how many plants?

How many plants should you put under 1 x 125 watt CFL ?

lol I can't do 8 under my 400w very well.

boobymanj said:

How many plants should you put under 1 x 125 watt CFL ?

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I'd use smaller cfl's so you can spread light more evenly, that would work out a lot better. If you was to keep the 125w bulb then i say it would do the top half of one plant.

mrbud2010 said:

1 or 2 i should think but ive just bought a 125 watt flowering light and im going to put 8 plants under it.......

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Don't expect too much good bud.

oh right thats more like it see i planned on putting around 8 clones under .
i have a growing set up and a flowering set up ready for 8 in each i hope it will work.

i see so maybe i should get 2 x 125 watt bulbs for the flowering stage

i have just one under 2 cfls. the more light the more plants i guess. come check mine out!!
https://www.rollitup.org/introduce-yourself/298913-indica-sativa.html

Can you not go HID?

you want 6500k for veg 2700k for you can mix them up. But stick with as much as you can in the stage your in.

yeah deffo m8 thanks i am really trying to get the best out of my cfls now i bought em but i want 8 plants and im not sure about any other lights cos i got a feeling them pesky pork choppers in the sky will have a feild day as i live very close to em lol.
its why i went for cfls to reduce heat and run a more efficient job like.

unless you put a sign out front they would never know.

well its just that 1 of my cousins was caught by thermal cam.
it was after that i gotten spooked but i love toking so damn much

they must of had a reason to search that area cos ive never heard anyone been caught unless there using hps or mh....

mrbud2010 said:

ive got 1 flourescent light kicking out 9000k also 2 kitchen cfl.s kicking out 3000k each also another 4 cfls each kicking out 1.500k and going with that is a 125 watt flowering red spectrum light....plenty enough for 8 plants....they have been in flowering stage now for over month and a half...

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Dude, check my plant below. It was grown with 180w of clf power and 2 flourescent tubes, so about 220w in total and it was total shit, weak buds, taken forever to look like buds, and never filled out.
I done all the research on growing with clf's, they were 1 1/2 inch away at all times too and it was just not worth the effort i think.

So the point is, you're using about the same amount of watts on 8 plants as i was using on one plant, which is totally underpowered, and as i said, was total shit.

You really need to cut back on the plants or increase the amout of light/lumens 10 fold.

I recon you could yeild just as much bud if you just grew 2 plants instead of 8 using that power.

Anyway, have a read and check cfl grows on here.

peace

You will need a lot more light than you currently have for 8 plants, At least 600w in CFL'S, Have you thought about going for a air-cooled HPS?