26 watt veg and 23 watt flowering cfls

would 2 of each be ok? 2 for veg 2 for flowering each put off 1600 lumens

bump... anyone??

your gonna need way more light

i have them hanging a couple inches above the plan.. plant only needs 3000 lumens to grow

seamore said:

i have them hanging a couple inches above the plan.. plant only needs 3000 lumens to grow

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do you want the shit to mearly grow or do you want it to grow good? also grow more then one plant unless your growing from a female clone

any ideas to kinda get alot by eachother?

U might be able to veg with that but U'll need way more light to bud anything

I vegged my cuurent plant on 1 26 watt cfl for 1 week and 2 26 watts at week 2 and then 3 26 watts at 2.5 weeks and its looking great right now. Also starting to supplement with a 56 watt T5 occassionally. Just keep adding as u go

My very first grow was under 2 x 42 watt (150w incandescent equivalent) warm white 2700k cfl's. I had 3 plants, vegged them till they were about 14" tall then started flowering. I got about 14g of dry bud from that tiny grow. No nutrients, just water and some worm castings.

Usually I would say it isn't worth it to grow that small, but for a first grow I must say I learned a lot and I really didn't have to worry about losing much yield trying something new. Growing small for the first time isn't that bad. But, if you want to go with easy to buy CFLs, go to home depot or lowes and get 2 or 3 of the 70w (300w incandescent equivalent) warm white cfls. You will get much more yield and the heat/price isn't a big factor.

I recommend the larger cfls because if you ever decide to got with HPS in the future, you can always retire those bulbs to the vegging room and they will still do nicely.

I have found that the best value in cfls is the 42w, good prices at amazon.