Just wondering how people using CFLs only have there light setup and using how many watts to plant ratio....
Pics will be great to get an idea but description is good enough as well...
I was going to use about 200~250 watts of cfls but ended up now with around 650 watts.....Will go HPS route sooner or later but just wanted to see the veteran CFL growers setup..
Total Watts: 630~650 Watts.
Total Lights: 24 23/26 watt CFLS 1 40 watts
Total Plants: 7 Plants
Grow Space: 2x2x4.
weell its been proven that great weed plants could be grown withcfl. i have a closet size box that i got from a friend who grows that is 7 feet tall 2 feet deep and 4 wide and i got 5 plants flowering in there with 16 cfls . and one fan blowing air out at a decent speed .i have [3] 42 watts 2700k , [10]26 watts 2700k and 3[3] 30 watts cool white 6500k . when lights on temp reach 85 and at lights of they drop to 70ish.i have the 42 watts on top of my biggest plant and the rest of the bulbs are all over . this set up seems to work fine for me. i know that cfl are for small amount of plants and in small reflective so round space like a box or small closet where light cant scape ... here are sum pix . i think the secret with cfls is a good maintenance of ur plants including air and soil conditions . goood luck and feel free to ask . hope i was helpful.
I started with 2x 4ft shop lights (flouros) and 10 plants. i ended up with over 900watts of CFL's and flouro tubes flowering 6 females. Harvested nearly half a pound with about 160 watts per plant, mixed spectrum. There's almost 200 pictures in my gallery and lots of good info. CFL's work alot better than most people would have you believe. I have a HPS now and honestly im a bit dissapointed that the results were not THAT much better.
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