Is this enough?

[BrotherBudro]

Hey guys, I just ordered some lowryder 2 seeds
I'm wondering if the 5 cfls i have now will be enough
4 of them are 23-27 watts, 2 daylight 2 bright white
and the other one is 40 watts
my box is 12x18x30h inches
i plan on growing 2 maybe 3 lowryders in there at a time tops.

 

[jr22hockey]

Daylight is the blue spectrum which is good for vegetative growth (foliage growth) and the plant can usse it, but Bright white im pretty sure is useless to the plant. What you want is the "soft white" bulbs which are 2700k. Its more of an orange color which you want for your budding lowryder. So yeah, you need more light. You should go to home depot and get 2 68 watt 2700k bulbs. They're huge and they have higher lumen ratings than lower wattage bulbs which is a good thing and they are only 15 bucks each (its worth it. Trust me)

 

[BrotherBudro]

I feel like i couldn't find an bulbs with higher wattage than like 30 maybe 40
but i'll look again, thanks

Edit: some of mine are 3500k and some are 5000k
the 5000k are bright white? which you are saying is no good
they are more blue than the 2700ks

 

[darkdestruction420]

Not if you want a decent yeild. 200w a plant at least for flowering and at least 100w for veg.

 

[darkdestruction420]

5000k bulbs are daylight bulbs, they are fine for growing, a mixed spectrum is the way to go, you can use all red spectrum from the start while vegging at it really does not matter, it works just as well as all blue does. my experiments have like i said before have shown me something, a plant under mixed spectrum grows better than if you just went with all the same spectrum.

 

[atrophe]

200w a plant at least for flowering and at least 100w for veg.

Equivalent to 200w or 200w's in cfls?

 

[miketos]

I'm also interested about this, to grow 2 autos, what kind of bulb, and how many should I use?

 

[ThePants]

Equivalent to 200w or 200w's in cfls?

200w in cfl. screw equivalance.