CFl question
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mannurse801
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All of them...
mannurse801
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When you flower, you are gonna want 100-150W per plant...
lipskilet
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I've got a 400W for Flower but wanted to start a clone/mother room. Everything is set up, just need to figue out the right configuration of CFL's.
GooDGR3EN13
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Blue spectrum is better for plants in veg and red for flowering, I use a 105 watt 6,900 lumen cfl cuz it cuts back on all those lights, 3 or 4 are all you'll need but only during veg because i havent seen any of them in the red spectrum.
mannurse801
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I would still try and get 100 W per plant in later veg... Why not just throw up the HPS now with some blue CFL's to supplement the spectrum.... Just a though...
If not wait another week or two with the 42 Blues, the add the HPS...
If not wait another week or two with the 42 Blues, the add the HPS...
lipskilet
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I know that blue is better for veg but I thought with the higher watt red, it may provide better gorwth.
So a lower watt blue is better than a higher watt red?
mannurse801
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Not really... the HPS will give you great results right now... especially if you supplement with a few blues...
lipskilet
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This a seperate room we're talking about.
If we forget about the HPS, what CFL configuration I referred to earlier is best for a mother room?
mannurse801
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75-100 W per plant with 1/3 2700K, and teh rest 6500K...
1 - 42 and 1 - 23, 6500 and 1 - 23, 2700 per plant,
1 - 42 and 1 - 23, 6500 and 1 - 23, 2700 per plant,
GooDGR3EN13
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For mothers, high wattage cfls ( 105 watt or 200 watt if possible ) high lumen output that will keep your mothers growing big. Those bulbs dont need a special ballast so you can throw them in any ordinary one.
105 watt cfl: 6,900 lumens
200 watt cfl: 10,000 lumens
mannurse801
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the high wattage ones are ok... only problem with them is coverage... Those lumens are gone after a few inches...
GooDGR3EN13
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Yea, you mite need a reflecter made out of a coffee can if used for long distance but most people useing cfls only use them close range, like a few inches.
mannurse801
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For sure, I just prefer more smaller wattage CFLs and place them strategecatlly to gain coverage at proper areas. Once the plants gets to be 6 inches tall, much of the plant is getting virtually no usable light