am I using enough cfl's?

Hi everyone. new to this with some lighting questions. i have a 24x24x57 grow tent. I guess my first question would be how many plants could i comfortably fit in there my buddy said 4 but i feel like it would be cramped. any ways i have 4 100w=23w 5000k lights and one at 2700k. is that enough for a good veg for 2?3?or even 4 plants?

IMO no not really they will grow but more light will make then grow faster and bushier. I have 589 watts of fluorescent lighting in my small grow closet. My plants are small clones right now just starting veg. When I go to flower I swap to 3000K bulbs and add a few 42 watt 2700k CLFs to the center. I get HPS like results with this lighting and I grow 6-8 plants at a time.

depending on how many plants u want, rule of thumb is 100 watts per plant. not equivalent wattage, actual cfl watts.
6400k daylight lights for veg, and 2700k soft white for flower.

i run about 200-300watts on 1-2 plants.

so if i change all 5 bulbs to actual 100w bulbs id be in the right direction?

yessir. less light = tall skinny plants. more light = bushy fat plants (in accordance with it's genetics). For one or two plants I've seen ppl get away with 200w with good yields but for 3 or 4, like ur saying, I would want 300-500w veg and 500-800w flower. Always use actual watts, equivalents don't mean shit

awesome thank you

No. I use CFL's, and i have 12 of the 23 watt, 2 125 watt, and 4 4ft florescent shop lights on back wall. Area is 2ftx4ftx4ft high. While I have enough light to grow some nice plants with dense buds, I believe a good 600 watt grow light would work better. I could have bought a grow light for what it would have cost to buy all my lights, but I had most everything. Heat is an issue for me as that many lights put out a lot of heat, and an air cooled light would be an easier fix than the 9 120 mm fans i have currently running. I believe you have to have lights mounted low to make up for lack of light penetration and that is where back wall lights come into play. Oh, and I only grow 2 plants at a time. Average yields vary from 1 to 1.5 ounces a plant if I do 12/12 from seed with little or no lst, to 2.5 to 4 ounces depending on the amount of veg, and how much lst, or topping I do, with about 2.5 to 3 being more common yields. Hope there is some info here that is useful, as I just sampled a bud of chocolate heaven I have curing. Taste isn't quite there yet, but boy, can she kick you in the brain.

I've got a 3x3 box that's 3foot tall in back and 4 foot tall in front, box is in attic, I have 1 250 watt cfl and 1 125 watt cfl, the 125 outlet can take up to 200 watt, they're self ballasted bulbs, but is my 250 + 125 enough light or should I switch to the 200 watt bulb, and with that powerful of cfl's how close should they be from the plant?