monkeydoodle
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How many and what kind of lights do I need. I have 9 (goin strong) starters I've just been using a couple of my little reading lamps on them what can I use to help getting them goin even better.
this is great advice, but without knowing more about ur setup and budget its hard to recommend equipmentCFL or HID/HPS. Main concerns with HPS are ventilation and temperature control, secondly electricity depending on wattage of light ect. For 9 plants you'll really want to think about how much of a budget you got to spend on lights and ventilation. You can get 600w HPS, don't know how much lumens you can get per plant with 9 under a 600w. Starting first grow with 9 plants is a bit much, don't you think?
HPS/MH setups come relatively cheap for the inexpensive brands; however if your planning on using a 400w-600w or more in a room with ambient temps of already 75-80, you'll need air conditioner window mounted, 100$ for 5,000 btu. Cheap grow light, inexpensive brand, cheap air conditioner. This could be area dependent, as some places are pretty cold year around and can vent just as cool air in as a air conditioner can if not better.
Whats your real budget your looking at tbh, if no budget I'd try to focus on growing 1-2 plants for now with cfls, or perhaps get a 150w hps for few plants. If you want to go 100$ ac, and 120-130$ for 600w you could have sufficient lighting for a decent grow, restricted basically by ventilation, and grow space for plants (height ect).
No budget, its probably going to be just a bunch of CFL lights, some veg n flower spectrum, and some cords/Y adapters ect to hang them in over whatever you can afford to grow out of the started seedlings.