Enough Light for this box?

highwayman

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i have a clone/mother box built and i need to know how many cool whit cfl's i need the box is 18" by 18" and is 26 inches high i need it to hold 3 small clones in a bubble cloner and 3 18" plants plus a mother plant. i have enough room i just need to know how many cool white cfl's i need. the box is lined with reflected material also. i already have 10 sockets for bulbs and was hoping to only use these but if needed i can get more, i have drawn a sketch of the box on the computer. it's attached
 

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bfq

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clones dont take much light at all... i have 2 13 watt CFLs over 10 or so clones. and they are a few inches above them.

my mother plant has 5 CFLs surrounding it and totals at 80 watts... the bulbs are kept close and the mother is kept short and bushy and this is enough to have it grow enough new limbs to take clones from as i need them... my next mother is under one 27 watt CFL right now being kept short till after i take the next (and last) batch of clones from my existing mother.
 

bfq

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i would think so.

more wattage than i have in my mother/clone areas and my rig works nicely for me ;)

run some lights on the walls next to the mothers instead of just at the top... you want the lower branches getting light too so they become nice and beefy clone sites.
 

highwayman

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but i'm going to have a moter plant and 3 baby clones also i'm going to have 3 maturing clone in the veg box so i guess i'll have to have 7 lights on top and 2 bulbs on the side of the mother and then the rest on the maturing clones..
 
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