well seeing as i posted in the cfl forum im going to be using cfl's :/ sorry i figured that would be a given.
as for the strains i have 3 options White widow, Train Wreck and Purple Haze. My neighbor grows and leaves seeds laying around all the time so im just gonna snatch some.
eventually i will get somthing that requires less growing space but for now its all i can get my hands on and its practice even if it fails.
Cool Cool i noticed that it was in the cfl forum. I was hoping for more of an amount of light in wattage. Sorry should have been more specific on my part

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Well cfl are nice i mean you shouldn't expect to get much with them. I only have experience growing with cfl once and it was my first grow ever. It was in one of those stealth rubbermaide tub growboxes. I used four 27 watt daylight (6500k) cfls. The plants were grown in miracle grow moisture control top soil as i didn't want to have to try hard growing them or watering them. I grew from seed. Ended up with four girls. Total grow time was three months. 1 month veg, 2 months flower. Now dont laugh but my final weight dry was around 1/4 oz from all four plants. You have to understand that i wasn't trying hard, I used just tap water no nutrients, never transplanted to bigger pots, and it was on a whim that i started growing and was growing just for the pure novelty of it.
But as far as using the cfls and random headie seed for practice, i totally agree. They were a wonderful learning experience and really inspired me to go bigger and better. Keep in mind that you're going to have to pack a ton of cfl wattage into that space to get anything worth while. That will pose a heat problem so make sure you're ventilation is well planned and efficient.
A little fact that you maybe could use: CFL lights have a general running temperature of 142 f. I dont rememeber the physics right now but you could look up the formulas for convection of heat through air and figure out what sort of heat signature you will be looking at once you know how many lights you will be using and can plan youre ventilation accordingly.
If i remember correctly theres a formula posted around here thats something like wattage of light x ambient room temperature / the temperature youre shooting for.. haha i know thats not right at all but search for something like that. its a lot simpler formula to work with than trying to figure out the physics. So i recommend looking for that formula.
I hope i helped some with my limited experience. Good luck.