mother clone room lighting?

past times

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i am trying to setup o mother/clone veg room. it is a little more then 2 ft. tall, 2.5 long and 1.5 deep.

i am not exactly sure what is enough light for the ladies. I was planning on putting 4 20w flouro shop light bulbs alond the top. Is this going be enough or do you think i should go with 2 more?

also, is there going to be a big difference between these shop light bulbs and Compact flouros?
 

butter111

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the omly dif is the kelvin rating and 2 feet tall isnt very tall your plant will outgrow that in no time so im sure the shop bulbs will be ok since you arent going to want that plant to grow too fast. if your tring to put more than one in that small a space your going to have a problem.checkout my mothers i had to buildthem their own room they are 6 weeks old
 

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butter111

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was using cfls now hps 600w and repti sun 50s 3 gallon buckets they useto be under a 2 1/2 foot counter w/cfl 6500s 4 of them
 

smokeandfly

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i would use cfls not sure who it was but sum1 on here did a test 70watt cfl vs 80watt fluro shop light vs 1000watt hps the cfls kicked ass in veg but the hps took off as soon as they started flowering so i would use a couple 100watts of cfls if i was you but i havnt even started my first grow yet so cant say by first hand experience
 
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