Requesting Lighting Recommendations

[HighOnPottery]

all my personal growing experiences have been outdoors from either seed or cuttings. but because of the current and upcoming seasons, i am going indoors.

as for technique, scrog and lst seemed like the best option when I was considering the t5. i am also a fan of successive planting so I can optimize my grow and have a constant harvest. i plan on harvesting one plant at a time but have maybe 4 in the flower chamber in rotation.

as for grow space, i currently have a veg cab around 4'wx1.5'dx4't that seems to be working out fine for me but is a little large for smaller/younger plants. i also have a smaller veg cab in an old dresser that I might use someday for maybe like 3 different mothers. i have not yet constructed a flowering room as I don't have a light for it at the moment nor plants ready. i have plenty of room for it and will build something like 4x5x8 roughly. i can go bigger if i have to, but want to keep it minimal if i can.

so i'm leaning toward the 400w hps as i don't need to raise my electric bill too much. and since i plan on doing some lst and maybe scrog, would the 400w be better than a t5-8bulb? they have relatively comparable lumen to watt values, but one has better light penetration. i figure any light would be better with a flat canopy and the t5 has less heat. i just wish i could have both...someday...but for now what do you think?

HighOnPottery Reviewed by HighOnPottery on 10-24-2006. Requesting Lighting Recommendations Hopefully you all are having a wonderful October like I am. I have been doing some homework on different setups that other growers might have and have decided that it might be time to invest in HD lighting. But I am also thinking about efficiency and economy. Currently I am vegging a few plants under 3-65w FluoreX CFL floodlights (13,650 phototropic lumens) from Home Depot. I originally wanted to use CFLs through the entire grow but now I want to just use them to veg. For a while I Rating: 5

[invision]

go to insidesun.com get the 400watt kit with the upgrade bulb and you have both spectrums covered all for less than 160.00 good luck

[UniqueHybrid]

Well my recommendation (which I will also be using in the future) is just to get a decent ammount of CFL's for vegging and just get a good 400w HPS for flowering. It's not too much and it should work perfectly .

that sounds like a really tempting set up...
so will the CFL's require a ballast?

[orangeman]

that sounds like a really tempting set up...
so will the CFL's require a ballast?

Nope, probably all will be plugged up to a power strip and dangling from something. I don't see the point of buying a ballast when they can just be plugged up from some clamp lamps to a power strip lol.