How many lights per plant do YOU use?

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JJGooding

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Just trying to gather some info up. I currently have four females under 240 watts of CFL. Each plant has an overhead 42w and a 13w, 2 18w and a 23w between them. Is this sufficient lighting? I ask because I'm 2 1/2 weeks into flower and my plants don't look up to par with what I've seen on here.

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Serapis

Serapis

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What Kelvin color are the bulbs? it's not just about wattage ya know. In flower, you want to have predominately all 2700k bulbs.
 
RC7

RC7

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Your problem is your 42watt main bulbs are a vegatative spectrum, you need all bulbs 2700k for flowering phase...6500k for Veg
 
mustaineaddict

mustaineaddict

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I have one plant with 6 lights on it. 4 26W 2700K bulbs and two 30W 6500K bulbs. I know it isnt alot of wattage but money was an issue when purchasing supplies. I'm at day 13 since the pistols showed and i'm almost as far along as you are.
 
2footbuds

2footbuds

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i have 4 plants with 1 light.
a 600w hps....

anyway, it looks nice for 2 and a half weeks. some strains take 10 weeks to finish. just keep lookin on the brightside.
 
faderharley

faderharley

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JJGooding said:
The overhead 42w lights are in the 6,500 range. The other four are in the 2700 range.
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You can mix spectrums as long as you do not exceed more than 50% of the primary spectrum. It's a 2 to 1 ratio. Example, 4 26watt, 2700k to 2 26watt, 6500k and vise versa. With what you have for plants, which looks really great, I'd suggest 4-5 more CFLs at the 2700k spectrum, should boost yeild dramatically imo...good luck
 
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captainbud

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More lights. Surround your plants in light, the closer the better. CFLs have no penetration, you gotta get those lights on the side too. Good luck.
 
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