CFL Lighting Idea

WutangFinancial

WutangFinancial

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So last night I was high thinking it up, and I was not sure if anyone else has tried a similar lighting idea.

I was thinking about making a 12"x21.5" plywood rectangle frame and putting 26W CFL's every 1.5", giving you a total of 10 CFL's and 260 actual watts.

I added a picture so you can see what I am talking about.

Do you think this would be sufficient to flower with?

Thanks a lot,
Wutang
 

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WutangFinancial

WutangFinancial

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Because I could seperate the lighting box into two boxes so I can adjust their height individually since I have two plants.

And a 250 watt is probably just as big or bigger than a 2x4 and a I need as much space as possible.
 
FilthyFletch

FilthyFletch

Mr I Can Do That For Half
Jesse go to enay type in cfl grow light.There are 125, 200, 250 and 300 watt actual bulbs not equal to wattage actual
 
TYPE-X

TYPE-X

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i am using 2 40w and 4 26w cfl's to veg and there working great. i am going 12/12 in a few days. they are 19 days old in this pic.
 

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butter111

butter111

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both started under 6 6500k cfl and grew fine but they have grown up to 3cm
a day under hps the more light the better and they sell 100 watt and up lights with ballast built in for small areas you will get bigger flowers with brighter light
 

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smokeandfly

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the thing you gotta realise with hps vs cfl is that the hps prob has way more watts so realy its just the fact that you are giving them more watts with hps. hps are way better for flower tho. and i would get 20-40watt cfls instead of 100+watt cfls they give off a lot more heat than the smaller ones atleast mine does anyway
 
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