Indoor Pumpkin Grow Under CFL's.

[Hilo]

Hey folks, I decided to grow a few pumpkins in a 40 gallon rubbermaid totebox. I am useing just backyard soil and eight( 42 watt CFLs.

I just started these 3 days ago , does anyone have a lighting schedule that they can reccomend?

 

[MediMaryUser]

haha had to subscribe to this good luck

 

[Hilo]

I decided to take a 3 foot overhead light from my shop last night and got some floro growing tubes to toss in instead of useing the CFLs. Hoping to see some vine sprouts in the next few days.

 

[smokey de bear]

That's awesome how did it go?

 

[growlocal]

subbed! Interested to see how this all works out for ya. Good luck

 

[dannyboy602]

Hey folks, I decided to grow a few pumpkins in a 40 gallon rubbermaid totebox. I am useing just backyard soil and eight( 42 watt CFLs.

I just started these 3 days ago , does anyone have a lighting schedule that they can reccomend?

100,000 lumens for 120 days. that should give ya some beautiful pumpkins. of course you'll need about 500 cfls for that, but it's doable

 

[smokey de bear]

I dont think hes doing this pumpkin thread anymore, I just wanted to know the results lol

 

[stonerman]

one of those tote box's is quite small to grow multiple pumpkin plants. Ive never grown indoors, but outdoors, given a full growing season, its quite common for pumpkin vines to reach 25-50 feet. Giving that small amount of space, I think it would be almost impossible to yield one pumpkin from one plant. If your pumpkin plant was growing properly, it would only take 3-4 weeks and one pumpkin plant would fill the inside of an entire totebox, they grow big quickly, I do not even think you could yeild a single pumpkin in such a small growing area.