cfl light penetration

10jed

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Thanks for the info about the heat with the 42's. I will definitely be going with the smaller wattage if/when I concoct something. This thread started when this thought just popped in my head and I wanted to see what the folks on RIU thought. My last harvest was descent (7 oz. off 5 girls) but just not "dialed in" as I want. But then again I am in a closet, so it may be hard to dial in completely. I am only running two (200w) CFL's now, and can fit a few smaller ones in my closet.

Nice girl you got there. How do you like the smoke? Never tried it. Perpetualish? Did you buy the cabinet? Any pix?
LOVE the LA woman. Mine has a coffee/hash smell and flavor and it is very potent. Mixed reviews on it around here but I seemed to get a good bean. it was a freebie single feminized seed and she is the queen of my garden. Lots of odor in the grow but otherwise a wonderful plant. I did 2x check the 42's and they anywhere from 181-202 F depending on where I take the reading.

I run perpetual but I'm not doing a strict schedule sog or anything. I clone a lot mostly to keep backups of my mothers going at all times. Clones go into 12oz dixie cups and wait for their turn to go in the big girl cabinet, or sometimes go in right away. I use everything from 12oz (net wt) coffee bags to cut down kitty litter jugs for pots. My veg-mom-clone cabinet is tiny so I can't veg much unless I LST, and that is best for me production wise. I have been traveling a lot lately so it has been hard for me to keep the lst thing rolling. I need to use resivoirs to keep my moms and new starts wet when I'm gone because my pots are so small and things get kicked out of the veg area pretty quickly so it is a lot of rooted clones in coffee bags right now.

My veg-mom-clone cabinet is in my entertainment center in my living room and was originally a slide out drawer for cd's, and the flower cabinet is part of my bed. It is basically an end table that is connected to the headboard with a matching one on the other side. It was open on top with double doors below and I refaced it to look like a file cabinet up top with doors below. The whole face pulls off on both cabs. Attached are some pics of the cabs. I don''t have a very good pic of the flower cab handy. this one is a while back and was before I was using the coffee bags for my clones, but mostly this was to show my isolation chamber for the male I was flowering. for the record, pollen got out! I put a filter over the in and out on the chamber but not heppa. Lesson learned!

Jed
 

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MMAFanatic

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Home Depot has a ph slash light meter for 12 bucks in lawn and garden put a bulb in the plastic and read it before and after
I am not light specialist but think its a valid experiment please let me know if it works out
I would love to add a plant in grow and that tube idea would be perfect
 
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