I highly recomend these fluorescent lights!!

This fluoro unit is called "lightwing". It takes 2 x 55 watt tubes which emit a whopping 9'600 lumens onto my babies 24 hours a day. I used to believe that plants needed a "rest" period and only had my lights on for 18/6; but now I know that's a load of bullshit after seeing how these seedlings have grown under continuous light. I sprouted the seeds in paper towel and they went in the soil 1 week ago today. When they're big enough I'm going to top them all and plant the tops as cuttings so I can sex them. The males will be thrown away and I will choose two or three of the strongest females to use as mother plants. I'm preparing to build a proper growroom with wooden baton for the frame and hardboard tacked to it to form the walls. I will have a chamber for mothers and clones which will measure 3 x 3 x 2 ' and a flowering chamber of the same dimensions except it will be 5' tall. The clone and mother chamber will have the lightwing fluoro unit and the flowering room will have a 250w HPS or metal halide. I plan to have 24 clones in the flowering room (each clone to have a 6 inch square space) I know this may sound too many for the area but I'm only growing small plants using the scrog method. The clones will not be topped so they only grow one main bud each and will be forced to flower when they're about 10 inches tall. I will post more pics as the plants get bigger and when I've built my grow-cupboard.
Any comments, hints or tips more than welcome.

GC

By the way, the plants are Nirvana Afghani grown from three year old seeds!
who says old seeds don't grow! Thinking they would no longer be viable after all this time I put about 150 seeds in paper towel to ensure that I got some plants and about 90% of them sprouted after 3 days; DOH! I only had space for about 20 max so I've had to throw over 100 perfectly healthy seedlings away!! aagh!

P.S- notice the purple on the underside of the leaf on the seedling, strange.
I've seen these plants go purple before but only when I grew them outside the other year. I live in the UK so it was the cold that made them go purple I think.

Yes,,flowering a single stem @ about 10in. is the BC Bud way.Only good for rapid turnover commercial grow.Not much of the personal touch.As for 24 hr light, only time will tell if it has induced hermies.Which I believe can happen.This observation is what changed my vegging to 18/6.But,,if your happy that OK.Just keep an open mind.I have never seen any 55 watt fluro's..Very interesting as long as not too expensive.Fron the pic though I d say you need to lower the light.-usdi Agaluga

The light was very close to the plants, I just moved it up so I could take the pics.
The fluoros are pretty expensive (£90) but I think they were worth it, they're nice and compact. The tubes are cheap to replace, I think they're about £7 each or something.

WOW...I dont know if I could justify that much for even high power fluro's.usdi Agaluga