CFL Flowering help please

Hi fellow tokers of the green, this is my first post and first serious grow.

Have grown some bagseed (cheese and indica type brown bud) and have been using 2 x 20w spiral cfl warm white (can only get blue spectrum in 12watt so thought whats the point) and have grown them veg for 2months.

Have put on 12/12 for about a week and no sign so have switched to 11/13 (extra dark hour) to hopefully bring into flower quicker.

Have tried to attach pics of plants but cant get uploader to work :(.

There are no white hairs or signs of male flowers, but on the short dark indica plant have noticed the small green v things has turned white and are stickin out more.

Any ideas on how i can get them to show sex quickers? i know im not using alot of light and may double cfl's (80watt) in a few days if no sign.

Grow room is in closet 2ft by 1ft and has fan sucking air in onto lights and plants. Have a seperate dark box that is 100% dark.

Any thing i havent covered let me know. Also i am hoping to get 150watt hps in a week but wanted to see if cfl's could start plants flowering so i know how many females i will have and can sepearate males.

Thanks :joint:
 
1st is 3 day seedling, 2nd is tall cheese and same for 3rd pic just sideangle pic, 4th pic is the indica and is very short and short spaced nodes :), 5th pic is a sad looking cheese plant that is same age as over 2 plants, last one is a late sprouted seed about a few weeks old.
 

mr.smileyface

Well-Known Member
first of all it takes three weeks before you can find out what sex the seedlings are. It then will take one to three weeks to see flowering.
It usualy takes 2 weeks under an hid. You stressed them out by flipping the switch early. They will still flower but its going to take them the same amount of time if u left them veg untill the pre-flowerings showed.
 
cheers peeps, think im gonna add another 20watt cfl tomorrow. Plants are fine and have had a growth spurt and stems are turning purpley so think their maturing, biggest 3 are 2months and a bit.

Think im gonna have to order a 70w hps for £30 about 5800lumens just to get quicker flower growth.

One more question guys, can you buy the adaptors so you can run 2 bulbs on 1 socket? want to add more cfl but dont want loads of wires.

Also i read in my "Gold Harvest" book that if you cut flower light cycle to 13 night, 11 day you can save 2-3 weeks of flower time (total) so say if i takes 8 or 9 weeks on 12/12 to finish, it would take 5-6 weeks on 13/11 to finish?
 
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