can you go over board with your lighting

[sparkage]

sparkage here

how much light is to much ???
I am useing 4 1/2 cfl 250 watt bulbs
the temp is around 78 to 81 dagrees
I am using a 4 x 4 tent
any help would be great

1. tanks much sparkage out !!!!!

 

[sparkage]

anybody out there ??????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[BudmanTX]

there is never a such thing.......as to much......just watch your time scheduals and everything else....

 

[BudmanTX]

there is never a such thing.......as to much......just watch your time scheduals and everything else....

 

[sparkage]

yep thanks for your info...
here are some new pics day 25 from seed give
or take a day or two...
also purchessed a exhale 365 co2 bag never used one of these before
wish i would of bought one that was aready activated
had it for 10 days and did nothing with it
should of activated it right away
have you ever used one of these ????
happy 420 to everyone and god bless

this is an auto called trans siberian

 

[BudmanTX]

very nice......

i've never used CO2 honestly, i'm sure there is someone out there that can help though

keep up the good work and GL

 

[1212ham]

sparkage here

how much light is to much ???
I am useing 4 1/2 cfl 250 watt bulbs
the temp is around 78 to 81 dagrees
I am using a 4 x 4 tent
any help would be great

1. tanks much sparkage out !!!!!

You certainly can have to much light, but you are not there, even if you have an actual 1000 watts of CFL. What is the actual wattage of the bulbs, not the "equivalent" watts.

What are 4 1/2 bulbs?

 

[sparkage]

four that work and one that only lights up half the bulb
glass was cracked when I received it,, but got full refund, just faced the part that works down towards my baby.. ( o ) her name is mary
I buy everything of ebay no grow shops here where I live as far as I know
look at my first post up above,top left pic, the light close's to the camera to the left
you can see only half is lit-up that's how a got the 1/2 in 4 1/2 bulbs

dose these co2 bags really work ???

 

[sparkage]

heres a pic of that 1/2 bulb

 

[blowincherrypie]

not trying to be a dick but why not just get a real light? Maybe if you hang them vertically in the middle but the way youve got it now you're losing a lot of your usable light

 

[sparkage]

all of my plants that I have growen all turn out perfact I must have a green thumb
but always turns out crappie after drying and cureing
got a new idea on how to do it the right way from a video on youtube
so I hope this dry and cure is much much better this time !!!!!!!!!!! I pray

again sorry for the shitty spelling I hate spelling but love to read

 

[sparkage]

thought this way is how there ment to be with the light reflectors ???????
if I hung them vertical the light would go out to the side and up ???????? no ?????
more light would go up
I did have them vertical hanging in the corners and half the light went up and not torwards the plant
when I changed them this way, it's much brighter on the plant and darker above the light reflector ???????

 

[sparkage]

You certainly can have to much light, but you are not there, even if you have an actual 1000 watts of CFL. What is the actual wattage of the bulbs, not the "equivalent" watts.

What are 4 1/2 bulbs?

it says 250 watt cfl

 

[sparkage]

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You certainly can have to much light, but you are not there, even if you have an actual 1000 watts of CFL. What is the actual wattage of the bulbs, not the "equivalent" watts.

What are 4 1/2 bulbs?

it says 250 watt cfl

heres a pic of that 1/2 bulb View attachment 4201036

heres a pic of that 1/2 bulb View attachment 4201036

not trying to be a dick but why not just get a real light? Maybe if you hang them vertically in the middle but the way youve got it now you're losing a lot of your usable light

thought it would be better for the electric bill to go with cfl... watch for my pics I will share with you all on how great my plants turn out with cfl's
just need to do a better job on drying and curing that's were I need to improve by a million percent !!!!!!!!

 

[sparkage]

maybe I should have posted all this in grow forum

 

[BudmanTX]

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it says 250 watt cfl



thought it would be better for the electric bill to go with cfl... watch for my pics I will share with you all on how great my plants turn out with cfl's
just need to do a better job on drying and curing that's were I need to improve by a million percent !!!!!!!!

it is better on the electric bill.....i know from personal experience with cfl...

 

[BudmanTX]

maybe I should have posted all this in grow forum

your good...no worries

ck out the curing area in the site to get better with that, alot of good people in there that can help

 

[blowincherrypie]

You would get more usable light by using the light coming from all sides instead of the reflector..

here's what I mean vertically

photo from @jigfresh

and 1000+ watt of cfl is comparable electric use as 1000+ watt of any other light source.. Just getting A LOT less usable light than with HPS or LED (even the bulbs)

CFLs have a time and place (usually smaller areas) but you would be getting the same (if not better) results with a 600w hps system than you will with all those big cfls (but using half the pull at the plug).. Seems like youve got your setup going so good luck with that

 

[BudmanTX]

actually not to be arguementative here, you can grow a plant with 5 to 6 small cfls......you would use them like ball lighting in a closet and or a tent by hanging them from the top of the tent. Place them above and in the 4 corners of the plant and it would grow just fine. I used smaller house hold ones my self and been doing it in a 2x3x7ft closet.....never had a problem....

 

[sparkage]

You would get more usable light by using the light coming from all sides instead of the reflector..

here's what I mean vertically

photo from @jigfresh

and 1000+ watt of cfl is comparable electric use as 1000+ watt of any other light source.. Just getting A LOT less usable light than with HPS or LED (even the bulbs)

CFLs have a time and place (usually smaller areas) but you would be getting the same (if not better) results with a 600w hps system than you will with all those big cfls (but using half the pull at the plug).. Seems like youve got your setup going so good luck with that