Lady J's 12 / 12 From Seed Perpetual Closet CFL Grow

One of my plants is a lot taller than the others cause I just let it go

Grow Express24 said:

One of my plants is a lot taller than the others cause I just let it go

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Yea? Do you have a pic?

I've been toying with the idea of doing 12/12 in the bin and vegging tall plants in the closet. MJ is killing me right now. Can't stop thinking of ways to try to grow her lol

Haha! Wait till you find yourself growing your weed into different shapes!
Do a star, any letter in the alphabet, spiral(which leads to snail!), a ring, square, triangle, smiley face--the list goes on!

Then, once you've got plenty o herb to burn, do a shot glass grow, or see what you can pull from a solo cup.

its a lot harder to flower a tall plant with cfl's due to their lack of penetration.

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread. Pics Pics and more pics pls!

The bigger watt cfls have better penetration than the lil 23-42 eatters. 100 and above would help with that issue. It may not be a HPS but its better than the mini spiral ones alone

billcollector99 said:

its a lot harder to flower a tall plant with cfl's due to their lack of penetration.

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You can dangle cfl lights at the bottom for the lower portion of the plant

Its called extensions, I have a ton of em. I get light all over my babies when it comes time to flower.
It looks like a mechanical octopus

billcollector99 said:

its a lot harder to flower a tall plant with cfl's due to their lack of penetration.

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I've heard that a lot but I saw this guy's grow and his plants look amazing with CFLs: https://www.rollitup.org/cfl-fluorescent-lighting/380156-4th-cfl-grow-jungle-growth-108.html

Flaming Pie said:

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread. Pics Pics and more pics pls!

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Nice to having you flaming

Will put some more pics up! Noticed this thread is 90% talk lol

I subbed you. I'm currently thinking about do cfl. Just curious to see time line and size of plant when you finish. Good luck!

I never said it was impossible, just that it was harder.

I'm currently growing a tomato plant and germinating some lavender. I read online that lavender takes 10 days at least to sprout! Something about it being a perennial makes it grow slower.

I have only grown annuals in the past, so I soaked the seed over night and two days after planting was looking for the sprouts. *Sigh*

I'm growing tomatos to practice for the real thing.. a florida room is much different then a cfl closet grow, but if I manage not to overwater or nute burn then I should be able to do the same for weed.

Hey lady! What, no feet pics on this one?? (hope that made u smile!) anyways looks like that scrog did well huh?? Why did u stop, or did u stop?

I hope its ok that I share pics. If not just let me know.


It's a big boy tomato plant.. best one I could find and Homedepot. I don't know why they call it a big boy if only the females flower.. "She" is sitting in Miracle Grow Organic Soil 10/5/5. I was hoping to find Jungle growth soil, but all they had was topsoil and Miracle Grow.




It has some curling on the bottom limb leaves.. I hope now that I have transplanted and watered the roots will grow healthy and correct this.

I am sooooo high and drankin on some heineken, das ist sehr gut ja? I had to share this...classic. And with headphones on while you are throwed...daaaaamn

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brettsog said:

heres a little info about leds. copied from a grow light companys website.

This question is really the most important issue to bear in mind when comparing different types of grow lights. Traditionally light bulbs have been measured in terms of Lumens. Lumens is a measurement of VISIBLE light to the human eye and the higher the Lumens rating on a light bulb the brighter the light will appear to the human eye. When thinking about the lighting needed to grow plants one needs to gain an understanding of what types of light plants respond to. Traditionally the solution has just been to use the most powerful HPS / HID lights which although effective only have a small percentage (15-30%) of their actual output in the correct spectrum for plant growth. One of the key advantages to LED lighting is that the wavelength of the LED can be specifically manufactured to coincide with the wavelengths that plants require to grow. This means as well as being more efficient at converting electricity to light in absolute terms LED's used for growing can also be refined only to produce the spectrum of light which the plant will use to grow. This means that watt for watt LED can be 15 times more efficient than HPS / HID lighting at producing growing light for plants. This means less heat, and less electricity costs.

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Yea but look at how much LEDs cost... And one panel doesnt cut it, for good growth with LEDs you need at least 2 panels So CFL and HID are more convenient .

It is also the heat issues you are avoiding. No need for big fan systems and AC.

Yea...growing with HIDs is not more convenient to me. Not sure about the temps you have where you live, but it's 97F right now. I have the a/c on long just enough to make it bearable. If I tried to use it to cool down the amount of heat a HID puts out in addition to my comfort of living it would be expensive as hell. As far as initial investments I'll concede that LEDs cost too much. It's a new technology that always happens when new technology comes out. As far as actual efficiency though LEDs generate more lumens per watt and need significantly less energy to keep the temps down.

Using LEDs without a doubt cost more initially than HIDs or CFLs. The long term though is more beneficial and if heat is an issue that needs to be considered to. HIDs are near impossible to run for micro grows and for comparable lumen output to HIDs you would need a LOT of CFLs which at that point becomes pointless because of the heat so many will generate and HIDs are still more efficient.

And to give a blanket statement and say one panel doesn't cut it without knowing the size of the grow doesn't really make any sense. It's not the number of panels that's the issue, but the size/wattage of them.

I will respo nd to everyone when I am less wasted