the sticky for lighting is not the know all/end all to lighting. if you want to sit here and argue with someone who what grown with CFLs then go for it. i'm not saying it can't be done. the results will be far from spectacular though. i had 17x, 23W CFLs stuffed in 4 sq ft.

you can't compare CFL, incandescent and HPS. incandescent lighting is highly inefficient. only about 10% of the electricity consumed is turned into light and everything else is turned into heat. a 23-26W CFL is equivelant to a 100W incandescent bulb. so an incandescent produces ~17.5 lumens per watt, CFLs ~70 and HPS ~130-150. so an HPS is by far more efficient than a CFL. a 250W HPS puts out somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 lumens.

so keep expecting an ounce per plant. i'm trying to drop knowledge on you and you are trying to tell me i'm wrong. you, like me, like every other noob to grow a plant thinks the rules of physics or biology apply to them......and then you find out science rules and we must follow it's laws. so, if you want to grow killa weed then keep your mouth closed and pay attention, if not, please keep telling me i'm wrong. i'm so blowed from smoking weed that you've only seen in magazines that i'm laughing my ass off the whole time!


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headshake Reviewed by headshake on . Grow box size? what in an ideal grow box size.. well height really because it needs to be 2x2 length x width i wanna grow about 4 plants of decent size and pots will be about 11" tall thanks :D Rating: 5