reggae roots =]

drsmokey

drsmokey

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WA GWANNNN this is from day one wich is seed to day 28 as of today.. will ad more pics once i figure out how to organize this lol
me and the misses started our first grow =] =] =] .....some people more excited then others [cough cough me] ...

i have a 21 gal rubber maid ... built it myself used sum specs i got offline and everything came out good... got my nutes from the local nute store.. and walaaaahhhhh im at day 28 from seed.... im using regular bag seed of some lime green i got from my boy wich is the best shit we get where im from . i got my four plant set up i used 2 26w cfls and one 100w haligon [ i didnt know haligon was useless] but my plants still grew the whole 28 days and now are 20 inch plus and i swear they grow more every night.. any way i touched the fuckin haligon bulb and blew the light. hit home depo today and got 2 daylight 27 watt cfls 2 ''y'' connecters and added 2 spare 26 watt cfls i had around the house. so i have a total of 6 cfls for four plants..
i used fox farm grow big for vegging and on day 21 i switched to 12/12 for flowering
... basically what i need to know is am i on the right road??:eyesmoke:

here are some pics.. the ones with all the cfl is from the 6-17-11 wich is today the day i burtn the shit outa my finger cuh that damn bumbclaut hot haligon light... im gonna load more soon

PLEASE COMMENT FEED BACK IDEAS .... ANYTHING WILL HELP.. REMEMBER.. ITS MY FIRST GROW
 

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Shafto

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Halogen lights use tungsten heated to 3000 degrees Kelvin. They are a black body radiator that the CRI colour rendering index is based upon.

A halogen would probably be the absolute best light possible for growing. Huge amounts of red and deep red for flowering. Bit low on blue but add some in with 6500K CFL and you'd be good to go.

Oh wait.. I forgot... Too bad they're only 4% efficient at creating light from electricity, so the other 96% turns into heat blasted at your plants which makes them useless.... Too bad though. If you could somehow have a huge amount of cooled halogen lighting spaced high enough with some IR blocking glass.. You'd probably have the best grow lighting possible, but the electrical use would be insane. HPS makes almost 10X as much light for same amount of electrical input, spectrum not as good as halogen though.
 
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Shafto

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Plants look Healthy. Little bit stretchy from lack of light, but you use what ya got!

You're gonna have to do some canopy control, a screen or tie them down somehow with a trellis, already nearly touching the light and you've still got a couple more weeks of stretch.

If you can, get some of the 42W CFLs to replace the ones you have, they throw a lot more light. For flower, go mostly "warm white" with a couple "daylight" versions. Warm white mimic 3000K incandescent halogen and have more red for flowering. 6500K "daylight" have a lot more blue, good for vegging and for resin production (so you wanna keep some around for flowering too).
 
drsmokey

drsmokey

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greatly appreciate the info. im going to hit home depo in the am... is the price range for the 42w cfls the same?
 
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