Cajun Grower
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my room looks better wth out all the crap hanging everywhere and my girls r putting out a lot more ! its ur own choice wether you want lights hanging everywhere r 1 light tht does it all !
240w cfl vs 240w hps
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Cajun Grower
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unless you've done them both like i have you dont have an arguement i have no more heat issues than b4 temps wth the hps r actualy lower than the 12 cfls i had ! i rest my case
FresnoFarmer
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FresnoFarmer
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looks like one wire to me
RollupRick
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DelQ
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I would love to put my 200 watters in that bad boy.... that thing is so sweet... So much for a room looking better you sure owned him.... LOL!!!you mean like this?
Cajun Grower
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sure but you still had to buy all the stuff and build it ive been there done tht its pretty much to each his own i had more money spent in cfls than i have in my hps system and it wrks better for me....you're not showing me anything i havnt done wth them b4.....not wrth the trouble thts my opinion like it r not doesnt matter i share my opinion just like everyone else here !
Cajun Grower
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yea it looks good great job but it still wont put out the most important thing high lumens tht a hid r hps will thts wht this whole thing was abt !
DelQ
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Ya Cfl's are good way to enter into growing sense it does not cost all that much up front. Ya but you still get some great yield from them...
On another note. I had the privlage to ride horses with a Cajun man from Church Point, let me tell you this guy was by far the greatest horseman I ever seen in my life... To this day I have never seen anybody anywhere ride half as good as that man.. Texas as some great riders but this guy would show them up every time... Plus he fed me rooster gumbo!!!! You guys got going down there!!!
monkeybones
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yeah, i can't really believe i forgot about lumen efficacy. maybe i should go easy on the ganja
i'm actually concerned for myself now...
Cajun Grower
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yea they do yield prettygood if you have enuff of them i pulled 2 zips off my last kandy kush wth the cfls but i new i could do better wth the hps and so far im happy wth the results from it i have a blue lemon thai thts only 2.5 foot and if it keeps going the way it is it'll be close to tht ! and lol dont put nuthin past us bayou boys i dont live down there anymore but the cajun roots still flow strong through my blood you can take the cajun out of louisiana but cant take louisiana out of the cajun !
FresnoFarmer
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yeah but how many lumens are you actually utilizing. how close is your hps to your plants? lumens are lost with distance. just sayin
FresnoFarmer
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lumen efficiency??.....what about the how many lumens you lose do to distance from the light to the plant?
RollupRick
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From my school book "Growing Without The Bollocks"
"Biggest ass light you can afford to buy and run, stick em over some plants as close as safe, well done. You're now a l33t grower."
"Biggest ass light you can afford to buy and run, stick em over some plants as close as safe, well done. You're now a l33t grower."
Cajun Grower
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get a light meter test it urself you can get one @ lowes for $10 cfl wont come close at any distance compared to a hps of the same wattage ! ill put money on tht !
Cajun Grower
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i can keep my hps 6 inches from the top my plants wth no heat problems and at 18 inches im not losing enuff to talk abt i do have and use a light meter !
here are some decent cfl's http://sunblasterlighting.com/125-200-watt-cfl-lamp.php
also i veg with flourescents gives me tight nodeing i use sunblaster's for veg here is a pic with 136 watts of sunblasters but for flowering the big gun's are needed cheers
also i veg with flourescents gives me tight nodeing i use sunblaster's for veg here is a pic with 136 watts of sunblasters but for flowering the big gun's are needed cheers
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FresnoFarmer
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fuck arguing about lumens dude.
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/208209-why-lumens-dont-mean-anything.html
hps is best for flowering imo, but if people can get 8 oz of bud from 8 42watt CFLs does this not prove they are efficient?
alley.walker
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I use a combo of CFL's and LED's.. Nothing much on the LED side.. Just stuff I built. But I do have a 200w cfl that I use as well. 15,000 lumens.. Well ya duh.. It works. The major difference between HPS and CFL's is the fact that with CFL's you are constantly moving the lights around. More than 4" away? Forget about it. But the results can be the same. If not even better... But CFL's aren't for lazy people. So ya, take your pick