CFL Flowering

I will be flowering 1 female using only 5 45w cfl's (14 500 lumens). Any tips or input like distance between the plant and the lights, and positioning them a better way maybe.. any help would appreciated.

The positioning of your lights is great and I believe 14,500 lumens is plenty for 1 plant to get a decent yield.

yes, your positioning is good, maybe a little closer, 1 inch, would be good

That's exactlly how I plan on flowering my babies, where did you get those CFLs?

I would try to put some type of reflector around to catch all the light going away from the bulb and throw it on the plant. though, that could make ventilation bad..

Are those full spectrum CFLs?

fatblunt73 said:

Are those full spectrum CFLs?

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I'm not sure, but the package said "Soft white,everydaylight".

le1337need said:

I would try to put some type of reflector around to catch all the light going away from the bulb and throw it on the plant. though, that could make ventilation bad..

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I was thinking the same thing..

Dude, what russ0r said.....closer!

Closer and Reflectors.

The balast is the hottest part too, so if you can flip the two that the ballast is on the bottom over, or place them horizontally.

you also should make sure you have drainage holes in the bottom of your bucket. you will get bigger buds if you use a reflector and move lights closer.

That was some good smoke..

No they aren't full spectrum bulbs. They are 2700k which is perfect!
Full spectrum bulbs as far as I know aren't shaped in a spiral.

You can definitely maximize your lumen's by:
1. Moving your lights to centimeters away from your plants.
2. Making reflectors of some sort. You don't have to get something heavy to sit there and cause a big ventalation problem. Just hang a few peices of white paper, or ANYTHING really; as long as its white/reflective you can definitly use some of those lumen's!!

Keep posting pics as the weeks go on, I'm on day 16 of flowering my 3 plants under 7 CFL's...So this interests me!

Wlecome to the forum guys. You may want to look at the date Major posted this. He's already smokin' what your talking about growin'. You may want to look at his journal. He did an awesome job. Now if he would just move to the states.....

lando421 said:

No they aren't full spectrum bulbs. They are 2700k which is perfect!

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They are full spectrum bulbs, they just output the majority of their light at the 2,700 kelvin colour temperature which means they output more red light than any other colour spectrum.

lando421 said:

Full spectrum bulbs as far as I know aren't shaped in a spiral.

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Full spectrum bulbs has nothing to do with the shape or pattern of the bulb, and everything to do with the spectrum wavelengths the bulb actually outputs and as I've already said a 2,700k bulb is full spectrum.

MajoR_TokE said:

That was some good smoke..

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How many oz's did you get Toke?

babygro i think it was 47 grams dry weight. first grow.

MajoR_TokE said:

babygro i think it was 47 grams dry weight. first grow.

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Damn, toke, nice yield off of one plant. How long did you veg her for? I'm too lazy to go see if you've got another journal anywhere.

good luck on the flowering with the CFLs tell me how it goes because thats what i will be doing in about 2 months