32 gallon trash can grow room

I'm super new at this so any advice would be great..I'm only have one mid grade baby seeing how this is my first grow Here's my setup so far..32 gallon trash room lined with Mylar.one hole cut at the top for lights another one at the rim of trash can for constant ventilation where I will have my old xbox fan go and one more the bottom for desk fan to go...I'm confused about the cfl wattage I should use and how many to use and what type of soil would be good for my first grow....PLZZZ HELP

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With CFLs, you'll want at least the 23 watt ones, and you'll want several. They generally come in two "colors," blue (aka, daylight, cool, but in the 2700k range) and sort of orange-ish (aka warm, soft, but in the 5000k range). The blue ones are what you'll want to veg, and the orange are what you'll want to flower. You'll want to cram as many around the plant as you can, and keep them as close as you can. I often sacrifice a few small leaf burns to get them as close as possible, especially in flower. They can produce a good amount of heat too, but good airflow keeps them cool.

As for soil, I've been using Happy Frog without issue, but I've heard good things about many others as well.

Cheers!

I was thinking about using 4 40 watt cfls would that create to much for such a small area

That should be good for a single plant. Good luck!

Cheers!

A good rule of thumb for CFL's are at least 100 watts of true cfl wattage. which would be 23watts for your walmart brand. So that would be at least 4 bulbs. I run 9 myself.

GeorgiaRebel912 said:

I was thinking about using 4 40 watt cfls would that create to much for such a small area

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Where ya getting 40watt CFL's? No it wont be too much, but you will still need ample air circulation regardless for plant health and cooling.

And you do know that the equivelent rating of the bulbs is BS. It goes by true wattage. A 100 watt equivelent CFL is ONLY 23 TRUE watts.

Soil: 40% Fox Farm Ocean Forest, 40% Happy Frog, 15% Perlite and the remaining 5% a mix of dolomite lime, bone meal, blood meal and worm castings. That will get you through the first 4 weeks, no nutes required during that initial 4 weeks. Good luck.

how many lumens are needed for a healthy grow

Is there jus one brand mix I can get I'm kinda on a budget
And when it is time what brand of nutrients should I get..

If suggest a GO Box from general organics. Is like $50 and has enough of everything to get you up and running.
And, it's organic/veganic.
Cheers!

Here's a great example of an optimal set up for a plant in a trash can.

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/256101-single-plant-trash-can-grow.html#post3232017

I too am starting a trash can grow... All I've done is paint the thing so far as I'm waiting on some of my materials to arrive.

Good luck on your operation! Read read read!

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DirtyJerzey said:

A good rule of thumb for CFL's are at least 100 watts of true cfl wattage. which would be 23watts for your walmoart brand. So that would be at least 4 bulbs. I run 9 myself.

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ridiculios u dont need nine lites all complicated go big or go home go to lowes get the 3900lumens 300 watt equivelient actual cfl watt used 65 and go to walmart get two blacklites for twenty bucks Promptly reñove the black bulbs go to lowes again lol get 20wat tubes blue or red @ka 6500 or 2700 i got a trash can grow siñular cept its a sñaller retangle one i got the sinlge tube goin to bottom but n

it's often better to have many smaller bulbs compared to one large cfl. You need them as close as possible, hard to do that optimally with one large light. And black lights? Nah. Nonsense. If you could squeeze in a decent LED panel with a couple cfls, that'd be more efficient.