I'm finishing flowering an outdoor plant inside under 6 - 40watt CFLs, about 16'000 lumens and 240 watts. Do you thinks thats enough to finish this plant off, It stands about 4ft and its pretty bushy???
Thanks.

PS. pics are from about 2 weeks ago.

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that sounds a little weak, you might be fine. im not too sure with cfl's, your plants will be in a huge shock because that dosent even come close to outside light.

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yeah i hear ya, buts its now snowing and raining out and i have no choice. I think I might pick up 2- 70 watt HPS floodlights and also use the CFLs. Any other thoughts??

get some more cfls and u might be alright. the sun puts out 10,000 lumesn per sq foot. so think about your area and do the math.
also good start with gettin some hps's.

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Two things to consider are these. CFLs produce less heat so they can be much closer to the plant top, than HPS can be. So they can produce a lot of lumens on the leaf surface. Second, reflected light can be as valuble as the primary source. So buy a mylar survival blanket at Walmart for $2 and attach it to the wall.

Measure you plant height. In 48 hours it will grow some if there is enough light. Otherwise add a couple more 42 watt cfls.

do you think the 2 70 watt hps floodlights are a good idea??

if you vent your HPS light it doesnt matter about heat. i can touch the glass right under my bulb and hold my hand on the glass and its barely even warm.

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billybob88 wot do you use for ventilation? have a 600w hps with a vortice lineo 125 inline fan, 6inches from plants

iam tell you right now str8 up..
hell no!!! u don't ahve enough light.. for optimum budding especially.. your leaves are gonna be used to all those lumens and healthy light n then brnghtem into cfl's,, your gonna need more then what you got...
your better of getting a HPS lamp and using that..

i have a 270 cfm can fan venting my 2 600s. you can see in the picture how i have it set up.

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