anyone let me know if a blue spectrum cfl on 12/12 will induce flowering as i cant afford the red spectrum flowering bulb at the moment?

Any light on a 12 hour cycle will induce flowering. You just wont grow very good buds.

If your going to buy a light for flowering i'd seriously consider a small hps. I've been there and done that with enviro's and they just dont cut the mustard. It's only a matter of 50 watts on the running costs too.

you will induce flowering, but for the amount of bud you will got, its a false economy.

Well worth the investment ....


Laz

cheers guys. i just wanna sex the plant as buying the bulb for it to turn out male would be even more false ecconomy. im growing in a converted filing cabinet and lacking good ventilation so hps is out of the question and looking like ill soon be running out of room, guess i may have to bite the bullet and change the bulb.

youl need ventilation anyway , how will they breathe?

i have ventilation from small pc fan and diy carbon filter just not enough to cool a hps i dont think

F*** IT buy a bud box

You are going to need better ventilation than that i'f you want any sort of decent bud.

If you dont want to spend money on proper extraction then i would save my money and carry on with the blue as it probably wont make a huge difference.

thanks for advice im gonna leave it as is for now, flower it and concentrate on building a bigger better room poss im my loft and save up for some more bits and pieces. i shall chalk this one up as experience being my first grow and all.