Greetings everyone!

Sorry if it took me a while to get back to you guys. I was so frustrated with the slow growth that I rebuilt my grow room, had a twin-fan system installed and used 8 100w CFL bulbs instead since they emit a lot more lumens than the shop lights. See the photos below of my new setup. When mylar gets here, I will put it up on the walls and have a detachable wall to enclose all of that light inside! I'm sure the plants will be happier with this new setup.

Now, as you all gave me some kind of tips what I need to do to improve the conditions. Also I did a lot of readings on the forums. It looks like many of harvesting is completed within 3 months period?

Prior to planting my new garden, I relied heavily on this "deluxe Marijuana Grower's Guide" by Mel Frank. Let me quote some of his work:

Artifical Lights

p.59
Start the plants under long light periods of from 16 to 18 hours daily. After the plants have reached a good size, usually between three and six months, shorten the light cycle to about 12 hours to force flowering.

p.81
Two eight foot fluorescent tubes (160 watts) will easily grow eight six-foot plants.

Because of that, I settled on 800w light system (9,000+ lumens) and will live with that until I can afford HPS lighting for flowering room.

Some of you had little hope for my current plants. I think two of them might be permanently damaged and will be cut at the root. The remaining 4 seems to be recovering and from p.59 - it seems that they can live and grow long enough to initiate flowering.

I would like your thoughts on this. Maybe Mel Frank has been discredited by this community. I appreciate it very much, folks! :smokin:

By the way, I did use heatdish for short time but realized it wasn't needed. The room average temperature is above 70. (72+) Should I produce more heat to trigger better photosynthesis? I am also thinking about using this DIY-CO2 set-up.

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