Update on my setup:)

I am flowering them now lol... and yes i got both at home depot. Im thinking about mountin some cfls to the sides of the cabnit as well.. what do you guys think?

Yeah im no expert but yeah.. sry but i think im going to still you design...

your going to "still" my design? lol im confused?

Yeah i got both at home depot. And im thinking about the 150 hps, but i know nothing about hps ill have to do some reading up on it. Also.. will 150 hps heat that box up to much?

those lights u can use all the way through i will show u a finished product while using those lights through vegging and flowering

I got 68w 2700k 4200L at my local home depot they work great for me and they dont get very hot.

yeah the only prob with the cfls is you have to locate them all around the plant because they dont put out enough to go through the leaves etc.. the HPS penetrates a lot better i guess. And for my box circling the plants with cfls is a no go :S

Nugglet need some help wit these cfls.. i went to home depot and was lookin around i found 42watt with 2600 lumens is that good enough? but i could not find anything with 6500 lumens i mean am i missing something am i supost to get lights and add there lumens to 6500? plz help

hey dude, Its not the lumens u need to look at really on the cfls atm. Its the K.. You want 6500K cfls for veg and 2700K for flowering. This is the temp of the balb. 6500K is called daylight balbs. They give off crazy white light. Its equivilent to the sun. But the 2700 are soft white. They are more yellowish.

k thanks let me ask you this right now how many do you have on each plat?

I have 4 on each plant. I have them set up so they circle the plant on the top. But once ur plants get higher u will need to locate a few cfls all around ur plants to help your other bud sites. Just cause cfls dont put out enough light to penetrate the leaves like HPS would.
Cheers dude.

Always here to help. Im not an extremely experienced grower but im learning haha

so 2 2700 and 2 6500?

depends on what stage ur in. When im vegin all 6500K forsure. In my flowering i had 2 or 3 2700K for every 6500K. Some people do strickly 6500 for veg and 2700 for flower. But i switched it up and am doing fine.

So all 6500K-veg
2:1 ///3:1 2700K 6500K --flower

That make sense bud?

yeah thanks

No prob dude. Cheers.