my new wardrobe box

[tyrone420]

hey guys,.

Well,this is my first shot at trying to get away from paying retail prices for one of mother nature's most fantastic gifts.

I started them out as bagseed seedlings under a small flourescent. I looked around at a few setups and i think mine is going to work fine for now.

So far ive got 4 plants under 2 6500k CFLS 24/7, im planning on replacing them with 100 watt CFLS in a couple weeks.

But any advice, or ideas on how i can make this work better for myself i'd really appreciate it.

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tyrone420 Reviewed by tyrone420 on 09-27-2009. my new wardrobe box hey guys,. Well,this is my first shot at trying to get away from paying retail prices for one of mother nature's most fantastic gifts. I started them out as bagseed seedlings under a small flourescent. I looked around at a few setups and i think mine is going to work fine for now. So far ive got 4 plants under 2 6500k CFLS 24/7, im planning on replacing them with 100 watt CFLS in a couple weeks. But any advice, or ideas on how i can make this work better for myself i'd really Rating: 5

[headshake]

get more light ASAP! two bulbs is not nearly enough. i've got 18x 23W, 1700 lumen, 2700K bulbs in a box that size for flowering.

your plants are stretching badly.


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[MrBungleJr]

agreed. More lights.

I played around with CFLs for months before going with an HPS. What a pain in the ass.

[tyrone420]

well i have no idea how i'd be able to hook up 18 lights in my box. If i could get 4 big CFLS would that work?

And i noticed that they are tall for their age and leaf size...but would getting the lights closer to them help?

thanks for the advice

[headshake]

yes, you need to keep CFLs within 3-4" for maximum effectivness. yes, higher wattage CFLs would work. you want 5,000 lumens/sq ft. minimum.

not trying to pimp my own stuff, but check out my "vote headshake the king of cardboard" thread.


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[tyrone420]

thats deffinetly a badass setup you made there. Im thinking i want to line my box with that too.

Do you think i should rig up a light setup for CFLS or get an HPS sun system?

Its day 12 for my babies and im thinking getting the light setup right, and some good nutes is crucial at this point.

[tyrone420]

so i went ahead and bought 2 42w cfls, that are basically 150 regular watts and 2700 lumens each. They are gonna have to work for now.

I took a few pictures of them at days 12 and 13

tell me what you guys think
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[CrackAddict]

Hey all great stuff i am about to try to grow my first plant do you think you could explain how you hung the lights in the grow-box please?

[tyrone420]

i just looped them over the bar at the top of the box.

[tyrone420]

well i realized that my new cfls are the wrong light spectrum. (thanks to no labeling on the package). So now i setup 4 100W daylight CFLS in my box. The combo is only putting out 6800 lumens to 4 plants, but it seems like it;ll work descent. Especially since at least 2 of the 4 are going to be males and wont be growing the entire time.

Ordering some FF nutes asap.