Compact Fluorescent Light Discussion

[supersonicchronic]

Incandescents aren't a great source of light.. infact, i'm not even sure how many lumens they put out... i have 500watts of red spectrum in there though...

I've decided to take a larger sample of one of the plants, i'm off to visit my buddy in a week and decided it'd be nice to take some with me... i'll give you a weight when she's dry

... LST is tying down the top growing shoot to reveal the secondaries..as you can see.. even without the main cola he plant is still pretty large

Looking good Bob, Dankity Dank Dank! I'm curious on your nutes also, I can't see the pics right now, but are you in soil or hydro?

[BobBong]

The soil I'm using is an indoor potting soil that has a combination of slow release nutrients. Scott's and Schultz make very reliable soil mediums. Using this soil i don't need to give very much nutrient in the early stages of vegging. I do however start to give them a Shultz "5-30-5 Bloom Builder" in the last week of 18/6 and into the first few weeks of flowering(12/12) until they show signs of nute max out. It's a very heavy phosphate mix, ideal for Flowering.

As for the weight issue on the secondary growth...it can be a bit of a problem when your branches begin to bow under their own weight...
this is what string was invented for :smokin:

P.S.
Dry weight on the main cola taken as a sample from my smallest plant is 8.5grams.
Also, I've been asked to write up a FAQ on CFL lighting. This will help many of you who are so strongly interested in beginning with CFL lighting.

Thanks for all the support again guys. :dance:

Cheers,
Bob.

[Mctuffet]

Ohh shit son. your first cutting shourld be about ready i do believe. update us on that bad boy.

ohh and a side note that makes me very happy in light fo recent events, hahaha light, i just got my conversion 250watt mh hps system in today. it's super sweet.

ok i realy just wanted to share that.

plus thatnks for the concern on my fallen light.

[Mctuffet]

the above was posted meer seconds after you posted. my bad.

[Chrisg420]

Bobbong if u could email me with some tips on using CFL's it would be greatly appreciated. [email protected] is my email.

Chris

[BobBong]

the very first sample i cut 2 weeks ago has been smoked.. I think it was smoked...yesterday.. or monday.. i don't quite remember hahahahah....

either way it was good, a bit on the harsh side.. but good nonetheless. Good ol' BlackJack, just like i remember it. :stoned:

Bobbong if u could email me with some tips on using CFL's it would be greatly appreciated. [email protected] is my email.

Chris

I've been asked to write up a CFL "how-to" for the FAQ section, You'll see it in the next few days (hopefully before the weekend because i'm going away for 3 days).

[Chrisg420]

allright man sounds good to me, thx for the help.

[Mctuffet]

uhh ohhh bob. it's coming up on the home stretch.... maybe not for most people but for me.....this is the home strecht. i' get toooo excited!! those girls better be getting fat. if not make them stop reeding those damb magazines telling them to be skinny.

[BobBong]

well... sorry for the delay.

Had some problems with my cpu melting to the heat sync... resulted in having to get a new motherboard... decided to upgrade though.. and spent a total of about 850$ @ the computer store.... on the upside of course.. i have a kick ass computer i built myself now :P



Christmas comes early for Bob...

I harvested on wednesday... 18 cola in total..most ranging from medium to large... with a few smaller ones
I'll get pics a.s.a.p.

Ps. sorry for the delay on the FAQ Zandor.

[towel]

I see that you added incandescents to your original CFLs to get more red spectrum light for flowering. Is this because your original CFLs are cool white (~4100K)? Do you think that using warm white CFLs (~2700K) would be good for flowering or are incandescents better?