lighting question

[madhatterslsd]

hi i posted about the 1000w lighting however i ended up getting sent a 250 watt sun system hps system. i also have 2 four foot plant and aquarium bulbs and housing along with another 2 24" bulbs of the same. if i combine all of these the hps and the 4 florous will that be enogh light to properly grow about 4-6 plants in a room about the size of a telephone booth and if so how should i position the lights? any help would greatly be apreciated

madhatterslsd Reviewed by madhatterslsd on 08-26-2005. lighting question hi i posted about the 1000w lighting however i ended up getting sent a 250 watt sun system hps system. i also have 2 four foot plant and aquarium bulbs and housing along with another 2 24" bulbs of the same. if i combine all of these the hps and the 4 florous will that be enogh light to properly grow about 4-6 plants in a room about the size of a telephone booth and if so how should i position the lights? any help would greatly be apreciated Rating: 5

[Joel]

In a size of a telephone booth? I think posistioning the lights would be a difficult one, although what you could do is put each lights along each corner of the room. With 4-6 plants I strongly suggest you do an SOG with that ammount of spacing.

[dingobaby]

Joel- What if you had one 400 watt light, would you still do a SOG?

[Joel]

Depending on how many plants you want to grow and in what size of an area. If you wanted to do a good SOG with 20plants, I would suggest 2-3 400w lights.

[HARDDON]

You wont grow 4-6 plants in a phone booth, like Joel said. He is corect.

Figure 2 sq. ft. per plant if you want full blown, full mature expression of your seed.

Your HPS is great for flower but not so great for veg.

Most of those sun master systems come with the housing and ballast built in. If that is the case with yours, the light will need to be far away to escape the heat. Your problems with light begin

I say you have the perfect setup for an SOG and plenty of light to boot.

Come young grasshoppa....follow HARD ON's FIRST SOG post and see if you want to do something like this.

You can avoid my pitfalls perhaps

You can grow maybe 2 decent plants with what you have now....but you can do so much better with an MH light for vegging.