lights??

[green-giant]

Just wondering i had one of my plants to 4 inches using natural soil and natural light there on my bedroom window, will normal 100 watt bulbs work at all or will i have to buy stronger ones and if so where? i'm moving the plant into my wardrobe so i can give it 18/6 treatment, is this the best lighting time to start with or should i go the whole 24 hours at the start?

green-giant Reviewed by green-giant on 09-23-2011. lights?? Just wondering i had one of my plants to 4 inches using natural soil and natural light there on my bedroom window, will normal 100 watt bulbs work at all or will i have to buy stronger ones and if so where? i'm moving the plant into my wardrobe so i can give it 18/6 treatment, is this the best lighting time to start with or should i go the whole 24 hours at the start? Rating: 5

[cjk]

im not an expert so i can only say two things. regular light bulbs give off a lot of heat so make sure its not to close. but make sure its not to far away because it will cause your plant to stretch and that's my only problem with my first grow so far.

[green-giant]

My plant was doing much better in natural light except the stem was long with four leaves but no signs of other branches or leaves and the stem was pretty thin so i moved it in with a light bulb and so i could give it 6 hours of darkness to but it seemed to just stop growing when i did that, what am i doing wrong?

[kingjustin]

Incandescent lighting is no bueno. Go pick up a few CFL's - 6500k for veg. You can switch to a red spectrum further down the road. Regular bulbs build up way too much heat to be effective, so to get enough light out of them to actually grow a plant, you would have to keep them very close ( pretty much guarantee a burn).

[green-giant]

cool cool thanks man, where can i pick these bulbs up from though or do i oreder them off the net or what?

[cjk]

you can get them at walmart walgreens/cvs or any local or big business hardware store.

[green-giant]

thanks man, much appreciated..