I can't use HPS or MH so I was thinking about using CFLs until I could afford something better but I'm not really sure where to start... Somebody point me in the right direction.
Just standard closet until I can get enough cash for a grow box. Soil by the way, too poor for hydro set up.
I have 5 plants doing well with 2 - 125w and 6 - 26w CFLs. I bought 3 small inline fans at Radioshack to manage heat and I do run them, but it has not been an issue whatsoever. I believe the 125w's can get expensive, I'm not sure exact prices because I got mine free. I've seen a Hydrofarm 125w light w/ refractor at $150, but I believe you get just the light for around $40-50 and build your own refractor. The 26w CFLs are at Home Depots and Lowes for around $4 a piece. I got 2 of the vanity bathroom light bars, and put the 26w CFLs in those. It is probably the best bet going with a lot of smaller wattage CFLs, as I hear life expectancy on the upper wattage CFLs are questionable, and the 26-30w CFLs are real cheap. CFLs produce very little heat, can screw into any normal light socket, and are much cheaper than MH and HPS lights, which makes them ideal for limited space and budgets. The attitude with CFLs is fit as many as you can, as heat, power, and space will allow. The CFLs will burn the leaves if they rest directly against them, which is why I run the fans to keep them moving just in case, but they are about 3-4 inches away. CFLs are available in numerous light spectrums, including Daylight/6500K for vegetative growth and Warm/2700K for flowering. For a complete grow you want both, with an emphasis on the light spectrum that primarily used during each appropriate stage the plant is in. Also when buying CFLs, look at actual watts used, not the incandescent equivalent. I wouldn't recommend smaller than 20w just because they are so small, and I would recommend 100w for 1 plant and 30-50 additional per plant, but I believe you can suffice off 30w if you are on a real tight budget. Hope this helps, let me know if you need more help.
That helps but I need more detail. I've looked at lights a bit and I kinda get it. A lot I've seen don't have spectrum types on it, I need what to look for on a box. I plan on using the shiny side of foil for milar and I have a small fan, I guess I could get more if needed. The lights are my biggest problem. I Would have to build a device for holding the bulbs safely and then there are the actual bulbs... I need to "See the light" as it were.
Well like I've mentioned, you want Daylight which has a color temperature of 6500K, for vegetative, and Warm which has a color temperature of 2700K, for flowering. All the CFLs you will find at Home Depot or Lowe's should state all of that information, or at the very least have the color temperature. I also recommended going with multiple 26-30w CFLs instead of high wattage CFLs like the 125w. This is just a recommendation because they are readily available and easy to mount because they can go into any normal light socket. Shit, I thought I was pretty detailed. Do you want me to tell you exactly what you should do or something haha? You want more details, here you go.
You can, or you can spread them out around your grow space instead of hanging them all from one place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_QRorECvo That video is a walkthrough to make a cheap CFL light refractor for $30 including the bulb. The best advice is to read grow journals and look at other people's set-ups. It will help make it less intimidating because it's pretty easy to set-up a little grow room. Try grasscity.com and look around.
It's not, it's just how to set-up the light. The guy who makes the video doesn't grow pot, or at least if he does he doesn't let anyone know in the videos. He grows all kinds of plants.
right now I'm growing red kush or was it orange kush but whatever back to the subject so any way.. i started growing hm lets see in about June of 09 okay it went horribly wrong because i used alcohol as my sanitizer and dried the dirt so since then i decided i different way... okay so i have about 17 animals all of which have proper day and night lights... then I'm like hm mm i can use that to my benefit so i decided to grow in my hermit crab tank first i started with about 8 plants then i decided to only grow one at a time so i dried the plants and smoked them and it worked ha-ha so any way my hermit crab tank cost me nothing i got it for Xmas one year and it has amazing lights and its all sand and i heard afghan kush is grown in sand so this plant must be a good one.. and for the seeds just get a whole bunch of bud and you can usually find seed if you just pull the bud apart instead of grinding it.. so technically you only need about 10 dollars if your just gonna get like a 10 gallon tank i have a 120 gallon tank but what ever.. then a light maybe 10 15 dollars then you can get like a light fixture for the light and woo la and you don't need any night lights for it.. oh and also I'm just growing as if it were to grow in the wild so I'm not doing any thing to it except occasional trimming and watering.. you only need to spend 1000 dollars if your trying to get the best shit but if your just growing for your own usage use the cheep way its still good shit just not as good if you invested shit loads of money.. __________________
people really shouldn't be going around "helping" others when they don't have a very good grasp of the concept at all...........
what are you talking about maniac i thought grm's advice was great! lmao afghan kush is totally grown in sand!
kushes just must be sand dwellers........i'll have to keep that in mind if i grow a kush out...........oh wait i have......banana OG kush......
