1st grow - Question regarding lighting for seedlings

I ordered some seeds from Attitude last week and they already arrived by monday morning. i soaked them over night and into tuesday and that night I planted 12 seeds into rooting plugs, covered, and placed on a heating pad. By last night, all of the beans had popped (except one freebie) and have grown above the surface of the rooting plugs. I opened the humidity tent and placed them under a 20w flourescent plant light that's housed inside a cabinet I built for 18/6. Is that enough light? I still have them on the heating pad on medium, keeping it a solid 75 +/- degrees. Should I be using a flourescent plant bulb? They seem to only come in 20w max...or, should I purchase a higher wattage regular flourescent bulb?
 
oh, the light is a 2' T12 plant and aquarium bulb - 750 lumens - 20 watts in a regular standard kitchen cabinet. I have the bulb 12" from the seedlings...
 

max316420

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get your flos closer to your seedlings, by keeping them that far away your plants will stretch and you really don't want that. You can put your lights within 3-5" of the tops of your babies.
 

max316420

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o ya and you might wanna invest in a hps system, either 400w or 600w. you wont as get dense nugs with flos
 
Will do, thanks man. I have a 6X3 room with a 90w ufo set up for these babies future...
The clone I currently have in there now is veeeeeeeeeegin real nice!
 
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