Just started week 3 of flowering
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Cobnobuler
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I got this one......
Isuzugang
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Lol that I wish my good sir. In all seriousness does she look good for where she's at?
SPLFreak808
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Holy shit i want that shirt!
daloudpack
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i think ull be down to one plant if u dont move the other one of the cats scratch post
SPLFreak808
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The plant looks healthy besides the fact that she stretched like a beanstalk. What you can do to combat this stretch next time is to reflect the cfl bulbs ONLY at the plant. Your loosing alot of light and growth having them bulbs open free like that. Other then that she looks good & yes iys possible to grow that plant without that much stretch on 100w.
Isuzugang
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I have them out cause I was watering them and I took a picture that's not where my grow is.
Thanks a lot guys I really dont know since the my first time but if you guys say she looks good then I'm happy.
HydroRed
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Can I suggest getting a small HPS or MH light instead of adding more small cfl bulbs? You will get much more penetrating light and a wider canopy of light than you do with your current light setup and not lose the lumens you do with running all the cfl's. Your buds will swell up and thank you for it. You can also get an HPS or MH fairly cheap these days. You can even buy an outdoor light for like a garage or something and get a decent 100W MH for about $40 at your local hardware store if you are on a super tight budget. So you figure if you buy 2 of them at $80 total, you have 200W of HID lighting that will outdo the cfl's you have and plan to add. Just a suggestion for the frugal folks.
Isuzugang
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Wouldn't I need to get a ballast ? I always thought mh and hps needed ballasts to run and they're noisy. Either way I just bought 2 splitters and I attached them to an extension cord and found 4 more 2700k cfls so I just bumped it up to 200 watts.
Definitely go with the hids. You'll never go back to cfls. Yes you'll need a ballast but if your just buying a small unit (under 200 watts) it will probably come with everything you need built in. I only use cfls for cloning and seedlings. After a couple weeks they go under a 400 watt air cooled hood. After they're vegged to my liking they end up under a 600 watt air cooled. Where they grow happily ever after.
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daloudpack
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i disagree ... u can veg fabolous plants under cfls.... Hps or led for flowering for sure tho.... but cfls are great for vegging, low cost, low heat , u can keep them close to avoid stretching....
Yea I'm not trying to veg "fabulous" plants haha watt for watt cfls cost more to run and produce more heat then HIDs. And good luck air cooling 10~20 watt bulbs haha
And please let me know your explanation cfl's give off more heat?please I'd like to know...and you can pull zips off of fls, yes hid is wayyyyyy better...but cfl's can be used without a doubt
daloudpack
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u talk a good one...lets see what u got heres my cfl vegged plant. 4 weeks from sprout 5-23w 6500k ...under 24hr light
daloudpack
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ur fuckery may fool noobs