is this enough light

lazylo

lazylo

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ive got my plant under a 200w 2700k cfl that puts out just under 4,000 lumens is it enought light, and its a small one only about 2 ft tall and 1 1/2 ft wide and ive boxed in a section of my closet just slightly bigger than the plant isSANY0730.jpgSANY0738.jpg
 
lazylo

lazylo

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just been getting kinda cold outside and the damn light on the power pole is on all night and wouldnt let her flower. do you think it would be better if i bought anouther light
 
SmeLLyTreeZ

SmeLLyTreeZ

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Yea its going to get a lot taller though! I would recommend trying lst "lowstresstraining" by tieing the top of it down very carefully. Not only will it keep the plant shorter but you will most likely get a better yield in the end because you will be able to keep the cfl's closer to the whole plant..

You should be good with this amount of light, on my first grow I pulled around 3 oz's off two plants under about 250watts of cfl.. As long as your talking true watts and not equivelent.. Now that I think about it, 4000 lumens is the 300 watt equivalent 68w cfl so if your only running 68 true watts then I would at least get another one if not 2 and surround your plant with them.
Remeber keeping them horizontal they put off more light..
 
Medi 1

Medi 1

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street lights dont bother them. ive run ruight under them many times and they are just an hps bulb and no way its intence enough to reach the ground to effect them. a 1k is onkly good for us up to 2 foot away. each ionch further is 50% lumens loss. its the week cfl is why
 
SmeLLyTreeZ

SmeLLyTreeZ

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Medi 1 said:
street lights dont bother them. ive run ruight under them many times and they are just an hps bulb and no way its intence enough to reach the ground to effect them. a 1k is onkly good for us up to 2 foot away. each ionch further is 50% lumens loss. its the week cfl is why
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I think he ment it was outside and the streetlight was keeping them from flowering...

has nothing to do with the cfl...
 
Medi 1

Medi 1

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i know what he meant and i said the street light had nothing to do with it being it wont reach the plant.
 
SmeLLyTreeZ

SmeLLyTreeZ

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Medi 1 said:
i know what he meant and i said the street light had nothing to do with it being it wont reach the plant.
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Just making sure, I've read about other people having problems from streetlights but I really have no idea if it would effect it or not.. I've never had that problem..
Medi 1 said:
and are we inside or out then with street lights and cfls here.
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LoL, good point. I was assuming he brought it inside.
 
Medi 1

Medi 1

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if thjey had issies and blamed the street light ...um...not. its the same lights we use in grows and not powerfull enough,. just cause we see it with our eyes dont mean it reaches plants. they dont see in what we see
 
SmeLLyTreeZ

SmeLLyTreeZ

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Medi 1 said:
if thjey had issies and blamed the street light ...um...not. its the same lights we use in grows and not powerfull enough,. just cause we see it with our eyes dont mean it reaches plants. they dont see in what we see
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It makes sense what your saying, I just wasn't sure..
 
lazylo

lazylo

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ok now im really confused ive read up on the flowering process ive read that you should light proof your grow room and it doesnt take much to interfere. and yes its been outside and i brought it in because its been getting a little cold outside at night and after a week of that ive noticed that it started to flower so i decided to keep it inside
 
Medi 1

Medi 1

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ok then it was the to cold that stopped it from growing, not the street light messing with it. its to far away. when we are in a grow room yes we need dark as we are right up close to them now.
 
lazylo

lazylo

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i wasnt for sure it was the street light ive just read that it doesnt take much light to interfere with the flowering process so i figured id bring her in and it worked so i decided to keep it inside so i was just wondering if i had enough light on her
 
SmeLLyTreeZ

SmeLLyTreeZ

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lazylo said:
i wasnt for sure it was the street light ive just read that it doesnt take much light to interfere with the flowering process so i figured id bring her in and it worked so i decided to keep it inside so i was just wondering if i had enough light on her
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Did you read my question?

SmeLLyTreeZ said:
Yea its going to get a lot taller though! I would recommend trying lst "lowstresstraining" by tieing the top of it down very carefully. Not only will it keep the plant shorter but you will most likely get a better yield in the end because you will be able to keep the cfl's closer to the whole plant..

You should be good with this amount of light, on my first grow I pulled around 3 oz's off two plants under about 250watts of cfl.. As long as your talking true watts and not equivelent.. Now that I think about it, 4000 lumens is the 300 watt equivalent 68w cfl so if your only running 68 true watts then I would at least get another one if not 2 and surround your plant with them.
Remeber keeping them horizontal they put off more light..
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Is it a 68 watt "True watt" cfl?
 
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