im planning on making a small grow room just to veg one plant at a time then gonna put them outside to flower. never grown indoors. i need to know how much clf lights would be good enough to veg for two months??will a 3x3 box be big enough?oh and i was thinking of getting alaska fish fertilizer has anyone used it.
cfl lights!
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fir3dragon
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i use 2 23w cfls 6500k you get from walmart to veg for the first 3 weeks. it works good i keep the lights basically on top of the plants with a fan blowing on it to prevent burning.
tyinman04
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Yup. I used 3 6500k for veg and switched to 3 2700k for flowering. All five plants are a foot/foot in a half tall and flowering beautifully. I also grew with Alaska Fish Fert and used it veg/flower. I've had great results! I say DO it, sounds like you're on the right track.
alright thanks imma go get the alaska ferts in a lil while as well as those lights. my box aint up yet but ill just use my dresser for now. imm start my box later today!!
darkdestruction420
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how large of a plant do you want? when you say put outside to flower do you mean you are going to be covering it or bringing it inside everyday so it gets 12 hrs of dark or that you will let it do its thing outside and let it flower naturally on its own?
darkdestruction420
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i would say 6-8 26w(or around that area, i wouldnt go lower than 23w). normally i would advise more for 2 months but since you want to keep it fairly small in this case less may be better. surround the plant in light on all sides pretty much. i would probably fim or top or lst it myself.
schtrudel
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I didn't have time to read all other comments in the thread so i'll answer to OP's question only and not debate others' opinions.
3x3= 9 square feet. You will need about 5000 lumen per square foot for the plants to flourish. A tipical CFL outputs about 1200-1500 lumens. You can get bigger ones that give out more lumens but they are generally more expensive.
You will need tons of CFL for 3x3
Try going for a scrog and just make a screen of cfls 3 inches apart from eachother and 6 inches away from the screen. keep the plants close to the lights until they get bigger and can be scrogged.
That's what i would do.
IMHO, 3x3 is too big to CFL grow it. Get a HPS of 250w and you will be fine, also it's more efficient energy wise and the buds grow tighter than Ariel Rebel.
edit :
Look, CFL's give off about 50-70 lumens per watt of energy consumed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp#Energy_efficiency ), you can use this to calculate how much lighting you want and how many lights to get.
3x3= 9 square feet. You will need about 5000 lumen per square foot for the plants to flourish. A tipical CFL outputs about 1200-1500 lumens. You can get bigger ones that give out more lumens but they are generally more expensive.
You will need tons of CFL for 3x3
Try going for a scrog and just make a screen of cfls 3 inches apart from eachother and 6 inches away from the screen. keep the plants close to the lights until they get bigger and can be scrogged.
That's what i would do.
IMHO, 3x3 is too big to CFL grow it. Get a HPS of 250w and you will be fine, also it's more efficient energy wise and the buds grow tighter than Ariel Rebel.
edit :
Look, CFL's give off about 50-70 lumens per watt of energy consumed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp#Energy_efficiency ), you can use this to calculate how much lighting you want and how many lights to get.
im just going to use it to veg my plants.gonna veg as much plants as i can in it.and thanks for the lighting info that really healped.I didn't have time to read all other comments in the thread so i'll answer to OP's question only and not debate others' opinions.
3x3= 9 square feet. You will need about 5000 lumen per square foot for the plants to flourish. A tipical CFL outputs about 1200-1500 lumens. You can get bigger ones that give out more lumens but they are generally more expensive.
You will need tons of CFL for 3x3
Try going for a scrog and just make a screen of cfls 3 inches apart from eachother and 6 inches away from the screen. keep the plants close to the lights until they get bigger and can be scrogged.
That's what i would do.
IMHO, 3x3 is too big to CFL grow it. Get a HPS of 250w and you will be fine, also it's more efficient energy wise and the buds grow tighter than Ariel Rebel.
edit :
Look, CFL's give off about 50-70 lumens per watt of energy consumed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp#Energy_efficiency ), you can use this to calculate how much lighting you want and how many lights to get.