My CFL fixture

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RudyJ420

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• Sep 12, 2009

• #1

Here's a fixture I made just tonight.I'm getting all of my stuff ready and ordering my seeds monday.I'm using 8 100W CFL's and I'm thinking about going buy a vanity fixture tomorrow.

 

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RudyJ420

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• Sep 12, 2009

• #2

Will this be a decent grow setup or should I try to find bigger CFL's?

 

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kaiserAxel

Active Member

• Sep 12, 2009

• #3

Bulbs touching...not a good idea.

 

archangel

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• Sep 12, 2009

• #4

You could do one/ two plants with that. My 2 cents..EDIT: I didnt notice that they where touching

 

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RudyJ420

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• Sep 12, 2009

• #5

I know I took 1 off and I'm going to put it in one of those round reflectors!Now I just have 3 y's on it

 

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gsljacobb

Active Member

• Sep 12, 2009

• #6

RudyJ420 said:

I know I took 1 off and I'm going to put it in one of those round reflectors!Now I just have 3 y's on it

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Can never Have to many extra sockets on hand I found out. Always try and have a handful! Reflectors too!

 

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RudyJ420

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• Sep 12, 2009

• #7

I already have a reflector I made.its one of those metal ducts they sell at home depot.I'm going to hang it over my light fixture

 

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RudyJ420

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• Sep 12, 2009

• #8

later down the line when i'm ready to flower will all of the 6700K bulbs have to be switched to2700K or just some?

 

tkjoe

Active Member

• Sep 13, 2009

• #9

RudyJ420 said:

later down the line when i'm ready to flower will all of the 6700K bulbs have to be switched to2700K or just some?

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a 3-1 ration or 2-1 ration is always the best idea. you still want some blue light but you want mostly red

 

en3tyskate

Active Member

• Sep 13, 2009

• #10

I recently went to my local hardware store (ACE) and bought 2 18", 15 Watt tubes one with a red spectrum, and one with a daylight, 3 budding 26 Watt Cfls's and 3 20 watt vegging 5000k cfls, they work great im vegging them right now.

 

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RudyJ420

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• Sep 13, 2009

• #11

en3tyskate said:

I recently went to my local hardware store (ACE) and bought 2 18", 15 Watt tubes one with a red spectrum, and one with a daylight, 3 budding 26 Watt Cfls's and 3 20 watt vegging 5000k cfls, they work great im vegging them right now.

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so what i have now is blue spectrum right?

 

blizzie420

Active Member

• Sep 13, 2009

• #12

If you wanna keep a low budget (although CFL is already budget) go to your local hardware store and get a bathroom vanity light. I picked up a 6 light fixture for 12 bucks. Check out my setup

https://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/239530-northern-lights-x-shiva.html6-light fixture

Very simple to hook up.