JoeBlow300
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i know i can get an accurate answer frm my fellow stoner or pot head. how close should my 100w cfl bulb be to my seedlings. they just popped out the ground?? i want them to get as much light as possible w/o hurting them.
quick qestion. CFL/PLant
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westhamm1132
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3-4 cm but the plants will actually grow faster if the lights say over 10 cms away beacuse they will strech to reach the light.
IAm5toned
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^^ fail
never make your seedlings stretch, if it can be avoided. you want that light as close as possible to the plants, without inducing heat stress/burning.
call it 2-3 inches. place a fan on those seedlings to toughen up those tiny little stems, and they will be happy for it.
stretching is a bad thing for indoor plants, IMHO.
never make your seedlings stretch, if it can be avoided. you want that light as close as possible to the plants, without inducing heat stress/burning.
call it 2-3 inches. place a fan on those seedlings to toughen up those tiny little stems, and they will be happy for it.
stretching is a bad thing for indoor plants, IMHO.
JoeBlow300
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that happened to me with my two older plants. i kept the light close but they stretched anyway. im talkin 20 inches and 3 weeks. sometime when i check them in the morning. the leaves almost like to literally wrap around the buld and got burnt. Thanks ne way my fellow TOKER and CHOKER!!
High Time 420
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You fail also my friend,
Wastham wasn't advising him to strech his plants, he was just saying that they do grow quicker, meaning strech with lights too far away.
If the bulb is 100 actuall watts then go with 3 inch too start, if its a 100w equ then drop it to less that 2 inch, just make sure you have air movement around the plant.
GL.
IAm5toned
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ah, so I take it you must like heavy spacing between internodes?
that always works so well with indoor grows... :/
and i guess letting your plant use resources and energy for stem growth vs foilage during veg is all good too...
making your plants stretch is not making them grow 'faster' if anything it will stunt them when the plant can no longer support its weight and it falls over. then you lose a week of productive growth while the stem beefs up.
but everyone has there own opinions
that always works so well with indoor grows... :/
and i guess letting your plant use resources and energy for stem growth vs foilage during veg is all good too...
making your plants stretch is not making them grow 'faster' if anything it will stunt them when the plant can no longer support its weight and it falls over. then you lose a week of productive growth while the stem beefs up.
but everyone has there own opinions
Well technically the plant wouldnt grow faster by reaching for the light. If anything, it is less efficient for the plant to reach higher as the plant would be wasting energy on growing a larger stem with long spaces between nodes. A higher yielding plant is the resul of a higher number of nodes and internodes and thus, forcing your plant to grow taller is a waste of potential flowers. If you want your plant to grow to a certain height, I would just let it do its thing with the light as close as possible, and slowly move the light higer as your plant grows taller. This will be better overall, unless growing a tall skinny plant will oost your ego.
This is just my honest opinion, just giving my two cents... wish i had a dollar though.
This is just my honest opinion, just giving my two cents... wish i had a dollar though.
jeremym
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Keep the CFL as close to the plant as possible. Put your hand in between the bulb and the plant, if your hand gets too hot to hold there, you'll need to move your bulbs up. If you have the lights too far away your plants will stretch which spaces the nodes farther apart. You don't want that. You want the nodes close to each other to get bushier plants.
westhamm1132
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you fail not me the roots of a plant develop b4 anything else proper leafs dont grow to later on anyway so i think it would be worth growing it taller first then moveing the light closer to help out the fan leafs.
unless you have a dominant sativa then its probs best to leave close all the time.
djlifeline
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Not Kissing arse but I agree with Iam5toned. Do yourself a favour and listen to the slightly more experienced.
LANERBLAZE
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like i said, everyone has there own opinions.
take my 15 years of expereice with growing indoors and listen, or not. i really dont care.
eventually you'll come around.
youyr avatar is on a ass kicking mission!
westhamm1132
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no offence m8 but you are defantly kissin arse i no this cus you said "not kissing arse" how would you no have experianced some one is i gess your lookin at poast count.
i could poast 1000's of irrelivent shit would that mean im more experienced?
as Iam5toned said tho every one has there opinion and he may be wright and probs is but i grow indicas and with indica its better better to allow streching as they are small it will hardly affect the nodes.
westhamm1132
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lol i spent like 10 min stoned stering at it 1 time hahayouyr avatar is on a ass kicking mission!
High Time 420
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Great spelling!
In any case, whether roots establish first or not, it only makes sense to prevent your plant from stretching. Stretching does do any good but lengthen the stem of the plant, and what does a longer stem do? It has no relevance, just a waste of plant energy. The plant coud have created a new node with that energy instead of longer stem.
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prebs
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Ok while these girls have their fight. 
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Since it's only a seedling, you only need 1 light and maybe 3 or so inches away or you'll run the risk of burning it. Then when she gets older, keep the light about 2 inches or so away, Make sure you check her each morning cause she may have grown a lot over night and is probably touching the bulb, so you'll have to move it back again so you dont burn the leaves
...Since it's only a seedling, you only need 1 light and maybe 3 or so inches away or you'll run the risk of burning it. Then when she gets older, keep the light about 2 inches or so away, Make sure you check her each morning cause she may have grown a lot over night and is probably touching the bulb, so you'll have to move it back again so you dont burn the leaves
westhamm1132
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wow i wish i diddnt call you a prick now didnt think you would take it so seariosly. the snsitive type are we?
SORRY FOR CALLING YOU A NAME JUST TRY NOT TO LOSE TO MUTCH SLEEP OVER IT OK?.
JoeBlow300
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thanks for the info...