Noob on the Cheap

[daihashi]

So I have my plants taking up about 4 1/2 square feet of space on top of a table. I have 6 26w (100w equiv) cfls on top of them with no mylar or any reflective material around them. Do you guys think I have enough light?

I believe it was Hudson that said I needed 50w per square foot. Is that assuming a highly reflective environment or will I be okay for now?

I've never liked the 50w per square foot rule. I always preferred to go by lumens.

When I first started I was taught thaat you want to try to get 5000 lumens per SqFt. This ideal and anything on top of that is gravy.

daihashi Reviewed by daihashi on 04-16-2008. Noob on the Cheap I have a little experience growing outdoors. We basically used large numbers to guarantee success and were at the mercy of the seasons. Long story short, the land we grew on is no longer available to us and I am not the type that would even consider guerrilla growing. I have ready many, many, posts on this board and am very excited. At the same time, the more I read, the more differing views I get. So I have decided to just jump in, splash around and hope If I am not able to swim a Rating: 5