will too many lumens hurt my plant

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MisterNiceGuy

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not too many lumens, but the heat you must worry about. If you could get 70,000 lumens with no heat you would have a monster plant
 
Florida Girl

Florida Girl

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mowogrow said:
i have 6 cfls that each put out 1800 lumen and are each 6500k is this too much or am i okay?
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No that is not too much. Remember no light puts off more light then the Sun and plants grow beautifully under the Sun.

Generally the problem with using the bigger HPS lights on young plants is you have to drop the light closer to the plant tops and that often burns the little babies. Luckily you don't have to worry about this with CFLs as they hardly put off any heat at all.

The more light the better.

Good luck :)
 
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mowogrow

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just two i have some pics on a couple other post i just keep coming up with questions first time even though i have every book it seem you guys are helping more!
 
Twistyman

Twistyman

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Better to use 1 HID then 8,000,000 CFL's.. more lumen's (no not bad) and less heat, and fire hazard with all that wiring.. luck.
 
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Maine42085

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I have 3 plants 16 inches high in a 2x4x5.5 tent planted in 10 gallon cloth bags in their first week of flower they are under 1550 w leds will I run out of room in my tent b4 they finish
 
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