DillaWilla
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I have a closet grow room, I built a plywood box that is 4' Tall, 5' Wide, and 2' Deep. My long term plan is to have 2 equal rooms in the box one for Vegging and one for Flowering. I have read a lot on these sites and am confident my box is good to go, however the lights are another story. My original purchase was 4 - 24'' Agrosun 20 watt 975 Lumens Full Spectrum Grow Lights with 2 -
2 slot flouro fixtures wired to a power strip inside the grow box. However this is only providing me with a total of 80 watts and 3,900 lumens which after reading more in depth about lighting does not seem sufficient at all if I want good vegging and harvest. The total set up cost for the lights were $160 which seems like for a little more I could have got one 250 watt MH system. I just recently purchased these lights so I could easily return them. If I start with just the 250 Watt MH system until it is time to flower and then buy a 250 Watt HPS system for the flowering side of my box , how many plants will that cover (250 Watts MH or HPS)? I am planning on starting to veg 6-7 plants and am not convinced the flouros will do anything. Please give me some insight on what would be best for my grow box size keeping in mind that eventually I would like to split it into 2 stages (Veg, Flower). Do I need to go with 400 Watt MH and HPS? or for my box size and plant numbers will 250 Watt MH and HPS be fine. Keep in mind I am not rich but want to do it right. One last questions can I bring up seedlings under the 250 or 400 Watt MH, or should I keep one set of the flouros for that and build a small seedling box on top of my grow box? Thanks for any help.
***Any posts made by me are purely fictional in nature and by no means is anything I say to be taken seriously. I do not grow or condone the growing of anything not legal. Any and all pictures I post are pictures widley available on the internet and any discussions I am involved in are purely hypothetical or are commentary in nature and should not constitute advice or be considered advice to assist in activities that are deemed illegal.
2 slot flouro fixtures wired to a power strip inside the grow box. However this is only providing me with a total of 80 watts and 3,900 lumens which after reading more in depth about lighting does not seem sufficient at all if I want good vegging and harvest. The total set up cost for the lights were $160 which seems like for a little more I could have got one 250 watt MH system. I just recently purchased these lights so I could easily return them. If I start with just the 250 Watt MH system until it is time to flower and then buy a 250 Watt HPS system for the flowering side of my box , how many plants will that cover (250 Watts MH or HPS)? I am planning on starting to veg 6-7 plants and am not convinced the flouros will do anything. Please give me some insight on what would be best for my grow box size keeping in mind that eventually I would like to split it into 2 stages (Veg, Flower). Do I need to go with 400 Watt MH and HPS? or for my box size and plant numbers will 250 Watt MH and HPS be fine. Keep in mind I am not rich but want to do it right. One last questions can I bring up seedlings under the 250 or 400 Watt MH, or should I keep one set of the flouros for that and build a small seedling box on top of my grow box? Thanks for any help.
***Any posts made by me are purely fictional in nature and by no means is anything I say to be taken seriously. I do not grow or condone the growing of anything not legal. Any and all pictures I post are pictures widley available on the internet and any discussions I am involved in are purely hypothetical or are commentary in nature and should not constitute advice or be considered advice to assist in activities that are deemed illegal.