Sustaining a mother plant without grow lights/room

[getrag]

Hi, everybody Thanks for keeping the community alive and well informed. I just devoured this page in the last weeks.

Here's the thing. I am relatively inexperienced, I did a couple of outdoor grows, but that's it. I am planning on building a grow cabinet, but in the meanwhile I am just fooling around and germinating various bagseeds of unknown genetics. I just want to have something to put into the grow box as a trial when I build it eventually, to finetune ventilation and environment control and see if the box will really work as planned.

I only have fluorescents on the ceiling at disposal. How can I keep a possible mother plant relatively strong under normal household conditions? Can a well lit living room be a good veg room for a mother? Or veg room is my only option?

Thanks!

[Potted]

Change the tubes n your floresents to blue tubes, that will help keep her in veg the tubes are cheep I assume these are t8 I use t8’s for germination as long as she’s Close enough that should work out well 😁

[Weed Pharma]

Yes, just put it in a window and treat like a house plant, until you need to take clones:

Don't underestimate the power of the Sun:

https://forum.growweedeasy.com/forum/growing-community/completed-marijuana-grow-journals/63047-weed-pharma-s-grow-journal-3-window-sill-grow-auto-bubblicious-roots-organic-soil-24-7g

[getrag]

Yes, just put it in a window and treat like a house plant, until you need to take clones:

Don't underestimate the power of the Sun:

https://forum.growweedeasy.com/forum...nic-soil-24-7g

Exactly what I wanted, thanks!

I have the 3000k and 6500k fluoros. They are T8, just regular lighting for my workshop.

Sorry for not thoroughly searching the forum, I'd probably find all the answers in your thread without posting same old questions.

[Toker1]

Depends on how many clones you need to take from her. A sun spot by the window will give you a few per month, but a veg room will potentiality give you many many more. So you need to figure out what you need, how much reality you can commit, and how much $ you can afford to put in it.
btw, compact florescent work well with in a few inches of them. I assume you are speaking of a plant being several feet away, which just won’t produce the same.

[getrag]

Found a spare office style 2xT8 fixture I had laying around, total 72W, with that fancy checkerboard reflector. So 80s. Mocked it up on two stools so the whole 4ft light fixture is maybe 20'' from the floor and I will put my humidity dome under that now. Lights on timer 18/6.

Keep your fingers crossed, the magnetic ballasts are dated 1988.

[Potted]

How close to the lights is the dome or better yet how close to the seed or seedling are the lights? For floresents to work properly thay should b inches away 2” + 4” to be of use to the plant.

[SommerVirelli]

Yeah I keep my bonsai mothers under regular 2’ fluorescent tubes. They don’t seem bothered by it.