Show me your CFL Grows!!!

assasinofyouth420

assasinofyouth420

Well-Known Member
greentom said:
Hi!
I am new and it is my first post here. Here is my CFL garden. 250W + 4x32W (all 2700K). I have added another small bulb recently to the setup so it is 401W total at the moment. The strains are Grapefruit and White Widow (from Female Seeds). Here on pictures attached plants are 38 days old and start flowering. The growing area is 80x80x160cm. The plants are less bushy now than on the pics as I did some trimming to make light penetrate better. There are 5 plants in total which I consider too many. Next time it will be three or four plants. Depending on the results I might switch to HPS bulbs for the next grow. I may keep updating fotos every week if anyone is interested with the progress. Cheers!
View attachment 1286363View attachment 1286368View attachment 1286372
Click to expand...
Dadgum! +rep
 
Masonan

Masonan

Active Member
rastadred22 said:
looks great but u should never trim the fan leaves off! just becuase u cant see the light under the canopy doesnt mean the cfls arent penetrating...when cutting fan leaves u take away what soaks up light and holds vital nutrients from the uptake..i recently harvested a plant where there was basically a whhole nother plant under the canopy...simply just harvest whats ready and leaqve the rest to finish. just doent make sense as to y ppl trim fan leaves thinkin they goin get a bigger yeild
Click to expand...
what i do is just try to provide the plant with light coming from all directions. when using CFL its true that the light does not penetrate the canopy as well as with a HPS. By surrounding your plants with lighting, you can make sure that the whole plant is receiving light, which means you will be getting closer to the full potential out of your plants. In my current grow in my sig i have tried to do this. you guys should check out my grow. about a week till harvest.
hope i helped some of you out,
peace
 
rastadred22

rastadred22

Well-Known Member
Masonan said:
what i do is just try to provide the plant with light coming from all directions. when using CFL its true that the light does not penetrate the canopy as well as with a HPS. By surrounding your plants with lighting, you can make sure that the whole plant is receiving light, which means you will be getting closer to the full potential out of your plants. In my current grow in my sig i have tried to do this. you guys should check out my grow. about a week till harvest.
hope i helped some of you out,
peace
Click to expand...
hence my current grow...keeping them close and surrounded fixes the problem of poor penetration...so y still cut fan leaves?
 
G

greentom

Member
Hi Growers!

Thanks for your comments. Really appreciate that. I have seen this link before I decided to remove some (really just a few) leaves:
http://forums.mycotopia.net/cannabis/32353-radical-pruning-closet-environment.html
You have to register however to see the pictures but it is well worth it! It proves that under certain circumstances trimming leaves won't make any harm to your plant. It will definately make some stress and some strains might react better some worse. I am not really a supporter of pruning leaves but I decided to make some not in order to get a better crop in future but rather to help the plant get 'their full potential' as Masonan said - under current circumstances of course. Besides, it is still experimenting. Next time I rather grow 3 plants instead of 5 and not prune a single leaf. Yesterday I decided however to eliminate one weakest plant so now they have more space. Excuse me for offtopic and one more picture from my CFL garden a few days later (still 5 plants and before leaf pruning):

Clipboard01.jpg
 
rastadred22

rastadred22

Well-Known Member
u removed them during flowering as well? u ever heared of sinka nd source? wur the leaves during vege act like a sink wur nutes are brought up and dumped into the leaves where they get stored in a 'sink'...during flowering or maturing the stems tend to turn purple...the leaves become a source....wur those stored nutes are being used to flower the plant....think of it as a squirrel storing nute for the winter...u just robbed that squirrell out of nuts that he carefully brounght up the tree to store for 'winter'...what is that squirrel gonna have now for winter? thats y i just will never ever agree with cutting fan leaves...just doesnt make sense...i mean i just named one out of many jobs fan leafs have in the growth of a plant
 
Masonan

Masonan

Active Member
rastadred22 said:
u removed them during flowering as well? u ever heared of sinka nd source? wur the leaves during vege act like a sink wur nutes are brought up and dumped into the leaves where they get stored in a 'sink'...during flowering or maturing the stems tend to turn purple...the leaves become a source....wur those stored nutes are being used to flower the plant....think of it as a squirrel storing nute for the winter...u just robbed that squirrell out of nuts that he carefully brounght up the tree to store for 'winter'...what is that squirrel gonna have now for winter? thats y i just will never ever agree with cutting fan leaves...just doesnt make sense...i mean i just named one out of many jobs fan leafs have in the growth of a plant
Click to expand...
all i have to say is...Amen
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top