Ghost-tsohG
Active Member
So me and my friend are going to start a small grow for the first time. We are going to start off small for safety and experience reasons so here it is...
we have about 4' under the house where the furnace and water heater are. We believe that if we use 9 CFL's (26 watt ea.) We could grow two plants successfully. We are not looking for a massive yield but at least a couple ounces or so. we will hang three power strips from the top, one on the right of one plant, one in the middle and one on the left of the other plant. We will use three bulb adapters per strip and put three CFL's in each. This will hopefully be enough to grow them, if we start having problems then we will step up the wattage and add more bulbs. Im asking if this is an okay setup or if it is doomed to fail...
P.S: CFL's have equivalent wattages to condesent bulbs, so my math is... (26 watt CFL eq. to 100 watt Con. 100x80 lpw=8000 lumens per square foot so... 8000 lumens x 9 bulbs= 72,000 lumens per square foot? please tell me if im wrong
we have about 4' under the house where the furnace and water heater are. We believe that if we use 9 CFL's (26 watt ea.) We could grow two plants successfully. We are not looking for a massive yield but at least a couple ounces or so. we will hang three power strips from the top, one on the right of one plant, one in the middle and one on the left of the other plant. We will use three bulb adapters per strip and put three CFL's in each. This will hopefully be enough to grow them, if we start having problems then we will step up the wattage and add more bulbs. Im asking if this is an okay setup or if it is doomed to fail...
P.S: CFL's have equivalent wattages to condesent bulbs, so my math is... (26 watt CFL eq. to 100 watt Con. 100x80 lpw=8000 lumens per square foot so... 8000 lumens x 9 bulbs= 72,000 lumens per square foot? please tell me if im wrong