I realy cant stand people who come into threads about cfl's and bash on them when most likely they haven't even used them themselves. With the right spectrum and watts you can get an ounce off a plant..... i've seen it done.
Now that I think about, its either on this site or at icmag.com theirs a guy named Red Greenery who used to storage bins and I think 6 23w cfl's and got over 4 ounces off 5 plants....
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
heh, i'm sorry, but that's just too funny; most people that say cfl's are a waste of time ARE THE ONES WHO'VE TRIED IT AND KNOW BETTER!!
lol, i'm seriously not picking on you; i'm really high and in a lovely mood
. i took the time to fix your grammatical errors in the quote above (made a typo myself, so now i'm on a mission...
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i'm sorry, but an ounce or less per plant is pathetic. when you spend four months of your life growing a plant for that little, it's really heartbreaking. after you tally all you spend on cfl's, tape, wire nuts, this, that and the other, you've probably already spent the 100$ it would take to get a 75w-400w hps or mh.
sure, cfl's are great for a plant that is three inches tall and two inches in diameter, but what about when they get bigger? after all, they do have to veg out.... so if you have eight plants, by the time they are 8 weeks old, each one needs 4 cfl's by it's lonesome. that means you need to use at least 800w of cfl!!!! that's two 400w hps!!!
one thing that pisses off a lot of people, esp the veterans, is when n00bs come out and tell them how they hate it when people rag on quick fixes and cheap stuff, cuz it still works. sure it does. but no it doesn't.
so, with that said......
hahahahaha!!!