Small room and small budget, can I get some feedback from the Pros?

[thcbloom]

Hi, This is my first post so I hope I'm in the rite section.
I live in the basement of a house with central air so its always a bit cool and I just got the ok from the owner to grow in my closet
but Ive never grown inside before and I don't have more than $350 to spend. The room is 2x4x6 feet high,its painted flat white and I'm looking to grow 2-3 plants.
Its just us in the house so smell is not an issue. my sister gave me 6 26w GE cfl's for the room but i know i need a real light.
Any suggestions on what to buy and how to set the room up would be greatly appreciated.

p.s would it be better to grow from clones or from seed as a beginner? i only ask because Ontario seed bank has some killer strains.

Happy smoking
bloom

 

[MEANGREEN69]

going to use soil or hydro???? how much bud are you trying to get? how often?

 

[Bamm Bamm]

check around for used equipment on craigslist possibly..
I'd recomend
a 600w or 1000w...but remember bigger light more heat...
4"fan to exhaust air
oscillating fan bringing air in as well as blowing on the plants and you're ready to rock search around though there's some great closet grows on this website..

You could go with the cfls but your yeild will be substantially smaller.

 

[thcbloom]

going to use soil or hydro???? how much bud are you trying to get? how often?

Im going to grow with soil since its cheap and easy, I dont care how much I get, I just want to try different strains and I plan to have the room in use year round

check around for used equipment on craigslist possibly..
I'd recomend
a 600w or 1000w...but remember bigger light more heat...
4"fan to exhaust air
oscillating fan bringing air in as well as blowing on the plants and you're ready to rock search around though there's some great closet grows on this website..

You could go with the cfls but your yeild will be substantially smaller.

Thanks, I plan to use the cfl's along with a proper bulb but im not sure if i should go with a MH or HPS.
Which bulb is the better choice for use in both the veg and bloom stages? i dont think i can afford both.

 

[jahman2222]

You can use use cfls if you want youll just need more..your going to need a blue/cool white spectrum for veg and a red spectrum for flowering..i think thats the cheap and easyiest way to go..how much did that 6 pack of cfls for?

 

[BigBudBalls]

The CFLs and Floro are fine for vegging. (some have had great results flowering with them too) but general consensus is that the HPS is the way to go for flowering (where the money is made)

Now that said. How are you doing your room? Seed to flower? Or have a second room for veg?

If a single room, think about a switchable ballast (only a few buck more, less then the cost of a conversion bulb) That way, you can use MH for veg. Then when ready to flower, flip a switch, pop in a HPS and grow baby grow!

For a 2 room set up I'd go floro/cfl (veg) and HPS (flower)

Just my opinion.

 

[MEANGREEN69]

yeah i like BBB's thinking..thats what i got going on but going to use a 1000watt mh..good luck and peace

 

[Mr. Weash]

I have about the same size space as you. Im basically halving the room, top and bottom. I have a shelf above my DWC setup for my flowering plants and on the top shelf I am using the space for my mothers under a CFL light from Home Depot. You can get them for $18 and it seems to be working just fine for my 5 mothers. In my flowering space, I have a torn up air mattress that seems to keep most of the light out but not all. A sacrifice we have to make because of our budget.

 

[sappytreetree]

buy a Hps light and a 6 inch can fan 6 inch flexable air duckting