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.

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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.

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I have:

1x 4.x2x4 Grow tent (or around there)
2x 200w 6700k
1x 200w 2700k
4x 68w 2700k
8x 2gallion Pots
1x 425cfm Exhaust
2x 275cfm inline intake
1x 78cfm inline intake
3x Interior fans

6-8 Plants (auto flowers) under 872watts of Pure CFL (60% 2700k, 40% 6700k)

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Current Grow: 1040 Watts of pure CFL (actual). Lowryder 2, Afgan Kush, Lemon Skunk (all auto-flowers).
All things in moderation.... Besides the amount of CFL's you use.

its 16 (26)watt cfls
i plan on growing 12 plants 12/12 from seed and before you get on me about get more lights

1st.. 12/12 from seed will be smaller plants
2nd. I dont plan on getting all 12 females

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here is my setup with 6 of 85watts CFL lights and 4 of 120cm fluoros

That's a very nice setup, a nice plants...

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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Half pound!!! 6 plants..So you got like 1 and half oz pe plant? Not bad at all

yeah it worked out to be about .5 gram per watt, which seems to be about average. Not great, but not crappy either. pretty good for a 1st grow though.

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Here is my setup and first grow...