybody's experience in the use of CFL's in a SOG or SCROG setup. Mucho interested.
 
Gamberro

Gamberro

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Nice fixture! How'd you make that? Got any plans on you?:mrgreen:I understnad if you got your secrets to keep.
 
K

kindprincess

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i used two way Y light adapters, 8 23w cfl's, one pc fan, and a outdoor hps reflector. the fan draws air up over the bulbs, and blows out the top, keeping fresh air running over the leaves, and hot air going out the top.
 
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