New to growing, need a few questions answered

Hey guys, I'm starting a grow room for personal use. I am only going to grow 2 plants at a time so I am hoping I get at least one female each time. But here are my questions....

I just planted a two seeds, each in its own pot. Would it be alright to use 2 incadescent bulbs for now in a hood, each are 40 watts?

Do i need to have exhaust fans for just one or two plants?

Do I have to be very strict that no light gets in during dark time?

And lastly...Would it be fine to use the incadescent till the flowering stage and than switch to maybe a warm white flourescent ? ( I think its the warm you want for flowering )

Reason I'm mostly just looking at incadescents and flourescents it money, I am just wanting to try and see if I can get some. I am not looking to spend a ton. I don't care about getting huge yields. Or if anyone has some ideas, I don't want to spend more than $100 on a grow room. My area is abour 6 feet tall, 3 feet wide and 5 feet long.

I'm sure you guys have answered lots of these questions and I'm sorry but it would be much appreciated for some help because they are already planted.

Thanks guys and keep on toking!

do not use regular light bulbs they are a waste and they are useless. you at least need to get some compact floros. you can get em anywhere they sell bulbs. get the lamps wicked close to your plants like 2 inches from them.
if you are willing to spend 80 bucks you can go to home depot and buy a 100 watt high pressure sodium lamp. they are the best by far when it comes to growing. you can grow from start to finish with just floros, but you will not be satisfied with the outcome. beleive me. i started with just floros. and after my first grow i had put sooooo much of my time effort, worrying and all that into growing my plants that i was like fuck it just by adding the 100hps i doubled the size of my plant easily. maybe 3 times.
also. i started with 6 seeds planted. and i ended up with 5 males. what happens if you grow for the next 3 months to find out you have 2 males. your gonna cry and then want to commit suicide. i greatly advise planting at least 2 more seeds bro.
the first 2 weeks of the plants life once it has sprouted is important that you only give em water during this time. if you give seedlings nutes or plant food of any sort you will kill your plants. soil gives em everything youll need em to get for the first 3 weeks then start using nutrients at 1/3rd strength.
also, never use yard dirt. it is the biggest mistake you can make. youll bring mad insect problems inside with the plants. go to home depot if not a hydro shop and get some soil there. miricle grow is good for first grows because a lot of it already has food in it so its good for a while.
and dont sweat asking questions. thats what this site is for. ask away. having access to this site for me has been like being able to get pointers on my quarterbacking from tom brady. oh my god the people youll see on here are fucking amazing at this. they can answer the craziest questions too.
seriously though i can not stress the major major advantage that high pressure sodium lights provide to the plant. the plants i grew under the floros were one third this size..

I know this all depends on the strain, but can I get at least an ounce with flouros?? I know that is a very very hard question to answer.

But I am not looking really to spend all that on a light, I'm more looking to spend more of the money to hide the smell.
What are some ways I can do that? Cheaper ways. And remeber I will proboly only have at most 2 plants growing. I will also
proboly start the flowering stage around 4 -5 feet, because of room size.

And yea I plan on planting two more seeds or so when two more germinate, thanks for that too!

But can I come out on top with an alright yield with two plants lets say with 2 mini flouros about 17 inches long, not sure watts yet.
Cold whites for flowering and Warm for the flowering. I just preferably want to grow these the cheapest possible way for now, just
to try and experience it.

You help is greatly appreciated !

bump, need help please

Also I read in hightimes just now that the sodium lamps put out more heat, therefore you need to raise the lamp, therefore
for a small amount of plants you won't be achieving the full spectrum of lights. It said the flouros can be lowered closer,
allowing the plants to collecting more of the light spectrum.

floros can get wicked close to the plants yes. BUT dont forget that the nfarther away the light is the less intense its gonna be. if your using floros through to harvest your gonna need to flower them plants at like a foot tall. one month in they should hit a foot . then flower em. when its done they will be close to 3 feet tall. your plants will triple or come close to tripling.
seriously the problem with the floros is if you try to grow 5 foot plants before you flower your gonna need 50 bulbs. the 100 dollars for a 100 watt hps is the key bro. the 100 watt lamps i have dont even give off heat. i can get them 6 inches from the tops. its the difference between growing half an ounce per plant to 2 ounces per plant .
yeah you can get through with the floros. but once you see all the shit your gonna buy youll wish you spent the 100 on a hps.
there is no way you will get 5 ftrs off the floros.
here are some pics the first 3 will be the floro grow i did and the next 3 will be hps 100 grow.
i guess you can make it through with cfls but seriously you wont get em over 2 feet. and if you do your buds will not be compact and dense.
i got ok nugs off the floros but i had to grow small plants. with the hps lamps i bought im getting about 3-4 oz off each.
what you using for soil? or is it hydro? what you gonna give em for nutrients?
if your only doing it for the experiance then floros should get you through. i guarantee though by the second grow youll be out getting those hps lamps. if you buy 15 cfl bulbs at 5 bucks each because your gonna need at least 10 if your gonna grow 2 4-5 ft plants. your gonna spend just as much on the cfls and reflectors as you will on the 100watt hps lamp.
one other thing that bothered me about the cfls is i had cords everywhere. when i jumped to the hps lamps 2 lamps my 600 and my 400 took the place of the 20 floros i had going. actually i had 6 4 ft floro t8 lamps, 8 cfls with reflectors and 3 100 watt hps lamps.
as far as smell you can get something called a carbon scrubber. google it you can actually make em too. thats what i need right now because i have 50 plants in flower now and they stunk my house out like i cant beleive. i dont think youll need more than 1 carbon scrubber or a couple candles. it shouldnt be bad with 2 plants. you may not even need anything for the smell depending on the strain. do you know if your growing indica or sativas? do you know the strain?
you do not need to worry about light leaks till you put your plant to flower. to get buds to grow the plant needs 12 hours of uninterupted darkness, after about a week youll know if they are girls or boys. boys show balls like grapes in clusters and girls show a teardrop shaped sack with 2 white hairs sticking out.
the most important rules to grow are
1- dont show anyone or tell till its done.
2- what you grow in will be sooooo important , yard dirt brings yard bugs that will destroy your plants.
3-the lights you use will be the factor on weather your shits good or weak.
4-genetics of the seed is the actually most important. you can grow bagseed in the best possible conditions do everything perfect and still end up with shwag. if the genetics suck so will the weed no matter how well you grow it.
5-read up on and learn the drying process i spent 6 months on my first grow and the weed sucked because i didnt dry it right. 6 months of work and worry wasted

So, your saying its going to suck for me if I use 2 compact flouros for 1 or 2 plants?
Cause I want to try the 2 compact Cool for the veg state and than 2 warm for flowering.
At around 2 inches above.

And I will proboly just pick up a bunch of air fresheners and maybe a carbon scrubber thing.

I am not sure about nutrients quite yet, because I hear you shouldn't add nutrients till 2 or 3 weeks
because you can up killing the sprout. And I made sure I'm not using outdoor soil. Looks to be good stuff.

And the drying process I will wait till it comes to that.

Lastly..do I have to be real real strict on that no light comes in on dark time?

bump for some help!

yeah big time strickt. because say you have a plant thats 3 weeks into flower, and you dont realize you have light getting in there. you can actually trick em back into vegatative growth. any time i had plants go from flower to veg again the drop in quality was very obvious.
if you used 4 cfls with reflectors youd be able to get by, but you will need 4 per plant. 2 at the top, and the other 2 for side light. the prob is that the light is not high intensity. so it dissapates the farther you get from the source. it drops very quickly too.