hey hows it going? my name is budahluva i love smoking marijuana but in the state that i live in it is hard to come across anything other than stress so i decided to keep some seeds from some baggies of decent stress now i know that these are not the best seeds to use but i am limited on funds now this will be my first time growing i am planing to grow 1 mother plant and 4 clones i will be using cfls for this grow now my ?s are 1.how long can i keep a mother plant alive and how? 2.how many cfls would i need and which ones does anyone recomend? thanks everyone hope to here some good responds and good advice peace!
It's how I started and I ended up with some SERIOUSLY skunky bitches. Couple of them smelled like cat pee they stunk so bad. Ain't nothin' wrong with working with what you have instead of worrying about what you don't have. None of them hermied on me, either.
Problem being, right now, that whatever you grow is going to grow less well under artificial light. That said, just go as BIG as you can with the CFLs. An absolute minimum would be six 100W equivalents (they draw something like 23W-26W, are for standard household lamps). Even better would be some of the newer security light CFLs, I think they're something like 300W equivalents. A problem using CFLs is spread, because the light is coming from a single point and fluorescent light does not have much "push".
So, a minimum of six 100W equivalent CFLs to start, make them 5,000K-6500K color temperature, and you're good for vegging.
HTH.
Btw, I have never spent a penny on genetics, and I think I've got some decent genetics in my rooms and planters. Do it when you can afford it.