whymedeisgns
Active Member
Things to bear in mind for future attempts:
Red light doesn't make the plant flower, it just augments flowers that bloom. The photo period (hours of light/dark) are what shift the plant into flowering and what initially form flowers.
If you want a small plant you can't just veg a plant with alot of veg light quickly and switch it. Trying to make a plant mature fast is disaster waiting to happen, some strains may be able to do it, but it takes ridiculous genetics.
If you want a small plant look at it like fish, give it a small pot, and give it a restricted amount of light. 2000 lumens per square foot of SURFACE AREA. Lots of people look at this on a 2D plane because with HID lighting that is how you do the math. But with CFLs you need to account for the fact that you are direction ally aiming side lights so you need to factor in total surface area.
I treat 1 small plant like it has 3 square feet as an adult in flowering because of my directional lighting.
consider using reflectors. You can make reflectors for cfl lamps with energy drink cans (wash them thoroughly please) or beer cans, depending on the size / shape of the cfl bulb (they range alot).
Good luck, if you decide you want to try and recover the one you have I'll try to help yah, it's always good to see something all the way through the first time, there's more lessons to be learned, great idea to learn them on something potentially already lost.
Red light doesn't make the plant flower, it just augments flowers that bloom. The photo period (hours of light/dark) are what shift the plant into flowering and what initially form flowers.
If you want a small plant you can't just veg a plant with alot of veg light quickly and switch it. Trying to make a plant mature fast is disaster waiting to happen, some strains may be able to do it, but it takes ridiculous genetics.
If you want a small plant look at it like fish, give it a small pot, and give it a restricted amount of light. 2000 lumens per square foot of SURFACE AREA. Lots of people look at this on a 2D plane because with HID lighting that is how you do the math. But with CFLs you need to account for the fact that you are direction ally aiming side lights so you need to factor in total surface area.
I treat 1 small plant like it has 3 square feet as an adult in flowering because of my directional lighting.
consider using reflectors. You can make reflectors for cfl lamps with energy drink cans (wash them thoroughly please) or beer cans, depending on the size / shape of the cfl bulb (they range alot).
Good luck, if you decide you want to try and recover the one you have I'll try to help yah, it's always good to see something all the way through the first time, there's more lessons to be learned, great idea to learn them on something potentially already lost.