m3d1c1n3man
Well-Known Member
I'm making this thread to show a CFL grow, what's possible with a CFL grow, and so forth...
Here is a plant ( one plant ) grown with CFL, currently under 230 watts of 2700K split between 4 bulbs.
She is sitting in a closet about 2' x 3'.
It is 10 weeks into the 12/12 and just before harvest...
Notice the strings holding up the fat, heavy buds that are leaning over.
Close up of the buds...
Some good looking trichs and swollen calyxes.
( There was a problem about a week earlier, when almost all of the big fan leaves turned yellow, then brown and dried out, which you can see some of the remnants of on the buds. The dry, dead leaves were cut off with scissors. It may have been caused by some lemon juice that was mixed in with the water to try and lower the ph. Similar thing happened when some vinegar was mixed in with the water of a different plant to lower the ph. The results were catastrophic with all the fan leaves dying in a couple days! )
Time to harvest...
Chopped off all the good buds, trimmed her some, and now she is ready to re-veg!
Lots of good leaves and a lot of "node" sites where new shoots can grow from. Tried to make a flat landscape so the plant grows evenly.
The lights...
Immediately switched the light to 20/4 and put in 4 23w 5000K CFL bulbs. ( Adding 2 more lights would be ideal. )
It will take about a week before any serious new growth starts to show.
If a shoot gets too unruly, it will be trimmed so the plant grows flatly.
She is grown in soil, and given organic fertilizer.
...
Chopped off all the buds, hung them and dried them, then trimmed them and cured them, and this is the result...
2 oz. of fine, home-grown bud!
Some close ups of the bud...
Picture quality is not great... but you can see the trichs shining in the light.
So the lesson here is...
Growing with CFL works!
Here is a plant ( one plant ) grown with CFL, currently under 230 watts of 2700K split between 4 bulbs.
She is sitting in a closet about 2' x 3'.
It is 10 weeks into the 12/12 and just before harvest...
Notice the strings holding up the fat, heavy buds that are leaning over.
Close up of the buds...
Some good looking trichs and swollen calyxes.
( There was a problem about a week earlier, when almost all of the big fan leaves turned yellow, then brown and dried out, which you can see some of the remnants of on the buds. The dry, dead leaves were cut off with scissors. It may have been caused by some lemon juice that was mixed in with the water to try and lower the ph. Similar thing happened when some vinegar was mixed in with the water of a different plant to lower the ph. The results were catastrophic with all the fan leaves dying in a couple days! )
Time to harvest...
Chopped off all the good buds, trimmed her some, and now she is ready to re-veg!
Lots of good leaves and a lot of "node" sites where new shoots can grow from. Tried to make a flat landscape so the plant grows evenly.
The lights...
Immediately switched the light to 20/4 and put in 4 23w 5000K CFL bulbs. ( Adding 2 more lights would be ideal. )
It will take about a week before any serious new growth starts to show.
If a shoot gets too unruly, it will be trimmed so the plant grows flatly.
She is grown in soil, and given organic fertilizer.
...
Chopped off all the buds, hung them and dried them, then trimmed them and cured them, and this is the result...
2 oz. of fine, home-grown bud!
Some close ups of the bud...
Picture quality is not great... but you can see the trichs shining in the light.
So the lesson here is...
Growing with CFL works!
