Budget Bulbs

[pipeman]

you veg as long as you need to. The idea would be for efficiency and turnaround in a small cabinet setup. Say you got one flowering cabinet with a HID light and another veg cabinet with fluoros. If flowering time is about 8-10 weeks, by the time you harvest from your flowering cabinet you've already got a set of plants vegged from the fluoro cabinet to put into flower straight away. Can take weeks off your cycle time, provide more than enough smoke for a personal grower without the need to buy and run a 2nd HID light.

 

But personally I only use fluoros for mothers and have a couple of 400watt Son-T-Agros for veg & flower. However I think I'll change to two flowering cabinets with a Son-T in each and veg under fluoros.

[pipeman]

mate I don't want to make you look like a dickhead and don't want you to leave ozstoners.

 

sorry if I offended you, but I was just stating my opinion. Thats not necessarily right or wrong, just my view.

[pipeman]

I don't really know, I would guess 50W per square foot. Here's a pic of my mothers which seem to be growing pretty good under three 18W compact fluoros in a cupboard area of 390x870.

[pipeman]

I just bought cheap lamps for like $5 each and busted them up to use the lamp chords. The bulbs are just a bayonet fitting.

[lokm8]

stretching under fluro's?

Mate I find fluros very versitile when working with veg. You can pretty much put the buggers anywhere on the plant and the 0% heat output means I can pretty much have them touching my plants and the nodes are tight and the plant is short. Stretching occurs when the plant needs more intensity from the light source , no? My plants are going unreal atm, only 3weeks old and coming up to thier 5-6 node, alittle bit of training and the plants sit around 8-10cm high with the lower shoots nearly up there with the main one. I was certain I was given bush-bud seeds and expected these things to go ballistic(hence the training) but afew have heavy dark green leaves so its kinda indica looking.

So I would say Fluros are perfect for Veg. and also they are good for Flowering if funding/supplies are limited.

 

Bought that bulb today...bastard puts out heat......grrrrrrrr

 

 

lok

[pipeman]

Is it my imagination or did weakprik delete all his posts out of this thread?

[barefoot]

no, they are definatly gone, or realy well hidden

[Guest weekprik]

yeah they fell off, they belonged in the bitchin room, foul mood this morning.

basically fluro and cf IMO are for clones, and maybe vegging, although they do produce heat more than a fluro a CF is better, especially if its cold.

[Mick666]

My 3 Cf's 2 x 18w cool white and 1 14w warm all produce a bit if heat and burn my plants.... they are vegging my plants pretty good tho...