Bigger,badder, Cfl's.

Well I'm 12 days in veg and it lookes great so far.Got 2 out of 3 cloners starting to take off first sets bigger then top clone over leaf.And my 8 littel beany babys are as wide as the 6" pots their in,will transplant next week to bags.
I'm useing 8 x 85w cfls[total lums 44,000] in a 3'x3' area[= to 8x400waters].
useing seemores book as a gide,and hopeing for 2x the weight.i know lol.
will post pics later.

limited haet prob fixed with moving fan and a 6" duct fan.

Has any body eles tried bigger,badder or do you all use the smalles.

LATER.

Well, you gotta keep cfls pretty close. So if you can keep those close w/o burning and use em like you use smaller bulbs, then they should be pretty good because that's a lot more light.

But moving them farther away doesn't seem to be the ticket. CFLs have limited light penetration. Which is why keeping them close pwns.

I'm not 100% sure dude. Post some pics, I'd like to see how they do. It'll be an experiment.

So far so good my temp is about 73- 77 in my closet with the fans on it holds about 76-78 with the lights on and i'm only 2-2.5 inches off the plants no streaching or burn yet just phat ass groth.
will keep posting as i progress.

LATER.

u usin white cfls for veggin...will u be usin same amout of watts to flower....ima watch this one cuz this is the biggest ive seen

Mostly using the biggies for the lumes[i know duu] i added 4 23w 6500k's for the brite red's.I must admite i have a coach and the coach said lite is lite is lite more about lumes to the good in stead of off in space,i'm damn close to a 1750L's at the top of the head at least that is what the lite meter is showing[cheap ass lite meter could be off].And i'm playing it a little on the safe side and holding the lite back at 2-2.5 inches.Looking to the future i can see air flow around things could be a prob.Will have to add fans and maybe 1 more power vent.And i will be adding 4 more of the biggies in 2 weeks when i go to 12/12.Hoping to not have to many boys in my beanie's[8].

will post back
LATER.

post some pics up bro. I am using a 200 and a few 65's and down, I have a total lumenage of around 30,000.I am really interested in your setup. How far away are the 85's and where are that in proximity to the plant.I have my 200 in the midle hanging, and the rest spread around my apparatus.I will be watching, good luck

its cool but wouldnt that be really expensive, wouldnt you rather wanna put it towards more advanced lighting systems if your willing to put out that much money? just sayin, not hatin.

totel spent right now is only $325-$350,cheaper then the big lites and a hell of a lot cheaper to run.Will have to spend around $300-$350 more for next round of bulbs,still cheaper then high presure's.And if they burn for half as long as they should[10,000hrs]the cost of each grow will drop to nada not to speak on the e-bill.the cost of the big set up with every thing you need to bild the right enviroment would be 3x's as much[to do it right].ever thing is going great so far.

later.

hey dude, pretty cool grow! imma suscribe. lets see some pics of your grow so we can give you advice or compliments!

Duece.

still trying to figure out how don't have the pic taker.will up date here every couple days with progress.but 14 days in dirt and most of my beanes have 3-4 sets of nods 6"-8" spread and 1.5"-3" in streach.And sum big time girth for folage.It is very cool to see how fast it is growing[seemore is the god of gunga].And the cloners are starting to take off phat assed.still running good on the heat at 76-78,.

later.
DAWG