PCBuds
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I did use CFLs in my closet to flower but I don't know about my yield.
I don't keep very good notes. (none at all really, ... except for this forum. Lol)
I found these on Amazon...
Kinda steep for one bulb.
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Off the shelf retail store screw-in LED and CFL bulb comparisons
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I did use CFLs in my closet to flower but I don't know about my yield.
I don't keep very good notes. (none at all really, ... except for this forum. Lol)
I found these on Amazon...
Kinda steep for one bulb.
Wattage, schmattage, we're talking about a closet operation, six plants in flower. I'm not using a lot of electricity.
You're right, there's more distance adjustments, but that's a good thing! With LED's, you can't get them as close to the plant tops, so headroom becomes an issue. You need minimum 18 inches from light to plant tops with LED's, and with CFL's, you can get down to two, three inches. So that's potential 15 inches headroom you lose going from CFL's to LED's.
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no argument there, small grows and cfls an excellent match
fluoro spectrum is a sweet spectrum
noknees
Member
100% hear ya. seems to me grams/m2 is a more appropriate efficiency measure in micro.
as far as reduced yield due to lower ceiling, that sort of goes hand in hand with smaller root mass too, no?
to me, it's all about using the right tool for the job.
could also just come down to experience.
PCBuds
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Me either.
I thought I was just wasting electricity with my 4' flouro but the plant seemed to love it.
One if my colas wrapped right around my tubes and just soaked up the sunshine. She melted some trichs onto the tube but didn't burn.
You're right, there's more distance adjustments, but that's a good thing! With LED's, you can't get them as close to the plant tops, so headroom becomes an issue. You need minimum 18 inches from light to plant tops with LED's, and with CFL's, you can get down to two, three inches. So that's potential 15 inches headroom you lose going from CFL's to LED's.
I start my LEDs at 21" from my seedling but they grow into and get used to the light and I can get 2"-3" away when they are mature.
With the globes on, I can put them right in the plant.
PCBuds
Well-known member
You may well be right...
I like how there is many ways to do it right and wrong (I tend to focus on the wrong way, Lol
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Unfortunately, I've just gutted my 4' flouro to make room for my new LED strips.
I left the flouro carcass there because it's white and I don't want to buy more Panda film. Lol)
I like how there is many ways to do it right and wrong (I tend to focus on the wrong way, Lol
)Unfortunately, I've just gutted my 4' flouro to make room for my new LED strips.
I left the flouro carcass there because it's white and I don't want to buy more Panda film. Lol
)
That's good to know! The LED's I'm referring to are the panel kind (Viparspectra), so like I said, 18 inches is pushing it for those. How many of those bulbs would you say one would need for a 3 X 4 foot footprint?
PCBuds
Well-known member
I don't really know.
My closet is about 21" X 21" so around 3.5 square feet?
But it has about 4' walls.
I have five 10 Watt SILs mounted from above that is easy to move up and down.
I also have twelve 10 Watt SILs mounted to the walls which really seem to help.
I'm in the process of installing 24 one foot long LED strips on the walls with only 4 two footers up top.
I don't believe in square feet.
Plants aren't flat and I don't think the lights should be either.
I prefer cubic feet.
PCBuds
Well-known member
Who knows I could swap out all my 5000k SIL’s for an equiv amount of your 3500k strips you just got and they might very well grow even better. I’m sure they’ll grow fine buds. That’s supposed to a sweet spectrum too. Too many cats out there that need skinnin’ lol.
noknees
Member
It certainly scales from a 3x3 tent to a 5x10 room
No one needs to know that though
any comments on wattage or spectrum you like?
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read the thread
read the thread
your awenser is in the thread, might wanna go back and read some....
read the thread
your awenser is in the thread, might wanna go back and read some....
It certainly scales from a 3x3 tent to a 5x10 room
No one needs to know that though
Bull shit Dabtime. Every one needs and wants to know that lol. Where’s the Diary man?!?! Let us have it!! Lol.
Another good look at the weird ropey/stretchy/purple GG. Sorry some pics are upside down. Not gonna fix it. Too busy.
Sexy BG cola.
Smallest BG plant finished. Hacked it first.
BG from the screen. Some of those dead leaves inside the colas did end up causing just a bit of mold. Only probably lost about a quarter ounce at most though!! Not bad! Phew! I was scared when I saw the first sign but thems good numbers.
Another chunky ass BG nug. I keep saying it but using all 5000k did not seem to limit mass/fatness!
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The preceding post was one of several updates in my thread in my signature, come on by and have a little looksy.
Sexy BG cola.
Smallest BG plant finished. Hacked it first.
BG from the screen. Some of those dead leaves inside the colas did end up causing just a bit of mold. Only probably lost about a quarter ounce at most though!! Not bad! Phew! I was scared when I saw the first sign but thems good numbers.
Another chunky ass BG nug. I keep saying it but using all 5000k did not seem to limit mass/fatness!
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The preceding post was one of several updates in my thread in my signature, come on by and have a little looksy.
Danhashish
Active member
wtf
cheers bro
cheers bro
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you dont whole hang your plants to dry? interesting! that first pic is foxtail city man well done
Thanks Blynx! 100% the BG did that the most. Made it tricky to tell when they were done but I took em all around 9 weeks. I wish I had taken them a few days earlier though, at least the tangelo. A couple Tangelo buds got some burnt looking spots on little leaf tips and calyxes, a few days before that they were perfect and beautiful.
I noticed the buds that were further from the bulbs maybe a good 8-10inches away at least did way less if any of that throwing new hairs business. I’ll probably try to back the bulbs off to that distance if I can during the last week or two from now on. Maybe that’s where I should have the bulbs in the first place
Thanks EC, yeah I’m thinking it was a lot hotter for that foxtailed GG#4 because it was in the middle and the GG next to it was right below the air extraction duct. I should have put a fan in each tier for extra circulation. Will do from now on.
Why don’t I hang em whole? 1) I need this harvest too be ready for use more on the sooner side. 2) I have some slight OCD tendencies (not really but maybe) that have me wanting the buds all hanging in coulombs on screens heh. Also I cut a branch off and do a rough trim where I take off anything that isn’t frosty so when I do the final trim it’s all good to keep for processing. Then I hang that branch/bud. It’d be harder to that while keeping the plant whole.
