cfl

im growin only one plant and want to use cfl how many watts and lummens will it need ??

Check the CFL forum...

and check this book

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I wont presume to tell you how to cook your steaks, but if you burn one, wont you be hungry?

Lounge: Metaphore what?

Lounge said:

I wont presume to tell you how to cook your steaks, but if you burn one, wont you be hungry?

Lounge: Metaphore what?

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should i move this post to the spirituality forum?

iloveyou

A rule of thumb is to provide approximately 50 to 100 watts of HID lighting per square foot of grow area during flowering. This is approximately 500 to 1000 watts per square meter.

Fluorescent lighting is roughly half as efficient as HID, so if using only fluorescent lights, double the wattage requirement. Thats 100-200 per square foot.

Is there any recommended limit?

Fluorescent lamps have lower intensity than HID lamps, so the plants must be kept short, and more fluorescent lamps are better.

80w minimum + 50w extra for each plant thereafter.

Garden Knowm said:

should i move this post to the spirituality forum?

iloveyou

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Naw, I just thought he should be aware that if his single plant turns out to be a dude...

lounge; iloveyou(ny)

http://static.scribd.com/docs/9idox54rtokm8.swf?INITIAL_VIEW=width
here is a copy of a grow book, just not very good pics. hope this helps you out.

u would need 20'000 lm for a good grow in veg, and another 30'000 lumen diffrent SPECTRUM ( RED or Purple) !

If you buy the Purple 200 WATT CFL u wouldnt need to buy anything else !

u coul do the whole thing with this ^^ But dont think i'm talking out of my ass because you obv. have never grown before... otherwise you would use HPS !!!!!

anyways, use the purple one for the beginning and then if you feel good getyourself a red cfl...

after that move to HPS..... ^^ and then start growing HYDRO

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Purple choice would cost you 200 dollars...... with the powersupply adapter & the Light..... You also need 1 Power Adapter and 1 E40 Fixture..... ^^

You wont use allot of energy and you grow will give you a yield of about 100 gramm wich is nice...

I think i would realy like to see someone grow with the purple one