Best place in USA for high wattage CFL bulbs?

[Sunshine Closet]

Anyone know a place (preferably near the east coast) that has the cheapest (price wise) high wattage CFL bulbs? I need these pretty quick and a place that gets orders out quick would be nice too.

I usually use HTG for everything I need, but they only have 23 and 35 watt CFL bulbs.

Thanks in advance.

 

[cowasaki]

wal-mart sells cfls up to 65 watts that are 300 watts replacements, and theres a wal-mart everywhere open all the time

 

[Sunshine Closet]

wal-mart sells cfls up to 65 watts that are 300 watts replacements, and theres a wal-mart everywhere open all the time

I've checked my local Lowes, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart none of them had shit. Lowes and Home Depot have them up to 65, but only in 2700K. I need 6500K. Wal-Mart only had 42 watters and they were 2700K as well. I thought about checking a local electrical supplier, but the one or two that are around here take you to the cleaners. They're pretty rinky dink and probably don't have them anyway.

 

[prizm23a]

I was just at home depot the other day and seen a 300 watt 300K cfl. I don't remember an exact price bit I'm prett sure the were under $30. I dont see them at the site so it ma be a store specific thing

 

[Sunshine Closet]

I was just at home depot the other day and seen a 300 watt 300K cfl. I don't remember an exact price bit I'm prett sure the were under $30. I dont see them at the site so it ma be a store specific thing

I assume you mean 3000K. Like I said, I need 6500K. Then again after thinking about it, I think instead of going with one or two high wattage bulbs, I might just go with 4 or 6 medium wattage bulbs. Better coverage and less heat. It's only for seedlings anyway.

 

[prizm23a]

I use 5 24" flouros for seedlings...$5 a piece at wal mart and the 24" ge aquarium bulbs wal mart has are 6500k. yeah i meant 3000k

 

[Sunshine Closet]

I use 5 24" flouros for seedlings...$5 a piece at wal mart and the 24" ge aquarium bulbs wal mart has are 6500k. yeah i meant 3000k

I've only got a small area to work in, so that's why I'm going with CFL's. Ideally I'd put a couple 24" T5's over them, but I just don't have 2 feet of space. More like 18 inches.

 

[prizm23a]

I was thinking about making a new reflector for my nursery and putting like 10 23 watt 6500k cfl's in probably 2.5 feet by 1 ft.

 

[Sunshine Closet]

I'm gonna go with something like the pic below. I found this on on Google images and think it's a great idea.




I'll mount the surge protector to a piece of wood roughly the same size and put some eye hooks in the wood. Then using chains I'll suspend it from the setup I made in the next picture.



My grow closet is in my bathroom and as you can see, I'll be using the space between my shitter and counter for starting seedlings. The only thing I'll have to be careful about is not pissing on my plants in the middle of the night when I'm half asleep...

By starting my seedlings this way I'll have a HUGE jump on the next grow and save myself weeks of grow time. I can fit twelve 4" pots in that container which is perfect. It'll prolly take me a couple grows to get the timing just right, but my aim is to get harvest and transplanting from the 4" pots within a couple days of each other. Hopefully I can get a harvest every 9 to 10 weeks.

 

[prizm23a]

dude!! that dual socket is awesome!!+rep...where did you find that? If it were me I'd get a piece of stainless cut to fit and put it between two boards and screw em together to bend it to make the 3 back and sides at a 45 degree angle..put a board on the back top of the reflector so you can put screws through the inside into the board and hook the power strip with the eyelets...stainless isn't the best reflector...but its a cheap way to make one and I believe any reflection/direction is better than none. just an idea