Quote Originally Posted by romdog11
use as much light as possible. if there is one thing you shouldnt go skimpy on is light. your plants and your yields will thank you.
If there ever was "growing gospel"--that was it! Pure gospel!

I do have one little idea to add... if it's cfl's your gonna use, trap all the light you can, forcing it back on the plant. The biggest reason I see, for people having less yield than they could have, is treating cfl's like HID's. You cannot put three cfl's that are less than 150 watts each in a closet grow, and have the light freely spreading throughout the closet. You have very little light intensity with cfl's anyway, so you have to maximize it.

My first closet grow was with cfl's. But what I found was that I had to trap all the light I could so the plants could bathe in the lower intensity I was providing. I built a HUGE upside down u-shaped reflector, with the lights at the top of the "inverted u". The reflector completely enshrouded all my plants. I had 16 forty-two watt cfl's on four plants. Once I built the reflector, all the stretching stopped!

If this is all a little hard to follow....you can always refer to the excellent advice posted by those above this. Reading is always a good thing!

Good Luck