should i flower?

skunkushybrid

New Member
i totally agree with u dank..everything that i accomplished in 6 weeks easily could have been done with a mh in 3 weeks..but i worked with what i had...beggers cant be choosers and some pot is better than no pot.its a ghetto rigged setup..but hey if it works it works.yes i need to upgrade but i honestly never though i would make it this far.as this is my first grow and im a noob im pretty proud to make it this far..i give u props for doing what you do man..hopefully all goes will with mine i have about 7 other babies that are about 3in tall..hopefully after im done flowering this one i can start flowering the others..and thats when im gunna buy that hps...i will eventually upgrade but i dont have the funds to right now or the space....thats for all the advice guys..plant is about 11 inches now and i will have pics up for sure tommrrow..
Don't worry about it mike', we all start out the same way. Some people are happy plodding along the same way for years. Others want to improve. Most of us just like to get the first grow under our belts. Mainly just to make sure we can do it, before spending extra money on this and that for improvements.

-dank- is just showing off, and is a little too young, I feel, to understand respect. He is also forgetting his own first time where every single aspect of the plant's growth was amazing.

I'm chuffed for you mike', and looking forward to the pic's.
 

Garden Knowm

The Love Doctor
right now im using 3 26w cfls 6500k..but once i start flowering i plan on using 3 18w 2500kcfl and one 26w 6500k cfl..what would my yeild be like???
hi mike

:)

the height of the plant is secondary to the number of nodes when determining flowering..... it is the number of nodes and that is IMPORTANT when considering maximum yield...


when using CFLs, flowering should be done when the pant is 4- 8 inches tall with no more than 6 nodes...

THIS is the general rule of THUMB....

and NOW you KNOWM
 

mxpxsunkist

Active Member
ok, not to just be an asshole and make fun of you.... this is whats up.... if you have a plant, in veg and you veg it to lets say 1ft tall.... once you put it in flower its gona stretch.... to 2 to 3 feet tall... now if you just have some cheap clf's your not gona do shit... reson being... the light from the clf only penatrates a couple inches.... meaning if you have a plant that is more then 6 inches away from your clf its not geetting the light it needs.... the lumes go so far then die out... like a 1000watt hps can penatrate a canapee about 3ft... after that the light is pretty much useless... same thing with a 600watter... maybe it dons't penatrate as much.. like 2 and a 1/2 feet till you start getting light degradation... now if your just using hows lil clf's your not going to get shit..... your plant sounds to be big enough to give you a yeild from what you saying... but you have to remember this... wattage times sq foot = yeild...

on avrage you will get 0.7 grams per watt of HPS light you use to flower...


sooo if you have a 1000 watter you would get about 700 grams.. thats a little over a pound and a 1/2 considering you know what your doing.. now you can get more or you can get less that depends on your setup weather you have co2... what boosters you use.... on avrage if your a new grower using a 400watt hps light in a closit space 4ft x 2ft thats 1/2 a meeter you will get about 6 to 10 oz... ... i just relaised i forgot to tell you about the space part of the watts equation... your light will only cover soo much area... like a 1000watter will cover a 4x4 area.. a 600watter a 3x3 area.... so you do watts by squair foot. like my area is 10x7 that gives me 70sq foot... i have it plants wall to wallll... i also have 6 600watt hps... so thats a total of 3600watts now devide that by 70 cuz thats how many sq foot i have... it comes out to being around 51 watts per sq foot.... i expect to yeild around a pound per light... so thats 6lbs total... wich is 448 x 6 = 2688 grams... devided by 3600watts that gives me 0.74 grams per watt... now you see what i am talking about... i have a 7x10 area... covered by 6 600's at 51qwatts per sqfoot and i'm expecting a yeild of 0.74 grams per sqfoot which works out to 1lb per 600 watt hps lamp...

hope this clears up some things for you...

my best advice is get a real light.... if you want real pot you need real light hats all i have to say
Best answer to my question ive had yet....
 
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