Sorry if I sound confusing, I am not trying to. I also am not trying to sell any lights to anyone and I figure since you had such a nice grow that you know that more lumens means better plants.

I read the string on compact fluorescents and found that people where using 45W bulbs (or something similar) just like you. Now if you take four 45W bulb you get 180W but you donā??t get 19,000 lumens. You would get about 8,000 lumens (this may not be perfectly accurate so you can correct me if I am wrong) for the same amount of electricity (give or take a little). You have 4 compact lights in your cabinet and say that your plants are stretching probably due to low lumens (my first plant did that as well). Now you can add more of the 45W bulbs to give more lumens to stop the stretching but then you are paying more for electricity than if you got one of these bigger bulbs or even some T5ā??s. I really donā??t care where you get it from but I did look at the 120W bulbs that where in the hardware store and they only gave about 5,000 lumens per bulb.

So I am just trying to save money by getting more lumens for less watts. I would love to have a HPS but I donā??t think I could vent enough to remove that amount of heat. I just have a small closet grow.

Again I am not trying to sell nothing to anybody. I just bought this light because of the lower heat it produces and found it did a good job. Now I am trying to get my process down so I can get better result (not that I have had any yet). I read your entire log, which took a while and enjoyed all the pictures that you posted. You have given me many good ideas of what I can do and what I should be looking for (like shorter plants, my first was over seven foot). So I hope to learn more from your continued log and the new one (if I can find it).

So grow on and enjoy. Again sorry for the confusion.

Hound.