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Hey,
I am starting to get pretty good results with the bulb pictured below. It is a Sylvania Spot Gro. I was wondering if anyone has ever used these bulbs and what the end result were in using them. I just got it today and so far the pants seem to be responding well to them. But I didn't know if in the long run if it would mess up my plants.
Thanks
It's incandescent, so it'll probably burn your plants. You're much better off with a compact fluorescent bulb, or several of them, or some form of HID lighting.
A short summary of efficiency:
Incandescent lights: 10% light, 90% heat
Fluorescent lights: 40% light, 60% heat
HID lights: 50% light, 50% heat.
These are only approximations, and vary based on the light. Also, the percentage of each light's spectrum that is usable by plants varies depending on the type of light.
what happens if you veg with fluro's and hps? is it possible veg and flower with out changing anything but the hours of light? ive seen people use hps fom start to finish using clones
what do you think?
i have used the same type 3 way incondesent how much luens does it say? how many watts and whats the temps?Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilCowboy420
its better used for vegging but you would need something like hps light to flower ok buds but you can also flower with good fluro's and there not so hot and way cheap and saves energy but also depends on how many plants then worry about light!
yes you can use the same light for both veg and flower.Quote:
Originally Posted by smokinbuds21
does it make it grow faster or something or its just better then fluros or really dosent matter good light period fast growth?
when the light finaly warms up its gotta orenge tint to it thats still ok?
Ok I changed to day to a CFL the swirly bulbs from lowes. But I was given the advice to keep them on 18/6 during this stage and then much later change it to 12/12. However when I turned off the light I came back after the 6th hour to turn the light back on and they were leaning over. So I was wondering if I should just leave the light on constantly becuase turning it off for even 6 hours is having a bad effect on them.
I will try to post some pics of it but when I saw it leaning over I carefully staked them up. And I figured I would keep an eye on them. So I am not sure if the plant that was leaning the most if a pic will do any good. but the other one was only leaning toward the top so I can get a pic of that. I will post it in a bit.
Also I should add I use to have a fungus gnat problem and they killed 2 plants before and I cleaned the pots changed the dirt and the little fuckers came back so I layed out some sticky traps on the sides of the pots. So i don't think they were there long enough to do any damage and the one that looked the worst didn't have any gnats in it at all.
It's kind of frustrating but practice makes perfect I guess and I have plenty of seeds to try from. I am trying to getting growing it down before I move up in the amount of plants I grow so right now I am growing 2 plants in 2 different pots. I just really hope I don't have to start over again.
Also one more thing. One little sprout has a little purpleish/red stripe on it. Never seen this in any pics so was wondering if anyone else has heard of this and what it is.
Thanks for the help thus far.
You say the plants are leaning? Is there a light source that they are leaning toward? Also, how many watts is the bulb you have now?
Fungus gnats are probably not the reason your plants died, however fungus gnats thrive in overwatered soil. Maybe you watered them too much?
Well wierd thing well not really wierd but anyways I looked at the plants again. One is definately dying because it's stem is getting thinner and the thing is looking more wilted. I have a feeling because of the trouble with fungus gnats before I tried to not over water them and thus ending up under watering them.
However I was able to mostly save one plant to where it is now looking loads better than this morning. I am just keeping a close eye on it because I don't think I am out of the woods yet.
Also Khronik the last plants I feel I did overwater them. I know that was one of my mess ups so your probably right.
The watts of the bulbs were 23 watts and I have 2 of them. There really weren't very many high wattage CFL's at the store I went to and I just ended up buying a box of 2. I set up one lamp do you think I should put both of them up?
Thanks again.
more bulbs more lumens....... more heat?? just keep air circulating and they will be fine just keep the cfls on for right now until you get a desired height (all basically depends on strain so do a lil study on your babies such as sativa/ indica ratio) after that never ever let any light hit them during flowering a hps will be good for that because it has the red spectrum that it likes... your plants depend on you to play mother earth which you already know so nutrients are a big deal when it comes to quality... hope this helps
thanks mata it does help. I will take your advise and not turn off the light as it seems to need them all the time because anytime I have moved them away from the light source they have started leaning. The bad thing is I can't do much research on the seeds because my friend forgot to ask the strain when he got me the seeds so I have to wait until he talks to the dude again.
He is almost certain that some of the seeds he handed me were Purple Haze so fingers crossed on that one. But I doubt it. Probably just some skunk or something. I will have to wait on him or when the plant is big enough take a wild stab at what strain.
i dont mean to bum you out but i been reading around and they say purple haze is now a lost strain.. no reason to stop growing though i feel mj is mj and its all the way you grow and when you harvest during your window cycle i have read that people get more head high when picking early and a body high when picking late
yeah I was reading around as well and got the same thing. I figured they were just trying to bump up their seeds more than what they were. Personally I feel the same was it could be the crapiest weed and I'm still gonna try and smoke it and crappy weed would be better than no weed lol.
BTW the plant is looking a lot better keeping the light on today. the one that looked the worse was too far gone and passed away lol late last night. (Silent moment.......) Anyways I germinated a new seed to take its place and did a complete remix of the soil and tested the drainage and it turned out to drain very well and have everything one would want in soil. Also I am running an air conditioner and keeping the room temp just right cause it is still getting pretty hot I figured the ac will keep everything circulated well.
Also I adjusted the light so the plant remaining is growing more out than up. So thats a plus. Anyways thanks for the help I am just happy I was able to save one plant. Also the plant still has the marron stripe on it. Still trying to figure it out because its on the stem. Then again could be my shitty eye sight and me wishing for more than what it is lol.