Quote Originally Posted by greentard
I was wondering what the best Lighting system to use on a mother plant. Small HID over head and Flouros on the sides to encourage Lower Branches?
No need for the fluoros. Mother plants will be pruned back regularly, whether you are taking cuttings or just need to shorten the mums to keep them out of the lights until you do need a batch of cuts. When you cut the mums back, the lower branches will grow to fill in the material above them that you have cut off.

How MUCH light you throw at your mothers is dependent upon how often you need batches of cuttings. If you only need 2-3-4-5 cuttings every 3-4-5 weeks, you can run the mums under CFLs or tubular flos. I need to regenerate 10 mums to donate 30 cuts every 2 weeks, so I run a 400HPS 24/0 on them.
Al B. Fuct Reviewed by Al B. Fuct on . When am I using too many watts? Using too many watts for a grow is one of the indicators that can get the police on your case. I was just wondering how many Watts a typical household uses in an hour/day. How many Watts of power before you are obviously doing something out of the norm. If anyone knows of an ways to produce Electricity without leaving a sign, post some Ideas. I thought about a Hydrogen Generator, they exist, and can be converted from existing Internal Combustion Engine, but Hydrogen Rating: 5