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losi8

Member
just a quick Q,
can i use a halogen light to grow my babys.(like security lights) iv had them under this sort of light for 7 days now and they seem to be growing hard, they do seem quite stretched,
is that BAD?????
 

smallclosetgrowr

Well-Known Member
halogen lights are the worst lights for growing , they emit heat and the plants only take in something like %5 of the light. they might seem like there growing when u just sprouted them but they will stop. and yeah in same cases stretching is bad your plant could learn over. stretching most likely is the plant reaching for the light so put the lights closer. get fluro's
 

losi8

Member
ok thanks for that, so how close should i drop the light until i get flueros, i will get some fluoros but on a tight budget at the mo.

"LIGHTING" sorry for upsetting ya JN811.
 

GrizzlyAdams

Well-Known Member
READ BEFORE YOU WASTE PEOPLE'S TIME! Please take this with a grain of salt because I am not trying to insult you, this has nothing to do with you as a person, but even the most basic glance at weed guides posted on this forum tell you your answer at least twice.

The people with the best results on this site are people posting pictures of flowering bud on their 2nd post. Trollers who read absolutely everything and went with it, now they're doing great.

You on the other hand, will suck at growing until you put effort into it. Read first, then ask questions. Please the information that you have to scroll past to actually see this board. Posts like this needlessly clutter the forum and waste people's clicks. If you want smoke, read for 2 hours. Going through 1 edition of readers digest would take longer, and this is about MJ. Seriously.
 

smallclosetgrowr

Well-Known Member
keep those crappy halogens about half a foot away maybe , it depends on how much heat they put it , just put u finger infront of it , u want it as close as possible without burning the plant. but seriously get on those fluros asap , u want at least 20watt per plant for sprouts , 100watt light per mature plant. make sure there 6500k
 

losi8

Member
ok will do, thanks so much for ur info and comments from all.
yeah im a bit lazy when it comes to putting sentences together:oops:.
but yeah, on nxt pay day the flueros will come. i will have a good read of what i need nto learn and will keep intouch of how my 1st grow goes.
 

JN811

Well-Known Member
ok will do, thanks so much for ur info and comments from all.
yeah im a bit lazy when it comes to putting sentences together:oops:.
but yeah, on nxt pay day the flueros will come. i will have a good read of what i need nto learn and will keep intouch of how my 1st grow goes.
I have a good link for you, sorry didnt mean to be a dick..
https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=259
will tell you anything and everything you need to know..
 

JN811

Well-Known Member
READ BEFORE YOU WASTE PEOPLE'S TIME! Please take this with a grain of salt because I am not trying to insult you, this has nothing to do with you as a person, but even the most basic glance at weed guides posted on this forum tell you your answer at least twice.

The people with the best results on this site are people posting pictures of flowering bud on their 2nd post. Trollers who read absolutely everything and went with it, now they're doing great.

You on the other hand, will suck at growing until you put effort into it. Read first, then ask questions. Please the information that you have to scroll past to actually see this board. Posts like this needlessly clutter the forum and waste people's clicks. If you want smoke, read for 2 hours. Going through 1 edition of readers digest would take longer, and this is about MJ. Seriously.
btw great advice grizzly- i've spent days straight learning from this site and my babies are doing beutifuly so far!
 

smallclosetgrowr

Well-Known Member
dont listen to grizzly the only thing i red up on was the info about cfls everything else i was taught by posting questions lol
 

GrizzlyAdams

Well-Known Member
Then you're a fool. You should always have a knowledge base for something you're planning on doing.

Additionally you're taking advantage of each and every person that answers you on the basic info you learned. They did the work to learn and read, you took the lazy jerk route.

I'm disgusted. Whats wrong with you. Every guideline asks you to read before you post, but you're above that? You're above doing the footwork because its just TIME for you to become a weed baron?
 

DoeEyed

Well-Known Member
Then you're a fool. You should always have a knowledge base for something you're planning on doing.

Additionally you're taking advantage of each and every person that answers you on the basic info you learned. They did the work to learn and read, you took the lazy jerk route.

