My cfl grow almost at the end

Heres a couple of pics of a cfl grow using fox farm soil and big bloom and spring water

Cool man how many watts did you use?what spectrums did you use
6500kveg,3000kbloom? Or did you do a full spectrum mixing the bulbs?

What do you mean by almost at the end? Looks like you still have a while to go.

Ringsixty said:

What do you mean by almost at the end? Looks like you still have a while to go.

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Looks like another 4-5 weeks to me.

Agree with above - it looks like you've still got around a month (or more) to go.

Holy crap looks like you got a tangled mess full of buds going on Ya and i say you still got some more time to go What week are you on?

Agree, you need a lot more time if you chopped soon, theyll shrivel up to nothing an you will barely catch a buzz

Just echoing what the others say. You have a long way to go.

LONG ways to go like everyone else is saying, atleast another 4-5 weeks if not more. Don't rush it trust me you will be happy you had patience in the end, you will know when their ready just give it the time it needs. Those buds will be fat, all those white hairs will have turned amber and mostly receded back into the buds when you've reached maturity

No shit huh they been budding for alil over a month and im aware they are not done never said they where ready to harvest. and no I used cool white for veg and warm white for flower and night owl can you not tell that the light in the pic is warm 2700k I used 5000k for veg.

And I know how to check a plant for maturity have a microscope I am aware that the hairs haven't changed and are still very white but they been budding dfor alil over a month 4-5 weeks at most ill agree. I grew this from seed don't know the strain thought it might have been localy grown outdoors at one point but its lookin like its gonna take more then 50 days to finish which wouldent grow right outdoors around here but if it was somehow an outdoor strain brought up here it might endup being even bigger and stronger then when grown outside. I cant wait.

Has more bud on it then anyother time inside. I also followed advice and flowered at alil over a foot because your dealing with cfl's if you get too big you will have a bare plant and not enough light to fill out.

It doesn't appear to be stretching anymore which im thinking is good because the lights are almost as high as I can make them.

keep in mind I have never had a plant with this much bud on it and I also supercropped a couple of times just 2 or 3 branches.

Im using 2 300w eqiv cfls and I got 2 smaller ones 100w eqiv. I have a light socket with a chain that has 2 side plugs and has a plug socket adapter in both plugs which provides side lighting I just rotate the whole plant every so often and I got a big heavy duty clamp light with a ceramic socket which hangs above the top of the plant.


PPl can say what they want but ive prolly saved 140$ on my light bill as compared to hps which would cost prolly 40$ a month to run ive prolly wasted only 20$ in electric who would notice that.

420newbieg said:

PPl can say what they want but ive prolly saved 140$ on my light bill as compared to hps which would cost prolly 40$ a month to run ive prolly wasted only 20$ in electric who would notice that.

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Wow - touchy little guy... People are here to help. Your 'almost at the end' grow isn't almost at the end - that's what people are saying.

You haven't saved any money on running costs. CFL and HPS cost the same amount per watt to run, because your electricity providers charge you by the kilowatt hour. You aren't spending as much because you're using fewer watts.

Also, the fact that you're listing 'equivalent watt' values rather than actual watts tells me you're an amateur.

I think it looks good dude. Seems like you have loads of good looking buds and even having to prop them with string. The plants look big. Nice job!

SunnyJim said:

Also, the fact that you're listing 'equivalent watt' values rather than actual watts tells me you're an amateur.

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Everyone has slated this guy, only natural that he is defensive in his post. To be honest most people on rollitup are amateurs, most commercial growers probably don't even waste time to post here. Let's go easy on the dude. I think the stuff looks nice. You are right with what you are saying on costs although HPS pulls loads more amps and in the end imho it does actually cost more to run a 400 watt hps than 400 watt cfls simply because they suck power due to pulling more amps. But that is just my opinion. Not dissing you dude just saying we should all be nice and not think why is this dude reacting this way when nature dictates for every action there is a equal and opposite reaction..... All he did wrong in everyone's opinion is title his thread wrong... I mean come on... peace

Only one person slated him - something about a tangled mess. Everyone else simply told him he wasn't near the end of his grow, but rather a month away. Getting defensive isn't necessary when you're on a forum looking for help. Most here are happy to help until they get attitude thrown back at them for their troubles.

Domestic properties aren't charged by the amps they pull, they're billed by kilowatt hours.

I agree with you in principle, though; we should be kind to one another.

all im saying is that they started to flower in the middle of june a couple of the lower and upper buds have hairs that have turned orange maybe 3 buds.

and sunny to say that im an amatuer because ive listed eqiuv well thats what ive always done. why would i need to state that its 300w of actual power in cfl or not i mean dont you think that it would be alil over kill at 300w cfl for one plant. also like the other guy said less amps and just as much bud in some cases ive herd of 1lb plants with just cfls. a 400w hps prolly draws 5 amps compared to my setup which draws about 1 amp maybe 1 and a half.

mylar really seems to enhance what cfls can do. also nutes are key

When i pull a couple zips off this thing with maybe 40$ invested maybe then ill gain some points with everyone.

think of it like this more speakers the louder the sound same with lights the more lights covering an area same type of thing sometimes is better then one hps directing light in one basic spot only.

See one thing ive noticed with cfls is that you can put em allover the place sides and top. and at a fraction of the cost sometimes the power company will even give a bunch away every couple of years.

??who is going to give you free hids just something to think about

You're right, but also a tiny bit wrong about equivalent bulbs. The reason equivalent values are redundant is because the companies producing the bulbs are left to decide what 'equivalent' watt values they can assign to their bulbs. All we know for certain is the actual watt value the bulbs draw. HPS companies could compare their bulbs to florescent tubes and say their 400w bulbs are equivalent to 2000w of florescent bulbs. It gets a little hairy, confusing, and misleading. That's why CFL growers only count the actual (or true) watts they provide their plants with. I'm still not sure how many true watts you're using.

For growers, the general rule of thumb (and of course there are exceptions to this rule) is to provide each flowering plant you have with at least 100 watts (actual) of light (either CFL, HPS, MH, LED, etc, etc..). Make sure it's the right spectrum for the current grow cycle of the plant and you're on your way. As you said, CFLs are great for positioning all around the plant, and in much closer proximity to the plant itself because they don't produce much heat. You can also add more bulbs to your grow environment when you can afford to buy them throughout your grow.

If you get given free bulbs, and they're of the right spectrum you need (6400K during veg, 2700k during flower), I would use them too. And yes, it's a total shame electricity companies don't send their customers HPS lighting with ballasts and reflectors! That would be sweet.

I commend you on the small amount of investment you've made into your grow. It doesn't always take hundreds of dollars to get a decent setup going, and it's always great to see growers on a tight budget producing decent yields. I do hope you get a decent crop and I'll be following your grow.

I'm sorry for calling you an amateur. That wasn't cool.

If you go by what it says on the box for light equivalency on compact fluros. It would be much cheaper to run Fluroscents. But by the same token you can't get the light penetration from a Fluro that you would with an HID. Of course that comes more into play in a larger grow then a smaller one.

whatever im doing is kinda working however the last week I haven't noticed much bud growth and the tips were burnt on some leaves kinda an orange color.

hopefully they fatten up more from what I can tell there aint no crystals yet and no smell prolly just low level midgrade

some dont really tric up till the last 2 weeks But you are doing good for cfl. I run 220w actual of cfl twist and keep mine to around 3 foot max and get solid bud. OG kush was the most frosty for me, but white widow took a while to frost, but she got there

It looks like a ball of weeded mess!
wtf