Questions about Growing Weed with 5000k Cfls and 2700k

I wouldn't expect a whole lot. Few grams per plant. Party cup are really to small to support any great yield. Go with one gallon pots and use 6500k for veg. Seed to harvest is not recommended. The more light the plant get the more it will veg. Even though it can be done it is difficult for beginners and you will get better yield with 18/6 using bigger pots and the proper spectrum during each cycle. Just my opinion.

 

Chlorophyll is important. heres a chart to show you what kelvins produce most growth activity.

6500s are best to veg(mostly cause its all you can find in CFLs), and look for 2500s for flower, most times all you can get is 2700s. Thats fine, With CFLs I'd use x4 26w 6500k CFL's minimum 6000 lumens total per plant. Then for flower, id use x2 46w 2700k CFL's. The 2 of those 46 watters put off more lumens than x4 26 watters.

And I agree with kronicly, you cant expect much out of cups. Your tap root (Main root) mirrors your plant height typically. If your tap root can only go down 6inches, you will have a 5-8inch plant. and they dont produce much buds, dried and cured youd be getting 1-3g's per plant.

If you just get a 1 gallon (I always do 5gallon buckets.) your plant can do so much more. and with a plant that size, the more light the better. I've had CFL grows where I had x7 26w 6500k's on one plant with a reflector. Then I used x3 46w 2700k's for flower.

hope that helped.

 

Just started a grow last month using similar CFL bulbs (Though I recently bought a comically large 105w bulb, check my sig). Though I used a 2 gallon tote since it sits low and allows me to have more root room. I would think a little bigger growing area would help you get better yields. Also I would stick with the 18/6 then to 12/12 for flower.

But that's just the knowledge I have picked up in the past month or two playing with my grow.

 

I wouldnt use anything too wide, your tap root needs room to go down.

EDIT: I mean something so wide it sacrifices depth. Depth > Width. like a 5 inch deep 12 inch wide and 18 inch long dish pan would be bad. But a 1 gallon cylidrical pot with a depth of 10" and maybe 8-12" around would be a bit better to avoid root strangulation.

 

Scratch what I said in my previous post, I am using a 5 gallon tote. Which sits 9" tall. Anything taller then a cup would be good =)

 

you need to buy growing pots. or tote of some sort at walmart. or a mop bucket or something.

 

Sounds great man cant wait to see how it turns out for ya!

 

Cool throw the link to your journal in your sig when you have it up

 

Any idea of dimensions? if you LST and screen I would estimate in the 1/2 oz- 1oz area depending on all parameters of your grow.

Of course thats a vague estimate. If you let it go long, have good lighting and venting and its ahigh yielding strain with scrog and lst, you might get 2oz idk.

lots of dependent parameters once you have yur setup up i can give a better idea hopefully this would help you.

dont expect anything more than 3-15 grams off of those 1/2 gal pots again depending on setup.

 

Sounds good, cant make the box any taller? Less plants super cropped or trained will yield more than many untrained plants. I would do the 8 or however many you want, then sex them. once you isolate the females, pick the best growing two or three and grow them in the biggest pot possible, and train the crap out of them. For better yield your gonna need more height than that. pots will take up 1/3 of that height no? If you can you will be giving the colas more room to give you more buds.

 

Be careful with chicken wire it gets hot and can singe your plants. Wider is ok, but you need more height. Id say at least 4-5ft in height. After lighting, pots, and colas your gonna be outta space.