Growing with 25w cfls. This is different. Please read on.

I know a lot of questions have been asked about this, but my situation is a bit scarce. So Im a college student...living off of my parents money..and all i have been able to afford is 4 25w cfl bulbs for 2 sativa bag seeds. The seedlings are about 1 week old, and get a minimum of 5 hours of sunlight per day. Then i put them under the bulbs. Its on the 24/0 light schedule coz im a foreign student and have to go back hime for vacation in about 5 months so i just wanna be done. So heres the facts 4 cfl bulbs, 25w each, 5 hours of direct sunlight per day, and maybe next month i can afford to buy an 8w LED grow lamp. So my question is, what kind of a harvest am i looking at? Anything is fine. I just wanna know what im gonna get. Btw, lights in this country are quite expensive.

I would have just focused that light on ONE plant not on two , just not enough for two plants.
Keep in mind , cfl's have crap conopy penetration so only the tops are going to get light , it would be good to lst those plants as early as possible.
if you have 50w cfl on a plant , maybe you can expect 15-20g's ?(probably shoud get a second opinion on that).
Also try to keep the lights as close as 4-5 cm's from the plant.

About a pound

TheAngbadang said:

I would have just focused that light on ONE plant not on two , just not enough for two plants.
Keep in mind , cfl's have crap conopy penetration so only the tops are going to get light , it would be good to lst those plants as early as possible.
if you have 50w cfl on a plant , maybe you can expect 15-20g's ?(probably shoud get a second opinion on that).
Also try to keep the lights as close as 4-5 cm's from the plant.

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how about i add one of these led grow lights?

Will it be enough for two? Also is it ok to grow both in the same rectangular pot?

GrowGorilla said:

About a pound

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really i could get that with 4 cfls?

nah man you won't get a pound , lol that guy is obviously messing around., im in the same boat , low budget , im growing with 30w of leds ,its probably best to just save up for a proper 100w+ led chip setup.

TrucoShan said:

really i could get that with 4 cfls?

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Oh hell yeah man. CFLs are the bomb

Looking at watts per plant u want about 100w to 150w. Tbh you would probably get more off one plant with those lights than u will with them on 2