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07-17-2008, 12:00 PM #4Senior Member
Wow - A Little Overwhelmed
Hey PB welcome to cann.com :thumbsup:
Originally Posted by PottyBear
Basically the more money you spend on your setup the best chance you're giving your plants to reach their potential (max yield and potency) so doing it on the cheap won't give you the best quality or biggest yield but you can still get good results if you do it right.
You're not very specific about your lights, you just say you've got a shop fluro, you need to understand that you need a certain amount of lumens (you don't need to worry about lumens really, most people talk about how many watts of light they've got and so long as you're using the correct type of light it's probably easier to use watts, you've just got to understand that some bulbs put out a lot more lumens per watt than others, the types of bulbs that put out the most lumens per watt are HID's (high intensity discharge, hps or mh) at the other end of the scale, incandesent (normal houselight bulbs are one of the least efficient and are unsuitable for growing) to properly light an area so that you'll get a decent harvest.
If you're using cfls or fluro's i'd say you want to be in the 60-90 watts per sq ft area, but check out these links and some growlogs and decide for yourself.
http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-li...-lighting.html
and
http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-li...uch-light.html
What kind of time frame will we be looking at before anything productive might come out the other end (the strain said "8-9 weeks", I assume that is from when you start to force flowering) if I manage to not kill the plants?
Do people really just throw the stuff on a windowsill in a pot and get results?
Is there anything else I can do (inexpensive/free) to improve my chances?
Anyway - I really hope something comes of it. I still have 4 seeds in reserve if something goes wrong, but I'd like my chances to be as good as they can be under the circumstances. Any advice?
Good luck!
edit to correct typo
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