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purplebibble
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useful info! thanks!
Things to Know About Lighting
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ondeck240@gmail.com
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Am I Norml
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I have a question regarding lighting. My question is what cycle should I start plants on if they are going to be started inside and moved outside? I wanted to give them about a 6 week headstart inside to hopefully help the outdoor survival. If I have them at 18/6 and then put them outside where it 14/10, is that going to confuse the plants into trying to flower or is the 12 hour mark pretty much where it has to be for this? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Am I Norml
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if you start them on 18/6 it will get them vegging heavily then when you take them outside it will slow down some but as long as its not hitting the 12/12 mark you wont have to worry about flowering
awesome! thank you
Am I Norml
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its all good
7strains2smoke
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wish this was around when i first started, i learned most of it myself- the hard way .
Am I Norml
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for a auto plant you don't have to change hours to make it bud it just does it when it becomes mature...patience is a virtue lol
avoidingindica
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my balcony has 4ft (1 meter) tall windows for almost 180 degrees. it recieves about 6-7 hours of direct sunlight a day and lots indirect.
would it be better to use the balcony or cfls in a nice sized closet???
i dont know how many lumens the sun puts out compares with the cfls if its only 6-7 hours of direct light a day
would it be better to use the balcony or cfls in a nice sized closet???
i dont know how many lumens the sun puts out compares with the cfls if its only 6-7 hours of direct light a day
Am I Norml
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if it gets below 14 hours of daylight a day it will be flowering literally its whole life ... your choice..
t0keordie420
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i recently saw some cfl's out there that claim to be specially for plant and aquarium growth...theyre supposed to have a spectrum tht emmits more phosphors, reds and blues they claim theese lights make a "notable difference" as they call it and will boost flowering....Does anybody have any information to support this?? do they really work?? or is it a bunch of BS?
Cheechburner
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help me out people with knowledge on lighting https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/309235-cfl-fixtures-grow-box.html
DieselFumes87
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I have a 600w hps set up with an air cooled hood, just bought a 600w MH conversion bulb that i'll use from seed to flower. Should get the job done.
TreeOfLiberty
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This is what irritates me a lot, you always see people talking about the color of light as in KELVINS, as if its what determines the outcome of getting HUGE BUDS, it doesn't !
It's the LUMENS !!! increase the LUMENS and the buds will come when you start 12/12 cycle.
I learned this was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing as a newbie grower when I started growing in 2007. Whether its with an HPS, MH , or Fluoros , add up the LUMENS and the buds will come. I see too many people focus on KELVINS on just about every freakin grow site on the web.
And I have vegged with both 6400 Kelvin and 3400 Kelvin T 12 (40 watt ) tube fluorescent lights, plants always grew faster and bigger with MORE lights ,which resulted in MORE LUMENS.
Kelvin is just a color spectrum of the light, the higher the Kelvin number is supposed to be better for green growth and the lower the Kelvin number is supposed to be better for flowering, but the short and simple answer that matters the most is LUMENS. More LUMENS equals more bud.
A lot of newbies are mislead thinking Kelvins is what matters the most, it bothers me to see them mislead.
It's the LUMENS !!! increase the LUMENS and the buds will come when you start 12/12 cycle.
I learned this was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing as a newbie grower when I started growing in 2007. Whether its with an HPS, MH , or Fluoros , add up the LUMENS and the buds will come. I see too many people focus on KELVINS on just about every freakin grow site on the web.
And I have vegged with both 6400 Kelvin and 3400 Kelvin T 12 (40 watt ) tube fluorescent lights, plants always grew faster and bigger with MORE lights ,which resulted in MORE LUMENS.
Kelvin is just a color spectrum of the light, the higher the Kelvin number is supposed to be better for green growth and the lower the Kelvin number is supposed to be better for flowering, but the short and simple answer that matters the most is LUMENS. More LUMENS equals more bud.
A lot of newbies are mislead thinking Kelvins is what matters the most, it bothers me to see them mislead.
Am I Norml
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amen brotha....the *K* of the bulb is just the spectrum....the lumen rating is the *HORSEPOWER* of the bulb ... the more horsepower the bigger the bud ...just get it in the right spectrum with the most horsepower you can aford and your in like flin
A nice plasma TV uses about as much as a 400 watt light. A 1500 watt space heater uses as much as one and a half 1000 watt lights. Bottom line is as a personal grower that should be no red flags due to electrical consumption...