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i dont know how you could increase the thc levels on a floro grow, floro's have such a low light intensity that you would need a lot of lights, with a lot of watts, penetrating the plant all over. the higher the light intensity, the more trichome development there will be, so my advice is to pack on the floros, and get them as close to the plant as possible. pLus, if you want to grow a majority sativa plant, ur crazy. Sativa's are soo bushy and big, a floro couldnt grow a sativa worth a damn!
Thank you, appreciated. At the moment I have eight 4' lights arranged in an arch. I'm trying to keep 6-7 plants in flower at any time, I have a separate area for veging with cool whites. I've bought good green and mine's stronger but I lose on the yield, don't mind that.
My idea for the sativa was put the lights in a vertical cone, flower the main stem, chop that and bring the lights down to the bush for another couple of weeks. It's only for me and I like playing. ;)
Hvyfuel any idea the height to plant ratio for fluoro as i might give it a go as i am constantly feeding the meter, im on the lookout for some outdoor strains that will tolerate British weather and save even more for a trip to Goa at the end of the year
I can almost taste that bud pirate niiiiiiice did it smoke as good as it looked
The police in Goa are clamping down on cannabis tourists, Be careful. I use 6x4' and get an ounce a plant, which I'm happy with as it's dripping THC. You can use compact fluoros and get another three quarters to an ounce but you lose potency.
peace :)
blueberry is a strain that was developed under floro lights, I have been reading heavilly into strains lately and blueberry, apparently produces quiet well under them.
I've grown some very potent plant's with fluorecent's before,12x40WTs,4 on each side and 4 above(480WTs total)compared to H.I.D. the grow takes 2-3 weeks longer and the yeilds are less(say about 35-40%)but they are just as potent,but the bulbs degrade after about 3 months and need replaceing,so it is not too cost effective compared to H.I.D(12-15 months)or longer....bonbon
So far I am having great results with the flouros I am using. I started with standard Sylvania 24 watt compact flouros for the first 2 weeks of vegging. Then I switched to 42 watt full spectrum Ozonelites. They are so much brighter that they make the original CFs look like standard house lightbulbs. They plants responded immediately and I am one week into flowering with these beautiful White Widows so far. My friend can hardly contain himself(his realestate, my garden). No problems so far.
Patience is obviously the key.
Dingo - Excellent info bro, just what I wanted to hear.
bonbon - I can get fluoro bulbs cheap locally, last time I used HPS & MH the electricy bill scared the bejesus out of me.
sawleaf - You're not going to give up with these new bulbs are you! OK OK I'll buy some.
peace :)
bonbon - I'm moving soon and will be using a new set up. Adopting your idea six above and four behind sounds like it's worth a try. Four sections 4' x 3' x 5', one crop per month.