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itzCESAR*

itzCESAR*

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I'd say one bulb for each plant for the first 2 weeks, then add another to each plant. Then continue to add one more CFL every 4 weeks. This is such a rough guesstimate. You really need to do a little homework on lighting to figure out your own needs. BTW, those lights I was talking about... let's say they're 24w CFLs.
 
blzbob

blzbob

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I woukd get a 400w MH and Hps dual light and it will take thru your whole grow without having to add lights every week.
 
awry

awry

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blzbob said:
I woukd get a 400w MH and Hps dual light and it will take thru your whole grow without having to add lights every week.
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x2 you can use this lamp/setup forever, every grow or anything u want to grow u can use this and it is for life... $150-250 well worth spent if you want to grow and have large yields.. you will be much more happy when u harvest 4x as much as if u grew with cfl's
 
mannurse801

mannurse801

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For CFL you are looking at about 100-150 W per plant, with 4 plants, you will be pulling 400-600 inefficient watts of power fgrom the grid. Invest in the HID lights mentioned above, they wil be cheaper and better producers in the long run!
 
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xrayspecs

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400w hid in a closet? not sure thats such a good idea. your temps could get way too high. cfls would be more manageable. unless of course you want to spend $ on ventitlation too. you could always do a diy job on a cooltube i guess, but where would the ducting go?
 
mannurse801

mannurse801

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I have a 400W in my closet. I vent into my crawlspce, but you can use an attic/ducting out the bathroom vent too. I have a $30 fan that exhausts at 250CFM. I have not air conditioning, and I keep my room at or below 80F.
You don't have to be fancy with a small grow like this. I slap a homeade carbon filter on my fan, and it pulls the air straight down with no smell at all. I just cut a hole in my floor, duct tapped the fan to the floor to seel it. And voila, I now have a negative pressur grow room.
 
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xrayspecs

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thanks, good info. i plan to cut a hole in the top of the closet to extract air out of, and a hole on the side of the closet at the bottom for the intake. should keep it stealth this way but my main issue is how to lightproof these holes...
 
riskoisawesome

riskoisawesome

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i new about hid, and hps, but i couldnt git one , and i found a 500 watt halogen under my house and decided to ask, someone said somethin about cfl's and i didnt kno about those either, so now i know about both

thanks people
 
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