CFL Grow 2 Months Old

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pioneersa8800

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This is my two month old plant. I topped it so it would grow two main branches. I didn't have the cfl's at first, I just had the tubes so it might be a little behind on growth for a two month old one. Its doing pretty good now.
 

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On3Tim3OnLy

On3Tim3OnLy

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your gonna want to get a couple of high output ones .. like a 125w ecolight 12000 lumens for about $40 maybe cheaper
 
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Rousel23

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yes your girl is a little behind. also notice how much she seems to be reaching.
I would agree that a bomber cfl for 40 buck online is a very good idea. if you want to avoid the online bulb buying business then just go to home depot or wherever and pick up 2 or 4, 24w or 100w (depending on if your talking in cf or incandescent terms) I would say just buy the 2400k or warm whites and get that girl budding.
I cant really tell but it looks like your running out of vertical room. if so remember that when you bud she will still grow and get bigger and taller while budding.
Good luck man.
 
solstice08

solstice08

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I checked out home depot, well for Daylight bulbs it's a little to expensive (PLus no 27w=100w bulbs) so i checked walmart, well for the same price home depot has it for, 3 x 100w equivalents daylight, 1600 lumens compared to 1300 at homedepot for $8. Brand = GE
 
homegrownboy

homegrownboy

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Wal-Mart has 200W daylight(6500K) and cool-white(4100K) cfl's...up here in Canada there $25 a pop, but they ARE true 200 cfl watts...NOT equivalant watts.
 
kushmonster

kushmonster

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Im using
2 24watt daylight
1 29watt warm
2 13watt daylight

my 2 plants are 32 days old, now it seems im starting to develop little reddish purple lines in my leaf stems, by the very top of the plants...any clue??
 
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Rousel23

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very cool. Im not sure what that means but I would assume that it is your plants way of saying its happy you added more light. Let us know id you notice it getting more bushy with the added lights. It should start to grow faster and more dense foliage.

I forget if ou said or not but are you adding any nutes?

Also could you post a pic of the purple veins? Im super interested in seeing them :)
 
kushmonster

kushmonster

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just started nutes, some stuff from lowes not the best, but its something like 18-6-7, try to get some pics on here tomm.
 
tommo9090

tommo9090

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pioneersa8800 said:
Yeah I think I'm gonna get about 6 more cfls to go with the two I already have and see what happens.
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lol man, dont be so drastic

4-5 would have been plenty
but you've kinda gone from one extreme to another
i reccomend on your next grow keep it constantly on 4-5 CFL's
btw its a nice plant just very slow.

peace bro
 
tommo9090

tommo9090

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sorry i just wanted to add:

put the light closer, they look like they reaching in certain directions...
CFL's hafto be 3 inches away...
if your not using and fertilizers put a bid of organic fertilizer in with the water.
make an aluminiumfoil square wall around you plant.. like a few inches wider than your pot, so the lumens wasted get reflected back onto your plant.

do that for 2-3 weeks and the plant will be nice and helathy ready for budding.
 
homegrownboy

homegrownboy

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NEVER USE ALLUMINUM FOIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! White paint or mylar...foil could burn your plants. 3" is a good distance but if you can get closer...i get mine 1.5" away, but i also have a fan blowing on the lights to keep them cool. Using CFL's you want about 5 per plant...and try to have them in a pyamid shape to the plants so the sides get plenty of light as well...i went with 7 cfl's for my 1 plant and was quite amazed with the results.

If your going to give advice...GIVE ADVICE THAT'S RIGHT!!!!!
 
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Rousel23

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Yes Never Ever use aluminum foil. Your better off using white paper. Wow man you used 7 lights. I had 8 lights 2 inchs away from my 2 plants. but while I was at work well long story short I have one now :( But if nirvana would get off there ass then I would have some fem seeds sprouting grrrrr.

I now have 5 on my one plant in a pyramid shape like the last guy said. With the 5 24w 6500k cfls my little girl is super happy. not reaching and growing nice and bushy.
I will switch out 3 of the 6500k lights for 2400k and adding one or two more.
A word to the wise. I bought a lot of cfl bulbs on ebay. I got 24 bulbs total for $45 after shipping. 12 6500k and 12 2400k. Not a bad deal if you ran the numbers against home depot.

Oh yeah and your girl looks very happy. Good work man.
 
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