Flowering Lighting....

[Valorian]

Before its time to flower my plants I want to get some new lights, but I am on a limited budget so the cheaper the better.... would a high voltage CFL do it?

 

[smallclosetgrowr]

maybe ! u wanna let us know how many watts ? how many plants ?

 

[appleseed]

figure around 10,000 lumen per sq/ft and remember that an area 6'x6' is 36 sq/ft not 12... around those lumen in the 5k to 7k spectrum is fine. There are differences in HID and flouros but that's the basic figure to shoot for.

 

[mygirls]

Before its time to flower my plants I want to get some new lights, but I am on a limited budget so the cheaper the better.... would a high voltage CFL do it?

if you have enough on the cfl's and get a good light penatration threw the canopy then cfl's work great for flowering. enough light, feeding them good bloom nutes, good air flow and youwill have some nice buds.

 

[appleseed]

oops. I'm always reversing the spectrums... flowering is what 2500 to 3500 spec? VEG is 5-7 k...