CFL Yeild 101

[CFLMaxYeild101]

Hello everyone glad to be part of this site.This is my first grow but have read everything that this site has to offer .So i came to the conclusion of the grow that i am now doing


Materials:
1 file cabinet: 25$
Honewell Turbine fan :10$
4 42wtt CFL's:7$ each
Fox Farm Soil :13$ 40.lb
Fish Emulsion:6$
Superthrive:7$
FoxFarm Tiger Bloom:15$
FoxFarm Big Bloom :15$
Timer:9$

This box is pretty cheap and easly made.Hopefully other newbies will follow in my foot steps and actually read up on the hobby instead of asking so many qustions that could easly be answerd by reading .As of now my plant is 5 days old.The seeds are bagseed.But the inner leaf production is turning purple so i might have a purple strain on my hands .This thing hasnt stretched one bit .Im growing 2 plants 1 is 5 days other is 3 days.Hope you fellow tokers enjoy.


Pic 1.Is of my plants with lights on temp staying between 78 and 80

Pic 2.Is of hole box (There is alot of light leakage but i dont care because im not trying to hide it but when everything is closed up its not as much in pic )

Pic 3.Is showing where the purple is coming in

Pic 4.Is of hole setup inside.(Please over look the dirty bucket lol)

[BOYZNUS]

IS THIS YOUR "COMPLETE GROW" BOX? SHOULD WORK UNLESS YOUR BABY GROWS TOP BE 5'. GOOD LUCK

[CFLMaxYeild101]

Yes this is my complete grow i plan to have only 1 plant befor i go into flowering i wanted 2 plants to even out female to male since its a 50/50 chance.If it starts getting to big ill do a single plant SCROG or some LST.Im not trying to get 5-6 ounces off this little box .But i do expect 1 1/2 ounces to 2ounces off 1 plant if everything goes well

[s12fever]

looks good, i can also relate to this sort of grow as i'm just starting my first grow under CFLs and fluero tubes.keep us informed with the progress.:)

[Lady Vapor]

There are a number of things you can do to increase your odds of getting more females to males. I don't have a scanner or I'd put it up for you. I've read the Cannabis Grow Bible many times. I know it has info in there about improving the ratio. I think in nature you'll get 70 to 80 % females, but that's just a guess...

[CFLMaxYeild101]

Hey ''Lady Vapor '' since you dont have a scanner is there away you could give me a quick run down of some of the ways to turn male/female to more females?Iv herd if you give the plant more blue spectrum during veg it could boost up your chances of female's .Or if anyone eles has any tips on the male/female chances i would greatly appreciate it .I mean iv read alot of ''myths'' of turning male/female but none have any good evidence to show it works.

[CFLMaxYeild101]

Just an update day 6 for big plant and day 4 for other.There is undergrowth just shoooting every where lol.And the leaves are starting to turn purple i probally snag a pic a little later of purple leaves and lines in between the leaves that are turning purple.

[CFLMaxYeild101]

Its just amazing i come to this site to hope some one would say ''Hey good job your doin alot better than most newbs out their''.Or ''Hey good lookn plants''.But what do i get, 3 people that kinda says im doin a good job out of 150+ views.Either people cant see pictures or im doin horrible job at grown.

[bongerstonerd00d]

From literature and our own findings it appears that the growth of a male or female plant from seed, except for the predisposition in the gender chromosomes, also depends on various environmental factors. The environmental factors that influence gender are: a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females. a higher potassium concentration will give more males. a higher humidity will give more females. a lower temperature will give more females. more blue light will give more females. Fewer hours of light will give more females. It is important to start these changes at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks, before reverting to standard conditions.

[iwantFUEGO]

nice grow man... you say thats a file cabinet? drawer on the bottom and closet above it right? i have the same thing, removing the floor of the closet and making it one space obviously. We have pretty much the same size box so i wanna def keep watching yours to see how its doing. The only thing i did diferently was that istead of raising my plants, i screwed hooks into the top and hung the lights down. This way i can raise them as the plant grows...
keep it up!:thumbsup:

[Garden Knowm]

hola amigo...

well, I can not see your pictures at this time... I will look later... your set up sounds good...

there is no reason to grow your plants larger than 8 inches...

add more lights if possible... and keeping the lights less than 1 inch from your plants is key to large yields...

iloveyou...

congrats on the new babies

[Dimebonic333]

I started this summer's crop with 10 cfls at 2700K and started to flower at about 6 inches now they are about 2 feet tall even with the Lst. Strectchin like a bitch.

[iwantFUEGO]

how does that happen? other people on here use CFLs and they keep their plants nice and small...

[Nutzz]

looks good to me. I'm doing my first grow, vegging under cfl and possibly flowering too.

[Dimebonic333]

how does that happen? other people on here use CFLs and they keep their plants nice and small...
Sativa like a motherfuck. thats how.

[Garden Knowm]

hi dime...

if you started your plants from seed... which I am fairly sure you did... it really does not matter if you flower them at 4 inches or 8 inches... they will grow to 18-24 inches... even if it is an indica
why?

well... a plant that is started from seed can not be forced to flower until it is "mature"... so they will just keep growing until they are mature enough to flower even under a 12/12 light regiment...

clones are different.. they can be flowered at 1 inch tall and they will only double to quatruple in size...

iloveyou

[Dr.Smokealot]

i havea question. does it really matter what kind of bulb u get cuz i seen bulbs that say warm white, cool white and some other stuff? just wondering

[Dr.Smokealot]

hey cflmaxyeild101 what are the dimensions of your file cabinet?

