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ok heres the deal i have tryied to grow three times now and with the same results. lots of strong growth early than they die after the flowering period begins. i am trying to find out why plants would die after flowering starts im growing in soil under 6 cfl bulbs with LST. useing two gal buckets one plant per am i fudging up somewhere
something hopefully cool just happened i was given a 500w type j halogen ballast thinking of running it with me cfl any ideas im a noob and dont want to fuck up again
if you use that halogen light you are just making one of the biggest fuck ups a newb grower can make. a halogen bulb/light is just basically a giant resistive heater, wrong spectrum (monochromatic like) and just plain out not good.
the cfl's arent bad, not at all, though like said above cant touch a HID bulb. but......with the heat beign very minimal with the cfl's and able to be placed quite a bit closer to plant canopy, it kind of almost evens out.
uses like 5 or so low wattage cfl's and 2 plants, and ges 8 oz of bud for cheap. so there it shows it can be damn respectable, and has been done.
and he only used some cheapo soil and water only.
you dont have to absolutely change to a red spectrum in flowering, it is not a make or break thing, you may get a little more yeild, but not enough at this point in your growing career that would justify the cost of more lighting systems/ bulbs.
get a few good crops under your belt, using basic nutes, and then start playing with booser, different lighting etc.
probably what is happening is that in veg you are feeding light, cuzz they are young, or small, or just whatever, i feel you are feeding light and nice.
and then flowering hits, you start giving them the flowering nutes, way strong or too often back to back hoping to make them pack on the buds, then they get burned, or lock out of nutes in soil, or microlife dies off and ph gets out of whack and wammo, dead plants.
it is better to feed not nearly enough than to feed just a tad too strong.
id pick some bottled nutes up, organic, like general organics BIO THRIVE LINE, it is veganic, and very very very hard to overfeed and fail with these nutes.