Actually Subb I was going to let someone else answer it, LOL, but let's see.....
"Right now I have an Area 51 RW-75 in the flower chamber. I had planned on getting 4x Cree floodlights, the 3000k 18w ones and sticking them in the corners. However, I am unsure of what angle to get, I believe you can get 27 or 47 degrees. Any suggestions on that front? What about mixing in a 2700k bulb as well? I am willing to get better supplemental lighting if necessary."
If you're sticking the bulbs in the corner use the 27° beam, otherwise get the 47°. The 27° on a slight angle will help you light your plants and not your walls. The CREE bulbs make excellent side/secondary lighting.
"For veg I had planned on sticking with CFLs, but my new LED mania has me wanting to replace all lights with LED. So I am pretty unsure of what to do for that tiny space."
Go Cree bulbs and maybe get a dimmer for those hot days.
"My original plan was to go perpetual SoG, but I am leaning toward perpetual Scrog now, although I'm not sure. Scrog plan is to simply to keep a bonsai mother in there, take a clone about once every 30 days, veg it under a scrog screen and slap it in the flower chamber (veg chamber would be partitioned off so the bonsai doesn't get all the veg light). There would basically be 3 scrog screens, each one 1 foot wide, so 2 scrog screens/plants are in the flower chamber at all times, 30 days apart, and one vegging in the bottom chamber."
I've done mini SoGs and they're are fun until you hit a rough patch and the 7 grams from each plant turns into 3. I vote for SCRoG. Great results from SCRoGs and LEDs and a A51 is a good light to SCRoG with, not so much SoG. You want a ton of light with a SoG.
"I'm at a loss of what to do for veg. My immediate thought was to partition the veg chamber and give the mother a low wattage LED, enough to stay healthy and produce a clone a month. The other side I would add as much light as I could fit for the upcoming Scrog. I wanted to use the new Cree bulbs at home depot, but I'm really not sure which ones to use, or how many watts to keep that bonsai healthy but not growing too fast, and an appropriate bulb(s) for the veg chamber."
I use 4 CREE bulbs for keeping Moms and cloning, along with 2 x 12,000K LEDs to keep growth slow and compact. Nothing wrong with trimming Moms to keep them short if your growth becomes faster than you like. And I believe captainmorgan says 25 watts of CREE bulbs is needed for flowering so a little less for veg.
An ounce a month is doable with that rig. The CREE spotlights are good for corners, the bulbs a bit better for the center. Stay away from the high CRI bulb because it's output is a bit muted compared to the lower CRI bulbs. I used to use CFLs and when I started vegging with CREE bulbs I used them just like my CFLs and got good results that way. There is a thread around here somewhere that I did on vegging with CREE bulbs but captainmorgan's thread about flowering with CREE bulbs is a better thread for CREE bulb knowledge.
And I would think about increasing the Veg area, height wise. If you SCRoG you won't need that much height in the flower area. And I do like your cabinet btw
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OK?? How's that? And I didn't even smoke yet!
Holy crap thanks so much. So basically, go with my gut and just get the Cree floods for flower and round bulbs for veg. Do you guys always take your panels/glass/whatever off the bulbs? Even the floodlights?
And yeah, I am a bit concerned about my veg height. I DO have the option of increasing the height while decreasing the flower height, but I don't want to do that. I could always make that small area for clones and build a smaller box for my mother/veg. Hmm I will have to think about this. I may just give the current setup a shot and see how it goes.
So maybe then I won't even partition the bottom chamber, and just light that baby up with cree bulbs. I can trim roots and prune by mother, whatever no biggie. But as far as height is concerned, as long as the plants can get close to the light and the lights don't take up TOO MUCH height, I think I could get a vegged plant in there under a screen, it'll be REALLY close, though.. I may have to fiddle around with this.
So alright then, I am set on my flowering Cree bulbs, I will go for 27 degrees (that makes much more sense.. I obviously don't want too large of a radius where it will be hitting more of the wall) one in each corner. For veg I am thinking maybe 4-6 of those 60w equivalent 9.5w Cree A19 bulbs? I already have some nice CFL rigs I can probably use to just pop those bulbs in instead. I will try to keep them horizontal and put reflectors over each bulb. - how does that sound? Should I shoot for more light or do you think that is enough?
I wasn't sure what you mean by 25w of Cree bulbs for flowering - is that per plant? so maybe I should shoot for about 19w per plant for veg, which would be about 4 of those 9.5w Cree bulbs. Or even just one bulb over the mother and 3-4 bulbs over the vegger, no partition.
I think that sounds like a plan, if you agree I will go out and get me some Cree bulbs this week!
Thank you SO much FranJan! I really appreciate your response! Have a lovely day!
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