I want to flower these plants early, Not because I'm getting impatient, just because the are bagseed and I started this grow (my first) just to see if I could keep up with the process of growing it. They are about a month old and it seems like they're doing fine, they are short but they're nice and leafy. I realize flowering them now would produce a smaller harvest but I want to start a new grow with better quality seeds and a different set up completely.
Woudl it be alright to start flowering these not so young but short plants?
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Flower now, buy a 250-400 watt hps for your next grow and use the cfl's for seedlings. Taking the next step to an HID lamp will increase the hell out of your yields. Juice for a 400 watter only runs about $12 a month.
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Budda_Luva
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cant really tell u how much better the HPS but its alot better and HID is better than a CFL but if u wanna save money and such go for CFLS wanna save space go for HID
jonthonson
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Buy a blue/red LED and combo it 2 CFL + 1 blue/red LED panel per plant and a half. so for 2 plants get 3 42w CFL and 1 LED blue/red LED panel.
The panel runs about 60 bucks + shipping and you can basically touch the plants with it with no heat damage.
The panel runs about 60 bucks + shipping and you can basically touch the plants with it with no heat damage.
Butthead08
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Was the point of this thread "should i upgrade to hps" or "are my first plants ready to flower"? It seems the answer to everyones question is "get a hps". Anyway i do think the plants can be flowered, and look great. Them CFLs must be working so stick with them.
Good luck and keep us updated!
Good luck and keep us updated!
jonthonson
Active Member
YouTube - LED Marijuana Grow
Video is of HID vs LED UFO
Cloned plants
HID produced 91g at .217g/Kwh
LED produced 36g at .36g/Kwh
So i understand the LED is more efficient
LED IS more efficient then HID and cheaper but you need to match the KWH of a HID or HPS to get the results.
Here is the problem no-one wants to admit that LED is too expensive.
It emits little to no heat has 80% less costs to run and is more efficient.
http://shop.sunshine-systems.com/product.sc?productId=9 for instance is a 300w LED panel comparable but the costs is $1750
LED is the future and atm you cant grow 100% under led unless your willing to drop some big bucks but you can easily subsidize your grow with LED + CFL for a cheap alternative.
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