The Phunny Pharm: 1st Grow, CFL only

[Phunnyman]

Good evening to all;

This is my first indoor grow and my first after many years of just buying what was available. This is just bagseed but its DAMN good bagseed if I may say so myself.

Germing seeds in plastic cups with notches for drainage, wrapping across the top to help with dehydration. As soon as they sprout, they will be transplanted to beginning pots placed in a custom grow cabinet I made myself from a chest of drawers to be somewhat stealthy. I'm using a mixture of organic soil from a local nursery mixed with perlite.

Upon sprouting I will begin posting pics.

I'm going to be using cfl only, 100 watt bulbs at 1600 lumens each x 8. These are Bright Effects bulbs in the 6500 range.

Invitations to chime in and offer any advise are most certainly welcome. imp:

PS. I used to be a professional standup comedian and a writer for a well known television show before a car accident took me out of the game. These days, I teach economics and political science. Phunny how life turns around and laughs back at ya?

Phunnyman Reviewed by Phunnyman on 12-21-2009. The Phunny Pharm: 1st Grow, CFL only Good evening to all; This is my first indoor grow and my first after many years of just buying what was available. This is just bagseed but its DAMN good bagseed if I may say so myself. Germing seeds in plastic cups with notches for drainage, wrapping across the top to help with dehydration. As soon as they sprout, they will be transplanted to beginning pots placed in a custom grow cabinet I made myself from a chest of drawers to be somewhat stealthy. I'm using a mixture of organic soil Rating: 5

[redtails]

At 1600 lumens those would be very weak lights or 100w replacements(like 23w actual), check these out:

105 Watt CFL - 400 W Equal - Full Spectrum Daylight 6500K - Spring Lamp - Sunlite 05593 Light Bulb

[Phunnyman]

Hi Red

These are 100 watt 23 actual... Those you recommended would work in my fixture set up with y adapters with no problem? If so I'm going to order eight of those for the vegging...any recommendations for the flowering? I know they should be in the 2700 range... I have still have the boxes and receipt for these 100watt/23 actual cfls, I could return them and say they didn't grow my pot very well??? j/k

[MonkeyBone]

I think he meant 23w (100w equivalent)

I'm in for this grow!

:thumbsup:

[Phunnyman]

Hey MB how are things shaking? Hope to share some of the effort with both you and Redtails one day soon... Hope life's treating you both well... I'm off to vegetate myself... the wife has the swine flu so I'm playing nurse to her too...

[MonkeyBone]

Hi Red

These are 100 watt 23 actual... Those you recommended would work in my fixture set up with y adapters with no problem? If so I'm going to order eight of those for the vegging...any recommendations for the flowering? I know they should be in the 2700 range... I have still have the boxes and receipt for these 100watt/23 actual cfls, I could return them and say they didn't grow my pot very well??? j/k

Take a look at my setup, on my grow log. I got 6x 42w (150w equivalent) and 8x 23w (100w equiv.). 2700k for flowering. the 42w are 2600 lumens each and the 23w are 1600 lumens each.

For veg I used same power but with 6500k cfls. 42w 6500k are 2800 lumens and 26w 6500k are 1850 lumens...

There are SO many kind of cfls, it's easy to get lost. If you have any questions, ask me!

:thumbsup:

[Phunnyman]

Thanks a million!

You, Redtails, DutchPimp and few others have been a wealth of inspiration and knowledge. Thanks for everything!!

[MonkeyBone]

Hey MB how are things shaking? Hope to share some of the effort with both you and Redtails one day soon... Hope life's treating you both well... I'm off to vegetate myself... the wife has the swine flu so I'm playing nurse to her too...

She will get well in 2-3 days. It's like any king of flu. Friends got it here and in 2-3 days they were back to normal. Just a wack-you-out flu!

Things are great man, hope same thing for you!

:thumbsup:

[mainegrown]

hey phunny,
welcome and all that
my question is how many seedlings are you planning on starting?? cause 8 of those babies are gonna pull 840 true watts and approx 134,400 lumens.. thats a little overkill for seedlings. maybe flower? i would personally order 4 of them and use 2 for the first week or so then turn on the other 2 at that point you would be pushing 67,200 lumens aprox and i would imagine that should be enough..
just my thinking bro
-J

[bonedaddy420]

Hey man, 8 23w CFL's will work, and well. Want proof? How about 6 doing it? Check out my grow log(in my sig), I'm only using 6 23w CFL's, so 8 should be better.

Also I would advise you to leave your seedlings in the cups for at least a week or 2 after they have popped. Transplanting as soon as they are above ground isn't needed. I had seeds in peat pucks for a week before the roots started to show through the netting, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

The 6500k color temp bulb is what you want for veg, you will want to replace them with 2700k for flower though. As for the bulbs redtails posted, you need to make sure that you have sockets rated for 105w, or 210w if you were gonna run y adapters, otherwise you might start a fire, or burn out your bulb when you go to use it. I personally would stick to simple 23w or 42w bulbs that you can get at basically anywhere.