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hi mr daze, cheers for the info on bulbs. just ordered my 2700k cfl so i can get flowering asap :) keep building the bridges between us northerners and you soft southerners haha! thanks again mate :smokebuds:
 
@si1984 Never say never :P I admit 60cm are high but we knew nothing about the lamp he uses, his temps etc, it might be a 250W CFL in a warm climate and those do get pretty hot and do produce a lot of light.

And I said he should go lower if the temps were ok and even told him to try and get light measurements. But you're right, I don't think I've ever hung a 250W CFL higher than 50cm or so, 60 would probably be too much - except in the very first week maybe.

But 2-3 inches (5-7.5cm) for a CFL? That would have to be way below 100W then. My 125W CFL had to be at the very least 4-6 inches away from the plants even with good ventilation, otherwise I got burnt leaves. That's why I told him to start high and go lower, not start so low he might burn leaves.

Not arguing here btw! Just chatting a little. :peace:


@fredcat If you have the time a little more data on this grow of yours could be interesting, lamp wattages etc, thx!
 
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@ Keyser no matter what the type of CFL 60cm+ will make a stretch leggy girl and i have my 300w CFL in a reflector at 6inch for the first 7days then 4inch up untill flower then 2inch in flower and its perfect temps are around 30C with the other setup its all about positioning with CFLs and the closer the better they have very poor penertration so if there too far away they wont do a dime for you but if someone trialed it mabe we would know:2cents:
 
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@si1984 Wow, we've made very different experiences then. I'm not sure why that is, some of it might be because my last grow with the 250W CFL was during a 35°C+ summer. But hey, I never said 60+, I said start high and go as low as possible asap, just so he couldn't hurt his plants no matter what.

But let's just drop the subject now. The only thing that matters is that he gets it right and it seems he has from what we know :check:
 
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