Roll The Blunt
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If I was going to buy bigger cfls do you know of a place that sell them high in lumens?
Enough light or should I add more?
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qwizoking
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Nope and nope.
Over 23 watt bulbs get increasingly more expensive, can pick up some 42's from Wally world
My personal set up is 24-23watt bulbs..6 on y splitters attached to an 8socket extension cord thing..4 of those extension cord surge protector things get zip tied to (originally the lid of my Rubbermaid, with basic support) a piece of cheap plywood. I then have 42's for side lighting..
Super cheap and a bit ghetto...
Personally I love the sativa high and the low odor qualities that come with heavier sativas.. I grow a lot of landraces, a lot of brick weed and any heavy sativa I can get my hands on..
Have only ran into 2 auto flowers and were true equatorial sativas..not the kind of auto you have..
Over 23 watt bulbs get increasingly more expensive, can pick up some 42's from Wally world
My personal set up is 24-23watt bulbs..6 on y splitters attached to an 8socket extension cord thing..4 of those extension cord surge protector things get zip tied to (originally the lid of my Rubbermaid, with basic support) a piece of cheap plywood. I then have 42's for side lighting..
Super cheap and a bit ghetto...
Personally I love the sativa high and the low odor qualities that come with heavier sativas.. I grow a lot of landraces, a lot of brick weed and any heavy sativa I can get my hands on..
Have only ran into 2 auto flowers and were true equatorial sativas..not the kind of auto you have..
Roll The Blunt
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I checked wally world couldn't find anything over 23 watts an like 1000 lumens but i know there are 100 watt cfls an all
Where do you get 8 socket extension
Where do you get 8 socket extension
ii dP ii
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Home Depot!
get some power strips (surge protected) and zip tie/tape/whatever them vertically to the sides of your cab. then get the plug to light socket adapter and put a "Y" splitter in it. then you can have up to 6 bulbs per side most likely.
this is the plug to socket adapter if you hadn't seen them.
get some power strips (surge protected) and zip tie/tape/whatever them vertically to the sides of your cab. then get the plug to light socket adapter and put a "Y" splitter in it. then you can have up to 6 bulbs per side most likely.
this is the plug to socket adapter if you hadn't seen them.Roll The Blunt
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Yea i have 5 or 6 of those and thanks for the advice
unseenblunt mc
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Personally I would suggest sticking with the 23 watters. their lumen output per watt is more than the bigger ones for the most part. And yes you could keep them all seperate to be moved individually but they would be much more efficient if you keep all the plant around the same height all over. top them and lst them down and out like a basket. and not in any way trying to be disrespectful but 100 watts for first plant 50 for additional is accurate. especially with 23 watt bulbs thats 1600 lumens per bulb and each plant is benefiting from atleast 4 of them, sharing the middle 50 watts with the plant on its side. Works great for me and I started with nearly half of that, but at this point its pretty much dead on that calculation. Also, just my 2 cents. I bought the plug in adapters and power strips to try and make fixtures but ended up buying 6 light vanity bars from lowes for 20 a piece and flume ducting as reflectors, the bulbs get too close with the light strip and you would need to have so many to cover more than one plant. The bulb spacing on the vanity bars is perfect. equating to roughly 6400 lumens per foot, again with 23 watt 1600 lumen bulbs
Good luck brother. pics of my setup in my journal
Good luck brother. pics of my setup in my journal