str8dropkid
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wut up peeps im on my first new grow
is a 150 w good enough for 1 baby
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DoeEyed
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Should be plenty for a single plant. Welcome to the forum. Good luck!
ghostsamurai25
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Hell yea, you can mess around and get a qp outta that thing if you know what your doing, and even if you dont youll get atleast two os
PBFseedco.
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What type of light are we talking about here? CFL? 42W? or HPS?
str8dropkid
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my bad i should of put cfl equivalentWhat type of light are we talking about here? CFL? 42W? or HPS?
DoeEyed
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My bad as well, I assumed you were talking about a 150w HPS.my bad i should of put cfl equivalent
Ok if you're talking equivelant then probably not - 100 actual watts would be good.
str8dropkid
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so what dose equivalent mean goo or bad to use and if its not a 150w then what is it
str8dropkid
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[it says it has 2600 lumens dont that supose to help
DoeEyed
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When you buy a CFL, it will say on the package something like:
27w 100w equivelant. Means the bulb is actually 27w, but it puts off as much light as a 100w incandescent bulb. You want to go by the actual watts.
2600 lumens - hard to say what the actual wattage is then - I know the 27w CFL's put off about 1400 lumens per. If it's 2600 lumens you'll only need 2 of them. It's recomended to have a minimum of 3000 lumens per square foot, I think, to grow - and better at 5000 lumens.
str8dropkid
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it says 150w equivalent
2600 light out put in lumens
42 energy used in watts
2600 light out put in lumens
42 energy used in watts
DoeEyed
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There ya go - it's a 42w bulb. Yeah two of them would do well.
str8dropkid
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ok so for 1 sweety i need two of thoseThere ya go - it's a 42w bulb. Yeah two of them would do well.
GrizzlyAdams
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Doe eyed is correct. 3000 lumens per square foot is whats needed, 4-6k recommended. Full direct sunlight in the height of summer the sun does about 12,000 lumens per square foot.
PBFseedco.
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Like i thought it is a 42w CFL. I use CFL's and 2 will work for one if you don't get to massive.I grew this NL mother starting with one 23w CFL and then eventually up too 3 42w CFL. If you got the money more is better . Just keep the CFL close to the plants.
Way to grow!
str8dropkid
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so can i use that 42 for now cause i bought 2 27w daylight bulbs but dont have a socket yet so i got wait till tomorrow and put them up
PBFseedco.
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Ya, its most likely red spectrum which is for flowering not for veg but it grew that mother.
str8dropkid
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so that 1 42w would would work for now or not while in veg
PBFseedco.
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it will work
str8dropkid
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and when i pput the two 23w with it for it should be fine write