Ok so I am only using CFL's for this grow, I have 2 pants of Opium both feminised from Paradise Seeds. I am using the Flora 3 part along with Foxfarms Big Bloom which I started using about 4 weeks into flowering. I am on week 6 the day of this post. I use twice the strength of nutrients as stated for Flora and the exact stated for every feeding of Big Bloom and I spray them both with a foliar feeding of Big Bloom every day when the lights come on. I am running 600 watts of CFL (Yeah this seems like a lot but I am only getting 32,000 watts so keep that in mind. I am working with limited lumens.) I am trying to maximize the lumens I am using by putting the lights closer to the plants and I am getting good results almost that equivalent to some of the HID grows I have seen. I am sure I can get even more growth if I were to upgrade to two 8 lamp t5 units per 2 plants and run 864 watts for 80,000 lumens. Also keeping the lights close I think has attributed to them being so short and bushy/dense which is what I was aiming for.
Paht_Hed Reviewed by Paht_Hed on . It CAN be done (and quite well) with CFL Ok so I am only using CFL's for this grow, I have 2 pants of Opium both feminised from Paradise Seeds. I am using the Flora 3 part along with Foxfarms Big Bloom which I started using about 4 weeks into flowering. I am on week 6 the day of this post. I use twice the strength of nutrients as stated for Flora and the exact stated for every feeding of Big Bloom and I spray them both with a foliar feeding of Big Bloom every day when the lights come on. I am running 600 watts of CFL (Yeah this seems Rating: 5