minimum cfl requirement for veging mom and clones?

Sup guys, been looking trying to find the minimum requirement for mothers to keep producing clones and the clones to veg for a few days.

I know that more light = faster growth for mothers and clones.

My reason is I'm growing my mom and clones in a small space (14D/25L/17H) and can only have about 4x23w 6500k. If only 2 bulbs are over her and 2 over the cloning area would this be effective?

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

i use a 125w cfl to keep a few mothers, and start off clones,
i have this in a small cabinet which is around 2.5 ft wide 3ft tall and 1ft deep,
i trim them back when they start touching the bulb, its good enough to get about 20-30 decent cuttings every 3-4 weeks
you could take more but under the cfl some of the shoots are a bit spindly and i do not like cuttings like that, and once you take most of the shoots from the plant it takes a bit longer
for them to grow back under cfl,

to root a small propagator of cuttings 10-15 cuttings
20 w florescent tube is good enough

peace

Thanks for the reply! Do you think it would help if I added some of the sticky led strip to the top?

simply_slide said:

Sup guys, been looking trying to find the minimum requirement for mothers to keep producing clones and the clones to veg for a few days.

I know that more light = faster growth for mothers and clones.

My reason is I'm growing my mom and clones in a small space (14D/25L/17H) and can only have about 4x23w 6500k. If only 2 bulbs are over her and 2 over the cloning area would this be effective?

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

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Oh man thats more than enough.
have done it under 7 watts cfl for one bonsai sized mom over the winter to get clones for springtime.
have a t4 setup for 3 moms running with 3x6w t4 works fine.

Awesome! Im just trying to keep one or two small moms and take 4-5 good clones every so often

Same here...I use 24/0 lightcycle for my bonsai moms to make sure they are always in veg with good results. They are in 0,5-0,7liter pots and once a year I prune the roots a little bit and add some fresh soil around the pruned parts to keep them vital.
just for the record

Peace

Thank you again for the reply. I'm thinking this should work out nicely