brotherjericho
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Lumens don't mean that much with fluoro tubes because that lumen output is spread out over several feet. If you are going to go with fluoro tubes, you need to change up your growing method to take advantage of the lights. That means you will need to scrog, sog, LST or something else that will result in a more even canopy so that the light can reach the bud sites.About my lighting i have the two grow-lux bulbs and i dont know there lumens but my other 2 bulbs are 2000 lumens each so that's 4000 plus my hps bulb is about 16000 lumens so all together i have over 20000 lumens which i figured would be enough maybe my hps on the floor really screwed me. I did try to hang it but it yanked the screws out of the ceiling so it was really my only choice although looking back i could have separated the ballast from the base and just hung the base. i figured with my white walls the light would reflect enough that it wouldnt matter where i put it, in fact i thought it might help them stop stretching so much since the most light was below them but maybe that back fired on me. I could make clones of these plants and start from that right? I haven't really looked into that yet but that is an option correct?