flower with flouros?

this is my first indoor grow, not my first, and i started a seedling under two 10" circular bulb flourescents that a friend let me try out...why not right? well its growing really fast, about a foot and a half to two feet so far and has a nice lush dark green color with visible resin glands even on fan leaves. im a little short on cash now but when i am done vegging the plant i should have the funds for a sufficient hps light for flowering. my question is...if need be..is if anyone would have any kind of idea as to what would be expected if i had to flower with the same light.. potency, yeild...anyone with any advice would be appreciated.

the potency will probably not be affected, but yield will be drasticaly decreased without an hps.

im my experience, potency was affected too.

Im going to be flowering with two 40 watt "natural wide spectrum sunlight" bulbs. I hope this will be enough for 2-3 ak-48 females. Im am going to purchase some mylar to reflect light better. Do you think this will be sufficient for geting a few ounces?

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Originally Posted by wbs5150

Im going to be flowering with two 40 watt "natural wide spectrum sunlight" bulbs. I hope this will be enough for 2-3 ak-48 females. Im am going to purchase some mylar to reflect light better. Do you think this will be sufficient for geting a few ounces?

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Howdy wbs5150,

Are you saying,that you have 2, 4 foot long shop lights with 2 40 watt bulbs each,or is it just 1 shop light with 2, 40 watt bulbs ..or what ? With the lighting that you have,you'll be lucky to git one ounce out of all your plants total. You need to add at least 300 watts of hps,if you want to git anywhere near what you're hoping for. The floros are just enough to maintain vegetative growth,not enough to git a good yield of bud. If you can add an hps,you should reposition the floros to where they can help the lower parts of the plants..with the hps on top,at least 18 inches above the plants at all times as they grow.

Have a good one...Torog

I have two 40 watt natural sunlight fluoro's for flowering. Should I look for something higher wattage? Money is an issue also look at this http://www.overgrow.com/edge/showthread.php?t=21575. Maybe I could double my set up and buy another light fixture and two more 40 watt bulbs. It was only 26 bucks and I only want to grow 2-3 ladies at a time.

i have seen very good results when it comes to fluoros but only when they have close to 250watts + i.e warm white fluoros which promote a flowering response an also the eco-lite 200w compact fluoro looks very gd...

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Originally Posted by wbs5150

I have two 40 watt natural sunlight fluoro's for flowering. Should I look for something higher wattage? Money is an issue also look at this http://www.overgrow.com/edge/showthread.php?t=21575. Maybe I could double my set up and buy another light fixture and two more 40 watt bulbs. It was only 26 bucks and I only want to grow 2-3 ladies at a time.

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Howdy wbs5150,

Wow..I'm amazed that the feller is gitting such good results from so little light ! Ther's no doubt,the more light that you give em,the better your results will be, in density,yield and trichome production.

Have a good one...Torog

define very good results....lmao

i define gd results as something to smoke :P

Those 40 watt fluros are the highest wattage i could find at lowes that was a 4ft bulb. That thread that i posted from the overgrow forums really inspired me to grow. I am going to grow white widow and when I get some more money and a few grows under my belt im sure I'll want to move up to something more advanced. So far my grow is going to be alot like Redland's from overgrow with the slanted lights and all but Im going to have two fixtures and some mylar to reflect it. Also he didnt swith bulbs when he went from veg. to flower, I am going to. All I want is a few ounces and I'm not looking for anything large scale. The weed in my town is always shit from mexico or some Skunk nugs that are quick dried in an oven and have had all the crystals scraped off of them to make hash. Those nugs are 75 and 1/8 and people around here praise it. Apparently me and a few of my friends are the only ones that realized we got ripped off. We had some Maui Wowie around here that wasnt that good either. I just want some weed for me and my friends for Spring Break and in the summer. Maybe I could make some money here and there too

I hear ya buddy, thats why I started growing, Got tired of paying good cash for shit weed.

I work hard for my money and I know when I'm getting ripped off. I was a salesman for two years so it's hard to get shit by me. I would rather put a little money,time, and effort into something to get better results. I've heard people say that growing with fluoro's is "half ass" because it doesnt give you the best results. I laugh at that. I smoke herb and would prefer to cut out the middle man (men in most cases) and smoke what I grow. I think it would be most peaceful to smoke some nice nugs that you grew from seed. Maybe one day I'll upgrade to a MH/HPS system but right now I want to make due with what money I have and just smoke some nice herb. I know growing is a serious thing and people devote lots and lots of time to it, I plan to myself, but to me It's all about being able to relax with some good friends and not make everyone pay out there ass for a good time

hay I got a 500 WATT FLUOREX GROWLIGHT from www.landmsales.com and it works great less heat cheeper to run the crops are the same as hps so far and iam on my 2 crop

you said it doja!