I'm disgusted. Whats wrong with you. Every guideline asks you to read before you post, but you're above that? You're above doing the footwork because its just TIME for you to become a weed baron?
Ok, I can appreciate that some of these type of posts can be frustrating, but I think you're going too far. Because someone asks a question they could have read up on, doesn't give you the license to be rude, and start name calling. This is, after all, an on-line forum - not a library. Have you heard the expression you can draw more flies with honey than you can with vinegar? Treating our new members with respect and guiding them in the right direction, will work 1000 times better than saying "you're an idiot, why didn't you read first?" Lastly - let me point out again, that no one forced you to "waste your click" opening this thread. :peace:
 

Phenom420

Well-Known Member
dont listen to grizzly the only thing i red up on was the info about cfls everything else i was taught by posting questions lol
keep those crappy halogens about half a foot away maybe , it depends on how much heat they put it , just put u finger infront of it , u want it as close as possible without burning the plant. but seriously get on those fluros asap , u want at least 20watt per plant for sprouts , 100watt light per mature plant. make sure there 6500k
So umm where is it in this forum you find real growers using halogen lights?

Halogen lights are NOT for growing, complete waste of power and they throw out way too much heat. You can get seeds to germ and some sprouts sure (seeds will germ in 100% darkness, done it)
halogen doesnt produce usable light for plants, it's clear/yellow, vegging plants need blue light mostly which is 5000-7000 range.



After reading the whole thread and all Griz don;t resort to name calling Bud, especially if you want me to roll in as backup.

I dont do name calling or incurage it, I wanted to make that clear, but ALSO it is BS to tell someone to ignore a grower that has experience under him.

Halogen lights blow for growing, toss it and opt for CFLs, HPS, or MH

Welcome to RIU everyone, this is a great place lets not bicker and make this a great place.:bigjoint:
 

redivider

Well-Known Member
^^ what he said...

forget about asking stupid questions, asking questions is never stupid, although the whole halogen light thing i figured out 15 mins after I started reading....

phenom long time no see!! i got about 20 grams off my lil plant, the whole grow lasted approx 80 days, kind of an express grow... buajaja... no seeds, no nothing... it was killer bud... i'm starting a new grow, using FF soil, nutes n shit, 5 plants in a portable wardrobe, CFL's, it's gonna be good... anyways, back to the topic...

don't worry about taking up bandwith or whatever, that's what the forum is for, to ask questions, to discuss to learn... even the most experienced growers keep learning new things on this site from newbies asking stuff, so ask away!!
 

Phenom420

Well-Known Member
^^ what he said...

forget about asking stupid questions, asking questions is never stupid, although the whole halogen light thing i figured out 15 mins after I started reading....

phenom long time no see!! i got about 20 grams off my lil plant, the whole grow lasted approx 80 days, kind of an express grow... buajaja... no seeds, no nothing... it was killer bud... i'm starting a new grow, using FF soil, nutes n shit, 5 plants in a portable wardrobe, CFL's, it's gonna be good... anyways, back to the topic...

don't worry about taking up bandwith or whatever, that's what the forum is for, to ask questions, to discuss to learn... even the most experienced growers keep learning new things on this site from newbies asking stuff, so ask away!!
hey Bud

yeah everything he said.
BUT I do my best to try and read about my problem before asking not because of space or other plp but because by reading I might b able to take care of the problem/issue faster than waiting on a reply.

Yeah I learn something every day, not that Im a pro or anything.

Yeah man hit me up if u make a journal of it.
Glad u got your haul, Im about a month away from my next harvest and Im about all dry myself...
 

JN811

Well-Known Member
it's cool to ask a question if you can't find the answer your looking for, but this topic has about a million posts all over the website. That being said he is a new user and may of not known where to look. Btw I didn't realize how much better mh is than hps for chloropyll production, good to know..
 

Phenom420

Well-Known Member
it's cool to ask a question if you can't find the answer your looking for, but this topic has about a million posts all over the website. That being said he is a new user and may of not known where to look. Btw I didn't realize how much better mh is than hps for chloropyll production, good to know..
MH is just for veg, it doesn't beat a HPS, you wont get the good results trying to flower with a MH, if you do use MH for veg get a agro max bulb they have those 6500k MH bulbs, gonna get on myself when I switch my ballasts to digis after the first of the year, so Ill have 2x 1Kw MH lights and 2x 1Kw HPSs
 
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