light bulb question....

[goodnight85]

i ve got ur basic lowes/walmart/stoned creativity grow room setup. Ive got aquatic plant aquarium light x2 bulbs over my biggest three. 1-2 inches above top of plants, and i got 100w equivilant floros directly over the other three. my question is about the bulbs i bought. they had 100w in real big letters so naturaly i didnt read any closer. got home and it says there 23w but equal to 100w. is this true and do i need to find actual100w bulbs. oh and im budding one of them, do i need to get diffrent light for it when it comes out of the dark room, and the only thing in that room is a fan and total darkness, am i doing that right? it just seems to simple. lol, this is how i feel right now....

 

[slk]

yes you did ok you got CFL's?

 

[MRsteverson]

i ve got ur basic lowes/walmart/stoned creativity grow room setup. Ive got aquatic plant aquarium light x2 bulbs over my biggest three. 1-2 inches above top of plants, and i got 100w equivilant floros directly over the other three. my question is about the bulbs i bought. they had 100w in real big letters so naturaly i didnt read any closer. got home and it says there 23w but equal to 100w. is this true and do i need to find actual100w bulbs. oh and im budding one of them, do i need to get diffrent light for it when it comes out of the dark room, and the only thing in that room is a fan and total darkness, am i doing that right? it just seems to simple. lol, this is how i feel right now....

yeah its not a 100 w bulb its = to a 100 watt incandescent bulb. 23 watts should get you at least 1300 lumens per bulb... so really you want more then 10,000 per square foot.. you can get away with like 3000 in veg but really want more for flowering.. hope i helped

 

[goodnight85]

yeah its not a 100 w bulb its = to a 100 watt incandescent bulb. 23 watts should get you at least 1300 lumens per bulb... so really you want more then 10,000 per square foot.. you can get away with like 3000 in veg but really want more for flowering.. hope i helped

so what would i do, the one im flowering is 21inches tall, and i read cfls only radiate 3 inches. i also have 1-120w gro bulb, i put it in there to keep the temp up a little, i have 2 more of just the gro-bulbs. but i already have a burn victim and theres no way those things are gunna sit 1-2 inches from the tops. i also bought 2 hps bulbs but i cant find a fixture anywhere that it fits.