Complete beginner!!!

[mcbonez]

I have space of 57cm wide 49cm deep 53cm hight from bottom of cupboard till touching the light whats the max size pot you would use in this amount of space, the light is a 200w 6400k CFL with reflector. The seeds i am looking at are Feminised Lowryder 1 is the space ok to grow at leest one of these ??? Also should i buy a small flouresent fixture to germinate i was thinking it would be cheaper than using my 200w CFL to germinate has anyone got any tips or ideas for me thanks and will i be just wasting my time ????

 

[Illegal Smile]

You could grow a couple dwarf plants. I'm not sure about lowrider. I have grown White Dwarf and they would be ok for height. You could start veg with a couple smaller cfls, remember they need to be close, like a couple inches, from the foliage. But also you need to go to 2700k light when they begin to flower. You would be better if your 200w were 2700k.

 

[mcbonez]

the Lowryder 1 are auto flowering so they begin to flower stright from seed what is the minimum watt i would need for my flourecents and when whould you change to the CFL??? I might end up buying a 2700k CLF are these types of bulb expensive on power to run???? If i buy the 2700k then it wont run as many hours up on my 6400k bulb as i have heard you only get so many hours from these types of light ??? what size pot would hold a dwarf i have 3and half inch square then 4 inch square would i need to go any bigger?

 

[Illegal Smile]

the Lowryder 1 are auto flowering so they begin to flower stright from seed what is the minimum watt i would need for my flourecents and when whould you change to the CFL??? I might end up buying a 2700k CLF are these types of bulb expensive on power to run???? If i buy the 2700k then it wont run as many hours up on my 6400k bulb as i have heard you only get so many hours from these types of light ??? what size pot would hold a dwarf i have 3and half inch square then 4 inch square would i need to go any bigger?

Autoflowers don't start flowering right from seed, they just don't need a change in photoperiod to start flowering. They usually start flowering at 4 weeks and that's when I would go to 2700k. How many watts depends on how many plants and how large they are. 42w cfls are about the best deal and I would say 3-4 of those would flower a single dwarf plant well. I would run the lights 24/7 the whole way for an auto. I can't comment on pots as I'm not a soil grower.