Over 500 actual watts of cfl ... Yield ?

allen bud said:

View attachment 1407970this one is under 1 300 watt cfl...gonna be over 2 zip no problem
and with other 2 plants in room going to get over 1/4.! thats good for me ..cany aford nor do i have the space for HID.loveing it!!!!

and i agree withbassman(me to ,spector is my peice!) ,the conditions and nutes are important,humidity should be under 50% (20 is grest for budding) and lower temps try for upper 70's low 80's at most..and happy growing!!ill be back to check up on yer grow

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That is a sweet lookin girl there Alien!

newworldicon said:

How many grams is a zip? I see people overestimating their yields day in day out, whatever your wet yield is you can divide that by 4 and then take another 10% off what is left and then you will have your final weight, a lot less than you expect.

And no offense to anyone here but I grow commercially, I harvest for drying and curing 2 pounds every 4 weeks and always amaze at what it withers down to.

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Yup yer right but this isnt my first grow and i know you only get 1/4 of wet weight ..i weigh it dry.and a zip is 1 oz. 28 gram's .Also the plant in pic had 8 more weeks of budding in that pic (hawiian )and i understand yhe over estimators,but i thing iam under estimateing,last grow i said my cheese was going to get at least a zip and i got almost 2 out of it.i try to under estimate so as to be more surprised of outcome..lol...so i will keep you posted on weight dry..or stop by my thread ....peace and bong hits for all!

Wait a min are you trying to say 2 oz off cfl??? i know of someone who had a 400w hps and did 2 plants and got alil over an 8th of an oz dry weight basicly wasted his time and electric id love to see a cfl plant give a half oz even that sounds unrealistic. i have 3 120w eqv 24w and one plant/aqua t bulb. Im currently in flowering and i just dont see more then an 8th ounce total out of this. Its almost not worth it and ive used nutes tryed some proven tricks and the thing is barley over a foot. 600w of cfl on a 15 amp circuit everyday would eventually heat up the wire and poof your home gone?? 600w even on a brand new romex could be dangerous i would think. Id add more light if i knew i would be safe but this is 40 year old wire atleast

then u really suck sorry

420newbieg said:

Wait a min are you trying to say 2 oz off cfl??? i know of someone who had a 400w hps and did 2 plants and got alil over an 8th of an oz dry weight basicly wasted his time and electric id love to see a cfl plant give a half oz even that sounds unrealistic. i have 3 120w eqv 24w and one plant/aqua t bulb. Im currently in flowering and i just dont see more then an 8th ounce total out of this. Its almost not worth it and ive used nutes tryed some proven tricks and the thing is barley over a foot. 600w of cfl on a 15 amp circuit everyday would eventually heat up the wire and poof your home gone?? 600w even on a brand new romex could be dangerous i would think. Id add more light if i knew i would be safe but this is 40 year old wire atleast

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15 amp circuit can handle 1500 watts use. long runs of wire will lower wattage.

"Wait a min are you trying to say 2 oz off cfl??? i know of someone who had a 400w hps and did 2 plants and got alil over an 8th of an oz dry weight basicly wasted his time and electric id love to see a cfl plant give a half oz even that sounds unrealistic. i have 3 120w eqv 24w and one plant/aqua t bulb. Im currently in flowering and i just dont see more then an 8th ounce total out of this. "


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I run just at 300 watt CFL, and I average in over 3 oz's dried from 2 plants in my 18" by 2 ft space of quality hard bud. A 'Real' grower could get much more .. I don't even use reflectors.

420newbieg said:

Wait a min are you trying to say 2 oz off cfl??? i know of someone who had a 400w hps and did 2 plants and got alil over an 8th of an oz dry weight basicly wasted his time and electric id love to see a cfl plant give a half oz even that sounds unrealistic. i have 3 120w eqv 24w and one plant/aqua t bulb. Im currently in flowering and i just dont see more then an 8th ounce total out of this. Its almost not worth it and ive used nutes tryed some proven tricks and the thing is barley over a foot. 600w of cfl on a 15 amp circuit everyday would eventually heat up the wire and poof your home gone?? 600w even on a brand new romex could be dangerous i would think. Id add more light if i knew i would be safe but this is 40 year old wire atleast

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Really? ive seen people yield well over an zip or 2 with cfls. Ive done it. Hell if you dont believe check out Buds for less. its a book by a grower thats on this site. In his book he harvested 8 oz of 3 plants, and you get to see the grow day by day.

Im in the process of growing 4 plants scrog with strictly cfls and i think i can realistically say i expect to harvest at least 4-5 zips. I think people grossly underestimate cfls and think if the switch to hps they are instantly gonna pull pounds. light is only one part of the growing process.

