I wish I had 3 more plants under the CFL sun but I had a mishap with my first trial and was only left with one clone from my favorite plant. So its all up to her. Doing the math I believe I am still short on the lighting for a good flower, or am I?
jdsoil Reviewed by jdsoil on . SCROG/CFL lighting I am filling a 2x4ft screen with one plant and am using CFL's placed about 2 inches from the trained canopy. Currently I am running 12-26 watt CFL's @6500K for veg. I plan on upgrading the lights to 18 - 26watt CFL's (9-3000K and 9-6500K) for a mixed spectrum for flowering. I did the math and the total lumen output for the 18 bulb setup would be 28,800 lumens. Figure in my square footage (8sq. ft.) and it equals out to 3600L/1sq.ft. I know the optimum goal is for 5000L/1sq.ft. But is this Rating: 5