mixed lighting?

CoveredSociety

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Hiya people.

Basic question, im one week into flowering, plant seems very healthy. Shes only a small girl.

My question is, i only have 2x 2700k 20watt cfls. So would it be ok to put outside on good days? Would the mixed spectrum of the sun be better for it than the lights?

Another side question is, when you have branches, the branches grow another set of branches at every new node right? So inbetween each node, does the bud grow up the stem? Or just around the node? If you get what i mean?

Thanks
 

warble

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It would be much better to get them outside on good days. Not always a set of branches, sometimes only one branch at the node. Bud grows on your flowering sites. Sometimes on nodes, sometimes on tips. There will be some trichomes on the stem in between, but your buds are going to be where your flowering sites are. You might want to add a 6500k cfl in there to get some extra light at a different temp to get some more mixed spectrum too.
 

CoveredSociety

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It would be much better to get them outside on good days. Not always a set of branches, sometimes only one branch at the node. Bud grows on your flowering sites. Sometimes on nodes, sometimes on tips. There will be some trichomes on the stem in between, but your buds are going to be where your flowering sites are. You might want to add a 6500k cfl in there to get some extra light at a different temp to get some more mixed spectrum too.
Any rough ideas on how much bud i could get? Persay IFFF she had better lighting, what do you think her maximum potential is in terms on grams of bud?
 

RockinDaGanja

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Your eventually gonna have to get more light on those things like og said. Thats if you want to expect anything more then a couple grams from your girl. I like HID (MH/hps). If you want to go the cfl route sunleaves sells a 125 watt (i think thats the wattage) CFL or a cheap t5 fixture . More light=more Bud!
 

Heygurlll

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Neat lookin girl you got there! I would throw in at least a 100w-150w hps if you can find one there usually pretty cheap less than $100 as far as yield your lookin at a few grams possibly.
dont even bother..... this person seems to hate taking advice. And asks the same questions over and over and over. Im surprised they got this far, but i think they still wont finish a grow. I've come to this conclusion after reading almost everything they've posted, trying to decide whether to help or not.. The first few threads set the tone....

This person had a 6 week old plant on its 3rd-4th node, and asked for help.... by saying they've grown with their 40w cfl setup before and had no problems so it "couldn't be" what everyone was saying (fan, more light, better soil, etc). It was.
Then when the plant hit flower op admitted to never growing a flowering cannabis plant.
I thought op had grown in that setup "fine"?
Someone got really fed up trying to help this person and basically did what i am now doing, warning helpful/knowledgeable people not to waste their keystrokes. Someone else out there (who listens instead of acting like a stubborn ass on a hot day) is much more deserving of help.


Ill give my two cents, but i really hope Covered Society listens and stops posting the same lighting/yield/will it be fine questions day after day. His questions were all answered more than once in his first three threads, yet he continues on.

The sun will help, although constantly switching spectrum/temp/humidity will likely slow growth to about the same speed.
As for yield, you seem like a .2 gpw cfl kinda person so you should get ~5-8 grams if it finishes right.


As for whether these lights are enough to flower, you don't seem to care. General consensus is no, or only if you focus on the 2 main buds at the top and remove everything else. The general answer is at the minimum pick up 2 socket splitters and 2 more 20w 5000-6500k bulbs.also pick up an emergency blanket. A successful cfl grow using 80w-150w of cfl can grow easily grow 25-80 grams. If you add 2 20w (80w grow) and yield .3 gpw, you would yield about 30 grams, ~1 oz.
But again, you seem utterly against doing the baseline standard. You insist on less... So I doubt you'll get the required/recommended lighting. I hope one day you learn 6 23w cfls is not "overboard." Its very baseline minimum. Just read some damn cfl grow tutorials. They'll all recommend 80+ watts per plant,and often are recommending 4 40w bulbs. With that 120w, .33 gpw gives an even 40 grams. And obviously, if you have any skill and get say .5 gpw, you'll have 60g.

Tbh, I think you should just screw trying indoors and try guerilla growing.

edit: also, if you had a mh hps setup, about 2 days from now would be optimal for reveg, as you'll get a monster cropping effect and have the plant go from 2 tops, to 20...
 
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CoveredSociety

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can you tell me more about your setup Covered Society medium? temp? humidity? bag seed? how many weeks in veg? and how many weeks total from seedling stage? just curious doing a first grow and i like your plant.
Heya, i should be more clear, i have grown before, but iv never made it to flower haha. And i vegged for 3 and half weeks then switched to 12/12, had 6500k on my plants during 12/12 for a week then changed to 2700k but ever since i went to 2700k growth has slowed signifigantly. Over all shes almost at 5 and a half weeks.
 

CoveredSociety

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As for humidty ect... It seems ok i dont have anything to measure that kind of stuff but if i was to take a guess id say its much dryer than moistur-ess lol. And temps are around 18-20 degress celcius.
 

Terry385

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what do you think her maximum potential is in terms on grams of bud?
i say 12 to 20 grams tops
 

CoveredSociety

Active Member
I think 20grams is pushing it.. And i am taking help as i get it ok. Dont hate. Im new and i dont want to screw it up.

Shes not very big, i was originally just after 5 grams or so. Not ounces. Thatd be nice but, dont think that will happen.
 

Heygurlll

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Heya, i should be more clear, i have grown before, but iv never made it to flower haha. And i vegged for 3 and half weeks then switched to 12/12, had 6500k on my plants during 12/12 for a week then changed to 2700k but ever since i went to 2700k growth has slowed signifigantly. Over all shes almost at 5 and a half weeks.
with cfl, I recommend using all available lights (socket splitter.) Increased wattage= more bud.
Additionally, Cfl grows seem to flower best with a 2:1 spectrum of 2700-3000k:5400-6500k.
So if you can,you should add the 6500 on top of the 2 2700k.
 
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