best cfl's for flowering?
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chiefsirbong420
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you need to add more light using a cfl grow im doing my 1st cfl grow and was told more lights are needed for additional plants and way to disgrace these beautiful plants by callin them hoodrats..... smh
333maxwell
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Not very wordy.. but he's right.. *L*
Get yourself 2700k AND try and mix in 6500k if you can.. if you can get a quarter of your light from that blue (6500k) spectrum it is (in my opinion) very beneficial. So you know, for every 4 bulbs of 2700'k, toss in a 6500.. I prefer more, but try and get a 'little' bit in there anyway.
If you are going to use CFL, a mixed spectrum and a bunch of em is a golden ticket.
333maxwell
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I am nuts.. but I can tell you as fact 100 actual watts per plant isn't very much.. I can also tell you mixed spectrum is best.
But how does this make me nuts? I am working on my audition and I don't want to blow it.
Thanks.
Indoor Sun King
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and toss in a 5000k for good luck
these ladies did thrive with the minimal lights though they will be 6 weeks on saturday 
Adjorr
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Nice! Super cropping is such an awesome technique even when accidental lol, it looks like it would kill the plant but they always bounce back bigger and stronger because of it. As long as the stem dosent break all the way the plant can recover most of the time. I don't know how well that fertilizer will work in flowering but it looks like its done well for you in veg. Does it list the amounts of n-p-k? Also in one of your pics I notice minor signs of mag deficancy (dark green leaf veins with light green leaf surface) you might want to add a spoon full of Epson salts to your next watering, once every month or 2 is usually enough for a full grow its a micro nutrient
nuka95
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well one of the plants is a blue widow and her coloring has been crazy since her seed popped the other is a train wreck and she is living up to her name... the blue widow was so compact i actually had to raise the lights so i can see what she had going on it was a freakin jungle for 2 weeks lol I am so cheap since i quit my job to go back to school and that fertilizer was 90% off that crap cost .04 yes 4 freakin cents lols and i guess it works pretty good and there is plenty of earthworms in my soil at least 10 per pot i give them whatever fruit and veggie scraps i have.....
nuka95
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oh wow how thick!! she is beautifu!! l im still working out the denser airy bud thing and honestly growing is i guess more of a hobby for me i dont think i will ever be able to sustain myself with my grows yet even though ultimately that is a goal so i can save money and be in control of what i consume. my last grow bombed big time and i think i ended up with 14g off of 4 scrawny bag seed females. being that im 2 days away from flower i think im just getting nervous lol and trying to make sure i didnt waste this last 6 weeks