Newbie lighting/reflector question.

for that space i would say a cool hood would be better wished i had got that over a tube

i would think that a 400 is better then 2 250's

I would say two 250w bulbs would be the best coverage. If you plan on using the whole space to veg then flower your plants then that's what I would do. A 400w isn't going to cover the width (4-5'). You could make a box on one side to keep a mom in and then use just a 400w to light the other 3-4' of flower/veg. Then you could just put a shelf on top and make that your clone station. Just make sure the flower part is light sealed so when it is dark cycle no light gets in. If not, then run with two 250w in small air cooled or cool tube reflectors. Vent the air into the ceiling or somewhere else out of the grow area. You can add a small carbon filter on the intake side of your light/cooltube and pull air out of the grow room and throught the hoods and then exhaust it. This way you will be creating negative pressure in the room and air will only come in throught the cracks and intakes. Then you scrub the air and filter it into the ceiling or somewhere else.

Good luck.

Originally Posted by phillipchristian

I would say two 250w bulbs would be the best coverage. If you plan on using the whole space to veg then flower your plants then that's what I would do. A 400w isn't going to cover the width (4-5'). You could make a box on one side to keep a mom in and then use just a 400w to light the other 3-4' of flower/veg. Then you could just put a shelf on top and make that your clone station. Just make sure the flower part is light sealed so when it is dark cycle no light gets in. If not, then run with two 250w in small air cooled or cool tube reflectors. Vent the air into the ceiling or somewhere else out of the grow area. You can add a small carbon filter on the intake side of your light/cooltube and pull air out of the grow room and throught the hoods and then exhaust it. This way you will be creating negative pressure in the room and air will only come in throught the cracks and intakes. Then you scrub the air and filter it into the ceiling or somewhere else.

Good luck.

thanks for the reply! yea i think it'd be beneficial for myself to have a mother plant for the first while--at least till i get a semi-reliable method of cloning lol. i think i'll probably be doing a scrog grow (if not the first then the second more than likely). so if i had a flower and veg area separated and on top of each other i think that would utilize my space a lot better and i'll just train them low early in veg. i'll get my cloning station somewhere beside it.

whats the difference in the application of a cool tube vs a air cooled hood? i imagine the cool tube is mainly for keeping temps down and not so much reflective quality, and the hood is the opposite?

would it be beneficial for myself to have ducting running air over the light in the cool tube/hood and out into the wall to disperse heat, then have a separate ventilation system for air circulation and scrubbing the air with a carbon filter?

Thanks again!