horizontal/vertical growing [possible?]

Also, I just noticed mention of larger fan leaves and what not from the CFLs. Plants that are lacking light will actually grow larger leaves in order to absorb more light. Plants that are getting tons of light will actually have smaller leaves. This is not always the case, sometimes extra healthy plants will have larger leaves as well, but huge leaves is one way to tell your plants are not getting enough light.

See for yourself, I'd say it's moving along REAL nicely. Day 17 BTW.

P.S. the other plant below is an oleander plant

You can get good vegging results with any cfl setup, especially for a short plant.. Once it comes time to flower though that will turn insufficient pretty fast! The catch-22 is that to setup a cfl system that can grow a decent yield of decently dense bud, you pretty much need to spend as much if not more than you would to get a small hps or metal halide bare ballast & bulb.. And although the heat is more dispersed, cfl's actually create more heat per watt..
In anycase though, you're going to want atleast a few 42W cfl's.. They cast a more penetrating light that buds need to fill out their innerds.. They cost more than $10 each though, and you could probably get a 70-150W hps (or even MH) for just over $50 from an electrical/lighting outfitter (probably in your industrial area of town)..

You can get a 250watt hps ballast kit for lie $50 on ebay, and a cheap blower fan for like $75. This will give you like 20x the yeild that your 50watts worth of CFLs will give.

Well, let me know what you think about this: https://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/107590-cfl-flowering.html

Notice people are using like 20 cfls? Also, the spaces are only like rubbermaid containers. I said use a small 1'x1' area and grow like 1 plant, or 2 if you're not lst'ing it. Thats exactly whats going on here. And if you have 20cfls, you're using well over 250watts, which means that you will use less power running the HPS than you would the CFLs. A 100watt HPS will put out more lumens than 250watts worth of CFLs.

Not to mention that cfl grown buds usually look beefier than they actually are.. Pics don't portray density very well..

born2killspam said:

Not to mention that cfl grown buds usually look beefier than they actually are.. Pics don't portray density very well..

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This is very true as well. I can take some pics of some fluffy ass weed and make this pic look like bomb ass weed.

put a seed in some good soil, give it ph'd water with alittle bit of good nutrients, give it a quality light "HPS" and run a bunch of air through your grow area, and you will do just fine...Why do anything different?