Enough lighting? CF

riprod720

Member
I have two plants, 60 days old in about a 2' x 3' area. After the first 60 days of good vegging (6500k x 24k lumens), I am using [2] 43w/200w, [8] 26w/100w for a total of 294w/1200w from CFL's. Works out to 21k lumens at 2700k glow, for I have attempted to start flowering. The grow medium was MG moisture control mixed with straight organic from a local coutry club. I have the lights fairly close (within 3-6 inches) and they were growing very good until I switched light sources. I mean the pre-flowering area seem to be slowly developing, but I don't see the rapid growth I've read about during the flowering stage. Since I have started flowering I have been alternating every (2) days with fresh water with feed water (MG Bloom Booster= 15%N and 30%P & other minerals) I have been on the 12/12 lighting for about 6 days know and no signs of gender. Thoughts, impressions, criticism's (constructive please) or ideas of improvents i may be able to achieve with minmium cost? Thanks!
 

drewabu

Well-Known Member
No its not enough light bro, please if you can Upgrade to any size Hps you can. Flowering w/Cfls should only be done if you dont have a choice.
 

riprod720

Member
Sorry, dont have a camera for pics at the moment, but they are about 2 feet tall. I checked on them today, and just over night even, they started geting the little hairs on about half the node area's. Not sure if I wasn't looking hard enough or if they just spurted out in the past day or so, but there are ALOT of new flowering growths at most of the nodes. I had a good idea that the light would be considered too low because of the CFL source, but a friend had grown a single plant with a fraction of the light and had a little over an ounce of chronic bud. I really can't go HPS right now, so i guess I'll have to take my chances and hope for the best. I read that about 2k-3k lumens per S.F. was do-able, and I am at around 2.6k per. I'll give it few weeks, check it out and be back with some pics. Thanks for the input.
 
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