I thought it was impossible!!!

Can you still grow buds from your plant with minimal CFL light? I ask this becuase its my 4th week and have recently discovred that the bulbs im using are only 10w i repeat 10WATTS and they seem to be very healthy for there age :S im using two of these shitty bulbs and im growing two plants i was told that i would be lucky for my plants to grow 3 inches tall

lets see some pics!

^Agreed. nearly in the same boat... tho using 2x 18w...at first... just added a 48w tho

Heres some pics there a week old and they have grown bigger since then, i couldnt possibly continue growing them with these and produce a harvest could i :S ?

Its impossible...I dont belive u man...WTF???

snowznw10 said:

Heres some pics there a week old and they have grown bigger since then, i couldnt possibly continue growing them with these and produce a harvest could i :S ?

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Look pretty good to me... probably need some good HPS lighting during flowering though...

'Grow Space' If i could personally show you them i would i have no idea how they could be growing that big with such little light, they are litrelly the smallest CFL's i have ever seen, im growing two different strains 1 sativa 1 indica the sativa is gettin so tall it hit the bubls and half of the babyish-leaves wer burnt completly off

I think it is streching to the light. at some point the stem may be to weak to support itself and then it may start to damper off at the stem base, so keep an eye on it.

You may want to upgrade your bulb,. you say its a 10wt cfl, what kind? cool or soft. If your running a cool, then your in the right spectrum,most peep like 6500k, if you have soft, switch over. You'll want soft for flowering.

they look like they are stretching quite a bit. do you have a fan in there?

you will need to get your lights closer to cut down on the stretching.

if you want a better yield you should also try low stressing her down.

I Belive i have cool but they both do look a little different from each other how could i tell? i just remember one of them had COOL on the box it came with. Also how are the plants doing? and another thing could i continue growing with these bulbs? would it take longer? or am i stretching my luck

"if you want a better yield you should also try low stressing her down."

can you explain this to me pls ,newbie

low stress training in a nut shell is tieing/staking down the plant. this allows for all the undergrowth to reach for the sky and get the most amount of light possible to the whole plant.

check out the FAQ above on the right. lots of helpful knowledge.

more light + more airflow = more yields

thanks man thats helpfull, you think if i continued using these bulbs il get any budds at all ?

doubt it. but you never know. cfls are mad cheap bro. you can get a box of 26watters for like 8 bucks at lowes.

FUUCK lol das cheap too tuff you cnt get deals lyk that in the UK

i bet you can order from lowes.com and have them mailed to you. or maybe a different website.

look around on the net and im sure you will find a cheap place that will mail to the UK

Hopefully ima need does light for sure, dont get alota sun around here so outdoor growing is out of the question

I Belive i have cool but they both do look a little different from each other how could i tell?

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A cool bulb will have a blueish hue while soft will have a yellowish hue. Its OK if you combine them, just use more of the cools while vegging.
How much do CFL bulbs cost in the UK?

i saw 24W for lyk 5pounds (8-10 dollars) not bad unless your broke like me

snowznw10 said:

Hopefully ima need does light for sure, dont get alota sun around here so outdoor growing is out of the question

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haha sounds like you're in Washington? thats where I was stationed, seemed like the bastard sun never came out. lol

but yeah I started off like you, with 1 16 watt CFL flood light and sprouted and grew 5 plants for 1 week with just that, then added one more 24 inch 17 watt "grow lamp". They all seem to be doing really good up to this point.
I just recently switched mine though, now im using 2 23 watt CFL's and the grow lamp, and growing 4 plants now, (moved one of them and planted it outside), but they still seem to be doing damn good.

post more picture, keep us updated.