Cfl grow box 1st time grow..need help

Ok this is my first time growing indoors and I need some help..I have about a 4 and a half foot tall and about 3' wide box with 2 small fans from walmart one for intake and one for extake..for lighting I have 2 150 watt soft white cfls with 2200 lumens a peice, 1 200 watt 2700k cfl with 3860 lumens also soft white, and 4 60 watt daylight 6500k cfls with 800 lumens a piece these are all hanging over one plant..is this enough lIght..I sprouted my seeds outside and brought one in for this project and would really Like it to work so any help would be greatly appreciated!


Thanks,
Blake
 

ozgreen

Member
That sounds like plenty of light for 1 plant but id keep any lights with lower than 3000k values off during the veg stage as the plants dont use much of this kind of light during their "growing" stage. Once they hit the flowering stage (budding) switch to the 3000/27000k lights and keep the plant well watered and enough nutes BUT DO NOT OVER DO ON THE NUTES!!!! i cant stress enough on that, my plant got all screwd up after i went over board with the fertilizer and liquid nutes. Good luck with it dude
 
I was thinking about switching the 200 watt 2700k out for 4 more of the 60 watt 6500k until flowering would this be better..also what kind of nutes did u use or has anyone else used thanks for the help
 

ozgreen

Member
yeah that sounds like a good idea, keeping the plants under those higher kelvin lights during veg will do them good..keeping the 200watter will only waste electricity until they start to flower. I used "flower boost plus" for the nutes, it was the first one i saw at my local hardware...nothing special an its working fine
 
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