Next time...use 5500k-6500k floro tube lights....(during veg cycle)..and you will need much stronger light ...soon!
HID or a bunch of CFL's...lighting...(7800k is not good)
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Next time...use 5500k-6500k floro tube lights....(during veg cycle)..and you will need much stronger light ...soon!
HID or a bunch of CFL's...lighting...(7800k is not good)
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Originally Posted by Dutch Pimp
how many watts do you recommend for the CFL's?
don;t go based on wattage... wattage is a rating of how much power the bulb consumes, and is relatively meaningless when it comes to how much light (lumens) they output.
However, when it does come to CFLs, they are pretty predictable with their output... the current generation of CFLs are basically like this:
23watt (100watt equivalent) = ~1600 lumens (~69 lumens per watt)
29watt (125watt equivalent) = ~2200 lumens (~75 lumens per watt)
42watt (150watt equivalent) = ~2600 lumens (~61 lumens per watt)
Please make sure you read the packaging to ensure you are getting lumen counts around those numbers or greater! the 29watt bulbs are great effenciency as you can see, as far as CFLs go at least... but I have only found them in local stores with 2700K colour temp.
Also pay attention to the colour temp, 6500K for veg, 2700K for flower - though most CFL growers will say that using a mix of the 2 for both stages is ideal, just heavier on the 6500K for veg, and heaiver on 2700K for flower.
As for your current flouro... you said its 600watt? is it truely 600watt or is it 600watt-equivalent? i find it a little hard to believe that its truely 600watt, as even a 48" T5 flouro that puts out like 4600 lumens is only 54watt.
If you really have a 600watt flouro, it would be producing massive lumens and massive heat and having it 2" away from the plant would be waaaay too close if its that high of an output as you'd be seeing signs of heat stress, and they probably also wouldn;t be stretching like they are... look at the bulb and see if there is any kind of model number... we can probably figure outs its specs based on that.
okay guys, I just went and got 3 2700k cfl's and 3 6500k cfl's. Im going to wire up some fixtures on a coupple two by four and see if the growth rate improves, i will post some new pictures in a few days.
So, I've since flushed the plants, and added the new cfls. They seem to have started growing again.
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ok so i think im doing this all wrong but this is my first time and i dont know where to go or how to ask a question so i am just gonna put it on here and hope someone picks it up.
first of all i have no idea what im doing not much of an idea about growing at all,but i have managed to grow a couple of clones right up to full maturity ( amber on the bud) only thing is i started to trim em and i noticed these little ball things, though oh no they are male pollen sacks and there seems to be quite a lot of em mainly at the main stem/branch where the bud starts like in the first part of the bud, they look like a miniture upside down opium head with 2 little hairs coming out of the top, so i cut one open and there is the minutest little brown thing inside bout the size of a grain of sand.
has the plant hermied and are these the begining of male pollen, or are they female pollen sacks , or are they the earliest formation of new buds, the buds are large and sticky but i am not sure if i messed it up. can anyone give me some advise.
and if i posted this in the wrong place i am really sorry but i couldnt figure out where or how to post. thanx to anyone who offers up soem advise
are there little white pistils sticking out of the sacks? if so then they're female
another way to tell, the male seed sacks, looks more like a ball sack.
looks like snow haha
has ur light been that far from the pots since they were seeds?
also a fan might help if u dont already have one