Are there any particular strains or variety's that are more suited to growing under CFLs? First time here and I have been blown away by the how resourceful you are. Also are the mogel socket CFLs worth the money?

I've seen a few members here do very well with CFL's.
Check out the "indoor Grow" forum on the home page.
Go to the sub-forum "CFL Club". There are lots of great post there.

I am close to finishing a CFL grow myself. I am growing a strain of "U.K. Cheese".
You can look at that through my link.
Another CFL grow that I followed with "Cheese" was by a member named "Urbanfunk".
I will attach a link for that grow journal for you also.
Uk cheese 375w enviro grow

I'm sure someone will come by with some answers for you.

Take care.

Pullo

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My first indoor/hydro grow:
http://www.greenpassion.org/f24/indo...exposed-10479/

http://www.greenpassion.org/f24/pullo-grow-ii-11748/

http://www.greenpassion.org/f46/know...85/index2.html

Any indoor strain will yeald ya some bud Rubber420, How much will depend on your grow and your expertise in your grow. Most of us here that do hydro use CFLs to veg and for clones, then we switch to an HPS Hid type light for flowering. But to answer your question Any Indoor should do ya justice. Luck and Life
Nim

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Thanks I was checking out your journal earlier. I was thinking that I should go with a shorter fatter plant like a Northern lights that flowers low at like three feet.

Northern Light, Top 44, Citral, White Rhino all under 3 feet, yeild a very descent harvest. I rotate my 10 plant crop amoungst all the above strains. Have Moms of each. Cut 10 clones, rootem, and rotate every month. So I can harvest every month, a different strain. Works great. Luck and Life my friend
Nim

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GEORGE WASHINGTON

depends on how you plan to grow the plant indoors. cfl thruout. cfl veg, hid flower. sog, scrog, lst, etc.

if you're gonna cfl during flower, then you need to keep the light as close as you can to the flowers. so how you train or prune the plant matters...bulb placement matters

i've found the scrog technique successful due to its even canopy. takes some getting used to the plant, but i was successful in my first attempt. the link is at the bottom of this post. i was lucky to get some leggy females from bagseed that produced about .5gpw. i found 23w 1600 lumen cfl bulbs had the best lumen/watt ratio at about 70. heat becomes a factor when 16 bulbs are used in a closet.

the mogul socket bulbs are prob worth it if you only got that kind of sockets. otherwise, you got lots of options both in standard bulbs and fixtures. from what i've found, the lumen/watt is not as good as the bulbs i use at the higher wattages. and like hid bulbs, with all the light concentrated in one place, so is the heat. the bulbs i use get hot they are spread out over the canopy and easier to cool.

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1st Journal: CFL Hydro ScrOG - http://www.greenpassion.org/f22/cfl-...html#post90885