Cheap grow lights

[cbridge360]

Do you know where i can get any cheap grow lights for a closet grow? any help is good thanks.

cbridge360 Reviewed by cbridge360 on 02-13-2008. Cheap grow lights Do you know where i can get any cheap grow lights for a closet grow? any help is good thanks. Rating: 5

[Backpacker420]

It's hard to define cheap as everyone is on a different budget. Also remember, grow lights are an investment and you get what you pay for!

Check out High Tech Garden Supply I think their prices are reasonable.

[psteve]

http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-li...-lighting.html

[Nochowderforyou]

A few of the first grows I did was done with spending under $100 on lights. Just use CFL bulbs. They are everywhere and cheap. You could use CFL's through the entire grow cycle, but if you do that, you must boost the wattage of CFL lighting for the flowering cycle. Like lets say you you use 100W of CFL's to veg., it isn't recommended you use 100W to flower. The results will be weak, spindly buds. From 100W, you'd want to go to 200W, or at least 150W of the same lighting.

To get better results and spending a bit more cash, you could use CFL's to veg., and a small 150W HPS bulb for flowering, then you'd get some decent buds.

Like I said though, I used to use CFL's for one plant and got decent smoke. I used 85W of CFL to veg., and 125W CFDL to flower and got 1/4 yeilds from plants no bigger than a foot in height. Keep in mind it was in a very small space which makes a huge difference.

Good luck.

[Devil1]

im going all CFL first time around, now that is inexpensive!! :thumbsup:

[Mississippi Steve]

Do you know where i can get any cheap grow lights for a closet grow? any help is good thanks.

Got to Petsmart.....check the aquarium section... they have a wide selection of flourescent grow lights.

[Roughrider]

Go to Wal-Mart and buy light sockets with 10 1/2" reflectors for $10 each.
For each of the reflectors, get 2700k (warm white) bulbs and 6500k (daylight) CFL bulbs. Get at least 23w bulbs (they'll list them as ("100w equivalent" or something like that). You can get a four pack of Wal-Mart's house brand 23w warm white bulbs for $8. A two pack of GE 27w daylight bulbs is around $7.

So--four reflectors = $40
Two four packs of 23w CFL bulbs = $16 (Use these for veg.)
Four two packs of 27w CFL bulbs = $28 (Use these for flower.)

Total $84. CFLs won't have many cooling issues either.

That's around 13,000 lumens of light...enough for about 2.5 square feet. You can grow two decent sized plants with that, no problem.