first time trying to grow
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Erysichthon
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first off you do not want to use regular lights, or halogen spot lights they are useless. if you wanna go cheap, the way to go is surely flouro/cfl. if you have 3 plants you can get yourself at 5 CFL's and be pretty well set if you keep im in a small space.
CFL's are cheap and effective for veg, and can be used for flowerin if not so much as HPS. heres my set up if your lookin for some ideas...
its a basic shop light with 2 t8 48" 32 watt, 2700 lumen, 6500k tubes, that i added 2, 2x fan light sockets and 1 single socket with a Y adapter, there are 3 23w 1450 lumens cfls, 1 27wat cfl about 1600lumens. and 2 daylight 15watt 6500k cool cfl bulbs in the Y. you can get all this at wallmart or your local home/garden store. all fairly priced. and you should get these essentials as well. a PH kit for your water, cuz you dont wanna use over ph water, and a combo humidity, temp guage wouldnt hurt. hope this helps some
try to close your grow up too. and keep the lights close as possible
Ery.
btw notice how the plants stretched, thats what crap lights do, now that i got proper flouro lights they have stopped the stretching
CFL's are cheap and effective for veg, and can be used for flowerin if not so much as HPS. heres my set up if your lookin for some ideas...
its a basic shop light with 2 t8 48" 32 watt, 2700 lumen, 6500k tubes, that i added 2, 2x fan light sockets and 1 single socket with a Y adapter, there are 3 23w 1450 lumens cfls, 1 27wat cfl about 1600lumens. and 2 daylight 15watt 6500k cool cfl bulbs in the Y. you can get all this at wallmart or your local home/garden store. all fairly priced. and you should get these essentials as well. a PH kit for your water, cuz you dont wanna use over ph water, and a combo humidity, temp guage wouldnt hurt. hope this helps some
try to close your grow up too. and keep the lights close as possibleEry.
btw notice how the plants stretched, thats what crap lights do, now that i got proper flouro lights they have stopped the stretching
xweedxgrowx
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your plants are very tall dude, and dont have many leave's at all.first off you do not want to use regular lights, or halogen spot lights they are useless. if you wanna go cheap, the way to go is surely flouro/cfl. if you have 3 plants you can get yourself at 5 CFL's and be pretty well set if you keep im in a small space.
CFL's are cheap and effective for veg, and can be used for flowerin if not so much as HPS. heres my set up if your lookin for some ideas...
its a basic shop light with 2 t8 48" 32 watt, 2700 lumen, 6500k tubes, that i added 2, 2x fan light sockets and 1 single socket with a Y adapter, there are 3 23w 1450 lumens cfls, 1 27wat cfl about 1600lumens. and 2 daylight 15watt 6500k cool cfl bulbs in the Y. you can get all this at wallmart or your local home/garden store. all fairly priced. and you should get these essentials as well. a PH kit for your water, cuz you dont wanna use over ph water, and a combo humidity, temp guage wouldnt hurt. hope this helps some
Ery.
btw notice how the plants stretched, thats what crap lights do, now that i got proper flouro lights they have stopped the stretching
not priceless but definatly should do more research on growing..Ur plants should have 3x as many leaves. ... ur plants are pretty much pure stem lol
woodsyn2o
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this is a joke right TCP Elite 4FT T5 Fluorescent High Bay Light Fixture - Businesslights.comfirst off you do not want to use regular lights, or halogen spot lights they are useless. if you wanna go cheap, the way to go is surely flouro/cfl. if you have 3 plants you can get yourself at 5 CFL's and be pretty well set if you keep im in a small space.
CFL's are cheap and effective for veg, and can be used for flowerin if not so much as HPS. heres my set up if your lookin for some ideas...
its a basic shop light with 2 t8 48" 32 watt, 2700 lumen, 6500k tubes, that i added 2, 2x fan light sockets and 1 single socket with a Y adapter, there are 3 23w 1450 lumens cfls, 1 27wat cfl about 1600lumens. and 2 daylight 15watt 6500k cool cfl bulbs in the Y. you can get all this at wallmart or your local home/garden store. all fairly priced. and you should get these essentials as well. a PH kit for your water, cuz you dont wanna use over ph water, and a combo humidity, temp guage wouldnt hurt. hope this helps some
Ery.
btw notice how the plants stretched, thats what crap lights do, now that i got proper flouro lights they have stopped the stretching
Erysichthon
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Yes, i know my plants are S T R E T C H E D, i had crap incandescent and halogen lights on em for like 3 weeks, and then i corrected it, the stretching has stopped, but of course will NOT reverse, and this is mostly a prelim grow, started to see what problems i would run into, and the reason they are slightly farther away than they could be is there are several age plants in there, and its hard to get em all right under, they are fine. id post some pics of the sprouts i have, started totally in the cfls. no stretching or anything they are prime. i have 10 hindu kush seeds on order from nirvana, when they get here all my current plants are gettin kinda backburnered, either outside, or maybe ill just junk em.
Erysichthon
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those lights are 150 dollars eh? he was lookin for inexpensive stuff.. why the hell would you drop that kinda cash on flouro's, when you could just get HPS or MH, for that price?
Ery
P.S. go filate a penguin you cynical prick