Quote Originally Posted by Lit Up
Try a damp paper towel in a Ziploc bag for germination. Keep them dark and warm, in the 80's, consistently. Should pop in less than 24 hrs.

Actually, you lose more light with your bulbs being vertical. Your setup is great, horizontal bulbs will give you more light. (It should say that on the CFL box cause that's where I read it, different brand tho) But, it said it right on the box. Distance does negate output, but when you output is 3x's more, I wouldn't be too concerned Honestly, your not going to lose 60,000 lumens with a reflector. You can buy a light meter to read light output if you desire. I agree CFL's are good, used em for a long time, but it's a head over heels difference with a HPS; plus more bang for your buck. Just depends on your situation.

And yeah, auto-flower strains will flower out in 60 days or so from seed, but you can't really clone them. Pretty much every strain you list is derived from Indica or Sativa. The purp, ak, the hazes, none of the those are auto-flowering strains. And over the years I've heard more bad than good things about auto flowers.

Search for the user Stinkyattic, read everything she's ever posted. I believe she was from Mass. but she retired from the site a few years ago. That women knew more about anything i could imagine. She's won awards for her strains, she knew her shit and laid it all out straight up. Plenty of great threads from her.

That's it. I'm off to bed. Peace.
Thanks for saying that,easiest method dude seriously. All that other stuff your doing is overkill. Everyone hates on it because you supposedly aren't supposed to touch the plants but marijuana is a very strong plant pulls through almost everything it will be fine. I personally use the damp paper towel for all my plants and all my seeds popped no problem. Easiest and most straight forward method also the quickest. That's just my personal experience not speaking for anyone else. Sorry to hear about the mishap with the girls low, you will bounce back, and your feedback is always appreciated in my log so keep an eye on me let me know if I'm doing anything stupid