lights help

420badchick

420badchick

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Got a 7' by like 6' room got my baby's in the middle and 6 cfl 23watt ers over them is this enough light or do i need more? In also using the recipe for success starter kit. In early veg now still got sprout leaves and just transplanted to 8" pots.
 
Final Phase

Final Phase

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You can get by with that for now... Some growers will fill the room with 50 or more... Just depends on what you want to end up with yield wise. Some go overboard on lighting, be it HID, LED, CFL... Read up on this stuff and experiment with your grow...
 
420badchick

420badchick

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Ok ya its my first grow and i want good good yield if i can. Got 7 plants right now they were bag seeds so i don't know the sex of them yet either
 
Final Phase

Final Phase

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Get the cfl's as close to the plants as possible - a few inches would be great. Cfl's veg plants great. You may want to look into other lighting to finish up flowering... On the other hand I've seen some real nice plants finish up with a bunch of cfl's... All kinds of theory as to which lights are the best to use... For that decision you need to read up on what people say - Then make your decision based on what your growing needs and situation are.
 
420badchick

420badchick

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Ya ive done that i think im gonna do the cfls all the way through just double up next month have 12 instead of just 6 would that work you think? In doing a warm cool mix of lights
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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My last cfl grow was 24x26" . The roughly 2x2' hood had 24, 23 watt cfls and i had a few 42's down low. About 750 watts total. Thats about optimum for that space. And your talking about a whole room....
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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You can get a cheap hps off amazon like apollo brand.. but it takes some start up money unless you can go outdoors
 
420badchick

420badchick

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Ya already got 250 in the whole thing and not looking to get too much higher cost wise. I've seen slot of good out of cfls so that's why im sticking with those they get good yield and cheaper to buy and run
 
420badchick

420badchick

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Just need help with how many cfls in gonna need i might make the room smaller to section for clones to go on one side and grow on other side.
 
caveman117

caveman117

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You only have 138 watts. That will veg some small plants butnyour going to need more for flowering. At least double that id say. And probably more considering your not in a small reflected area.

My first flowering run inside was with about 200 watts of cfl and a 250 watt mh.

And cfls aren't any cheaper to run than hid if you have the same amount of watts.
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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How close can you get the lights together?
Thats how big yiur area should be. Yiu can fit 24 bulbs in a 20x26inch space. If you go more than 20" you need side lighting for good growth
 
Nice1son

Nice1son

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I used to use cfls 300w on top and 6x 23w about 2 3rd of the way up the plant and did pretty good, leds are the future though, hid are brilliant but to hot, save up its worth it.
 
420badchick

420badchick

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I can get them pretty close and okay thanks to all i will look into the leds maybe cause i have thought about those i know there costly so probably won't be till next grow when i get my perment room going this is only temp till i got the extra room building a area for them this fall hopefully if all goes how it should.
 
SPLFreak808

SPLFreak808

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420badchick said:
Ya already got 250 in the whole thing and not looking to get too much higher cost wise. I've seen slot of good out of cfls so that's why im sticking with those they get good yield and cheaper to buy and run
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Its actually the other way around. The amount of cfl's needed to make up for a 250 watt HPS already cost more then the HPS not including the electric bill that almost doubles to get the same yield. Just thought i would let you know,in a friendly way, that you didnt infact save money.
 
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