How many CFL watts for four plants.

I have 660watts of CFL lighting for my four plants. They're 3 weeks into flowering, is this enough watts?

Thanks

Should be, if you veg them for, idk.... 4-6 weeks, not much longer if at all.

Nathanjiujitsu said:

I have 660watts of CFL lighting for my four plants. They're 3 weeks into flowering, is this enough watts?

Thanks

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is that actual watts or equivalent watts

50 real watts per square foot..

Nathanjiujitsu said:

I have 660watts of CFL lighting for my four plants. They're 3 weeks into flowering, is this enough watts?

Thanks

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it is enough watts....... but... is it enough as near natural sunlight as can be achieved? well........no...
cfl will never, and i mean never be as good as hid, i mean a kettle is 2000 watts but you would not put your plants under that would you,
i use dual spectrum 600w hps, ideal for 6-8 plants, for veg and flowering.
small fast plants are better than huge plants that take forever.
i grow my seeds/clones under cfl at 20/24 hours, after two weeks slow growing then i put them under the hps for 1 week at 18/24 hours at a height of 5 feet gradually lowering the light over seven days to 2 feet then a fast switch to 12/12 on the seventh day, and thats them flowering after three weeks,
although the plants flowering trigger will take up to a week to start, so feed them veg feed through this period and then a fast 8 week flowering grow.

No, I have 6, 100watt and one 60w. The 6 are actually 23w and the 60 is 13 I beleive

Okay thanks, HID and HPS costs too much for my budget but the CFL's are doing a pretty good job. My first time growing

i had about the same amount when i first started, vegged ok but when i switched it to flowering they struggled

i use 14 23W bulbs for a 2' x 3' screen. you will not have enough light.................

You calculate actual wattage. So with 6 23w and 1 13w you only have 151 actual watts. Not nearly enough for 4 plants.

Hmm alright thanks, looks like I will be buying more CFL's

I bought my entire 400w hps/mh setup for a little over 500

you can get a 600 watt mh/hps for 170 on amazon... cheap and does the trick till you can upgrade. You will have spent almost that on CFLs... just my 2 cents tho good luck!!!

600 or 1000 hps magnetic ballast $200
Hortillux bulb $100-120
its your first grow so might as well just get the hang of it with your cfls. just letting you know when you decide to get serious its not all that expensive.
enjoy and good luck

edit: sun is free tho...