7 days into 12/12 - does this look ok?

[Gs3000]

Ok, This starts day 8 of 12/12 for my Bubba Kush. Is this progressing right?

 

[mr2shim]

looks good you have a female, congrats

 

[Gs3000]

Thanks. I increased the light output. 2 - 55/200 watts 2700 CFLs and 4 42/150 watts 2700k CFLs. Do you think I will get any benefits from the added lights?

 

[Jimdamick]

Looks about right. Now your momma is going to give you some fat babies. Happy 420!

 

[Jimdamick]

Thanks. I increased the light output. 2 - 55/200 watts 2700 CFLs and 4 42/150 watts 2700k CFLs. Do you think I will get any benefits from the added lights?

Full speed ahead, give them all the light you can afford. As the saying goes big light, big bud. Actually I just made that up. It sound good though, doesn't it. Being serious, more light the better. Happy 420!

 

[Gs3000]

Full speed ahead, give them all the light you can afford. As the saying goes big light, big bud. Actually I just made that up. It sound good though, doesn't it. Being serious, more light the better. Happy 420!

Thanks ! Happy 4/20 to you too. Like the big light big buds quote.

 

[althor]

Thanks. I increased the light output. 2 - 55/200 watts 2700 CFLs and 4 42/150 watts 2700k CFLs. Do you think I will get any benefits from the added lights?

Yep it will help. Consider in the future how to work out using HID, LED, or Gavita and you will benefit more from it.

 

[Gs3000]

So are you saying that using CFLs limits my output?

 

[bwest]

Looks good. Happy 420!

 

[Gs3000]

Thanks Happy 420 to you also!

 

[bwest]

So are you saying that using CFLs limits my output?

While you can have nice yields with enough cfl light, you wont match hid growing lights. Then again, I've never run 1000 watts of cfl. Lol, couldn't you imagine like forty five 23 watt cfl's hangin in your closet.

 

[Gs3000]

you would like that closet up like a christmas tree.

 

[Gs3000]

What is the different in say 1000 watts CFL equivalent which in my case is 278 watts actuals and actual 1000 watts HID or MPS?

 

[Jimdamick]

So are you saying that using CFLs limits my output?

You might grow a plant that gives some bud, but for serious growing MH/HPS cannot be beat.

 

[Fenian Brotherhood]

Cfls go by Lumens. Not Watts. Personally I think cfls would out preform the 1K... IMO

 

[Jimdamick]

What is the different in say 1000 watts CFL equivalent which in my case is 278 watts actuals and actual 1000 watts HID or MPS?

Get Jorge Cervates "marijuna horticulture medical grow bible". It will give you all the information on lighting that you need. $20 on Amazon, so put down the pipe and get it. It will clear thing's up for you. Peace

 

[Jimdamick]

Yea, if you got about 20 of them. Up the Republic, forever. Peace and Happy 420.

 

[Fenian Brotherhood]

Exactly... That's why they're better. 20 bulbs compared to 1.. Think about it

 

[Jimdamick]

Exactly... That's why they're better. 20 bulbs compared to 1.. Think about it

I'd rather plunk one 1000w fixture above my crop than running all those sockets and supporting them in the supposed right spots, with lumens lost by the inches, etc. That's my opinon. Do you know who Bobby Sands was, my Finian friend?

 

[Fenian Brotherhood]

You Mean The Leader Of The Hunger Strike.... That was.... In....... 1978??....



Here read this:

you see it seem to me that people feel that if you give it the most intense light you can find and the best hydro setup that it equils dank fat buds and that is simpley not true.


CFL's do not have the danger or heat problems that HPS and MH have also it cost more all around to dissapate the heat and the smell with it also CFL's are self ballest in most cases and there are so many that if one goes out you dont have to shell up 150.00 or 250.00 or what if the ballast goes out what if either of them fail while you are out of town and you loose the crop if one or two fail then i loose a few lumens and keep on rockin again consider the fire danger while you are gone a fan can fail of trip the braker also they use less wattage and you are able to spread the light as you see fit in most cases instead of coming from a central location high above i will say in defence of the production grower large intense lights are a good and usefull thing because it cuts down on the doliers per OZ of production that in my opinion is the onley time you would need the extra lumens i my self will never grow more then 14 plants at a time i get around 3-5 OZ per plant with that light at 14 plants only geting 3 OZ per is still 42 OZ every 4 months what the hell will i do with all that and i am only using about 420-680 watts when you have MH and HPS you are stuck with on or two kelvin ratings and that is it with CFL's i can swap the kelvin rating as i see fit mabey i want to flower at 2100 kelvin mabey i like 6500 kelvin for veg or mabey i want to try 4500 kelvin for veg and see if i get a better sun leaf with CFL's there is room for discovery and creativity we know that all strands are not the same and come from diffrent parts of the world mabey you would like to plant all dark purple indiga and the next crop you want to plant a virgin sativa they have diffrent requirments for light and with CFL's you can provide that with half the cost just remember people that the higher you go in watts when buyin a single CFL bulb the lower you go in lumens per watt stay at 26-55 watts and that is the best spot to stay...................... here are the periods that belong up there disperse them as you please