please help !!!!!

I think you need a 200 watt CFL or a 100 watt MH... I don't think the problem is how close the light is, its already pretty close. The seedling is searching for light which suggests there is probably not enough. Check out my thread in my signature it shows how my plants did after I bought the 400 W HPS I had a pretty similar stretchy stretchy problem. The HPS sorted that once they went under and It's fantastic,

Goodluck with your grow!

Peace,
Denial

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Originally Posted by psteve

So only 90 actual watts.
That is almost enough light enough for a 1 foot by 1.5 foot canopy (canopy is the lateral space occupied by the top of the plant, that is exposed to the most direct light), of a plant less than 24 inches tall.
If you want a bigger plant to produce satisfactory buds, you will definitely need a lot more light.
If you are going to use exclusively fluorescent light, you should be trying for more than 70 ACTUAL watts per square foot of canopy, and still try to keep your plant height as low as possible by using a scrog, LST, or some other supercropping technique.

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oh ok but see the thing is i have the plants growing in a very small cabinete probably about 1.5 feet wide and long so what wattage i need for that?

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Originally Posted by weedcollecter123

oh ok but see the thing is i have the plants growing in a very small cabinete probably about 1.5 feet wide and long so what wattage i need for that?

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Using all fluorescents in a 1.5 x 1.5 space (2.25 square feet), you would want 155 actual watts or more.