im getting ready to build a grow box 3x3 and i wanted to know how do you hang the bulbs or have the light over the plant or can some one tell me another way i could do it

this is one of the best ways I've seen it done. hope it helps

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can you tell me what the pieces r called and if i could find them at my lowes or home depot

Home Depot sells them.

It's the 96 cents extension cord, 4 plugin to socket adapters and 4 Y-splitter sockets.

Then it's just chain that is like 90 cents a foot.

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Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart has clamp reflectors, the $8 are too cheap, the $12 ones are excellent.

Get one of these:






Or

this works good too:

1 to 4 Sockets Adapter A4E27

This adapter will allow 4 bulbs to be installed in one socket. Each socket on the adapter can support up to 250W, so it support up to 1000W in total. Can use with our 11", 15" lamps or soft boxes.

Price:$12.99

Available in black or cream colored at Walmart, Lowes, and Home Depot, about $1.69 to $1.99.
Used to put two 42 watt CFLS in one Reflector.

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I like those clamp reflectors. It would be easy as hell to position those around a plant.

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From Ed Rosenthal:

In the new Skunk Magazine there was a question in the "Ask Ed" section that just made my night last night when reading it...
The question was...

Tiny Grow Space

I intend to grow a single cannabis plant in a space 1' x 2'. What light would you recommend? I was think of using four 30-watt compact fluorescent lamps. Will this be enough? Cost isn't an issue but I am deterred from getting a high pressure sodium [light] because of the amount of heat the bulb produces.
Barry, Internet

As you mentioned, you have several lighting systems to choose from, including compact fluorescents and high pressure sodium (HPS) lamps. Among HPS lamps you have a choice between a single 100-watt lamp which uses a total of about 120-watts and emits about 8,800 lumens(73 lumens per watt) or a 150-watt lamp, which uses about 180 watts and emits almost double that-15,800 lumens (87 lumens per watt).

A 42-watt compact fluorescent (CFL) emits about 2700 lumens(64 lumens per watt). Four CFLs use 168 watts and emit 10,800 lumens. Other size CFLs have a similar efficiency.

However, that is only part of the story. Plants use mostly red and blue light. Yellow and green light is of little use to them, so light that is emitted in these spectrums is wasted energy. Most of the light emitted by HPS lamps is in the yellow spectrum. Only a small amount of the emitted light is is in the orange or red spectrums, which plants use efficiently. Warm white fluorescents (2700 Kelvin) emit a greater portion in the red and orange sectors.
Although fluorescents produce only about 75% of the light per watt that the HPS does, the amount of light usable by the plant is equal or probably higher with the fluorescents. You may wish to experiment to see if adding a single cool white CFL to replace one warm white results in shorter, stouter stems and more vigorous growth. The reasoning is that warm whites don't emit much blue light, which the plants use for photosynthesis and to regulate their growth. The cool white bulb supplies the blue light.

My call for your unit would be to use several (three to five) CFLs with a total input of between 120-160 watts. Although the 150 watt HPS is a bit more efficient that the CFLs in total output, watt for watt the fluorescents provide as much useful light as the HPS lamp. Heat is another consideration. The HPS runs much hotter and emits more heat than the fluoescents.

Make sure to use reflective material around the garden so that any light escaping the garden is reflected back to the plants. Any light that doesn't get to the plant leaves is wasted.

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so how do i hook it up with the clamps do i hook the chain up and clamp it on 2 the chain would that work?

STRING AND STICKY TAPE.

Vintage grow rooms hahahaha

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Consider side lighting as you get the plant bigger....I wish I accounted for that...there is a lot of buds underneath not getting as much flowering light as I would like.

Sorry I don't have a picture of it....but I took a piece of wood and ziptied 2 surgeprotectors to it. I plugged one Surge protector to the other, and the other plugged into a timer w/extension cord to the outlet.

Off the surge protectors I have 3 outlet to bulb connectors. Each of those has a splitter for a total of 6 bulbs. You could easily run a splitter off a splitter and have 4 bulbs for each plugin.

Off the otherside of the wood I have two hooks on each side, with two hooks on the top of my box along with a chain that I can adjust the height.

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