When to take off of Floro?

[t33to]

I have some seedlings that are just starting to shoot out of the soil. They are gonna go into a grow box.

Curious what hours of light and hours of darkness they need. And when should I take them off of the floro light and put onto MH?

[SlugSlash]

Howdy

My light regime is 18 hours of light and 6 dark from seed until i start to flower
then i switch to 12/12, it works for me. Other folk might do 20/4.

Can you not just use the MH on its own or both, extra light = more bud

[t33to]

Well. I don't have an MH yet, so it's just my floro for now. I could easily afford a couple more floro's if you are telling me it's gonna make that much of a difference.

[mclovein]

im using 4 4ft floro's t12's, 2 daylight, and 2 sunshine.. i have a little 4 day old plant under them (overkill for right now) , i just been leaving the lights on 24/7, and its going strong

[t33to]

Doesn't leaving the lights on all day stress the plant right the fuck out?

What is a daylight and what is a sunshine?

[dadoc420]

i run light 24/7 1st week or two so they dont strech then i flip to 18/6 till im ready to flower
more light is always better but the more light u add the higher the temp goes
if u have good ventilation fire all u can at them
ps my grow box looks crazy cfls everywhere 10 total 270 actual watts

[thatkillatwitch]

daylight and sunshine are just like cool blue/warm white. daylight is a blue spectrum light and sunshine is a red spectrum light

[t33to]

Thanks guys. Both very useful responses. Ill go build the mother of a grow box now.

Someone explain stretching to me now.

[dadoc420]

a plant strechs for light if light is not close enough or not there if it strech s bad it will fall over & die

[mclovein]

are u going to custom build a box? dont forget venation

[drsnuggles]

Originally Posted by t33to

Doesn't leaving the lights on all day stress the plant right the fuck out?

What is a daylight and what is a sunshine?

I'm not experienced, I'm only into my 2nd week or so of flowering, but I have been using 2 4ft fluro's, and 4 23W (100w equiv) lights, and kept them under 24/7. They grew pretty well, nice close budsites, both turned females. In my experience, 24/7 did not stress the plants at all.

[drsnuggles]

Originally Posted by t33to

Thanks guys. Both very useful responses. Ill go build the mother of a grow box now.

Someone explain stretching to me now.

If you're working with fluorescent lights you want to keep the lights and the plants approx. between 2 and 4 inches apart, so rig up an adjustable light system. If you go further than 4 inches the amount of usable light reaching the plants diminishes. In turn your plants will thrive to be closer to the source of the light, leaving a grower with a long spindly plant with very few budsites. The problem with this is that you will not produce much bud from a plant like this and has the potential of folding over under the weight of the newly formed buds. This is not good, and kind of makes all your effort a waste of time.

Edit: On the other hand if you have the light too close to the plant it will burn them, which will stunt growth of the plant as it attempts to recuperate the dead cells burned by the heat of the light.

[t33to]

I'm going to build a grow box, can you post some pix of yours snuggles?

[Sparky73]

Here's a pic of mine. Not finished yet, still have to get a better carbon scrubber (on it's way! ) but everything else is basically finished. Once those smaller plants are planted outside, this box will house the 2 plants in large pots, hopefully throughout both veg and flow. I am doing all CFL lights and LST. First timer here too, so I'm still learning!