[keeko]

dr. smokealot, i believe it sorta matters if your using all CFL's, somebody correct me if im wrong, but 6500k (cooler, whitelight) is better for vegging and 2700k(warmer, redder light)is better for the flowering.....hope that helps

[Dr.Smokealot]

it should ,thanx

[Dimebonic333]

hi dime...

if you started your plants from seed... which I am fairly sure you did... it really does not matter if you flower them at 4 inches or 8 inches... they will grow to 18-24 inches... even if it is an indica
why?

well... a plant that is started from seed can not be forced to flower until it is "mature"... so they will just keep growing until they are mature enough to flower even under a 12/12 light regiment...

clones are different.. they can be flowered at 1 inch tall and they will only double to quatruple in size...

iloveyou

you.....are correct. they are sativas though. Buds everwhere. Whoo hoo. get ready for the 2k grow coming to a forum near you this fall.....i love you too.

[Jdog7000]

Kep those cfls as close as you can without touching the plant. And make sure you fix those light leaks before you flower.
Or you could end up with hermie.
Good Job though, so far.

[knna]

I started this summer's crop with 10 cfls at 2700K and started to flower at about 6 inches now they are about 2 feet tall even with the Lst. Strectchin like a bitch.


Not only light spectrum affects stretching. Night/day temp difference, watering, and specially, light intensity.

The most common error when growing with fluos or CFL are dont give enough importance to reflectors, wich are esential. And using too small watage bulbs and tubes, wich are less efficients and give less intensity.

Good luck in your grow

knna

[Dimebonic333]

Things are going quite well. Wont need much luck to pull this off. although this 400 watter could hurry up and get here. and then its on to the 1k.

[CFLMaxYeild101]

sorry for not updating been working over time .First pic is the 11 day old and 2nd pic is of the 11 day old and 9 day old

[s12fever]

nice. mine are 7-8 days old NOT including when they were germinating straight in the soil, and they're only tiny, skinny sprouts starting to grow their 2nd set of leaves!! What strain is this?

[CFLMaxYeild101]

I have no clue for the strain.Its a bag seed .But if anyone has any advice on my plants or think im doing something wrong please tell me.Also i havent added any ferts yet for veg but i want to flower in about 7 days should i add any veg ferts for veg or should i just go into flowering and then add the flowering ferts?

[CFLMaxYeild101]

Hello everyone .Just an update one is 13 days old and other is 11.Bent them over yesterday and the growth of each plant is amazing they doubled or tripled there size .

[CFLMaxYeild101]

One is 15 days old and other is 17 days old.

Are my plants small for there age??????????

[Garden Knowm]

NICE.. no they look perfect!!!

Dont over fertilize!

good job

[CFLMaxYeild101]

Hey Garden Knowm thanks for the comments.

Iv got one qustion though,since there growing this good with only the lights i have now.Would it be ok to go into flowering with only 4 clfs or should i add acouple more.

[Pothead4204life]

I say the more the merrier....there is a point where you get diminishing returns..

[BigBudDaddy08]

Looking great ''CFL101'' i think your keeping up or passing ''Garden Knowm's'' 2 week old plant,here's a link to his thread http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=48343

[CFLMaxYeild101]

Heres an update guys ,One is 17 other is 19.Replys would be great

[h3o]

just a question but are you losing track of your days? cause on june 7 you said your plants were 5 days old and now days later isn't the bigger one suppose to be 22 days old?

[CFLMaxYeild101]

Your right h3o .I guess i was counting June 7th as day 1 .Thanks for looking out though .Guess i will start 12/12 tomorrow.Man i feel like a jack ass for being wrong on how old they are .And i thought i was doin a good job with CFL's .

[h3o]

your doing a damn good job with cfl's, my biggest plant is 14 days old and its so stretched because i didnt fully research before i started. Do you remember how many nodes you had at 2 weeks? Im just starting to see my 4th node pop up.

[CFLMaxYeild101]

h3o i think at day 14 was just starting to see my 6th node .

[drumanick0]

looks great! how much u expecting from it?

[CFLMaxYeild101]

drumanick0 . Thanks bro for comment but both my plant's turned out to be male :( .But here on the lighter side .I was playing KillZone on my PS2 online and just so happend i bumped into a fellow grower that is on this website and told him my bad luck.And just so happend he sent me a clone about 2 weeks ago. I only asked him for a seed but he didnt have any because the plants he was growing only came in clones and was unable to produce seeds that were stable.So now im growing the clone and will post pics when done .

[drumanick0]

sry to hear that...but now u have a clone so its definitally female (hopefully wont go hermie lol)....good luck w/ the clone...hope all goes well, ill watch ur clone grow too :)

peace out
nick

[Tom Swierzbinski]

Heya, just so you know taking a clone from a clone reduces yield and potency. Im not sure on the exact figures, but Im sure that someone here will be able to help you out on that if you want to know. If its only for personal and you want a little more than you got from that one clone, then Im sure it wont matter :)

[E Man]

CFLmax, sorry to hear about the males. They were looking great. Good luck with the clone :thumbsup:

[weedheaduknow]

hey cfl, u did a great job either way, now i got a question and it may sound dumb, but what did u use to install those cfl's into and is it easy to do?? I'm also thinking of growing for the first time. peace!!

[Anathema2121]

hey cfl, u did a great job either way, now i got a question and it may sound dumb, but what did u use to install those cfl's into and is it easy to do?? I'm also thinking of growing for the first time. peace!!

I too am just starting with CFLs and the easiest lighting fixture I found can be found in lowes in the section with shop hardware near the extension cords. Its a plug in socket that comes in several different sizes with a clamp & a reflector. like 50, 100, 150 and 300 watt sizes, no wiring required, just plugs in.
Here's an example:
http://www.skycraftsurplus.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=867