cabinet lighting question!!!!

[drugsrbad]

me and my frienbd built our grow cabinet and it is sealed and foiled up. the dimensions are: 5high, 4feet 4 inches long and 2 feet deep. if i was to use all cfl's for veg, how many lumens would b good for 9 seedlings. jus popped out of soil yesterday. also how often to water? also ventilation, what would b the best way to go but still cheap and easy.
help is greatly appreciated
thanks

[marimbas]

in a cabinet like that i would recomend a 250 wats HPS or MAX 400...

[Malevolent]

feel free to browse http://boards.cannabis.com/forumdisplay.php?f=325 for Grow FAQ's you might find them helpful for beginning, and if you can try to find some books and read, when I was ready to make the first step and plant the seed, or even think of cloning I read as much as I could read about the basics and essentials....more advance techniques came after me and my friend did our first successful grow, kinda crash course, did 3 seeds got females...after that I was comfortable and learned from my mistakes...best of luck on finding the info you need im gonna have to agree with using hps but im sure for 9 plants now 4 will be fine but your gonna need atleast twice as many when they grow up, and then when you flower for quality your definately gonna want the hps....Enjoy!

[BukDatAss]

man as far as ventalation I had a big prob with my 400MH and still do. Im 9days above soil and the first day my temps reached 109 with the growbox shut. I have a box 4x2x7, so I had to leave the growbox door opened which werent my intensions at first. So as far as a 400MH its super hot unless you have a really cool room. I would suggest YOU RUN A TEST first. See what happens with in the cabinet B4 you put the plants in and get a few CPU fans in there to blow fresh air inside (bottom) and few fans to blow hot air out, from the top :thumbsup: good luck. My plants are doing fine now but I still need Fresh cold air to blow inside. If I knew before hand I wouldve run a test 1st!!!!!!! :thumbsup: