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well i have 8 CFL's, 4 over each plant. Each CFL is the largest CFL sold at Home Depot, the 150watt cfl that is pushing out 2600 lumens a piece... Is this going to be enough light to flower? im on about week 6 of veg. I know i CAN veg... but i think i'd like to wait a little longer to produce more yield.
That's good light coverage, but why so many CFLs? If you were going to spend over sixty bucks on lights, could have bought a 150 watt HPS system from the same [ Home Depot ] place for maybe a difference of fifteen - twenty dollars. The bulb that comes with it -- a Philips Ceramalux -- emits 16,000 lumens [ ~13,250 mean lumens ] of 2100k light. The whole set-up takes up a fraction of the space my old 6x 42w CFL set-up did, and was a lot easier to manage the temperature on.