bbates
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My box has 2 x 48 cool watt cfl (true watts) plus another 48watt natural and one small 15 watt. I have 3 plants in a 2 x 2 foot wide 6 foot box. Do I need to have my cfl lights with shades behind them like in this image (not my pic) ?
Do CFL lights need Shades?
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truepothead
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i disagree. i used a 23 and 13 watt and made a reflector and it made a massive difference to the amount of light hitting the plant. the plant itself showed major improvment. check my pics on my profile.
bbates
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truepothead, was your grow room open with no reflection from white walls or reflective material? I'm guessing they might not be needed if the light is bouncing of walls in a box but if they in in an open room then reflectors would make a big difference I think? What do others find works?
truepothead
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my grow room is a box 4 feet wide by 4 feet tall by 2 ft deep. a light bulb releases light in every direction, with reflectors u can control where the light goes.. so if the reflector sits above the light, all the light that would naturally go up goes down instead, i have tin foil on my walls and tinfoil on the inside of my reflectors. in my grow the reflectors did a lot. soon as i put them in my plants got bushy but i was also lsting
