Quote Originally Posted by cigarettes42
lmao!! you cant grow jack with that bulb. light bulbs have no useful energy output for growing anything. that micro case is just a reading room/heater for your plant. i bet if you put an egg in there you will get a chicken, then after it will cook it for you with all the tin foil. look into buying a cfl and replace the household lightbulb.
Well, not entirely. The incandescent would work, but given the output spectrum (with a typical peak hitting around 630nm,) the typical tungsten-filament lamp would be more usable during flowering than during vegetative phases, and the relatively low radiometric output levels of the proper wavelengths would cause stretching or fluffier buds.

Really I'd look into targeted-spectrum CCFL lighting for the case. It's low-heat, high-output, and they do make it in basic dual-band (but since a CCFL is a fluorescent tube, there's plenty of trace peaks across the entire visible range) so I'd be willing to bet it could be done much better than a CFL. Might be a little costly but I'm not entirely sure about that either. I've been dying to build one using the new CCFL tech.
khyberkitsune Reviewed by khyberkitsune on . SWC Micro Grow Member for years, finally deciding to post, with a starting project - a converted A/V Workstation case (larger than your typical PC case) into a growing box. It takes up just over one square foot of floor space, and I have about 1.5 cubic feet of growing space inside. I am using a 6-quart container modified into an SWC container for two plants. For ventilation, I have a 120mm computer fan powered by a 12VDC wall-wart from some random electronic equipment. I am using an over-sized air pump Rating: 5