best cfl for clones

Hey Qwuert quite the bullshit for a simple answer, there are some real winners here for sure! CFL's will be fine for your veg, you have to remember that the intensity is not there and should be as close as possible. A single 62 watt cfl has about 2200 lumens and I like about 10,000 lumens per sq/ft for veg, that kinda tells ya how many youll need as a min. for good growth. You are looking for 6500k bulbs for vegging.


Changing to an hps for flower is fine, just remember to keep the light away for a day or so and bring it down a couple of inches a day.

Good Luck

Vaper

Gr0wGreen said:

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/514705-golden-goat-organic-4000w.html these are my plants vegged under t5's. do your plants look like that? no, i didn't think so. you know why? its because you keep telling yourselves that cfl's arn't a waste of money. as they great judge judy once said "don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining". i got a bunch of mine for $100/unit used off of craigslist. how much have you spent to buy all the cfl bulbs and sockets?

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Dude seriously? Can you really compare a system running off cfl's vs. that monstrous system running 4 1000w hoods not to mention all the other gear u got there even if u did pay $100 per unit most people that are talking about setting up a cfl system look at their entire light budget as what u paid for just one unit in ur set-up.

KushXOJ said:

Well I left a little space because I was going to be lst traing them and I didn't want my fan leaves on the dirt while I tie them to the rim of the pots, so I left a little space. I also added a half inch of perlite on top of my soil to prevent any bugs in the future from laying eggs in my soil. Those are 5 gallon buckets btw

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ok,does it seem like it works good?...the perlite i mean?...i never heard of doing that befor...(wow see how you learn new things when u ask nice)...im going to try that...i use that bug mat shit u buy at walmart, u gatta remove it from ur pots everytime you water them (pain in the ass)...

Yea it works great , haven't seen any bugs since I did it. Sand would be better but I had this extra perlite laying around so I just went with it instead.

The only problem with perlite on the surface is when the fan blows a few chunks up into your sticky buds. I use sand and hydroton on the surface to keep the bugs out.

PJ Diaz said:

The only problem with perlite on the surface is when the fan blows a few chunks up into your sticky buds. I use sand and hydroton on the surface to keep the bugs out.

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Don't think that'll be a problem seeing as my fan blows a slight breeze across the canopy . Like I said sand would be better but this perlite will work just fine.

PJ Diaz said:

The only problem with perlite on the surface is when the fan blows a few chunks up into your sticky buds. I use sand and hydroton on the surface to keep the bugs out.

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i find when i water it moves perlite so u just gave me ideal i have hydroton i will place over soil to hold perlite in place thanks bro+repped

Gr0wGreen said:

lmfao! my t5's veg plants bigger than that in 1 week! but by all means keep telling yourselves cfl's do the job :\

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To be said yes bigger is achievable with better lights. But I'd still call it a pretty happy grow. Great work

Kingpuck said:

To be said yes bigger is achievable with better lights. But I'd still call it a pretty happy grow. Great work

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Bro this thread is 7.5 years old.

Lol. You think he's still using cfl's?

This feed cracked me up lolz the bloke just wanted some advice and use turned into a dick measuring contest hahahahahah it’s ok lads uv all got BIG COCKS in the grow world hahahaha yewww gold totally amused lmfao

even If it is ten years old lol