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spini4

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So today i read on the marijuan growers handbook that you can use a strobe light to grow... now I have two plants that just started the flowering process... now i was wondering can using a strobe light actually produce a good yield? what kind of bulb is inside a stobe light?wouldnt the interuption of light and dark between strobes kinda put the flowing stage in wack? also note that i have two of strobe lights going at once in a closet on each side of the two plants.
 
strobe lights as in lights that turn rapidly on/off?

if so, then absolutely not and I would contact the marijuan growers handbook author and tell him to shove his crappy handbook full of misinformation straight up his ass.

use compact fluorescents (warm white) or use an HPS bulb for flowering.

what kind of light did you have on them for vegging?
 
fluoros in the blue spectrum or MH for vegetating; fluoros in the red spectrum (not recommended) or HPS for flowering. go with hps for all your needs
 
i have a feeling that the intense flashing that the stobes would do would stress the plants out and they would die. for flowing, i would reccomend flourescent if you do not have the money for a HPS ballast. what size of room are you using? so you have any pictures of it. i can give you some advice based off of your pictures and setup specifications
 
A strobe light would not work at all! MJ plants need specific amounts of uninterrupted light, depending on which growth cycle they're in, to develop properly. A strobe light would just confuse them.

Plus, its light is nowhere near strong enough to produce anything but a scraggly plant if it wasn't strobing, anyway.
 
Normal people wouldn't even consider using a light such as a strobe. Any experienced cannabis grower would tell you that high watt heat lamps are key to a successful grow.
 
I don't know what a "heat lamp" is, but there are only three types of lamp that are successfully use for flowering and ripening cannabis plants: Metal Halide (MH), High Pressure Sodium (HPS), and fluorescent.

Don't listen to anyone who tries to tell you fluorescents don't work. That person would obviously have never tried it before. If you are growing small, and force-flowering young, especially from clones, fluoro's kick ASS.
 
MDMAalltheWay said:
Normal people wouldn't even consider using a light such as a strobe. Any experienced cannabis grower would tell you that high watt heat lamps are key to a successful grow.
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Heat lamps are hot, red lights that should NOT be used for growing marijuana. Not only is the spectrum all wrong, but the light output is low and they will burn the plants.

Church said:
and fluorescent
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Actually, compact fluorescent bulbs work pretty well. You can get these coiled fluoro bulbs at a hardware store for pretty cheap that plug into regular light sockets. if you're broke, those will work, but be warned that the yield will be small and wispy (but still pretty potent). I've used them before. But for sure, a high-pressure sodium (HPS) is the best, and then after that, a metal halide (MH). They give of many, many times as many lumens (measure of light intensity) as any other type of unnatural light.
 
I force-flowered Bubblegum clones once under standard 4-ft shop lights, in a 4x1 space, highly reflected, and the solid, dense, single-colas that I harvested 8 weeks later were just as good as the top bud off any HPS-grown plant I've ever had.

No exaggeration whatsoever. I had crammed in about 4 clones per sq ft and yielded from 1/8 to 1/4 oz per clone. The eighths were the ones around the periphery, and the quarters were the ones right under the center of the tubes.

No wispiness whatsoever. I tend to think wispiness is probably more of a genetic concern than an environmental one, although environmentals do play a role of course.
 
It depends very much on your set-up. Probably the only thing that really works well with fluoro's is a scrog set up, the light penetration just isn't good, keeping everything at the same height solves that. But yeah, if you've got enough bulbs you can run a pretty good grow with fluoro's.

Heat lamps are used for reptiles and little chickens and such, not for plants..
 
don't forget ducklings, its kinda obvious a heat lamp is not what you want... the name says it all

as they put out IR (infa-red is actauly heat) it sounds like the flipside of the "growing under UV light" myth...
 
Xorkoth said:
Heat lamps are hot, red lights that should NOT be used for growing marijuana. Not only is the spectrum all wrong, but the light output is low and they will burn the plants.


Heat lamps are key to growing herb, i have about two grows a year and heat lamps will never burn your plant. All you have to do is make sure you have the lamp an appropriate distance from the plant so it isnt getting TOO much heat.
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Are you sure you mean heat lamps? or do you mean high intensity discharge lamps, which are also very hot? I know for absolutely sure that a heat lamp gives off a deep red light and is NOT suited for growing plants. Maybe the plants will grow, as I've never tried using a heat lamp myself, but the yield will certainly be tremendously stunted. Heat lamps are not "key" to growing herb. Marijuana plants thrive on a full spectrum of light, not exclusively red light.

The "heat lamps" you mention... are they giving off a red or bright yellow/white/blue light?
 
^ He must be talking about HIDs. MDMAalltheway, heat lamps are the little red bulbs that you see above the hamburgers at your local mcdonald's. You must be talking about high pressure sodium, if it as a reddish colored light to it
 
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