freeindeed2008
Well-Known Member
Some of you may have read about my DWC start up and my switching over to soil. Well after 2 weeks I noticed that they did not seem to be growing as fast as they should be. I had to redesign my light box also. My planter is 2' x 3' and I built my own light box with 2 70w hps and 14 23w cfl's. I had all this stuff laying around so it was a cheap startup. Well after reading more about lite temp's I realized that my cfl's were the 2700 color temps so I was hitting my plants 36000 of 2700 color temps, so last night I changes all of the cfl's over to 6800 color temps and man did everything pickup over night. The last grow I did was in 1986 using a 16 floro tubes wrapped around my grow box and while it worked it took forever, so this site is great for the little details. I now have 22600 lumens of 6800 color temp and 13600 lumens of hps until I start flowering, then I will switch back to the other cfl's.