My First Grow - 8 x CFL Bulbs

Lots to learn,
Personally I think you can learn allot from this link .
I have made one of these lights and thinking of buying more of them .
LED Grow Light Kit - MakersLED
LED bulbs ,, study Cree LED bulbs and COB LED .

This is interesting too and I installed one of these on my LED light kit light .
MakersCONTROLLER | MakersLED
Good luck ,

 

Hi .
No not on stalling
Your plant looks healthy but to me the leaf's look weird .
Common side effect of CFL to close to the plant and/or are on 24/7

I don't care for what I am going to say next , but it is the truth .
At 6 weeks to two months I am in flowering .
My plants in my aeroponic systems are three times the size or your plant brother .
They are 2.5 to 3 ft diameter and look aggressive .

Not try trying to put you or your plant down , not trying to be offensive ….
Just trying to say there is ways to have accelerated growth.
Not sure if T5 lighting can perform as well as a quality LED lighting .
IMO, continuous florescent lighting cannot compete with HPS lighting and LED lighting .
Vegetation nor flowering .
CFL emits a ocean blue color spectrum .
Take a CD disc and hold it under your light , you can see the color spectrum .

 

While I respect your opinion, I’m gonna go ahead and disagree with your statement on vegging with fluorescent. Those little cfls actually veg very well for small lights, especially for clones and seedlings. The 6500k spectrum is great at keeping tight nodes and excellerating wide growth.

T5’s veg great too. I have not had much luck vegging with any of the three different blurples I’ve tried. The plants just stretched and grew slowly compared to T5 or cfl lighting. Now a white light LED in 4000k would be ideal.

HPS sucks to veg with, unless you want tall skinny plants. I even throw in the MH bulb sometimes for the first week of flower if I know I have a stretcher going in.

Come flower time, it’s all HPS. They just penetrate and have the reds needed to produce frosty dense buds. I couldn’t imagine flowering with cfl or T5’s. What a waste of time.

 

That's cool , no one learns if everyone agrees .
CFL doesn't emit UV or IR waves , plants naturally need UV-A and IR electromagnetic waves to fight off fungi and insects.
Some LED lights have UV-A and IR bulbs .
HPS emits both UV-A and IR waves .
CFL light none .

UV-A and IR waves are healthy for the plant .

 

Plants were not designed to live in the dark nor were people .
Look at a person who doesn't get out side in the sun light , they don't look healthy and they don't get certain vitamins in there system like Vitamin D .
That is all from UV and IR waves

 

I think you have your specs reversed
http://blog.pegasuslighting.com/201...ween-leds-and-cfls-infrared-and-uv-radiation/

 

Not all LED bulbs are white or clear .
Not all LED lights are equal in performance .
And the LED lights kits that I am making have colored bulbs with both UV and IR bulbs .
UV-A and IR waves make the plants leaf's tougher .
Just like sun light makes people healthier .

 

I understand the benefits of uv and ir. But they are both way behind in importance when compared to spectrum for vegging. That’s why people generally don’t veg with HPS, or 2700k-3000k LEDs. Also cfls and fluorescent do contain both ir and uv. Even the glass on cool tubes block the ir and some uv from a HPS light and most would sacrifice them both in order to keep the room cooler with little to no loss in yield and potency.

I supplement uvb in flower to increase potency and speed the finish, but it’s on a small scale with reptile bulbs until I can develop a new light.

 

We are all good , just looking at CFL in a different point of view brother .

I have never grow with CFL veg or flowering , only seedlings .
My LED lights don't waist as much energy as CFL does. making heat .

Ps brother I rather use LED lights for flowering .
There are LED lights that compare to HPS at half to one third power usage .
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I use to UV-B 35 watt lights in my tent in the last two weeks of budding .
I got my lights from California lights works .
The UV-B lights kill the plant but makes the buds heavier .

You ever get to Nevada PM me ,
Welcome to my home and my weed ..

Party on

 

Thanks man!! I will be upgrading to LED this winter. Hard to give up on HPS, but the power bill and the heat this summer are too much. I’m thinking of building a qb/ cob combo with far red, uv, and ir. I’d love to figure out how to connect to a Makers LED controller to activate the different IR, UV and far red diodes at specific times. But for now, HPS is my powerhouse and a 1500 watt King Led (286 watt draw) supplements the ir and uv as well as spectrum.

 

Check out this light.LED Grow Light Kit - MakersLED
Look at the LED bulbs used to make the light spectrum .
This is the LED lights I have been making and they controlled using a Makers controller

 

No problem .
Your right I was taking this off topic .
I wasn't trying to . Sorry I will try not to do that again .

The only reason I posted about the kit led lights is because Its very hard for me to explain the technology .
Quantum physic is allot over my head.
The technology in LED lighting used in horticulture is changing all the time , to me its exciting and I was just trying to be helpful .

There is no lower prices involved , I have been buying LED light kits because I am expanding , and I have to buy more LED lights, or light kits and trying to get the best or the latest and greatest LED lights I can get .



My English .
I am dyslexic , I do not have a formal education .
One of those who the teachers didn't catch on to that I had some kind of learning disability .
More self taught,
If I am not focused or really stoned when I write my English is terrible and I bump the key next to the key I meant to press .
No excuses just the truth .

Sorry had no idea I was bothering you .
And hopefully I will remember who you are so I don't bother you in the future .
No promises .
Good luck with your plants .

 

Hey man, just looking at your pics and I'm curious how you draw on them ect? Is it a program?

 

Looking good! I run Fox Farms soil in my grow. I don’t have to add any nutrients until they go in bloom. Curious to see what you end up with since your running miracle grow. As far as lighting goes, remember that HPS is gonna make some heat so look into some sort of A/C unit to keep nearby or into led lighting.