What CFLs to hang between crowded plants?

[altagid]

My plants are too bushy for the closet - height is fine. 14 days into flowering under 600W hps - I want to hang some cfls below the canopy between the plants. Thinking mebbe 5 40 watt bulbs? What do ppl recommend?

Thanks

My first grow in progress: Top44 in soil 600W hps 13 sq ft closet www.overgrow.com/edge/showthread.php?t=623207

altagid Reviewed by altagid on 07-19-2005. What CFLs to hang between crowded plants? My plants are too bushy for the closet - height is fine. 14 days into flowering under 600W hps - I want to hang some cfls below the canopy between the plants. Thinking mebbe 5 40 watt bulbs? What do ppl recommend? Thanks My first grow in progress: Top44 in soil 600W hps 13 sq ft closet www.overgrow.com/edge/showthread.php?t=623207 Rating: 5

[HARDDON]

Watch hanging those CFLs...you gotta have a fan on em or they will burn when hung below....

I hang mine from the top with twisty tie....but you gotta have fans down there...

But man do they do wonders for lower growth....

[altagid]

Good point! I see that plant got blasted. I hope I wont be adding too much heat to my closet - a bit tricky to manage right now. Do you think lower watt cfls might be useful - and BTW what type of CFL ?

Thanks

[HARDDON]

The plant in that pic....

THe loewer stems went completley bare....lost all foilage. ONce I started flower, all leaves down there dropped off because of no light....

The canopy top was so big almost no light got to the lower braches.

The light you see there made it all grow back.

I used a $26.00 CFL from fullspectrumsolutions.com and have a fan blowing right on that bulb....

It is a 55W 5500K.....

I wouldnt use anymore....

I tried it with my 125W CFL and baked an entire stem worth of bud....even with the fan on it. Too much foilage to cleanly circualte.