Seedling Lighting Question

GhanjaBuck

GhanjaBuck

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I am preparing to germinate for my first grow. I have a 1000W MH for vegging. Can I put the seedlings under the MH right after germination or will that be too much? Should I get some flour tubes for the sides of my room and just start with them? If I do that they wont be adjustable as far as height.
 
Schmidty

Schmidty

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I typically wait until the seedlings are about an inch tall, and then place them under veg lighting. I'm not sure if there's any best practices here though...
 
Chiceh

Chiceh

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I put mine under flouro grow shop light until at least 3 to 4 nodes high and strong. Then you can put em under the 1000 watt mh for vegging. If you put them under that too soon, they can't handle it. Trust me, I have tried and watched them shrivel up, lol. :mrgreen::peace:
 
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stevey007

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Yeah I would recommend fluoro, Seedlings under strong lights tend to mutate, they seem to come right later on but are a bit slower growing.
 
GhanjaBuck

GhanjaBuck

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These are my thoughts....in nature...they start with full sunlight! How could it hurt 'em? I am not questioning your responses at all...i am just dreading the fact that I need to make another trip to home depot...spend some more $ on lights! I have already blown my budget completely LOL!
 
GhanjaBuck

GhanjaBuck

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How bout this? What if I just start them with about 600 watts of regular incandescent for the first 10 days or so? Would that work?
 
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delerious

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regular incandescent would be way too heat (especially 600 watts worth) with little if any usable spectrum. The shop lights are the 4 foot fluorescent, I got mine at Walmart for $15.I forget what my bulbs cost, I think it was less than $10. Get daylight bulbs. If you don't have anything to hang them from, I've seen people put them up on boxes, wood, ceramic blocks (under the edges). Here's 2 pics of the light and bulbs I got.
 

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GhanjaBuck

GhanjaBuck

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delerious said:
regular incandescent would be way too heat (especially 600 watts worth) with little if any usable spectrum. The shop lights are the 4 foot fluorescent, I got mine at Walmart for $15.I forget what my bulbs cost, I think it was less than $10. Get daylight bulbs. If you don't have anything to hang them from, I've seen people put them up on boxes, wood, ceramic blocks (under the edges). Here's 2 pics of the light and bulbs I got.
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Thanks! My Wal-Mart had the same fixtures for under $9 each! So I got 3. 1 will be for the seedlings. The other 2 are going to be side lighting for my room! I am putting the daylight in the seedling one. I will put 1 each daylight and warm white in the side fixtures for my room! Thanks again.
 
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