Kratose thanks for coming by man! yeah i would totally switch those bulbs over if i could. i made the 3by cab first and was flowering in there before i got my HPS, hence the redder bulbs. at the moment i cant afford to pick up whiter bulbs for the veg cab. will be replacing them as they die with whiter ones. i DIDNT realize however that that would reduce stretch! thats a good thing to know! fortunately for me, the ladies in my veg cab all came from my first two ladies, which were in flower when i took said clones, so in essence monster cropped my first two ladies to produce almost all my current clones. if that makes sense. lol. MEANING OF COURSE that the resultant current ladies in veg are almost exclusively toppy rather than singles. they all split like 2 or 3 inches from the medium. almost the first node. most of them seem to have a dominant top but they all are very bushy!
roofwayne you da man! lol. im on here for the same reason and i think (hope) that everyone else on here is the same!
Ok, wasn't sure if you didn't know about the blue spectrum CFL's so I thought I bring it up. But yeah it makes sense that you had red for when you were flowering. And yeah it def reduces stretch. I will have to see if I have a picture to show you just how much it will reduce. Recently I vegged out 3 plants under the blue spectrum cfl's, and when I put them in the flowering room I put another one that was just a small seeding with them. It ended up stretching so much that it was taller than the other 3 that was older than it by 4 weeks. Even now its huge. Only has one top, compared to the others that have multiple tops. So the amount a plant will stretch under red lights can be absurd.
I got a beast I put into flowering over a week ago, and it almost doubled in size. It was a beast to begin with. Now it has about 15 tops. If I had a bigger room to work with I would do all of them like that, probably bigger. Just don't have the space. I hope to get a house within 2 years and when I do I will have a setup in the basement so I can grow the way I would like to.
But yeah, can't wait to see how your grow goes. Your cabs are awesome.
BTW when you get any good budshots you can submit them to my site cannabis country (its in my sig) and potentially have them featured as the bud of the week. Bluejeans has one featured. Was her Red Cherry Berry. I rather feature people's girls from RIU because I know how much hard work they put into it and they are usually some really awesome looking buds. So any of you guys are welcome to submit your girls. If you do just include any info you have on it, strain, how it was grown, time vegged/flowered ect. And if you want to be credited as A reader, or a nick name ect.
Lots of fun, but very exhausting...
a few more risks involved here and there
