LIGHTING! FLORO READ ME!

[hahaitsdoogle]

I was going thru my garage crawl space and i happen to find 2 More Sets of Fluerecent Bulbs.. the whole kit.. so all in all i have 6 4'' Fluerecent Tubes, all with housing that lights them.. 3 houses of 2, six lights..

okay, the types of lights as follows, ( my dad used to grow tonz of plants in the basement of my old home when we were children ; we werent ever allowed in the basement. lol ) anyways, i dont know if he has them set up for VEG and Growing so ill just call them #1 #2 and #3.. Okay
Also, can you veg AND flower say 2 plants with all these lights.

#1 ( I used this for my first grow, it was succesfull... in a 2.5 GAL Bucket i had 4 plants.. sadly 3 of them were male, Vegged all 4 Fine. Flowering took longer but it was an unsuccesfull grow because i pissed of my dad the wrong way and he cut the roots off and threw it in the trash, regardless..)

2 Four Foot ... Labeled Commercial Service f40/T12/CW COOL WHITE
0-30721//unimportant//-07750-0
made in USA and then it has a ^ with a line down the center and a 2A, on both of them.

#2
SYLVANIA GTE GRO-LUX WS f-40/GRO/WS 40W
LIGHTS OF AMERICA f40/CW and a small 23 imprinted on the back.

#3
LIGHTS OF AMERICA made in USA F-40/CW and a small 20 imprinted
ACE HARDWARE f40/t12/cw and a small 1G imprinted into it.


Well with 6 of these 4 foot floros would it raise my electrical bill a lot, and with just these can i complete a successfull grow ( im ganna do bagseed, becauuuseee.. i dont want to buy seeds )

( hopefully i can find my dads 1000W HPS BOX, he said he dunno where it is he prolly gave it away, but that would a good add to my gro )

well any input is welcome. THANKS FOR READING MY RANT!

hahaitsdoogle Reviewed by hahaitsdoogle on 05-21-2006. LIGHTING! FLORO READ ME! I was going thru my garage crawl space and i happen to find 2 More Sets of Fluerecent Bulbs.. the whole kit.. so all in all i have 6 4'' Fluerecent Tubes, all with housing that lights them.. 3 houses of 2, six lights.. okay, the types of lights as follows, ( my dad used to grow tonz of plants in the basement of my old home when we were children ; we werent ever allowed in the basement. lol ) anyways, i dont know if he has them set up for VEG and Growing so ill just call them #1 #2 and #3.. Rating: 5

[the image reaper]

your GE Cool Whites will serve as your veg lights, high spectrum ... the other two I am not sure of ... if you need more lamps, WalMart, etc carries GE Cool Whites for veg, and the GE Kitchen&Bath, would serve as your lower spectrum flowering lights ... my area pays about 11 cents a kilowatt, so your present lamps on an 18-hour schedule, every day, would run about $14.75/month ... hope any of that helped ... :smokin:

[BigBudDaddy08]

Yes you can probally 2 healthy plants just look at what my box grew 3, 4 foot, lights

[the image reaper]

damn nice BUDS .... :thumbsup:

[hahaitsdoogle]

3, 4 foot lights

3 sets of 2 of just 3...

[BigBudDaddy08]

Yes 3 sets of 2 .Pushing 320watts

[the image reaper]

It's a shame more newbies don't explore fluorescent tubes ... they probably get scared away from growing, after being told they must buy expensive metal halides, or sodium lamps, plus the required cooling systems ... Big Bud Daddy has shown what can be done at very little expense ... right now, his three-fixture, 6-lamp setup would cost very little ... WalMart has twin-tube 4-foot fixtures for $8 apiece, and choice of 'blue' Cool Whites, or 'red' Kitchen and Bath tubes for $8/pair ... we're talking a total lamp investment of about $48 ... and produced a healthy, potent plant like that ... another bonus is the cool lamp temperature, too,.. doesnt take much of a fan to keep your room cool, and you'll never burn your home down when your fan fails ... :smokin:

[LOC NAR1958]

Sorry but I have to say something here. I have tried fluro's for years. What's the rest of your setup and how long did it take to get there ? I have worked with fluro's for year and can't get those results. Sorry, but that's a bad ass bud you got there. I think everyone would want to know the secret. I have seen the dif in fluro's and MH, HPS. No comparision. They do veg very well but that'ts it.

[BigBudDaddy08]

Loc it was my real first grow inside.My box stays at 78 deg. i fed her superthrive since she was 2 weeks old i started to flower her at 27 days of veg. Then switched to flowering and still gave her superthrive and thats it no other fertilizer's flowered her 68 days .The seed had to been bag seed due to i baught from a guy that scammed me for a 100$.But it turned out really great best bud iv ever smoked in my life .First picture of my setup , Second pic is 20 days in flowering (Look those trichs).Third pic is like 50 days in flowering .(Pink hairs)

[hahaitsdoogle]

is it me or are your leaves way too burnt for being under Floros...