Im looken for a little input on setting up a mother/clone room.I got a shelf above my flower room that im going to make lightproof.The area is about 55 inches long and 2 feet wide,i have a 48in dual fixture and i was wondering if this lighting would be good enough to clone and veg a mother under it..Heres the link..
http://hydrowarehouse.com/catalog/pr...2500e44981e691

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im attempting my 1st grow...3 plants in a closet im was gonna use a 2ft 4 tube T5 with 2 6500k an 2 3000k tubes but now im thinkin this might not be nearly enough light any suggestion...also do those lights usualy come ready to go or will i need to do some wiring

Great thread, I know the HPS/MH people laugh at clf's And if you are tyring to grow some tight bud with 6/45w cfls they are probally right most of the time. I have been looking at both. The high heat issue(I know cool tube) brings me back to cfls. I can get 14 200w 9250 lums cfls 7 6400k and 7 2700k for 406$. I think this is comparable to a 1000 w MH/MPS 421$ or at least close. I would like to hear some thoughts before I go one way or another

2800 watts of power usage compared to 1000 watts. almost tripple the power usage, and still less light. cfl's DO put off heat too, it's just more spread out over multiple bulbs, not just a single concentrated bulb. you could end up with more total heat in the room then you would with a single 1000 watt bulb. having so many bulbs also makes it harder to contain that heat. on the other hand, cfl's can spread out the light more evenly over top the whole grow and can be much closer to the tops of the plants. I think you'd be happy with a 1000 watt hps.

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Here is a chart, not sure how accurate it is. Does this seem bias towards the HID's or is it atleast close?

A confusing misconception often perceived amongst many cultivators is the idea that more lumens equals more yield. Think of lumens as a measurement of the amount of light observed by the naked eye, and not used by the plant. Depending on the situation, brighter light with an obscure spectrum may not prove as proficient as weaker light with a balanced plant specific growth spectrum.

Could mixing CFL's (165w red spectrum and 60w blue spectrum) + a 600W HPS be, possible, bad in flowering? Could it lead to a less "balanced" spectrum that isn't particulary good for flowering and it would work better with just the 600w HPS?

Thanks.

it would work better with just the hps light all those other light would just be a waste of space

i am using 4 23w CFL's daylight spectrum from ACE hardware down here in Costa Rica for my mother's they seem to be loving them and would like your thoughts on flowering with CFL's mixed in with HPS ?

what did you hear back down in costa rica and wondering if i shouldnt try flowering under a bunch of cfl's cause little to no heat and can move lights as necessary