CFL Cab 4th Run - 1 sqft - 4 Plants - 115w

[averagejoe]

dude i love your grows! simply because of the details. love to see the dring percentages and completely documented weighs. details rock! keep these grows coming, i'd pull a seat for sure

 

[truckin]

Verry nice! gittin a few ideas for my first grow.
Any problems when growing more than one plant in a single pot?(on your last run)
Thanks!

 

[thehappyguy]

love your picture taking, man, i like how it shows the plants' full cycle.

 

[blynx]

Verry nice! gittin a few ideas for my first grow.
Any problems when growing more than one plant in a single pot?(on your last run)
Thanks!

No problem with 2 plants. I tried it with and they were really crowded and didn't grow as well for me.

 

[theratings]

Great pictures and grow, I couldn't find the answer to this question when I looked, but I'm wondering how tall you made your grow area?

I love this 1 square foot stuff.

 

[Joeski]

hey mate dont know if this has been asked already but how does Alibi x Herijuana smoke? and what do you think of it in comparison the other plants you grew this round? cheers i know it was awhile ago...

 

[blynx]

The Alibi x Herijuana is nice smoke. The bud is dense and real menthol tasting. It's better than the masterlow crosses that were run this round. Overall I like the bud but I get tired of menthol taste pretty quick. I almost lost the cut but managed to save her and currently have one flowering under a 600hps.

 

[Tilt]

Thanks for the detailed break downs. I love looking at your grows

 

[Weedsa]

nice plants! What gpw are u getting? CFLs are fun to grow with.

 

[diamondmine]

Yep different areas, the Mob Boss was grown under a 600w hps.

I flower the plants 'early', ie transplanted from 3" to goldfish boxes and put straight to 12/12 in order to keep them short.

I do put the containers on the bottom of the cab for the first 2 weeks. Then I move the plants right up to the light and keep them there. If the plants stretch/grow any more, then I slowly move the containers down and/or supercrop the plants.

I've found that for small areas (around 1sq ft), that multiple 23/26w cfls work way better than 42w cfls.

I think people underestimate the amount of lumens coming off a cfl bulb at 1". The lumens ratings on cfls are the amount of lumens at 12".

If you keep your plant under 12" tall and keep the plant up close to the light, then a 23/26w cfl will be more than enough to penetrate to the soil level. The plants are more likely to fill in and leave less bare stem.

For a larger area (greater than 1sq ft) 42w cfls might be better, but for smaller areas imo, 23/26w are better.

This also leads to the next point of ventilation. IMO, when working in smaller area, ventilation is probably MORE important than amount of light.

This 1sq ft cab has a nice sized blower that moves a lot of air and there is space around the containers for air to flow from intake holes in the bottom to exhaust in the top. It keeps the cab pretty cool overall and allows me to put the plants real close to the lights (~1").

I have another small cfl cab that doesn't have very good ventilation. It uses 2 small computer fans sucking air through light traps. In this cab I tried using 42w cfls and running a LOT of wattage. With the low air movement the plants suffered greatly, even when I removed some of the 42w and put in 26w.

I have a third small cfl cab I just built thats being tested on it's first run. It uses a pretty powerful bathroom fan that literally sits on top of the cab and sucks all the air straight up from the floor intake holes through a sandwich scrubber and out the fan.

I ran very stretchy strains in this cab. They've all branched out and are up in and past the lights. The only burning is where plant material actually touched the bulbs, but other than that the fan keeps the air moving so much that it looks like the bulbs are buried in the middle of the plants.

So basically imo, flowering em shorter under multiple sources of light, and having good ventilation helps me increase my yield.

I know this is an old post but I found it through your current thread. The info above is very informative, thanks. It helps a lot to have the pictures and info from multiple grows condensed like you have it. But the info you posted above gives me some good insight on the cfl's I'm using. There was a post on here where somebody read the temp of cfl bulbs and I think they were like 160 degrees or something so it makes sense that a powerful fan sucking the heat off them would allow the plants to get close. And I wonder how dense a 12" sandwich of buds could get in a sq. ft.?

 

[conehead]

Nice thread dude! very nice photography bro.

Check out them there apples!