whats the deal with compact fluorecents?

:confused: compact fluorecents- how many of these to use...in say a 20"x48" space in a flowering chamber say... 52 inches in height...thoughts please...

anyone ever use these to flower??? anyone ever use reptile basking lights? thoughts and opinions please... peace-420-I'm out! :)

Recently saw monster 34w compact fluorecents....thiking of using in veg....anyone have any expeience using these types of light? common...someone uses them...lol

anyone know if these come in a red spec, or just coolwhite....

I have heard bad things about them. But of course being the asshole I am I tried them. I'll be real with you. If you got some hps you are better off. I found through experiment that the compacts work quite well if you insist on useing flouro's. You need to use more of them then regular strip lights but they create just a little more heat with out burning the plant, in my situation that was perfect. I have a couple different setups just for bullshits sake and I am far from a commercial grower but I have learned to experiment and that marijuana will bounce back from almost anythig you can throw at it. As far as the different colors and spectrums, I'm an electrician and as far as I know they only come in one color due mostly to the factthat most people use them to save money in their regular home fixtures. Hope that might help. PEACE

no hps here...yet.
Money and heat/ventilation(wanna start cabinet grow in 4x2x5 foot space) have me exploring alternate light sources- I have looked at
.......red spec & coolwhite fluorescents in rotation, reptile UV lights, envirolites(not available in my area), and outdoor security light conversion(mercury vapor & HPS each good sources of UV), these lights go 75-150 watts or so...
If anyones got more Ideas...Im a listenin....lol.......anywaypeace-420-I'm out!

Sorry for the slow load of the pics!

I've been following this thread for a day or two (since i couldn't post)

I've setup my grow box with 3 compact flouro's. so a total of 450w in compact flouro's, and i just threw a cool white 150w bulb in there. So i'm a good solid 600w now, 9000lummes+.

as you can see from my pics, i'm doing quite well for a first grow, the oldest one is going on 5 weeks (she's the one in the makeshift beer box) the others are a week and 2 weeks behind.

I'm going to put them into 12/12 probably on monday, i'm at 18/6 now.

P.S. No Word of a Lie, that 4th 150w bulb i had in there just blew as i was typing this post.. weird...

Enjoy the pics. Give me feedback

Nice grow setup man.

Thanks Sensi,

I'll be putting them all into flowering probably at the start of next week. So, i am currently looking for a red spec. light to get in there with my compact flouro's.

I'll be light shopping this weekend, so i'll let you know how my flowering flouro's go.

Hi, nice setup. :)
Any ideas where I can get those light bulbs mate?

Also I can find the bulbs, but whats the thing called it screws into?