Hermes
Well-Known Member
hey everyone!!
big kudos to this site it's great having something like this since overgrow was shutdown.
i've experiemented with some smaller grows in the past, but ive never put any money or any real effort into a grow set-up. me and my bro finally got our ass' into gear and have started our first serious indoor grow.
our plan is to grow using a vege box, something for clones/mothers to vege out chilling and growing some till they are ready to move into our flower closet (which is yet to be built). as we are choosing to veg with fluros and then flower with a mixture of HPS and fluros. i am choosing not to use anything but fluros for vege due to power consumption and heat management.
we got hold of 5 dual fluro battons, each fluro producing 18W balanced at 4000 kelvin. i have no idea of the lumens, as i bought the lights at a hardware store... but im sure this will be fine. we are using a 64L hard plastic storage box with an area of 65cm(L)x45cm(W)x34cm(D) we have an output of 180w total lighting power. its a surface area of about .3m squared.
I have gotten a small desk fan that is sitting in a whole i cut on one side of the box, and the output is a hole the same side on the other side of the box. 174
i will post pics next post, once ive fully completed building the vege box.
i just wanna ask a few questions about the lighting... i saw some 58w black-blue fluros at the hardware store... if i replace 3 of the fluros with these (so i will have total 7 cool-white fluros, 3 black-blue lights) will it be beneficial to my grow? it means i will have 300w of light over the area which will follow the estimate of 1kw light over each square meter. or should i go to a hydro store and try and get some high wattage warm-white fluros instead?
next post coming soon... any feedback is greatly apprecieated now as i can definetly implement suggestions before im too far into the set-up
big kudos to this site it's great having something like this since overgrow was shutdown.
i've experiemented with some smaller grows in the past, but ive never put any money or any real effort into a grow set-up. me and my bro finally got our ass' into gear and have started our first serious indoor grow.
our plan is to grow using a vege box, something for clones/mothers to vege out chilling and growing some till they are ready to move into our flower closet (which is yet to be built). as we are choosing to veg with fluros and then flower with a mixture of HPS and fluros. i am choosing not to use anything but fluros for vege due to power consumption and heat management.
we got hold of 5 dual fluro battons, each fluro producing 18W balanced at 4000 kelvin. i have no idea of the lumens, as i bought the lights at a hardware store... but im sure this will be fine. we are using a 64L hard plastic storage box with an area of 65cm(L)x45cm(W)x34cm(D) we have an output of 180w total lighting power. its a surface area of about .3m squared.
I have gotten a small desk fan that is sitting in a whole i cut on one side of the box, and the output is a hole the same side on the other side of the box. 174
i will post pics next post, once ive fully completed building the vege box.
i just wanna ask a few questions about the lighting... i saw some 58w black-blue fluros at the hardware store... if i replace 3 of the fluros with these (so i will have total 7 cool-white fluros, 3 black-blue lights) will it be beneficial to my grow? it means i will have 300w of light over the area which will follow the estimate of 1kw light over each square meter. or should i go to a hydro store and try and get some high wattage warm-white fluros instead?
next post coming soon... any feedback is greatly apprecieated now as i can definetly implement suggestions before im too far into the set-up