4x4 veg tent: what lighting?

my concern really is the amount of cramping that would occur, and the effects of that cramping. Heat and electrical fire risk, and light leaks. Having a mother so close to a flowering cycle requires some pretty serious work encasing it.

I would never reccommend a 300-300w cfl y the way, cfls are about quantity of lights and proximity. There's a thread with a dude with a 300 and a 200 w cfl and look how his are doing compared to people with 5-10 20-40w CFLS

I use a 4x4 tent and use it for vegging and had to pick up an inexpensive metal shelving unit to help fit the mothers, clones and everything else. The bottom shelf is where I have my humidity dome and clones. I use two 30 watt florescent lights when I am cloning. The upper shelve holds 3-5 mother plants at any given time.

This leaves my with enough room to in the tent to veg about 4-6 plants depending on how large I grow them. Above the vegative plants I have a 400 watt MH bulb that runs on a 250 - 400 dim-able ballast. I am able to fit all of these pants and a fan inside of the tent. My carbon filter and inline fan are outside of the grow tent.

Hope this is a help

hah 12 plants in a 5x5 is a little much

Jah348 said:

I plan on having two tents, one for vegging and one for flowering. first off, is a 4x4 enough area for 2 - 3 mothers, 3 early vegging, 3 late vegging, and x clones freshly cut?



Assuming it is correct, can anyone help me with T5 lighting. How much I would need, and what would be the best way to organize it. I would like it to be in 3 different sections so i could raise and lower each light accordingly to what's beneath it.

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Jah: I'd like to try to help you but these clowns but a spam ad in the corner of your post cutting off part of what you wanted to say. If you're serious about using T-5's just remember that they have to completely cover your grow. They don't project light out and away like other options but they burn a lot cooler so you can really keep them close. I use them from start to harvest; whether I'm planting seeds or cloning.
I would investigate a cloning tent for your cuttings. My grow tent is 2' by 4' and my cloning tent is 3' by 3'. I keep my cloning tent a little warmer and more humid than my grow tent. Cervantes has a lot to say about grow space set up and cloning.I hope that helps. HSA

Jah348 said:

I plan on having two tents, one for vegging and one for flowering. first off, is a 4x4 enough area for 2 - 3 mothers, 3 early vegging, 3 late vegging, and x clones freshly cut?
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Here is what I would get:

1 4 bulb 48" t5 ho for the mothers
1 4 bulb 48" t5 ho for the late vegging
1 4 bulb 24" t5 ho for early vegging
1 4 bulb 24" t5 ho for clones (two bulb enough initially)

In each 4 bulb unit put one actinic bulb, one 450 nm blue bulb, one plant blub (florasun, color max, ultra growth wave etc), one generic 3K bulb.

Get T5 units with switches so you can switch off half the bulbs for extended hours. I veg 24/0, with half lights off half the time.

I am doing similar except that I supplement with cheap ebay led lights.

My reasoning behind using T5 lights instead of CFL was to have more options in terms of varying height if each light. From what I understand T5's are cheaper to run and purchase, but not necessarily as good for the plants? (I'm basing this off of very little). i'm reasonably sure that I can fit that much in one tent, organizing it would be up to my creativity and whatever ideas people have on here. I'd love to see some pictures of similar farms.

on a sidenote though, does anyone have suggestions for T5 lighting brands. Does anyone suggest wiring them up myself? I know this can save money...

waitin on the pictures... haha