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quick question,i use cfl's with my hps light during vegetive growth(cos my cfls are blue and my hps is blue/red blue blue red= nice bushy growth).when plants are flowering they need more of the red spectrum so is there any point of having the cfls on?(i ask cos there all on timers and i cant be bothered unwireing the lights!).cheers y'all
my red light is covered by my dual 60watt floodlights and 60 house bulb
more light more growth
if you can afford the electricity, leave them on ... I have always found best results come from imitating nature ... although the early-Fall sun is at a different angle to the earth, emphasizing red-wave light, it is still providing the full spectrum at all times ... no worries :smokin:
nice one fellas;-)
If there is room lower your cfls between plants to encourage lower limb bud development.
hey sponge thats exactly how they are,i have em like this cos i messed up my germ dates so i had the cfls over the small plants to protect them from the hps until they got bigger,turned out they loved it so i left em,and like you said the lower parts got bushy and bloomed as well.
so are you saying when i switch to 12/12 i'll get buds lower down the plant with the cfls left on down there?
I have one desk lamp that's fitted with three mogul socket extenders, and four 100W equivalent CFL's. It's parked right in-between all of the pots, only about 1.5' off the ground, and really helps to provide light to all of the side-branches under the canopy...where even my 1000W HID can't illuminate very well. It's a good method, and it works.
I have never regretted putting a light down low. It always results in increased lower branch development!
I have lots of CFL under-canopy lighting, I actually have one branch that is growing DOWN towards the cfl, and at it's other end it is growing UP towards the HPS. it's a beautiful thing, i should take photos of it.