hi ppl im new 2 this growing stuff and never done it yet ive researched abit and was wondering if i could use an envirolite 125 watt 6,400k blue bulb to start off as i only have a cupboard 2 ft x 2 ft height 6ft i was gonna grow 2 plants here both veg and flower cycle on same bulb would it b ok??? ty cheers any help much appreciated

125 watts should certainly cover the amount of lumens required for a 2 x 2 garden (although growing two plants in here is pushing it) but in terms of what lighting is good for vegetative and flowering stages has to do with light spectrum. I don't know much about your particular bulb but lights which emit more light from the blue end of the spectrum are better with vegetative growth and light from the red end of the spectrum is good for flowering. If your light is fluorescent it will probably not be sufficient for all stages but a high pressure sodium or metal halide probably would.

ty 4 that so what type of high pressure/mh bulb would u suggest 4 that size of room? the cheaper the better in terms of buying and electric as im skint!!! lol

250w hps would do or a 150w up to u.

if ur concerned bout electricty go buy another envirolite, 200w (2700k) would do 2 plants.

Buy another 125w Enviro, this time red (2700k), that should be just about enough for 2 plants. You can veg with the blue one, then at flowering use both.

It won't be the very best you can get, but itll get you acceptable results. a 250w HPS will use about a 1/3 more electricity than those two.

Good luck.

thanks alot ppl much appreciated could i use just 1 200w enviro blue for both veg and flowering and will it take longer?

i would not advise it, its the wrong spectrum of light for flowering, babygro's idea was sound.

well no, since flowering needs a different spec then veg. in veg you need something in the 2700K region and for flowering in the 6500K to reach the optimum.
for the start you may want to look in some cheap cfl's, 21W ones with a spec of 2700K. you can buy 10 of those for the price of one envo light. get in addition for later stages a HPS sys, it simply gives you more lumen per watt than floros could do.

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