Quote Originally Posted by bluesteve
A couple of points here. First, as the other gentleman told you, put your lights on 20 hrs on and 4 hrs off, and leave them there until you're ready for harvest! Then turn the lights off for 48 hours before you take the crop. This period of dark can sometimes cause the plants to generate a bit more resin. And stop giving these plants fertilizer. They only live from 60 to 80 days, and if you put them in a reasonably sized pot, it'll have all they need to go all the way to harvest, just don't make the pot too small. I've grown them in 1 Gal plastic milk cartons that I cut the tops off of & had put drainage holes in the bottoms. These are the easiest, most fool proof plants you can grow. Just plant them, and leave them alone to do their thing, and I'd be far more concerned about total lumens of light than any color spectrum. Trust me on this one. I've gotten great flowering with just metal halide lights, which don't put out the reds that everyone says you need to get flowers, though the HPS lamps put out even more light than a metal halide--and it's in the "flowering spectrum". But, again, total light will do you more good than limited light in a specific spectrum.

Also, I recently purchased an, "AeroGrow", kitchen tomato/pepper garden. It's a small hydroponic set up with three 27 watt CF type lights providing over 3000 lumens, and I've found some higher wattage bulbs that I think will fit into it, as well. I just need to check out their heat signature first. I bought the Elite 6+ model. This has six grow holes and uses a constant immersion system with an aquarium pump, plus, I've added a second aquarium p[ump that is batter operated and doesn't come on unless there's power outage, so I'll have aeration even with a blackout. But, it's being replaced by a newer model that uses a pump to flood the baskets and has 7 grow holes. The lights on this only raise to 24", their tallest model, but, most auto flower plants don't get even that tall, so it's kind of a cool way to keep producing about an ounce every 60 days, or so. Keeps me in different varieties & flavors without having to do a big grow.
Thats awesome! Everything I do needs to go in the PC case unfortunately. Thats why I picked up the autoflower feminized seeds. can't waste time with a male plant or worse yet 2 male plants seeing as to how I'm growing 2 plants at a time.

How much yeild after drying should I expect from 2 autoflower plants using CFLs in a PC grow case? I use the "veg box" from pcgrowcase.com.
philskill Reviewed by philskill on . I've searched everywhere for an answer.... 1st time grower of anything, I ordered some "blue Mystic" feminized + autoflower seeds to grow inside of a PC grow case. I'm in the 3rd week of flowering. I started the 12/12 light cycle once i noticed some white hairs (pistils) start showing up on my plants, also switched the lights out to the yellow color lights instead of the white colored lights. I'm using 4 of the new energy saver bulbs, can't remember what they are called (CFLs maybe). They're the cheap ones you can buy at walmart, Rating: 5