Indoor Growing CFL lights plz help!!!

Breadwinnernate · Jul 6, 2011

I have two plants that r both 12 inch or more under 3 regular 23watt flourscent light bulbs. And I have 2 13 inch flourscent night lights and 1 24 inch 26watt cfl in there. I can't tell the sex of the plant but both plants r healthy and one I had on my window sill that one is not as nice as the one that I started growing in my closet but there both in there now. They have leaves growing from between the branches I think it's called the nodes? But they aren't showing any signs of there sex. One kinda looks like it has a little tiny ball I'm not sure. There aren't any branches growing between the nodes tho.. i just switched the lights to 12/12.
1.Do you think it's enough light?
2.why can't I tell the sex at all?

MY SETUP

MY FIRST PLANT THAT I STARTED IN THE CLOSET

THE OTHER ONE

Farfenugen · Jul 6, 2011

I would get a little more light onto those, and then wait 4 or 5 days, you may see some signs that sex is appearing

mike0947 · Jul 6, 2011

The CFLs in the first picture look like 6500k. You suppose to use 2700k - soft white.

CHIEF PUFF PUFF · Jul 6, 2011

Hey Breadwinnernate, while your plants are growing/vegging, they need 2700k lights (white lights). When you change the lights to 12/12, your plants need 6500k lights (yellow lights). Hope this helps.

HighLife4Me · Jul 6, 2011

CHIEF PUFF PUFF said:
Hey Breadwinnernate, while your plants are growing/vegging, they need 2700k lights (white lights). When you change the lights to 12/12, your plants need 6500k lights (yellow lights). Hope this helps.

-_-. I think u got that backwards. 2700k = yellow/flowering

Those are the same tubes i have, they suck

, got'em from wally world. Get more of the 26watt 2700k's. I am using 8 26watt 2700k's for 1 plant, it would be able to handle 2 plants but for the 26watters i would do at least 4 per plant.

kingdevin · Jul 6, 2011

they look way to droopy... they should be springing towards the light.... im on my first grow but they are pretty huge for 2 weeks and the leaves are darting in the direction of the light...have to rotate the plants sometimes... using 2 sets of 40watt florescent tubes, so 180 watts with those, and then 2 40 watt cfls and 2 26 watt cfls should be ok for 4-5 plants maybe bit more

Breadwinnernate · Jul 7, 2011

They're not droopy at all and which light should I use for flowering? What is 6500 yellow lights? Which one do I have? And I'm about to jus put one plant in there I'm sure it'll b enough light for one plant

Breadwinnernate · Jul 7, 2011

Wait I c how the light bulbs r yellow n the cfl is like a soft white which one do I want for flowering?

Double O Triple OG · Jul 7, 2011

6500k for vegging. These bulbs are white in color and are called daylight.

2700k fir flowering. These bulbs are orange in color and are called softwhite.

Breadwinnernate · Jul 7, 2011

can u tell from the pic if any of the lights i have r the right ones for flowering?
if so or if not can u tell me what type of lights i have if u can tell

HighLife4Me · Jul 7, 2011

Breadwinnernate said:
can u tell from the pic if any of the lights i have r the right ones for flowering?
if so or if not can u tell me what type of lights i have if u can tell

All of them look 2700k/flowering, except the tube, that is 5000K+. You'll be ok, the tube and the 2 none spiral lights are giving off a low amount of lumen. I would up with more of the spiral looking cfls.

Nordic division · Jul 7, 2011

I suggest you to add more spiral looking(Tornado)cfls but at the moment everything looks nice and healthy

Breadwinnernate · Jul 7, 2011

Thanks Nordic division n HighLife4Me y'all 2 gave the easiest most understandable answers

Matchbox · Jul 7, 2011

They don't looK too bad for 2 weeks, listen to all the good advice ur getting!

Oh and they take a good few weeks to show sex after switching to 12/12 so hang in there I vegged 2 plants for 3 weeks and they've been flowering for 3 weeks, only just showing signs.

Breadwinnernate · Jul 7, 2011

Well there not 2 weeks old they're prolly about 4-5 weeks old and I'm jus now startin to flower them but they're both over 12 inches

Matchbox · Jul 8, 2011

My bad.. When did you actually flower as in how many days/weeks have they been 12/12?

Breadwinnernate · Jul 8, 2011

Today will b the 3rd day I think the healthiest one is a male (the 1 in the green pot) because I saw 1 ball in 1 of the nodes but I'm not 100% sure

davemon · Jul 8, 2011

how many watts is good for flowering for a soft white

Breadwinnernate · Jul 9, 2011

Idk I think I have 1 soft white cfl n the rest of my lights r yellow I think

Breadwinnernate · Jul 9, 2011

new pics

the one in the green pot is the one that is the healthiest and im pretty sure its a female i'll post a pic to show u guys what i think is a pistil hopefully it is

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