Well, i just wanted to share one of my buddies first grow with everyone. It's been looking very good so far. As of today they have been growing for about 4 weeks, so i'm going to post up pictures week by week until now. Everything went nicely from the start, the germination rate was 6/6. After three weeks we could spot the males, and he had 3 males, and 3 females. Also, sorry about the pictures not being so good. These were all taken with a 2mp camera phone.
Currently he's running about 430. He's gonna send me a few more pic's today, they are starting to look real nice.
I'm thinkin' that those CFL's would be a lot more effective if they were placed horizontally so that more "tube area" is exposed to the plants!
you're not talking actual watts i guess... because if i counted correctly he has 6 floro's.. they do say they put out as much light as a 80 watter tungsten bulb... but they only use 23 or smthng... and you need to know the actual wattage used.. not what they look like to the human eye...