200 watt eco CFL

How close do these need to be to the plants and would it be any good to veg 16 plants ? http://www.norfolklights.com/eco-light-200-watt-blue-p-1144.html this is the one
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bump need to no picking this shit up tomarrow

ive got something similar for my setup

250 watt duel spectrum CFL - its been doing the job great since this week but i added a few more 30watt daylights

you can keep the envirolites a bit further away from the plants then normal cfls, but 16 plants seems a bit much for 200watts

cheers, not sure wether to go for 1 these 200 wat cfls or upgrade from my 400w hps to a 600w and use my old setup with a metal halide for veg, just its more doe to lay out

cfls are supposed to be great for vegging but the envirolites put out loads of red so they should work fine for flowering too

thats not a great image they have on that site for that light and it doesnt mention anything about "envirolite"

16 way too many IMO.

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Really... veg 16 plants with that one bulb? Did you plan to have a big wide reflector over that single bulb an hope that each plant gets its share(12.5watts) of the 200w?

If anything I think you would need 4 of those, each one over 4 plants so that they each get a bit more than... 13 watts(lol). Even 50 to me is inadequate. If ya wanted you could start a S.o.G/Scr.o.G or maybe LST all of them... since ya don't state how you are going to grow the individual plants then it is rather difficult to tell you a good way to place the bulb an its effective range. I'm not going to fish the info out of you! See why the "7 P's" work wonders

btw i forgot to mention only vegging clones for 2 weeks after rooting while thier in thier small pots ( close together) and then transplanted for flowering, however this is all doesnt matter now as i picked up a 600w HPS today so going to use my old 400w MH for veg, probably veg longer to make best use of it