6x8 Flower Room.. Lighting questions

tristynhawk

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So we have a 6x8 flower room going, just recently widen it from 4 foot to 6. We have been running a 1000 watt light on a 6 foot track over the room. After overloading with to many plants we decided we needed to expand it to 6 foot wide. Now im thinking i dont have enough light for the room, and since i have another 600 watt running in the veg room, i was thinking about putting it the flower room and running t-5's in the veg room.
Now if i switched it over i would probably do away with the track and just have both lights stationary over the plants. What i was wondering is if i would notice a difference doing this or just be wasting my time. Another question i had was suggested container size and amount in the room. Right now i think i am using 3 gallon containers 3 wide 5 long. I have around 6'6'' clearance on my light when fully lifted.
Any and all suggestions are welcome as i am still trying to get dialed in on running indoors, i still dont feel the room is producing what it's capable of for it's size.
 

MistaRasta

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I run a 4x8 as well. I run 2 600s, 1 on each side of the tent. I'm about to expand to an 8x8 and cover 6x8 in plants and leave the other 2 feet for ac/walking room.

In 6x8 feet of room I'd suggest either 2 1000s or 4 600s. I'm personally going to go 4 600s. I see it being more efficient and the 400 extra watts won't hurt the bill at all. I also have short ceiling height like you and feel like the 600s will suit me better.

If all else fails go by the lumen/sqft rule.

For every square foot you want 50 lumens minimum. 100 max.

Good luck
 

tristynhawk

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I run a 4x8 as well. I run 2 600s, 1 on each side of the tent. I'm about to expand to an 8x8 and cover 6x8 in plants and leave the other 2 feet for ac/walking room.

In 6x8 feet of room I'd suggest either 2 1000s or 4 600s. I'm personally going to go 4 600s. I see it being more efficient and the 400 extra watts won't hurt the bill at all. I also have short ceiling height like you and feel like the 600s will suit me better.

If all else fails go by the lumen/sqft rule.

For every square foot you want 50 lumens minimum. 100 max.

Good luck
I'm probably going to go for hanging the two i have over it, i still have around 40 days of flower left with the room maybe more, I'd planned on waiting until i filled the room up again after harvest. You think i would benefit from switching now?
 

personal lux

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I run a 4x8 as well. I run 2 600s, 1 on each side of the tent. I'm about to expand to an 8x8 and cover 6x8 in plants and leave the other 2 feet for ac/walking room.

In 6x8 feet of room I'd suggest either 2 1000s or 4 600s. I'm personally going to go 4 600s. I see it being more efficient and the 400 extra watts won't hurt the bill at all. I also have short ceiling height like you and feel like the 600s will suit me better.

If all else fails go by the lumen/sqft rule.

For every square foot you want 50 lumens minimum. 100 max.

Good luck
uhm dude you do know that a 1000 watt light is 140,000 lumens...your saying i can light up 1000-3000 sq ft lol. I think you need to rethink your numbers. Pretty sure you thinking watts per sq foot.
 

tristynhawk

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Would having a track to move your light over the whole Room Change that. Because if im right i have 40 square feet, and if 50 watts is the minimum then i'm only getting half the light that i need. Would that be Correct?.
 

Will Ferrell

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hands down , you need two 600 watters in your 6X8 flower room. It's the only thing that makes sense,imo. Anything more is a waste. 1000 watt is obviously not enough. 2000 watts is way overkill.
 

tristynhawk

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I'm still trying to figure out the best way to grow the plants. What i mean is container size and plant size at time of flip and topping vs not topping.
 

lilroach

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I have two 600's over a 4x8 room and feel that it'd easily cover 6x8. Don't be tempted with those bit XXXL hoods....at least not for a 600w. There's several videos online that compares the smaller narrower hoods with the big one's and the XXXL's defuse the light too much. Two 1000's would be too much, and one isn't enough.
 

lilroach

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Oh....after 2 years of growing under a light-mover and after doing a side-by-side comparison (I have 2 flower rooms) it was quite evident that plants do much better with fixed lighting.

I was surprised of how much better the plants did under the fixed lights as I thought it'd go the other way and the mover would do better.
 

tristynhawk

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Thanks roach, that's the sorta input i was looking for. I was at first under the impression the light mover would be great, but after running it twice i still havent been impressed with it. The first two runs the room was even smaller at 4x8 and i felt they were lacking in light.
 
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