420newbieg said:

Wait a min are you trying to say 2 oz off cfl??? i know of someone who had a 400w hps and did 2 plants and got alil over an 8th of an oz dry weight basicly wasted his time and electric id love to see a cfl plant give a half oz even that sounds unrealistic. i have 3 120w eqv 24w and one plant/aqua t bulb. Im currently in flowering and i just dont see more then an 8th ounce total out of this. Its almost not worth it and ive used nutes tryed some proven tricks and the thing is barley over a foot. 600w of cfl on a 15 amp circuit everyday would eventually heat up the wire and poof your home gone?? 600w even on a brand new romex could be dangerous i would think. Id add more light if i knew i would be safe but this is 40 year old wire atleast

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See folks, this is what impatience does to ya! Shitty yields, and bad word of mouth. See, poeple like me, who love, and nurture the plant, and take time to prune, examine, and etc. .Well those people will get killer grows. Growing weed doesn't happen over night. It's something constantly being learned over years and years. More lights isn't the problem, if you have over 600watts of CFL, and only see about an eighth of weed there so far, yea you got problems with your soil, water, or something... There are a ton of variables when growing to consider... In a near perfect environment it is very realistic to think a healthy plant can yield more than an ounce, or two. Some breeders will tell you thier plants can produce up to 400grams per meter of plant.

with 500 watts of cfl you should easily get 3 oz dry and more but hps will always rule

Last year i did a small one plant outdoor grow i used a 5 gallon bucket a tiny lil bit of shitty soil and mostly farm compost and i used nutes pruned a couple shade leaves killed slugs spider mites I used special bat guano and i dident see more the a half ounce dry. I risked my ass after work sometimes before pruning spraying giving ferts watering it etc and it wasnt no 3 oz outdoors even so ive done it once. Idk we will have to see the strain is northernlights and purplehaze as was the other time The ladie snipped the top so thats prolly why its kinda short. I basicly watch after it when i can but im not seeing a qp out of one plant even though its done by some people. The soil im currently using is kgro mixed with some miricle grow i understand that mg sucks. But there must be something i can do to increase yield. Been going since nov 24.Started it last month on 12/12. So i assume ive got a month and a half left alil less till a harvest maybe everything will turn around now ive got 3 of the red cfls instead of 2 at first i just had 3 lights 2 daylights and one t natural sunshine then switch to the red ones for 12/12.

godamchamp said:

I know ppl say u can't get a high yield from cfl all the grows I've seen they just had like 8 small cfls all around, what if u got 2 of those big 200 watt cfls on either side and 2 40 watts on top for like 500 actual watts which is equivalent to like over a 1000 watts, I got one plant 2 weeks into flowering that's already 2 feet tall... Hoping to get 1.5 ounces at least , am I being unrealistic

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just dont get your hopes up often times it looks like more than it actually is.

True that one of my colas on my last grow looked like a quarter ounce after being dryed it was a 2.5

I grow 1 White Widow under about 600watts of CFl and got 2oz off it dry

There is much more to what determines the yield than light. 500w is worth shit on a stick if you get everything else wrong, and in the same time people with as little as 100w get 50g dry (even 1g per watt ive heard), because they get the nutes, temp, RH etc right.
Dunno, its better not to expect much so you dont end up disappointed.

Ganjoss said:

There is much more to what determines the yield than light. 500w is worth shit on a stick if you get everything else wrong, and in the same time people with as little as 100w get 50g dry (even 1g per watt ive heard), because they get the nutes, temp, RH etc right.
Dunno, its better not to expect much so you dont end up disappointed.

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Thats very true here is a pic of a recent freinds tomato plant View attachment 1444884 Its at about 3 months old? how much light do you think im using Gamma???

Ive only got about 20 days left id say and so far from what i can see ive got about an eight of an ounce and thats dry weight prolly a 3.0 total and thats with 3 cfls and miricle grow soil in a 5 gallon bucket. so id say dont mess with cfl if u can avoid it. Now if i knew where to get good soil id have bought it so maybe thats my problem with yield not enough light and shitty soil

420newbieg said:

Thats very true here is a pic of a recent freinds tomato plant View attachment 1444884 Its at about 3 months old? how much light do you think im using Gamma???

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what strain is that 420?

looking good check out my grow 2000watts cfl getting a great yeild my last harvest 2 sour diesil under same setup gave me 5 oz's of some dense firery nugs had nugs over 2.5 grams each

2000watts of cfl just doesnt seem to make sense if u did 400w of hps and mh u would get a better yeild if not just as good from what i herd